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Figure 13-44 Shield icons in User Accounts

UAC gives users running a program an opportunity to consider their

actions before they move forward. It’s a good thing, but spoiled Windows

users aren’t accustomed to something that makes them consider their actions.

As a result, one of the first things everyone learned how to do when Vista

came out was to turn off UAC. While it’s all but impossible to truly shut

down UAC, reducing the impact of UAC is easy.

UAC in Modern Windows

Microsoft may be a huge company, but it still knows how to react when its

customers speak out about features they don’t like. Windows 7 unveiled a

more refined, less “in-your-face” UAC that makes the feature much easier to

use. This is the version of UAC used in all later versions of Windows as well.

A More Granular UAC

Microsoft did some research on why UAC drove users nuts, concluding that

the problem wasn’t UAC itself but the “I’m constantly in your face or you

can turn me off and you get no help at all” aspect. To make UAC less

aggressive, Microsoft introduced four UAC levels. To see these levels, start

typing user account control in the search field and select the option to

Change User Account Control settings to open the Control Panel app (see

Figure 13-45). This is Windows 10. You can also go to the User Accounts

applet in Control Panel and select Change User Account Control settings, as

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