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Comment by pjmlp

20 days ago

It helps to actually enable having to type a password instead of clicking on Yes.

However yes, security is much more than an UAC dialog.

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pjmlp  20 days ago

Additionally, just remembered, recently there is an additional option on Windows 11 that the UAC generates a temporary admin user and then throws the security token away.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/enhanc...

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