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User Account Control Limits Exploit Impact
A white paper to help IT understand and configure User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista is available at www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/library/00d04415-2b2f-422c-b70e-b18ff918c281.mspx.
Best practices and guidelines for developing applications for a least-privileged environment are described at msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/AccProtVista.asp.
Guidelines for making existing applications run with UAC are described at www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/deploy/appcompat/acshims.mspx.
The Standard User Analyzer, which helps diagnose issues that prevent programs from running properly without administrator-level privileges, can be downloaded from go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71359.
The Application Verifier, which assists in finding subtle programming errors, such as requiring administrative privilege, can be downloaded from www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bd02c19c-1250-433c-8c1b-2619bd93b3a2.
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