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UAC
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UACUniversities Admissions Centre (Australia)
UACUnion Aerospace Corporation (Doom series)
UACUnited Aircraft Corporation (Russia)
UACUniversité d'Abomey-Calavi (French: University of Abomey-Calavi; Benin)
UACUniversidade dos Açores (Portugese)
UACUnited Africa Company
UACUnited African Company (of Nigeria)
UACUnemployment Appeals Commission
UACUnaccompanied Alien Child (US Citizenship and Immigration Services; US DHS)
UACUmbilical Arterial Catheter
UACUnaltered Augsburg Confession (Lutheran Church; est. 1530)
UACUnited Anglican Church
UACUnderwater Acoustic Communications
UACUser Assurance Co-Ordinator (UK project management role)
UACUnit Advisory Council (US Air Force)
UACUp A Creek
UACUnione dell'Apostolato Cattolico (Italian: Union of Catholic Apostolate)
UACUpper Airway Collapsibility
UACUniform Annual Cost
UACUnit Abatement Cost
UACUninterrupted Automatic Control
UACUnified Army Corps
UACUpdate Authority Component (subsystem of Message Conversion System)
UACUniversity Athletic Council
UACUnassigned Channel (AT&T)
UACUse As Constructed
UACUnnecessary Acronym Creator (humor)
UACUtility Airplane Council
UACUnited Army Corps
UACUnited Acquisition Corporation
UACUser Account Control (Microsoft Windows Vista)
UACUrban Assault Course (US Army)
UACUniversity Assessment Committee
UACUniversidad Autonoma de Coahuila (Spanish: Coahuila University Autonoma)
UACUniversity Advising Center (various schools)
UACUniversal Access Control
UACUpper Area Control (aviation)
UACUser Advisory Committee
UACUnited American Committee (est. 2004)
UACUniversity Accessibility Center (Brigham Young University)
UACUrban Appalachian Council
UACUser Agent Client
UACUngooroo Aboriginal Corporation, Inc (Australia)
UACUtah Avalanche Center (Salt Lake City, UT)
UACUniversal Access Concentrator
UACUser Account Controls
UACUnsafe Act or Condition


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One area where Vista clearly took a lot of heat was User Account Control (UAC).
Additionally, Dhar said that through iYogi's internal testing of Windows 7, they found that the User Account Control settings or default Microsoft security settings "do not provide adequate protection from online threats, and users should also install additional security software.
Vista's User Account Control feature, which many found a nuisance, has also been re-vamped and now only prompts for permission when absolutely necessary.
 
 
 
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