Microsoft Windows terms starting with U

20 terms

  1. UAC A security feature that helps prevent unauthorized changes to a computer, by asking user for permission or administrator credentials before performing…
  2. UAC access token An access token with the least administrative privileges required for the session.
  3. UAC user A user account in the Users group that has a full privilege access token. The standard user is not an administrator and is not a member of any local…
  4. UI User interface. Refers to the controls, buttons and on-screen elements by which the player interacts with the game world.
  5. UI Privilege Isolation A window manager subsystem that blocks applications at a lower UI privilege level from sending messages to or hooking threads belonging to processes with…
  6. UI privilege level The integrity level that is stored in the access token of a process and that is used by the UI Privilege Isolation (UIPI) feature to determine if an…
  7. UIA The accessibility model for Microsoft Windows that programmatically gathers information about an application's User Interface (UI) elements and exposes it…
  8. UIAutomation The accessibility model for Microsoft Windows that programmatically gathers information about an application's User Interface (UI) elements and exposes it…
  9. UIPI A window manager subsystem that blocks applications at a lower UI privilege level from sending messages to or hooking threads belonging to processes with…
  10. unattend.xml A file that automates Windows Setup. This file enables the configuration of Windows settings, the addition and removal of components, and many Windows…
  11. Uniform Resource Identifier A character string used to identify a resource (such as a file) from anywhere on the Internet by type and location.
  12. unseal For BitLocker Drive Encryption, the process that a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) uses to decrypt data in a sealed binary large object (BLOB) to reveal the…
  13. UPN User Principal Name, composed of the username along with a global forest root name. Ex.: name.surname@tandt.com
  14. URI A character string used to identify a resource (such as a file) from anywhere on the Internet by type and location.
  15. User Account Contains information such as the user name, password, group membership, and permissions. [Exchange 5.5]
  16. User Account Control A security feature that helps prevent unauthorized changes to a computer, by asking user for permission or administrator credentials before performing…
  17. user interface The portion of a program with which a user interacts. Types of user interfaces include command-line interfaces, menu-driven interfaces, and graphical user…
  18. User Interface Privilege Isolation A window manager subsystem that blocks applications at a lower UI privilege level from sending messages to or hooking threads belonging to processes with…
  19. user interface privilege level The integrity level that is stored in the access token of a process and that is used by the UI Privilege Isolation (UIPI) feature to determine if an…
  20. Users A directory Object such as University staff, students, guests, and faculty.