When I began this project, I didn't think it would take me two weeks to complete. Well, here I am finally writing the article portion of the whole thing. Don't worry, I took really good notes. I am splitting this article into three major segments: The first segment is a broad overview for those who really don't care about the nitty-gritty details of UAC and just want to get to the good stuff. The second segment gets into the really nasty stuff...for those of you who enjoy information overload. The last segment covers UAC Permanent Links — load multiple elevated DLLs, execute multiple elevated functions, and start multiple processes elevated — all of that with just displaying one UAC dialog from a non-elevated process. And now, without further ado, the article.