What can cause the User Account Control to mistakenly detect Vista's own routines as "an unidentified program"??? Almost every Vista routine I try to run causes the User Account Control to issue an alert of "An unidentified program wants access to your computer" -- this includes every attempt to run regedit, msconfig. defrag, scan drive for errors, event viewer, etc. What's particularly interesting is that most non-Microsoft programs do not cause this alert.

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