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by dimensi0nal 600 days ago
It's not a transparent overlay, it's a completely separate desktop with a screenshot of the user desktop as its background. Really clever.
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magicalhippo 600 days ago
And that the desktops are securable objects[1], so processes in the default desktop can't snoop on what's going on in the winlogon desktop say when the UAC prompt is shown.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winstation/d...

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wongogue 600 days ago
And 50% of the times, the background fails to load and I have to double check. At first I thought it may be my specfic hardware combo but no.
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