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It's not a transparent overlay, it's a completely separate desktop with a screenshot of the user desktop as its background. Really clever.
by dimensi0nal 2y 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.
- wongogue 2y agoAnd 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.
- magicalhippo 2y agoAnd 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/desktops https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winstation/d...