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  1. August 2025 Windows MSI Hardening: UAC Prompts and Admin Workarounds

    The August 2025 Windows security update introduced a hardening to Windows Installer that closed a real privilege‑escalation hole (CVE‑2025‑50173) — but the fix also changed MSI repair semantics in ways that caused unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts and silent repair failures for many...
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