Vista places a shield in the lower right corner of some application icons - What is it?

[Sarah M. Weinberger]

Hi,

I noticed that on some of my applications that Windows Vista includes a
shield as part of the application icon in the lower right corner. What is
the shield supposed to represent?

Thanks in advance,

Sarah

 

[Dustin Harper]

It means that the file with the shield requires UAC permissions to run. See
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/aa906021.aspx for more
information on that, if you'd like. Basically, it's just going to ask you if
you are sure you want to run that program.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

This is to indicate that the application might require Administrative
priviledges or invoke the User Account Control dialog.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/aa906021.aspx