Shield on Shortcut Icons

[OfficeAnimal]

Some sortcut icons on my desktop have a small shields superimposed.
The shield is quartered in blue and yellow.
What is its significance?

"Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

 

[karlisi]

Items with the shield need administrator privileges to run. Most of these things will give you a UAC pop-up or need to be run by right-clicking and choosing "run as administrator".
Some of the program icons have Blue and Yellow Shield in Windows 7

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Karlis
ECDL; MCSA

 

[OfficeAnimal]

Thanks

"Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)