We’ve been exposed to UAC for a while now, but here’s a new Knowledge Base Article from Microsoft that describes in detail what it’s about, how it works, and how to control it.
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Description of User Account Control and remote restrictions in Windows Vista
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Details on how to setup a local version of WordPress on your Vista system. A great option for theme and plugin development!
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After XP SP3 was pulled, now they’ve pulled Vista SP1 from being pushed via Windows Update for fear it may screw up some business apps.
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Some ‘Green’ reasons why Vista can save you money.
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A creative way to get around Vista?s UAC temporarily without having to reboot. Elevate Explorer!
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Stats showing why you should be using Vista, and be happy about it!
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The aging of XP and the uncertainty of Windows 7 mean businesses really have no choice: They have to move to Vista, whether they like it or not
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If you have to disable UAC in order to install an application, I’d say that takes it out of the ‘Vista Ready’ catagory.
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A creative way to get around Vista’s UAC temporarily without having to reboot. Elevate Explorer!
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4sysops - Temporarily disable Vista UAC without reboot
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If you don't partition your drive correctly before the OS install, you won't be able to install Bitlocker. This tool will create another volume to boot from so that you can get BitLocker set up.
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An excellent article on how to make UAC work for you, instead of turning it off and loosing all the benefits it can offer.
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Microsoft handing out USB keys that circumvent Vista security? I don't think so.
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Many people think Windows Defender as a waste and its true ;).I have seen any people searching ways to
disable/remove/uninstall Windows Defender from there system.There are two ways you can do this :
Through Windows Defender:
1.Open Windows Defender.
2.Click on tools>option>Scroll down to Administrator options.
3.Uncheck Windows Defender and Save.Click Continue if
UAC prompts
Through services.msc
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Written by ShaDow on April 27th, 2008 with no comments.
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They set out to change the independent software vendor ecosystem to try and make software more secure, and they say it is working.
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Having trouble activating your copy of Vista? Here’s a list of common error codes and how to proceed.
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Another ‘leaked’ version of the Nvidia drivers.
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Vista gets raked across the coals, and Gartner recommends Microsoft look towards virtualization.
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User Account Control can be annoying, but it’s an extra layer of protection that protects your computer from viruses, hackers, and poorly written software.
UAC lets you know when someone or something is trying to change a setting or install/uninstall software on your computer. It also removes administrative rights from software making it harmless to critical system files and services.
Before UAC, settings could be changed and software could be installed/uninstalled without you knowing. Software running under an account with admin rights also had full admin rights which gave it full access to critical system files and services.
You must be logged in as a user with admin rights to turn UAC off.
1. Click the Start orb and select Control Panel.
2. Click Classic View on the left side of the Control Panel.
3. Open User Accounts.
4. Click Turn User Account Control on or off.
5. Uncheck Use User Account Control and then click OK.
6. Restart your computer.
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Windows Vista Multilingual User Interface Pack (MUI) is language packs for Windows Vista that provide a translated version of most of the user interface so that users can change the display language on Vista computer and view wizards, dialog boxes, menus, Help topics, and other items in Windows in a different language.
Select and download your Vista Ultimate x86 x64 MUI Language PackDownload :
Vista MUI Tools v5.5 (x86 & x64)Logout and login again using administrator user account, and with UAC turned off.
Administrator account is disabled by default in all clean installations and upgrades of Windows Vista.
UAC is enabled by default.
- Change Language Manually:
1. Run Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
2. Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\MUI\UILanguages\xx-YY
Where xx-YY is the original system user interface language locale string, such as en-US for English edition.
3. Rename the xx-YY to aa-BB, where aa-BB is the locale string for the new system language that you want to set
(such as de-DE for German), so that the registry key looks like below:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\MUI\UILanguages\aa-BB
4. Inside the renamed aa-BB registry key, create a new “String” value in the right pane, and name the new value data as DefaultFallback.
5. Assign the “DefaultFallback” with value of xx-YY (the original language).
Written by ShaDow on March 31st, 2008 with no comments.
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Apple laptop cracked on day 2 due to Safari hole, Vista cracked on day 3 due to Adobe Flash hole. Ubuntu survived uncracked.
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If you like to use command prompt, here’s some of the things you can do with it in Vista.
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Thankfully I don’t have any Creative hardware, I’d be pissed about this situation!
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Some discussion about the recently revealed information on the large number of crashes caused by Nvidia drivers.
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During the betas, one of the few new functionality Windows Vista Service Pack 1 added was the ability to
create a Windows recovery CD with an easy-to-use GUI interface. Up and until then, it was slightly harder but still possible to do so through a command line.
Update: To avoid confusion, this is
not the type of recovery discs you find in prepackaged computer systems. This recovery disc does not reinstall Windows, it merely offers tools to fix it if it ever becomes unbootable.
For unknown reasons, the functionality was then pulled out of the final release of SP1. If you look inside your system files, you can still find recdisc.exe which is the utility’s executable, but clicking on it does not launch anything. The shortcut in the Start Menu was also removed, indicating it was removed on purpose.
Out of curiosity, Long Zheng (from where I got this article) decided to find out if by copying a version of recdisc.exe from a beta build of Vista SP1 and placing it in SP1 RTM would work. Thanks to Chris123NT for digging up a copy, it did work. If you also want to make it work, there’s a bit of file permissions involved, so here’s how.
Step 1. Download a pre-final release of recdisc.exe (x86 version) or (x64 version).
Step 2. Open your system32 directory. Start menu, type “%systemroot%\system32? and click Enter.
Step 3. Find recdisc.exe, right click on it and click “Properties”.
Step 4. Select the “Security” tab and click “Advanced”.
Step 5. Select the “Owner” tab and click “Edit…”.
Step 6. Select “Administrators” to change the owner to, click “OK”. Click “OK” again on the dialog.
Step 7. You should be back at the file security settings dialog. Click “Edit..”.
Step 8. Select “Administrators” and then tick the checkbox under the “Allow” column and “Full control” row. Then click “OK”. Click “OK” again to finish.
Step 9. Rename this file (press F2) to something like “recdisc.old” to keep a backup of the original file in case you need to restore it in the future.
Step 10. Copy the “recdisc.exe” file you downloaded earlier. Double click on it to run.
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Written by ShaDow on March 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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