Windows Vista Tips & Tweaks

[Tefra]

I have opened a new section in our site. Under articles you will find a new category to list there all the known Vista tips and tweaks. You can contribute in this list. Post here all the tips and tweaks you read around and post them in this thread. All the useful posts will be included in the new site category as soon as possible.

The category is pretty much empty for now but that's about to change

[weasel]

interesting will keep an eye on it

[Tefra]

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Originally Posted by weasel interesting will keep an eye on it

keep and eye on it ? Go fetch some tips and tweaks hahahaha

[weasel]

lol i'm still waiting dude t'ill i can make with Vlite an ultra light vista so it doesn't use that much system memory

[weasel]

so here you can find Vlite http://www.vlite.net/
its the same as nlite only Vlite is for vista its still beta offcourse but i'm allready working with it and making my lite version of vista after a few tries i made my self a vista installation disc that fits on a 700mb cd greetz everybody
got my memory usage down to this size

[Widkidone]

You know UAC feature in Windows Vista, and you all know how to disable it, this is not the purpose of this thread, because even after you disable UAC, you'll have other prompts about folder/file permissions errors sometimes (I faced it in strange, unexpected occasions, like deleting an empty folder for a program left by the uninstaller), or you'll need to right click and select "Run as Administrator" for most applications to work/install correctly.

That's because Microsoft made the administrators accounts (in local administrators group) run as standard users, unless we give permissions for every and each administrative tasks, with a little difference when UAC is turned on/off

Enough introductions, lets get our hands dirty:

Remember that cute "Administrator" account you see when you login to safe mode? That's the built-in administrator account that's installed by default, and disabled by default too, after a little digging-in I made this tutorial that'll let you enable and use this account in normal mode, and with a little other tweak, enjoying an XP-like administrator experience, while UAC is left ON (or off, it doesn't matter), but with no prompts or right clicks.

1- Click Start, and type "secpol.msc" in the search area and click Enter.
2- You may receive a prompt from UAC, approve/login and proceed.
3- In the left list, choose "Local Policies", then "Security Options"
4- Set "Accounts: Administrator account status" to Enabled.
5- Set "User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account" to Disabled.
6- Now log-off, and you'll see a new account named "Administrator" will be available, click on it to login.

Now you are the master of your domain! I recommend if you're going to use this method is to apply it as soon as you do a fresh install of Windows, so you can simply delete whatever administrator you created in the setup process, and make this one the "real" administrator for your PC, also you can rename this new admin account or change its password like any other account from "User Accounts" in the Control Panel.

A last note: Please apply this procedures only if you know what you're doing. Disabling security features in the operating system is not something recommended to the average Joe, and for sure I won't be held accountable for any damaging happens to your system or files resulting from running a full administrator account all the time.

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[weasel]

thx widkidone good find

[weasel]

howto make vista turn off faster go to regedit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurentControlSet\Control and find the key Waitokillservice default value is 20000 i set it to 15000 you can go lower.

[Widkidone]

I just found this, maybe it might be useful: Here

[Widkidone]

I figure you all should know what works with Windows Vista and what the issues are before you decide to get Vista.

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