Vista Tricks and Tips

[Elrond]

After sorting out a few problems with Vista I decided to post what I have found out.

If people want to add to the list then pm the instructions for the trick and I will add it to this post. I will be adding more to the list soon.

Disabling the User Account Control (UAC):

This means that you wont be prompted by Vista to open installation files etc as an admin (which if you only have one user account or if all of your accounts are admins it is very anoying). Vista will tell you that this makes your computer less secure which is debatable as XP doesnt have it and it can probable be bypassed already by spyware.

1) At the bottom of the start bar type in msconfig and click on it when it appears as the only item in the search.

2) Click the last tab "Tools" and scroll down untill you find "Disable AUC" then click on it and then click launch.

3) Reboot your PC

4) When prompted by Vista at startup checkbox never ask again (cant remember the exact words).


Aternitvly you can set windows to elevate all users to admins for security prompts (this gets rid of allot of security prompts without the computer becoming less secure:

1) Type in secpol.msc at the bottom of the start menu

2) Browse down to Local Policies \ Security Options

3) Find the following in the list: “User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode” and double-click on it.

4) Change the setting to “Elevate without prompting".

Showing all programs being used at once in arc

I couldnt remember the exact name for this so I came up with that name.

Simple enough instructions:

press start button + tab.

release tab then press it when you want to move the convabelt of screens forward.

Note: This takes up quite a bit of graphics card power - dont use this if your computer is only slightly above minimium requirements.

Firefox Profile manager

This works on XP as well.

If I am honest you only really need to do this if you go on 'adult websites', basicly this trick allows you to create, switch between and delete firefox profiles. The profile contains every cookie, history and bookmark on it - if you delete the profile its the same as when you installed firefox.
This has a few obvous advantages and disadvantages.

In the box at the bottom of the start bar (or in 'run' if you are using XP), type in firefox.exe -profilemanager, this brings up the profile manager which is very simple to use. The buttons on it have blindly obvous purposes so I wont explain what they so, it suffices to say that to choose the profile you wish firefox to use, you need to double click on it before you exit the profile manager.

Note: Dont run this when firefox is on - it wont work if firefox is running.

[Elrond]

If I have remembered the rules correctly double posts are allowed after a couple of weeks or more. (so this post should be ok).

I have added another trick to the main post (firefox profile manager).