John's Quick Vista Tuneup Guide

[Ozzie]

Here it is...wanted to find it cause of a fresh install.
Sure is a handy little bugger...

[Rickwell]

What he said.

[chuckbam]

Originally Posted by John64

Great guide! looks like some good info. With that usb stick thing, is any usb stick alright, or only specific ones?

I will probably catch a lot of flack, but UAC is not something you should be disabling! Anywhere where UAC stops you from writing to should probably not be written to, and worst case, changing file permissions is really easy. I just get miffed when people complain about MS being insecure, but then go and remove security. This is very similar to the unix Root User, and the associated su and sudo commands. No body would dare run linux as root, why would they run windows as it?

How can you live with UAC. I think that is crazy. Talk about a nag screen!!!

[Rickwell]

Originally Posted by chuckbam

How can you live with UAC. I think that is crazy. Talk about a nag screen!!!

It might be ok on a childs or Grandma's pc.But is of no use on my pc.So I turn it off and don't have any problems.I just make an image backup.Then I don't worry so much.Security has it's place.But oh that Nag Nag Nag !!

[chuckbam]

Originally Posted by Rickwell

It might be ok on a childs or Grandma's pc.But is of no use on my pc.So I turn it off and don't have any problems.I just make an image backup.Then I don't worry so much.Security has it's place.But oh that Nag Nag Nag !!

My mother is 81, and when I was setting up her desktop the way she like she likes it, she said, " I am not going to have that thing popping up all the time, am I? (loose quote)