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Happy First Birthday to Windows Vista

January 31, 2008  |  , , ,  |  View Comments

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Windows Vista, the latest new kid on the block, turns One today, making over a 100 million friends in just a year of its growth that has continuously come under fire from Blogs and Tech Journalists like me and everyone seemed to favor its big brother, but things seem to smoothening now for the Sixth child of its parents, who are already working together for their seventh child, but the doctors don’t really seem to have an idea when the seventh kid will arrive. And do you think the seventh kid will be a ‘He’ or ‘She’ ?

Lovely, yummy delicious cake provided by Windows Vista Magazine and props to Long Zheng for this style of writing.

Hack Attack : Disable UAC for Certain Applications in Vista

January 3, 2008  |  , , , , ,  |  View Comments

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If you are a Windows Vista user, there is nothing more bugging than the UAC in Windows Vista. UAC which was supposed to bring improved security in Windows, does it pretty well but at the cost of user friendliness.

There are lots of apps and softwares that I run on my Machine, and Vista bugs me everytime I open them. For quite some time I’ve been looking to disable UAC for select applications, rather than disabling it all together, as that could possibly create a security havoc. After some time looking around for a solution, I finally found a solution that was recommended by Microsoft, and even Worked pretty well for me.

If you are looking to disable UAC for certain applications in Windows Vista, then follow this guide, and once you are done, the UAC may not really be all that bugging as it used to be.

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