[vikram_d]

Thad dude look up how to enable administrator account on vista on google and all your problems will be solved.

For the record my 4 year old file server is running vista. It has been up for the last 3 months without a restart. And this while it conencted 24x7 to the internet on a live static ip. Some of the windows upgrade patches have asked me to restart to replace some files that are in use but I have not. It just replaces the files when they are not in use.

All it takes is to enable the administrator account.

Note: This tip works best when installing vista fresh and not when upgrading.

Install Vista and during install it will force you to create a usename and password. Create a temp username. Once install completes go to administrative tools in Control panel and open computer management. In computer management go to the local users & groups. In users you will see the default administrator account disabled. Enable this account and login thru it. Once you login delete the temp user account and configure vista to the way you like it.

You can also do this with an existing install of vista but you will have to move all your personal settings from the current account to the newly enabled admin account.

Do this and you will not get a single prompt asking you continue for anything ever again in vista. It will work just like xp but with the so called pretty interface.

Also note once you do this you are wholly and solely responsible for the security of the system. Any program you run will run with admin privileges and intenet explorer (if you use it) will run with protected mode off.

The user account control is the biggest pain that turns most people away from vista but like I have shown it can be very easily bypassed.

PS: On my server vista doesnt look pretty at all as my graphics card is not compatible with it and I am not upgrading cause i dont need it to look pretty. I just need it to run reliably and it does.