Windows Vista Discussion Thread

[spadival]

Finally changed OS on my Vaio to Vista. After the install, Automatic update thingy found a newer version of the display driver and installed it.

Now the display driver crashes every time I open the picture preview software that comes with Vista

[Technocrat]

Originally Posted by vikram_d

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.

Thats a good tip Vikram & i will try it out but as of now, I am part of the Administrator group(My Vista came pre-installed with my laptop) but I still get this message for approving some actions that I am performing & thats really annoying. Hope to get rid of this. I have Vista Home premium

[adya33]

Originally Posted by vikram_d

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.

Control Panel \ User Accounts \ User Accounts

Turn User Account control ON or OFF

No need to login as administrator or anything.

[vikram_d]

Yes but doing this you will have that stupid red cross thingy permanently on your taskbar which will continously remind you that User Account Control is off.

[vikram_d]

Originally Posted by spadival

Finally changed OS on my Vaio to Vista. After the install, Automatic update thingy found a newer version of the display driver and installed it.

Now the display driver crashes every time I open the picture preview software that comes with Vista

If your old driver worked fine then you can rollback to it. Not necessary to use the latest driver.

[abhibh]

Originally Posted by vikram_d

Yes but doing this you will have that stupid red cross thingy permanently on your taskbar which will continously remind you that User Account Control is off.

You can change that setting too. Just click on that red icon of security center and on left side click change the way security center alerts me.

[vikram_d]

Yes but inspite of doing all this vista will not give all apps true administrator privileges.

[Technocrat]

Vikram & others: I am unable to see the local users & groups in computer management. what could be the reason. I have only one user on my machine & thats me with as admin.

[vikram_d]

What version of vista are you using? Looks like you might be using Home or Home Premium.

Try this

How to Enable Administrator Account in Vista Home Premium ? « Script(s)

or this tweak

Tweakvista - Windows Vista RTM Tweaks - 8 visitors online

[gopz]

I am running Vista Business on Core 2 Duo (2.2Ghz) with 4GB RAM + nVidia 8400GS 128MB graphics.

Disabled indexing, user access control, windows defender, readyboost, transparency.

Installed all the hotfixes through Windows Update and Installed Sp1 (beta)

It is working like a charm, I wont switch back to XP unless some app which I need, doesnt work on Vista.

[Technocrat]

@Vikram: Yes I am using Home Premium(came bundled with my Laptop) will try the tip posted in the link u gave from home

[2theMax]

Originally Posted by gopz

I am running Vista Business on Core 2 Duo (2.2Ghz) with 4GB RAM + nVidia 8400GS 128MB graphics.

Disabled indexing, user access control, windows defender, readyboost, transparency.

Installed all the hotfixes through Windows Update and Installed Sp1 (beta)

It is working like a charm, I wont switch back to XP unless some app which I need, doesnt work on Vista.

Presume you have DELL , did you have any problems with disk partitioning due to media direct ? ,also why did you disable windows defender ? , do you have mc afee running .

[vikram_d]

@Technocrat - Try it and let us know how it goes. i am using Vista Ultimate so would like to know it this tip works.

[gopz]

Originally Posted by 2theMax

Presume you have DELL , did you have any problems with disk partitioning due to media direct ? ,also why did you disable windows defender ? , do you have mc afee running .

No problems with Media Direct, its working fine. Even if we have to switch to XP, just leave the media direct partition as it is, and it will work.

I am using AVG pro edition so disabled Windows Defender which is a resource hog.

[Technocrat]

Vikram: Not much difference tried enabling & disabling the user account control, things are pretty much the same except that I get user logon screen when user account is enabled.

I still get those annoying pop-ups for asking permisiion to do tasks. I just want to get rid of this.. I mean why cant the system understand that if an admin is performing a task he should be able to do it with least hassles.