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communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:57 am

CrazyHorse wrote:You can turn off the popups from the 'user account control' in the security center....If they're the ones you mean.

Vista's own pop-ups?

The "windows needs permission to do this" ones? The ones you just gave it permission to do by clicking the last button?

CrazyHorse · Post by **CrazyHorse** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:07 am

I think they're the ones you mean - the annoying popups where the screen darkens and you have to give permission to continue. Yeah, you can turn them off in the security center. "User Account Control".

Little Green Man · Post by **Little Green Man** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:40 am

CrazyHorse wrote:I think they're the ones you mean - the annoying popups where the screen darkens and you have to give permission to continue. Yeah, you can turn them off in the security center. "User Account Control".

Unless they changed that in SP1 then I think that's only available for the Business and Ultimate editions. You have to edit the registry to do this for the Home Basic, Home Premium and Home Guard (Stupid Boy) editions. You should be able to find out how to do that by Googling 'vista disable user account control premium home registry'.

CrazyHorse · Post by **CrazyHorse** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:03 am

Little Green Man wrote:
CrazyHorse wrote:I think they're the ones you mean - the annoying popups where the screen darkens and you have to give permission to continue. Yeah, you can turn them off in the security center. "User Account Control".
Unless they changed that in SP1 then I think that's only available for the Business and Ultimate editions. You have to edit the registry to do this for the Home Basic, Home Premium and Home Guard (Stupid Boy) editions. You should be able to find out how to do that by Googling 'vista disable user account control premium home registry'.

Dunno about the other versions but you can definitely do it on Home Premium. I suppose from a novice's point of view this sort of security feature is quite a nice safeguard - my Dad for example 100% needs this feature to help stop him ballsing his system up and me having to go round and fix it for him every couple of months.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:08 am

I quite like the thing where you type swear words in to the speech bubble and the PC 'speaks' them back to you.

CrazyHorse · Post by **CrazyHorse** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:28 am

Batman wrote:I quite like the thing where you type swear words in to the speech bubble and the PC 'speaks' them back to you.

Yeah, it's great to get her to talk dirty to you too.....

bobby5 · Post by **bobby5** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:27 pm

communistworkethic wrote:
CrazyHorse wrote:You can turn off the popups from the 'user account control' in the security center....If they're the ones you mean.
Vista's own pop-ups?

The "windows needs permission to do this" ones? The ones you just gave it permission to do by clicking the last button?

That's the ones I mean, the allow this program nonsense.

WhiteArmy · Post by **WhiteArmy** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:02 pm

communistworkethic wrote:new laptop 1.73ghz Dual core and 2mb Ram, deals with it ok but it's just not intuitive.Quite like Media Centre but the whole thing is cumbersome and I've found it clashing with software and causing all sorts of problems at start up

Mine has started to take ages for the screen to come on at start up, i can hear the drive being accessed but the screen staya blank, then suddenly appears after about 15 minutes! Bloody annoying.

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