User Account Control (UAC) is a new security component in Windows Vista. If you've used Windows Vista for more than 3 minutes, you know what UAC (User Account Control) is. Ever tried to install a software at Windows Vista but it prompts the following:

If you started this action, continue
or
User Account Control stops unauthorized changes to your computer, If you started this program then continue

You can disable annoying need your permission to continue prompts in windows vista. Seriously it has nothing to do with the security. Its just annoying. I mean there should be a prompt for any dangerous action of program but usually Windows Vista tend to alert before any installation of programs with these kind of messages. We can get rid of this message easily. There are number of way to do that including disabling via control panel, group policy editor, registry editor, msconfig and more...

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I posted a trick for boosting internet speed using GPEdit for XP. Somebody asked me, what about Vista? I found that gpedit.msc (group policy editor) is not present for Vista home and premium edition. It does exist in Vista Pro (Ultimate, Business and Enterprise editions). I proudly told him that Microsoft did not find it funny to bother Vista Home users to mess with Group Policy Editor, so they just eliminated the tool. But I gave him some tips related to how on this mortal world of windows we can desperately try to increase internet speed for Windows Vista by 'other' means. He was not convinced. Anyways now the good news is. We can populate, generate or create gpedit.msc thing in Windows Vista Home edition by using some Wizardry.

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I do not know why you will be needing this. If you have Windows Vista, you will have fast PC too. And your Windows Vista choice indicates your appreciation for cool visual effects. But still developers may want to reduce visual resources to maximize performance potential for Windows Vista. So here it is. Old school! You can choose to disable Windows Aero or Windows Vista Style appearance for windows and use classic look for all windows or applications (classic skin).

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This transformation pack doesn't change your windows vista fully to Ubuntu but somewhat creates a resembling atmosphere to that of Ubuntu.

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There are many ways to do that. You can change different aspects of Vista into MAC manually or you can use safe choices e.g. some right installer.

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In my previous post I referred to Boost Your Internet Speed By GPEdit for Windows XP. I was asked about the same for Windows Vista. Well now gpedit.msc (group policy editor) is not present for Vista home and premium edition. It does exist in Vista Pro (Ultimate, Business and Enterprise editions). You have to manually edit the registry in order to change group policy settings. Microsoft has an Excel spreadsheet that lists all the group policy settings there. But that is very hard to go through all the entries. We can search through the list of course. But we will discuss some easier ways to boost internet speed for Windows Vista.

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You can change vista logon screen background by two ways. Using stardock's LogonStudio and using ResHack(Resource Hacker). Lets see how:

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This is how you create a bootable Vista Ultimate Upgrade DVD.

• Locate the downloaded files (boot.wim, install.wim, X13­49120.exe) and copy them to your root drive (Ex­ C:\) Do not create a folder, just put them in the root drive.
• Run x13­49120.exe, this will extract files to a folder named 'Vista' in your root drive. (Ex­ C:\Vista, where C is the drive letter in which you placed the files in step 1 )
• Download CDImage program. Extract and place cdimage.exe (place only the exe file, dont create a folder) in your root drive (same drive where you put the files in step 1).
• Open command prompt. (Start Menu­­>Run ­­>cmd.exe . Press Enter)
• In command prompt navigate to C:\ drive (assuming C is your root drive). If you dont know how to do this, type 'C:' (without quotes) in command prompt and press enter. Then type 'cd\' (without quotes) and press enter once more.
• Type the following command exactly as displayed below, in command prompt. "cdimage ­m ­u2 ­b C:\Vista\boot\etfsboot.com C:\Vista C:\Vistax86.iso" (without quotes) Command prompt will display the progress of Image creation.
• Once it shows 100% complete, you will see a new file created in the C drive (Vistax86.iso) This is a Vista Ultimate Upgrade bootable image.
• Burn the newly created image using an image burner (Nero, PowerISO etc). Make sure you burn it using the 'burn image' or 'disk image or saved project (in Nero)' option in your Burner app. Burning the iso file to a single using normal burn wont work.
• Once the image is created, you can safely delete boot.wim, install.wim, X13­ 49120.exe files, Vista Directory (created in step 2), cdimage.exe file and Vistax86.iso files from your root drive.

You can now use the newly created bootable DVD to install Vista Ultimate Upgrade.

There are many ways to break down windows password. I have mentioned some method related to earlier SAM files in windows and of course there is a way to use LIVE version of any appropriate operating system to enter in the system.

If you care to purchase some software for that then I can recommend you a very useful software which does exactly that and without any hassle or loss.

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I have used this software recently. I used USB version which is very easy. Steps involved are followings.

You need a blank USB/flash drive.
Software comes with a folder "usbmemkeyboot" containing 'SP27608.exe' which is HP Windows Format Utility for USb drive. This will install the software. After installation run this utility to make your USB bootable.

Now along with this software there are some other files in the package which you just copy and past in USB drive. There are instructions for the process in detail at their website.

After you have created bootable flash disk, open command prompt by using command cmd in run and browse there your USB drive. Suppose USB is starting with letter f.
You might get the following displayed at the command prompt
c:\documents and settings\PCUserName>
type f: ahead of that and press enter.
It will give you f:\>
Type syslinux f: ahead of that and press enter. i.e.
f:\>syslinux f:
You are done.
This last step is important.

Now you have created your USB disk for password removal. You will create it earlier for later use or you can create it at another PC obviously if your computer has been locked down already.

Just check your boot sequence from motherboard setup. Make sure it is boot from USB.
Restart PC, plug in USB drive and let it boot from the USB drive.

All you will get is following.

All passwords of administrators or users will be removed. Restart the PC. Eject USB. Now Windows will be password free and all passwords will be erased. Your user settings remain same. Files remain same. Everything same. Just windows users passwords will be removed. This is a very useful utility for erasing password of any windows operating system.

Website
Windows Geeks Password Removal Tool

If the hiberfil.sys file on the system partition is removed, the option to hibernate is not available. A common reason for the hiberfil.sys to be deleted is from running the Disk Cleanup Tool, as explained in the Microsoft article "The hybrid sleep feature and the hibernation feature in Windows Vista may become unavailable after you use the Disk Cleanup Tool" (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928897/en-us ).

To create the hibernate file and reenable hibernation, use the following command:

powercfg -h on

In Windows Vista, run the powercfg -h on command at a command prompt to enable the hibernate feature and the hybrid sleep feature.