As a lot of you already know, MS Vista has come with some (I think) dubious extra security protocols.
One of which is the constant, and somewhat irritating 'confirmation' of almost everything you click.
Even though you may be the only user of the computer (and then by defacto you should be an Admistrator) you are actually not an Administrator !
(good ol' MS)
To get round this (I know you can disable the UAC etc., but MS being MS you will never be in control - and many apps will not work correctly unless u are a 'real'l administrator) do the following;
- open a command prompt - WITH elevated priveledges - find the cmd.exe program (some have said u can search for it, but I found (at least on Home Version) it cannot be searched for) - it is in the normal C:\Windows\Systems32 folder, but instead of dbl-clicking it, press ctrl-shft-enter ... this should open a prompt in 'Administrator' mode (it will have 'Admisitrator:' pre-pended in the title bar) - failing this, right-click the cmd.exe icon and select 'Run as Administrator'
From this command prompt enter the following;
net user administrator /active:yes
and close all windows & restart.
You will now have another user with full and proper admin rights to your vista machine - u might like to add a password to this account tho !
As a side note, if you have ever noticed a medium / severe slow-down with your broadband ever since using Vista you may like to try the following also;
(I had a 4mb with Virgin with XP no problem; since connecting a new laptop to the same connection my download speed dropped to less than 1meg - until I did the following)
As above, open a command prompt with elevated priveledges (or maybe with your new admin ac) and enter the following;
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
(you can check with netsh interface tcp show global and u can of couse revert it by using =normal as the parameter above)
for some reason, an ever so clever boffin in MS decided that in and out feeds should match. So, if there was an inbalance vista would try to compensate by leveling the feeds - in effect capping your download speed :-)
Any questions (and I insist) ask Mickeysods