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Dec 18 2007

Windows Vista: Doesn’t Suck So Bad w/ These Two Hacks

Posted by: Eric Bramlett in Technology

So…I bought a new Sony Vaio laptop over the weekend.Â I know, I know…should’ve gotten a Mac.Â The problem is, the comparable Mac costs twice as much.Â I’d rather buy a new PC every 2 years than a new Mac every four.Â Oh…and I’m seriously going to learn Ubuntu soon.
The original game plan was to buy the machine and immediately wipe it clean and install XP.Â Then I started reading about what a bitch it was going to be to install all of the drivers.Â So…I decided to live with Vista.Â And I hate it.Â Then I found some cool hacks that make it much more bearable (I found them at computerworld.com.)

1) Disabling the User Account Control:

The user account control sucks.Â Bad.Â Every time you run anything that might, possibly, minutely jack up your system, it asks you if you really want to do it.Â If Microsoft ran the world, it would be rubber coated, and everyone would wear helmets when walking.Â So…to disable it:

Â Run msconfig
Click tools
Scroll down to “disable UAC”
Click “Launch”
Reboot

2) Access the Double-Secret Adminstrator Account

Microsoft decided to coat the administrator account in styrofoam, as well.Â Even when logged in as an adminstrator, you’re not really an administrator.Â In order to unlock the double-secret administrator account, use the following steps:

Type cmd into the search box in the start menu.
Right click the command icon that shows up at the top of the start menu.
Select “run as administrator”
Enter this command: Net user administrator /active:yes

So…that’s what I have right now.Â I’ll add more as I learn them.

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2 Responses to “Windows Vista: Doesn’t Suck So Bad w/ These Two Hacks”

Joshua Ferris says:
December 19th, 2007 at 5:04 am
Not that I fault you for getting a Windows laptop (they are mighty cheap these days) but I’m a huge fan of Macs because they just work without giving you a ton of crap. For example, when I start my Macbook Pro up, I don’t have to close 50 windows like antivirus, antispyware, Dell support notifications, AIM, AIM Plus, firewall notifcations and everything else under the sun that you get with a Windows computer. I value my Dell desktop because it runs Windows computers but Macs put everything on easy street. Some day I’ll see to it that you get a Mac but I’m sure Windows Vista will do the trick for now. Especially since you are now a victim of MLXChange!
Eric Bramlett (31 comments.) says:
December 19th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Pretty soon, I’ll be on ubuntu, and looking down my nose at all you Mac users! But seriously, I know that the Mac OS is leaner & meaner, but for the price, I can’t justify it. Also - everything you mentioned above is the first thing I fix on my PC. Run an msconfig & turn off pretty much everything on startup. My PCs start up remarkably quickly.