Tag Archive for 'Vista'

Vista User Account Control

Published
by
benriley
on 13 January 2008
in Security and Windows
. 0 Comments

Among many nice features in Vista, one of the more annoying is User Account Control (UAC). This is a system gatekeeper, which is a good idea, but UAC just goes too far. It doesn’t just want permission to install software but pops up when adding, removing or renaming any Start Menu folders, or setting the system clock, or various other common, every day, relatively safe tasks. One solution is to turn UAC completely off:

  1. Click on Start then Control Panel
  2. Click User Accounts and Family Safety and select User Accounts
  3. Click Turn User Account Control on or off
  4. When prompted by UAC itself, click Continue
  5. Uncheck the box and click OK
  6. Choose the restart option when prompted

Bear in mind that this method does put your computer at greater risk, especially if you routinely log on as an administrator.

Vista activation crack

Published
by
benriley
on 8 November 2007
in Windows
. 1 Comment

The use of pirated software is illegal. The following procedure is described purely for the purpose of education. Additionally, do not use this crack if you have already tried another, or have used the re-arming technique documented on Windows Secrets. This crack will stop the activation timer, permanently leaving the time left for you to activate your Vista at 30 days. Windows Update will continue to run normally.

  1. Start your PC and enter its BIOS setup
  2. Set your system date to 31 December 2099
  3. Save and Exit
  4. Re-start the PC from the Vista installation CD and follow the normal installation procedure
  5. Vista will install and after rebooting your PC, ask you to enter an account name and password
  6. Follow the on-screen instructions until the entire installation process completes
  7. Shut down Vista and re-start the PC, once again entering its BIOS settings
  8. Set the date back to the correct value
  9. Save and Exit the BIOS and continue booting in to Vista
  10. Download and unzip vistacrack.zip
  11. Right click on vistacrack.exe and select Properties
  12. Go to the Compatibility tab and select the Run this program as an administrator check box
  13. Close the properties window and double-click vistacrack.exe to run it
  14. Select Crack
  15. The crack process will start and the PC will reboot
  16. When Vista loads it will show a warning on the system tray about blocked programs, right click on the system tray icon in question and select to allow the program to run
  17. The warning will pop up a second time, click Allow
  18. The crack process will open and complete
  19. Select Finish

The crack is now done. To check whether it has worked, reboot your computer a final time and do the following:

  1. From the Start Menu, select Run
  2. Type slmgr.vbs -dlv and click OK
  3. Look at the last line of the results window (it can take several seconds for this window to pop up so just be patient), if it says the time remaining is 43200, the crack worked

Remember: the use of pirated software is illegal.