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February 3 2009

The following material covers several recent requests that appear difficult to discover:

Turn off Vista UAC [User Account Control]
Excerpted from 13 page PCWorld article Windows Tips for Everyone

Bounce account controls:
Without a doubt, the most annoying thing about Windows Vista is User Account Control (UAC), which causes Windows to ask you for permission before accessing various system resources.
True, this setup will help to keep your PC safe, but do you really need to see yet another pop-up and click through yet another prompt before doing something as simple as changing the size of Windows' main font?
Luckily, you have an easy way to turn off UAC:

Choose Start, Control Panel (or Start, Settings, Control Panel on the Classic Start menu) User Accounts, and then click Turn User Account Control on or off.
At the UAC prompt, select Continue; when you move on to the next screen, uncheck Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer. Then click OK.

After you restart your computer, you will no longer be bedeviled by those insistently feckless UAC prompts.

Turn off Security Center Alerts in Windows XP and Vista
Gets rid of the annoying popups and shield in the bottom right corner
 

A Power User's Hidden Weapon: Improve the Context Menu - Hack # 28
The context menu is an often-underused tool.
But with these four additions and edits to the menu, it'll turn into a powerhouse that you'll use every day
Also in the O'Reilly book [of 120 Hacks]
Windows XP Hacks - Tips & Tools for Optimizing Your OS - Second Edition
by Preston Gralla          IBSN: 0-596-00918-6

or try this one

Improve The Context Menu, [In 4 parts] Written By Saman Sadeghi
Part 1
Add And Remove Destinations For The “Send To” Option
[no registry edits on this approach - and very simple to do]

Part 2   Part 3   Part 4

If you do not like to use Regedit to do these things go to Microsoft Power Toys and look at what is available,
 or just get the Open Command Window Here utility to work on the Context Menu in XP.

Microsoft Power Toys will only work with XP !      Read the Power Toys Page first  !

And finally for today:

Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference PDF edition
This is an excellent book [and free download] for anyone contemplating an installation of Ubuntu Linux.

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