Vista TWEAKS

· Disable auto reboot in windows XP and Home editions
Posted: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:14:28 +0000
Are you annoyed by the restart prompt which appears every time you update windows.
In order to configure no auto reboot settings for windows XP Professional and Home your windows must have service pack2 installed.
But the to remove auto reboot for windows XP home and Professional are different.
For Windows XP Professional
1. Open Start >> Run and type gpedit.msc (group policy editor) and press Enter
2. Navigate to the following path
Local Computer Policy\Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\ Windows Components\Windows Update
3. Double click "No auto-restart for schedule Automatic Updates installations" and select to enable this setting.
4. Restart windows.
For Windows XP Home Edition
Procedure for windows XP Home edition is quite different as it doesn’t have group policy editor.
1. Open Start >>Run and type regedit (registry editor )
2. Navigate to the following path[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows
\WindowsUpdate\AU]
3. Locate the following keys:
"RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled" and "NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers" and set their values as 0 and 1
4. if these registry key doesn’t exist create them with type as dword values in this registry location.
5. Exit registry and restart.
Tip: You can also disable windows update by typing the following command at run prompt.
net stop wuauserv
But before running this command, make sure to stop all the instances of wuauclt.exe from task manager right click end process for all wuauclt.exe.


· Enable aero effect on unsupported Graphic cards in windows vista with Tweak Vista
Posted: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:51:50 +0000
Aero effect is one of the amazing effect in windows vista , if you have desktop window manager clubbed with your windows vista edition you can enjoy the aero effect in vista.
What is DWM?
DWM (Desktop Window Manager ) previously known as Desktop Compositing Engine or DCE) is a compositing window manager, introduced with Windows Vista, that enables the Windows Aero user interface. DWM requires graphics cards supporting DirectX 9.0 and Shader Model 2.0.
But if your graphic card does not support directX 9.0 and Shader Model Technology, you may not be able to run aero effect.
But you can still run aero with your unsupported graphic card with TweakVista
Let’s see how can you run aero effect then.
1. Download Tweak Vista from here
2. Run Tweak Vista.
3. Enable the option under DWM tab, check the option which says Enable DWM Effects on Unsupported Cards (as shown in the image below)
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I hope this will help you to run aero with your unsupported graphic card in vista.


· Enable or Disable the Build in Administrator Account In Vista
Posted: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:30:53 +0000
May be you are very much annoyed by UAC but still does not want UAC to be turned off in your user account in vista but want to perform some task without user account control elevation prompts.
You can do these tasks by using default build in administrator account but you will have to enable it first.
Follow the procedure below to enable default admin account in Vista
1. Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box. 2. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.

3. When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue. 4. At the command prompt, type net user administrator /active:yes, and then press ENTER. 5. Type net user administrator , and then press ENTER. Note: Please replace the tag with your passwords which you want to set to administrator account. 6. Type exit, and then press ENTER. 7. Log off the current user account.
To disable the admin account repeat the above procedure again type the command net user administrator /active:no in step 4
Tip: Default Administrator account in windows vista and Windows Xp posses all the rights but they are disabled by default.
If you have any questions regarding windows account or anything to say please leave a comment.