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How to disable that “asking confirmation for everything” in Windows Vista.

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How to disable that really boring “asking confirmation for everything” Windows Vista behavior?

You can get rid of the confirmation by disabling UAC(User Account Control). The problem is that this will disable most of the Windows Vista’s new security features, so be careful with what are you doing.

  • Go to Control Panel.
  • Click Admin Tools.
  • Click System Config.
  • Click Tools.
  • Disable UAC.
  
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Record Labels filed a lawsuit against Allofmp3.com

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After several efforts to influence politicians to force Allofmp3.com to shut down and pressuring credit card companies to stop accepting charges from the site, several record labels have finally filed a lawsuit against the company.
Lawsuit was filed in New York, and Allofmp3 is a Russian company, meaning the laws in the US are pretty much meaningless to it. There’s a good chance that Allofmp3 will simply ignore the lawsuit, their argument would have to be that they believe they’re in compliance with Russian laws which making distribution music over the Internet equal to FM broadcast and Allofmp3 has legal radio broadcast license. And if an American buys a song from their site and downloads it, it’s no different than if that same person came to Russia, bought something there legally, and brought it back with them to the US. Of course, the RIAA probably doesn’t care what Allofmp3′s defense is. They just want to cause trouble for the company by burdening it with lawsuits — the same thing they’ve done to Napster, Grokster, Kazaa and others.
It looks like the RIAA still haven’t quite realized that every time they shut one of these services down, something else opens up instead. In other words they prefer to spend money that they got from people who is buying music from legal sources on lawyers and pushing things like DRM protection instead of providing music in a format and at a price people want.
  
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How to disable Auto-Restart itself and “Restart Now/Later” dialog after Windows Update

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Microsoft introduced new feature with its SP2. It will automatically reboot your computer after installing updates. If you do not restart your computer after updating it you get the popup that just asks you “restart now or later”, but after a day or so it starts coming up with the popup that has a 5 minute timer. If you do not see the popup within the 5 minutes, it will restart itself. Of course you could disable the updates, but this is not a good solution in this way.

So question is: How to disable this auto-restart feature?

Solution from Microsoft (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555444)

Go to registry editor and navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software\Policies \Microsoft\Windows \WindowsUpdate\AU

Change the “NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers” DWord value to the required number.

0 = False (Allow auto-reboot)
1 = True (Disallow auto-reboot)

Solution if you have WindowsXP Pro

* In the Start Menu go to Run type “gpedit.msc” and press Enter
* Now a Group Policy editor will open. In this window navigate to: Computer Configuration -> Administrative Template -> Windows Components -> Windows Update
* Double click on No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates installations
* In the settings window Choose Enabled and click OK
* Close Group Policy Editor

So, It is no more auto-restatrs, but we still have that annoying “Restart Now/Restart Later” dialog popping up every 5 minutes

There are two ways to deal with it.

1. With this registry change you can set frequency of this dialog appearanse from 5 minutes to 24 hours.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
“RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled”=dword:00000001
“RebootRelaunchTimeout”=dword:000005a0
“NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers”=dword:00000001

2. Go to Control Panel->Administrative Tools-Services. Scroll down the list to the item “Automatic Updates”. Right-click that item and choose “Stop”.
Another way to do so just go to Start->Run and then type “net stop wuauserv” in the box and press Enter.

When you do eventually reboot (at your wish), the service will restart so that you’ll be informed of future updates. But you won’t be annoyed by this dialog for the rest of the session.
  
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ASCII-Picture generators

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._____   |  |__ |  | _____    _____   ____   ____  .
. /   |   |  |  |  | __    /      /  _  /     .
./    |       Y    |__/ __ |  Y Y  (  <_> )   |  .
._______  /___|  /____(____  /__|_|  /____/|___|  /.
.        /     /          /      /            / .
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