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Vista’s Disk Management

rsivanandan — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:50:15 +0000

If you’re a video/photo junkie, you’d have always played with resizing partitions, extend it/shrink it would’ve been a regular practice for the reason that captured videos are pretty big in size until it gets compressed to another format.

Now, I like the part being included in Vista (no more partition magic!), You can just launch the disk management snap-in, extend the partition or shrink the partition. Cool Stuff.

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Vista and Flash.ocx

rsivanandan — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:37:39 +0000

From Vista onwards the flash.ocx is no more shipped I guess, so any standalone application that has to do with flash wouldn’t work unless the ocx is installed.

Unfortunately, Adobe seems to be providing only browser based plugins! So I downloaded flash player from here (standalone version)

I installed it and that seems to have taken care of the problem.

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User Account Control – Vista

rsivanandan — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:56:22 +0000

During the first looks, the most annoying thing that I felt with Vista is the new UAC feature! Yeah, the traditional ‘Do you really want to go nuts?’ thingy.

Even if you’re in administrators group, Vista pops-up a confirmation window on whether you want to do it or not for
actions. Which is good but I don’t like it though. So here is how you disable it;

1. Start->Run and launch MsConfig
2. Go to the tools tab
3. Go down until you reach ‘Disable UAC’
4. Just click on the launch window

It will popup and command prompt saying that is is disabled. You need a reboot to complete this process so that
you don’t get that annoying thingy anymore.

Basically what it does is disable in the registry. There are other ways (at least 4 ways to achieve the same)
to do it but this seems to be easy in 4 steps.

Now the security center is going to sit with a red alert icon on your task bar if you did this, but anyways…