On Thu, 09 Oct 2008, Alex Rufon wrote:

> When the office issued this Lenovo T61 I specifically requested the IT
> people to give it to me fresh. I mean I will be the one to configure it.
> 
> The machine came with Windows Vista Business and a whole bunch of stuff.
> The first thing I did was wipe it and install Windows Vista Ultimate
> then turned off UAC. While I was configuring the machine, windows kept
> annoying me with messages saying that the machine is secure and I should
> install anti-virus and enable UAC. I told this to one of our network
> admin and told me to reinstall Windows Vista and bring it to him before
> I do anything else.
> 
> What he did was installed Sophos Anti-Virus then joined the machine to
> our domain. There was no annoying message after that and the explanation
> was when the machined joined the domain, it automatically implemented
> the domain policies which disabled the annoying things about Windows
> Vista.
> 
> So yes, you have to attend special training to make Vista less annoying.
> 
> :) 

So is there any script that can be run on vista to make it less
annoying and behave like a classic winxp?  I guess it could but never
materialized.  Otherwise it will hurt the economy, the sale of vista
book, the vista training course, and IT pro's job security.

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