Hi Tom there is a little program out there for Vista Basic called tweakuac,
it lets you run User Account controls in silent mode which they are still on
but do not give you messages every time it can be found at
tweakuac.com
Steve Walker
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From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] LWorks says goodbye to machine based licensing, and
hello to a new Judgment day
Hi Shaun,
Actually, I hand build all of my desktops, because they tend to be more
reliable, run better, and use higher quality hardware than you get with
the name brand computers like Del, Compaq, Gateway, etc. There is a good
reason why someone can walk into Wal-Mart today, pickup a Compaq desktop
for $499, and go home with a brand new computer. The reason being is often
times the hardware components in those computers are whatever they could
get in large quanities, for as little money as possible, and are whatever
the manufacturer has left over from an earlier run. Not to mention they
get the cheapest, most affordable software bundles, which cuts the cost of
the computer, but isn't necessarily the most desirable for anyone with a
reasonable amount of computer skills.
For example, the Compaq notebook I purchased last year comes with Windows
Vista Home Basic on it. Well, for the average computer user that is
probably ok, but there are definitely some disadvantages to using Vista
Basic instead of Ultimate. One of them is Home Basic will not allow you to
change your security polacies because the security manager, secpol.msc, is
missing in Home Basic. In Vista Ultimate if I want to fully customize User
Account Control all I need to do is go to the admin tools, launch the
security polacy manager, and tell it what features i want/don't want. In
Home Basic User Account is on or off. No way to change its settings. That
really sucks, because you can't fully customize the operating system like
you can with Ultimate.
Anyway, the point of this e-mail is to say building your own custom
computer sounds geeky, but you get to choose exactly what you want, how
you want it, and it is fully customizable. It costs a lot more up front
but it usually pays for itself in the end. A good heavy duty name brand
power supply that costs $75 is probably going to last you longer than some
no name wong foo power supply that costs $35. I try to build my computers
with stability, reliability, and long term use in mind rather than try and
sell x number of computers with the least cost possible.
Of course the obvious disadvantage is that since I am fronting the cost
for everything, putting it together myself, etc I can't just send it into
Del, Compaq, or someone if something gets broken. I have to do that myself
which most of the time isn't a big deal since my desktop systems are
usually very low maintainance anyway. However, when something goes wrong
like a system gets hit by lightning, a motherboard dies, whatever it
seriously burns my rear that Microsoft will charge me for a new product
key for Windows just because I had to replace a hardware component.
However, I think product activation and machine specific keys are here to
stay.
Smile.
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