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Hey, have you ever had the problem of your Vista Aero Glass turning off and wondered how to get them back? Firstly though, let’s look at why Aero may get turned off.
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A common security concern at organizations is allowing users to plug in a USB flash drive, because they could so easily copy corporate data.

Since Windows XP SP2, you can disable writing to USB devices altogether using a simple registry hack.
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One of the most frustrating things about troubleshooting random blue screen errors is that the computer reboots before you have a chance to write down the error messages so you can Google them later.

Instead of trying to redefine time, we’ll just turn off the automatic reboot option and force the blue screen to stay there. Prevents you from attempting to show off and fail horribly. This is not the Matrix and you are not Neo! Get over it!
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In Windows Vista there is a fantastic feature known as UAC (User Account Control). Basically this is a tool that was developed to make certain that you are sure that you are positive that you know what you are about to do. Ok wait, let’s simplify things: it is a tool that protects the average user from messing up a perfectly good PC. However, it is a major pain in the bottom if you plan to do allot of tweaking and configuring settings. Luckily, there are 3 simple ways that a system can be setup so that UAC is out of your hair.
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The Auto-Complete feature is well known to all Outlook users, you begin to enter the recipient’s E-Mail address and like magic a list appears with similar addresses. Sometimes, however, this may get annoying. Below is an example of this list, just to give you an idea of what it is that I am talking about.

Now imagine how annoying this might be for you if you have more than just one relevant mail receipient. Luckily this feature can be disabled if you prefer the good old fashioned manual-labour ways.
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