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Adobe auto update was bothering me whenever I connected to the internet. There was a small icon in the taskbar which displayed the percentage of download completed. This was very annoying when I was using EDGE to connect to internet. Finally I disabled the auto update of Adobe. Launch the Adobe software (e.g. Adobe Reader)

There’s a quick way by which you can enable or disable ‘User Account Access’ window from the command line: Make sure you are running in administrator mode. Type ‘cmd’ in the start menu search box. Press ‘Ctrl+Shift+Enter’. Windows Vista will prompt for your permission. Disable UAC C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD

Open ‘Control Panel’ (Make sure ‘Control Panel Home’ is selected and not ‘Classic View’). Type ‘UAC’ in the search box. Click on the  link ‘Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off’. Windows Vista will prompt for your permission. Select ‘Continue’. Uncheck ‘Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer’. Select ‘OK’ to

Goto ‘Start–>Control Panel’ Make sure ‘Classic view’ is selected. Double Click on ‘System’ to open system properties Click on ‘Advanced System Settings’ in the left pane. Windows Vista will prompt for confirmation. Click on ‘Continue’. Click on ‘Advanced’ tab Open ‘Startup and Recovery’. Disable Kernel Memory Dunp Select ‘None’ under ‘Write debugging information’ Click ‘OK’

Enabling or disabling pagefile can be done very easily in Windows Vista. You should understand that changing the size of the pagefile may change your system performance. Goto ‘Start–>Control Panel’ Make sure ‘Classic view’ is selected. Double Click on ‘System’ to open system properties Click on ‘Advanced System Settings’ in the left pane. Windows Vista

You can enable or disable System Restore for any drive. I have listed down the steps for doing so. Goto ‘Start–>Control Panel’ Make sure ‘Classic view’ is selected. Double Click on ‘System’ to open system properties Click on ‘Advanced System Settings’ in the left pane. Windows Vista will prompt for confirmation. Click on ‘Continue’. Click

The following steps will guide you to enable or disable system restore in Windows XP. Goto ‘Start–>Control Panel’. Click on ‘Switch to Classic View’ if you are in that mode. Find and double click on ‘System’ to open ‘System Properties’. Click on ‘System Restore’ tab. Check ‘Turn off system restore on all drive’ to disable