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Turn off Adobe auto update

saurabh — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:21:30 +0000

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)
Make sure you are connected to internet and firewall is not blocking this software
Goto ‘Help’ in the menu bar and click on ‘Check for Updates..’
It will check for the latest update as shown below and take you to another window
Click on ‘Preferences’ shown in the window
Uncheck ‘Automatically check for Adobe updates:’ to disable auto update
Auto update would be disabled for all Adobe applications. You will have to manually check for updates.

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Modify User Account Access from Command Line

saurabh — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:26:44 +0000

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 /d 0 /f

Enable UAC

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

After you enable or disable UAC, you will have to reboot your system for the changes to take effect.

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Disable User Account Control (UAC)

saurabh — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:15:58 +0000

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 save the changes.
Windows will prompt you to ‘Restart’.
Restart the system to complete the process.

Note: Disabling UAC will lead to a less secure system.

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Enable/Disable ‘Kernel Memory Dump’- WinVista

saurabh — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:30:13 +0000

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’ on ‘Startup and Recovery’ window to close it.
Click ‘OK’ on ‘System Properties’ window to close it.

Enable Kernel Memory Dunp

Select ‘Kernel memory dump’ under ‘Write debugging information’
Click ‘OK’ on ‘Startup and Recovery’ window to close it.
Click ‘OK’ on ‘System Properties’ window to close it.

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Enable/Disable ‘Pagefile’- WinVista

saurabh — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:20:10 +0000

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 will prompt for confirmation.
Click on ‘Continue’.
Click on ‘Advanced’ tab
Open on ‘Settings…’ button to open Performance Options window
Click on ‘Advanced’ tab in ‘Performance Options’ window.
Click ‘Change’ to open ‘Virtual Memory’ window.

Disable ‘Pagefile’ (Virtual Memory)

Uncheck ‘Automatically manage page file size for all drives’
Select ‘No paging file’.
Click ‘Set’ and Windows Vista may prompt for your confirmation.
Click ‘Yes’ to confirm.
Click ‘OK’ on ‘Virtual Memory’ window.
Click ‘OK’ on ‘Performance’ window.
Click ‘OK’ on ‘System Properties’ window to close it.

Enable ‘Pagefile’ (Virtual Memory) – Automatically

If you want Windows Vista to automatically manage paging file

Check ‘Automatically manage page file size for all drives’
Click ‘OK’ on ‘Virtual Memory’ window
Click ‘OK’ on ‘Performance’ window
Click ‘OK’ on ‘System Properties’ window to close it.

Enable ‘Pagefile’ (Virtual Memory) – Custom Manged

Make sure ‘Automatically manage page file size for all drives’ is unchecked.
Click on your desired drive and select ‘Custom’ radio button.
Enter values for ‘Initial Size’ and ‘Maximum Size’.
It is recommended that Maximum Size must be 3 times Installed RAM.
It is recommended that Maximum Size and Initial Size should be same.
Click ‘Set’ and Windows Vista may prompt for your confirmation.
Click ‘OK’ on ‘Virtual Memory’ window
Click ‘OK’ on ‘Performance’ window
Click ‘OK’ on ‘System Properties’ window to close it.

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