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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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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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Enable/Disable ‘System Restore’- WinVista

saurabh — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:00:10 +0000

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 on ‘System Protection’ tab.

Enable ‘System Restore’

Check the drives for which you have to enable ‘System Restore’.
Click ‘OK’ to save changes.

Disable ‘System Restore’

Un-Check the drives for whic you have to enable ‘System Restore’.
If you have disabled System Restore for any drive, Windows Vista may prompt for confirmation.
Click on ‘Turn System Protection Off’ to confirm.
Click ‘OK’ to save changes

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Enable/Disable ‘System Restore’ – WinXP

saurabh — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:11:36 +0000

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 ‘System Restore’.
UnCheck ‘Turn off system restore on all drive’ to enable ‘System Restore’.
Click on ‘OK’ to save changes.
Windows XP will prompt for your confirmation.
Click on ‘Yes’ to save changes.
Restart the system.

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