UAC (User Account Control) is a powerful feature of Windows Vista which prevent installing or running unauthorized software and malware, BUT One of the most annoying things about UAC is that all the warnings it pops up to ask if you just did something you really wanted to do. Like, either (a) it wasn’t you who pressed the Enter key, but the ghost of your grandfather standing at your shoulder, or (b) you really are too stupid to be trusted to know you want to install a program or open an attachment. The temptation is strong to turn off UAC warnings by disabling the controls, but that causes more problems, like making it even more difficult to do some things in Vista. Fortunately, there’re two better ways.

The UAC pop-up isn’t just a simple “Are You Sure?” warning. Responding affirmatively to the pop-up actually elevates your permissions, if your user account is in the Administrator group and your permissions can be elevated. there’s a switch that can be set to automatically accept all UAC warnings, and using this switch rather than disabling UAC is a good thing because it leaves Vista security in place.

DO IT THROUGH THE CONTROL PANEL. (ACTUALLY CHANGE SECURITY POLICY)

Click Start and Control Panel. Switch to Classic View (if you haven’t already) and click on the Administration Tools icon. In the list that opens click on Local Security Policy, and in the next window, Local Policies (a tiny bit redundant, but all UIs can’t be perfect — If UAC is running you’ll get a UAC pop-up somewhere in here). In the Local Policies list click Security Options, and scroll down to “User Account Control: Behavior” (the full title of the policy is “User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode” but the window barely opens that far). Double-click the title and in the dialog box change its setting from “Prompt for Consent” to “Elevate without prompting.” Click OK and the urge to tear your hair and scream at your PC will be greatly diminished in the future.

There’s another way out there adding WHITE LIST for UAC

Download Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0 From MS download center, after installed the Toolkit, Run the Compatibility Administrator, ADD a new APPLICATION FIX, then add the .exe files or system components to the list, enable the “RunAsInvoker” option, after finished all the files, save the list as a .sdb file, then you can even use this .sdb file in other OS without the Toolkit installed, simply run “sdbinst <sdb file>” in command line with administrator mode. That’s it!

A Hungarian student has hurled three eggs at Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during a talk a Budapest’s Corvinus University on Monday, hurled some abuse, missed Ballmer and was hurled away for his troubles!

Looks like Budapest have a Microsoft-hating pest in its midst, after an incident at the Corvinus University which saw Steve Ballmer agile enough to miss the oblong eggy missiles – unlike his boss, Bill Gates, who couldn’t avoid cream pies to his face a decade ago.

Ballmer was speaking at the University, telling students he had “one key question to ask”, then asking “How many of you still have examinations?”. Whether he was trying to be funny with that question or not, I don’t know, but what happened next was hilarious.

Egged on by his own convictions, the 20-something spectacle wearing student started shouting “Give back the money of the taxpayers!”, and hurled three eggs in Ballmer’s direction. Despite only being in the fourth row, the student missed.

Wearing a white shirt with the words “Microsoft = Corruption” written on it, presumably in reference to Microsoft’s dealmaking with the Hungarian Government to use Microsoft products in favour of others, the student then decided to voluntarily leave the lecture hall of the Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem, (Hungarian for the Budapest Corvinus University), where he was taken away by officials.

The whole affair can be seen on video – two of them are up now at YouTube. These seem to be filmed by students right next to the Hungarian egg thrower, either quick to reach for their video phones or potential accomplices in the prank.

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) says Steve Ballmer was uncharacteristically speechless, and then noted “It was a friendly disruption… that broke my train of thought.”

You can also see a picture of the “attack” at the SMH site, where Steve Ballmer managed to avoid getting egg on his face.

 

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No matter how fast or shiny computers might be when they are new, they all seem to get slower over time. That state-of-the-art PC you bought last year might not feel like such a screamer after you install a dozen programs, load it with antispyware and antivirus tools, and download untold amounts of junk from the Internet. The slowdown might happen so gradually you hardly notice it, until one day you’re trying to open a program or file and wonder, “What happened to my poor PC?”

Whatever the cause, there are a lot of ways to help speed up Windows and make your PC work better—even without upgrading your hardware. Here are some tips to help you optimize Windows Vista for faster performance.

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转载自http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2008-05/16/content_8183347.htm

新华网成都５月１６日电 题：三天三夜——拯救生命的那些感人瞬间

新华社记者

５月１２日１４时２８分，四川汶川发生７.８级地震。

从那一刻起，到５月１５日下午，时间已整整过去了３天３夜。

这３天３夜，对所有中国人而言，意味着悲伤的黑色！

这３天３夜，有许许多多拯救生命的恸人瞬间，值得我们永远铭记。

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