In early June, Computerworld published the story, “Visual Tour: 20 Things You Won’t Like About Windows Vista.” At the bottom of page 5 of that story, I wrote that the built-in Administrator account is ...

Get an added level of protection by activating this back-up administrator account in Vista and by safeguarding it in XP. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...

While both Windows Vista and 7 have obvious advantages over Windows XP, especially with regards to their ease-of-use, there are occasions that can arise where you may have to smack your head and ...

For the average Windows Vista session, the "Needs your permission to continue" prompts are just momentary, occasional annoyances which can be disabled or by-passed. But if you're planning to do a lot ...

If the only standard accounts are available on your Vista PC, log into the OS's hidden administrator account via Safe Mode. Also, "Gmail encryption" clarified. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

Users of Windows XP SP2 may be accustomed to root-access-intervention messaging, but Vista Ultimate goes much further, preventing even with some of its own utilities from effecting changes to the ...

Anyone know the difference, or point me to a reference somewhere? I have a program that does <B>not</B> run correctly on Vista with UAC disabled, but <I>does</I> run correctly with UAC functioning but ...

I understand that in general a user that is local admin has many ways to get around or prevent settings from being applied via GPO, if they wanted to do so. I just wanted to get that out because that ...

While Windows Vista may be Microsoft’s most secure operating system ever, it’s far from completely secure. In its fresh-from-the-box configuration, Vista still leaves a chance for your personal data ...

The How-To Geek continues his quest to make Vista actually convenient for a wider group of people with a few tips on taming AutoHotkey, the Windows scripting language that can automate keyboard ...