Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Vista

Hi Guys, Many of you must be bugged off with the security alerts in Vista, You can however disable that feature to annoy you. Here are the steps to be performed to disable UAC on Vista, 1. Click the round blue Windows Start button. Now click Control Panel 2. From the Control Panel, click User Accounts and Family Safety (or User Accounts if your in classic view) 3. Click the option to Turn User Account Control on or off 4. Uncheck the box next to Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer and click OK 5. Restart when prompted Turn off user Account Control(UAC) Turn off user Account...

Sharepoint on Windows Vista

Many people have this question “Does Sharepoint gets installed on Vista?”. The answer is yes. I installed MOSS on my Vista machine yesterday successfully. All you need to install Sharepoint, WSS or MOSS, on Vista is You must select the Advanced option during install. If you want to run on SQLExpress, manually install it first.  Get it here. You have to manually enable IIS7 with the proper options. Web Management Tools and World Wide Web Services. Enable at least the following options in IIS. Download Vista Helper file from here, and run the setup file WssVista.msi. Sharepoint...

Top 3 mistakes of Microsoft in 2008

Poor Marketing of Windows Vista The real tragedy of Windows Vista, especially after service pack 1, is that it’s not as bad as its reputation. But Microsoft did not do enough in 2008 to let people know that. It got caught in the crosshairs of bad Vista perceptions and unrelenting anti-Vista marketing from Apple. But bad perceptions don’t appear out of nowhere. Compatibility and performance issues plagued Vista from the start. It was a vastly different OS from Windows XP and there were major changes to security features and the graphics system that created usability problems. These...