Activate AutoLogin In Windows Vista

Vista Logon Screen

In order to login to vista without clicking user icon when that acount has no password follow these steps and enabling autologin.

Steps to be followed:

Step 1: Go to your statr menu search box and type “netplwiz” without double quotes.

Step 2: If UAC is activated you will have to give permissions to it and a new window will open up unclick the check box which says “users must enter a username and password to login”.

Step 3: Done

3 Methods To Run Command Prompt With Administrative Privileges In Vista

Command Prompt with Administrative privileges in Vista

Due to the UAC in Vista every program runs with limited rights and the same happens for the command prompt also becouse of this the command prompt is uanble to run some commands and get access denied errors. so to avoid this scenario lets launch command prompt with administrative privileges. The different mentods are discussed below.

Method 1

Step 1: Open Start Menu.
Step 2: Go to accessories Locate the command prompt under accessories.
Step 3: Right Click on its shortcut then select Run as Administrator.

Method 2

Step 1: Click on Vista Start.
Step 2: Select Run & Type in “Cmd” (without quotes) in the Run Menu Search Box.
Step 3: You will see a msg “This task will be created with administrative privileges”.
Step 4: Click on OK.

Method 3

Step 1: Open start menu by clicking the start button.
Step 2: Now type “cmd” in the start menu search box or in run.
Step 3: Press Shift+Ctrl+Enter to lauch command prompt with administrative privileges.

System Restore from Recovery Console

Windows XP Recovery Console

We all know that recovery console is a place where we cannot run system restore normally... so follow the below mentioned steps to run system restore in Recovery Console also. In order to do this you need a windows xp bootable disc.

Step 1: Insert the XP disc and turn of the sys.
Step 2: Boot from the cd and go to windows Stepup page.
Step 3: Choose the second option "R"
Step 4: Choose the operating system
Step 5: Type the Admin password and confirm that by typing again.
Step 6: Type CD\ then Enter
Step 7: Type cd system~1\_resto~1 then Enter
Step 8: Type dir then Enter

Note : When you hit enter it will list all the restore points folders like rp1, rp2 …….. If the restore points have more than one page then u have to keep on hitting the key to view the last restore point folder. You will have to choose the second to last option folder

Step 9: Type cd rp {the second to the last restore point no. } (Note: Example: cd rp9, if rp9 is the second to the last restore point where the last restore point no. is 10
Step 10: Type cd snapshot
Step 11: Now the command prompt will look like this c:\system~1\_resto~1\rp9\snapshot
Step 12: Type copy _registry_machine_system c:\windows\system32\config\system
Step 13: Press enter
Step 14: Type copy _registry_machine_software c:\windows\system32\config\software
Step 15: Type Exit

Note: If you get an access denied error when doing the above, then do the following steps at the recovery console:

Step 1: Type CD\ then press Enter
Step 2: Type cd windows\system32\config then press Enter
Step 3: Type ren system system.bak then press Enter
Step 4: Type exist press Enter
Step 5: Your PC will reboot, go back into the Recovery Console and then you have start from Step 7

Note : If you still cannot get access in anyway to your installation in the recovery console then your SAM database files are corrupt. There is no way you can restore these with the recovery console. You may need to do a fresh install

Enable / Disable Task Manager in Windows XP

Task Manager

In order to Enable / Disable Task manger follow the below mentioned steps.

1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3. Enter gpedit.msc in the Open box and click OK
4. In the Group Policy settings window
5. Select User Configuration
6. Select Administrative Templates
7. Select System
8. Select Ctrl+Alt+Delete options
9. Select Remove Task Manager
10. Double-click the Remove Task Manager option
11. Change the Value to be 1 (To Enable) / 0 (To Disable)
    

4 Methods to Disable User Account Control(UAC) in Vista

User Account Control (UAC)

Method 1 - Using Control Panel

1. Open Control Panel.
2. Under User Account and Family settings click on the "Add or remove user account".
3. Click on one of the user accounts, for example you can use the Guest account.
4. Under the user account click on the "Go to the main User Account page" link.
5. Under "Make changes to your user account" click on the "Change security settings" link.
6. In the "Turn on User Account Control (UAC) to make your computer more secure" click to unselect the "Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer". Click on the Ok button.
7. You will be prompted to reboot your computer. Do so when ready.

In order to re-enable UAC just select the above checkbox and reboot.

Method 2 - Using Group Policy

1. Click start and type gpedit.msc in search.
2. In the Group Policy Editor window, browse to Computer Configuration
3. Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Security Options.
4. In the right pane scroll to find the User Access Control policies
5. you will need to configure the following policy.










Method 3 - Using Regedit

1. Open Registry Editor.
2. In Registry Editor, go to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
3. Locate the following value (DWORD): EnableLUA - value = 0.
4. Close Registry Editor. You need to reboot the computer for changes to apply.

Note: In order to re-enable UAC just change the above value to 1.


Method 4 - Using MSCONFIG

1. Launch MSCONFIG by from the Run menu.
2. Click on the Tools tab. Scroll down till you find "Disable UAP" (this should probably change to UAC in next Vista beta builds and in the RTM version). Click on that line.

3. Press the Launch button.

4. A CMD window will open. When the command is done, you can close the window.
5. Close MSCONFIG. You need to reboot the computer for changes to apply.

Note: You can re-enable UAC by selecting the "Enable UAP" line and then clicking on the Launch button.


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