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How to turn off UAC in Windows 7 and Vista

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Are you getting annoyed of the permission dialogues like “Windows needs your permission to continue”?

If yes, you can easily disable these messages in Windows 7 and Vista.

This is a new security feature and can be controlled using the User Account Control(UAC) Settings.

The dialogue boxes looks like the one shown below.

You can follow the steps below and easily remove the messages every time.

Windows needs your permission to continue

If you are using Windows 7 then it is very easy.Follow the steps below:

Step 1: Click Start Button. Type UAC in the search box of the Start Menu and press enter. You can see the UAC panel as shown below.

User Account Control from start menu

User Account Control Settings

Step 2: Now drag the slide to Never notify and click OK.

User Account Control Never Notify

Now you can restart the computer and you will not see any more permission dialogues.

If you are using Windows Vista, then follow the steps below:

Step 1: Open Control Panel. Type UAC in the search box. Click the “Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off” link in the left pane.

User Account Control panel

Step 2: Uncheck the “Use User Account Control (UAC)” checkbox and click OK.

User Account Control Check box

Now you can restart your Computer.

Note: Some functionalities like Windows Side Bar may stop working if you keep the UAC as Never notify. In that case you can refer this post to enable the sidebar: Enable Windows 7 Sidebar in easy steps

More "God Mode" Like Windows 7 GUID Shortcuts

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Excited about Windows 7 unseen ‘GodMode’, the age-old windows trick which has got new life last week in Windows 7 ?

GodMode shortcut can be easily setup by creating a new folder and rename it as GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} [Folder name can be anything you want, give it your desired name followed by a period (.) and then the GUID, here GUID part is {ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} ]

Note: GUID stands for 'Globally Unique Identifier'

If “God Mode” alone isn’t enough for you, here comes Ed Bott with a nice collection of more such GUID shortcut tricks for you.His collection include tricks that work only on Windows 7 as well as some tricks can even work on Windows Vista too.I have put all of the tricks mentioned by Ed Bott in a nice table, so that it’d easier for you..Do make a note of these and you may bookmark this page for future reference.

1.Windows 7 Only (And Later Versions):

Shortcut GUID code
Action Center {BB64F8A7-BEE7-4E1A-AB8D-7D8273F7FDB6}
Backup and Restore {B98A2BEA-7D42-4558-8BD1-832F41BAC6FD}
Biometric Devices {0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428}
Credential Manager {1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70}
Default Location {00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}
Devices and Printers {A8A91A66-3A7D-4424-8D24-04E180695C7A}
Display {C555438B-3C23-4769-A71F-B6D3D9B6053A}
HomeGroup {67CA7650-96E6-4FDD-BB43-A8E774F73A57}
Location and Other Sensors {E9950154-C418-419e-A90A-20C5287AE24B}
Notification Area Icons {05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}
Recovery {9FE63AFD-59CF-4419-9775-ABCC3849F861}
RemoteApp and Desktop Connections {241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}
Speech Recognition {58E3C745-D971-4081-9034-86E34B30836A}
Troubleshooting {C58C4893-3BE0-4B45-ABB5-A63E4B8C8651}

2.Windows Vista And Windows 7:

These GUID shortcuts work on Windows 7 as well as on Windows Vista versions.

Shortcut GUID code
Administrative Tools {D20EA4E1-3957-11d2-A40B-0C5020524153}
All .NET Frameworks and COM Libraries {1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43}
All Tasks (Control Panel) {ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
AutoPlay {9C60DE1E-E5FC-40f4-A487-460851A8D915}
BitLocker Drive Encryption* {D9EF8727-CAC2-4e60-809E-86F80A666C91}
Computer Folder {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
Default Programs {17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966}
Ease of Access Center {D555645E-D4F8-4c29-A827-D93C859C4F2A}
Font Settings {93412589-74D4-4E4E-AD0E-E0CB621440FD}
Get Programs {15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4}
Manage Wireless Networks {1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
Network and Sharing Center {8E908FC9-BECC-40f6-915B-F4CA0E70D03D}
Network Connections {7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}
Network Folder {208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
Parental Controls {96AE8D84-A250-4520-95A5-A47A7E3C548B}
Performance Information and Tools {78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC}
Personalization {ED834ED6-4B5A-4bfe-8F11-A626DCB6A921}
Power Options {025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D}
Programs and Features {7b81be6a-ce2b-4676-a29e-eb907a5126c5}
Sync Center {9C73F5E5-7AE7-4E32-A8E8-8D23B85255BF}
System {BB06C0E4-D293-4f75-8A90-CB05B6477EEE}
User Accounts {60632754-c523-4b62-b45c-4172da012619}
Windows Firewall {4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423}
Windows SideShow** {E95A4861-D57A-4be1-AD0F-35267E261739}
Windows Update {36eef7db-88ad-4e81-ad49-0e313f0c35f8}

* For Ultimate versions only)

** May Slowdown your system

Warning: Trying some of the above shortcuts created problems in some machines running 64-bit Windows, please do take note of it particularly if your machine is Windows Vista 64-bit version based.

The procedure is same as I had posted earlier for GodMode setup,

Create an empty folder

Use the shortcut name that you want to give it, ex: “Network connections” followed by a period (.) following it should be the corresponding GUID shortcut code.

Networks connection GUID GodMode code

Renaming for Networks connection shortcut

Networks connection shortcut

You can try any of the above GUIDs following the same method.

Source, ZDNet

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Tutorial: Enable Secret God Mode In Windows 7 & Windows Vista

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If you are using Windows 7, you might wonder if you come to know there exists a feature called ‘GodMode’ in Windows 7.

The name may sound as joke but it’s actually worth, taking into account access to the huge number of operating system control settings it offers at one place that makes you feel like god, when I tested it on my machine, it gave showed me a total number of 274 times in GodMode folder icon.

Procedure:

Warning: This procedure works well on 32-Bit based Windows 7 and Windows Vista machines.I heard that trying GodMode creates problems in 64bit machine, but it worked for some users though, my sincere advice is to don’t try this if you are using 64bit machine till someone officially announces that it’s safer to do this.

  1. Create a new folder
  2. Rename it to GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
  3. rename folder enter GodMode String
  4. You will now see the following GodMode icon
  5. GodMode icon
  6. You have now successfully created a GodMode icon, open it to see the various control settings that your windows can offer you all at one place.

Windows 7 GodMode control settings list

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NVIDIA GeForce Windows 7 Drivers Download

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The Windows Aero experience you expect in Windows 7 is definitely not going to work if you are not installing the right drivers for your NVIDIA GeForce Graphics present in your computer. For this purpose NVIDIA has released a driver for your GeForce. The released Driver is GeForce Driver Release 181 Beta released on March 02, 2009. This is expected to work well for Windows 7 Beta. But some people are facing some problems with the Windows 7 RC (Release Candidate). Moreover the GeForce Versions for Laptops and Tablet PCs are not supported by this 181 driver, like the GeForce 7400. Anyhow I am going to address the solution below.

If you want to download the GeForce Driver 181 Beta, then you can see the link below. But before see the Products Supported list to know whether your product is included or not.

Download windows 7 nVidia 181.71 driver

Anyhow even if you have installed the driver or not, please perform the steps below to update the driver you are using.

Step 1: Go to start, type Update in the Search box and open Windows Update.

start windows update

Step 2: In the Windows Update page click the optional Update link.

windows update

Step 3: Now select the nVidia Driver update available and click OK to download.

nvidia update

If the Update is not shown then you can click Check For Update in the Windows Update page.

After downloading install the updates. You may need to restart the system for it to work. Hope this solves the problems for your graphics in Windows 7.