Day: March 30, 2008

Vista detects that the system is working slow

By March 30, 2008 Uncategorized 0 Comments

The other day when I was running a couple of virtual machines in Virtual PC in my computer I got a warning looking like the picture below. Vista detected that the machine was working very hard and offered me to switch to the Windows Vista Basic color scheme. This is the first time I’ve seen this in Vista since I started testing a couple of years ago. Have you seen this or anything similar?

Slow Performance in Windows Vista

Turn off UAC in a domain using Group Policies

By March 30, 2008 Group policies, Security, User Account Control, Windows Vista 0 Comments

Some people for whatever reason want to turn off UAC for all or certain computers in a domain using Group Policies. This is done by setting the Computers Configuration > Windows Settings > Local Policies > Security Options > User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode to disabled. As usual when turning off UAC a reboot is required for the changes to take effect.