Managing Security using UAC on Windows 7 Home Editions

This post demonstrates how to manage Security Levels on Windows 7 Home Editions.Only Windows 7 Professional and above editions have a front end secpol.msc to manage local security policies.For Windows 7 Home Edition you can manage the security policies by manually changing the registry values.The registry location is shown in the picture below. The corresponding security levels is as describe below:Key:_______________________________________________________________ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin...

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OpenSUSE 11.4

For those who use Linux you might know that OpenSUSE 11.4 has just released.I will be doing a short write up on this but unlike many "review" sites I will not just run a LiveCD and do a review just based on the Live CD.Rather I have completed a Full Setup of the OpenSUSE on my laptop running it natively and complete for usage. Doing a Review based on a Live CD or on VM is like reviewing a book just by reading the first page. 1)Downloading the DistributionTo...

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Rising Prices

Recently I found that prices for Acer Laptops have been increasing.For Acer, TimelineX Series of laptops have contributed to the increase in sales of their laptops, however because of that the prices have been higher than before comparatively.I do not know the reason of the price hikes. It can be attributed to either to greedy retailers who cashed in on the rising popularity or Acer's decision to increase the prices, however 1 thing is certain, Acer computers are no longer as value for money as their other OEM counterparts per specification.I do...

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Don't buy Macbooks

It is 2011 and it keeps getting better!In the new refresh they decided to downgrade the graphics to Intel HD 3000! Wow, seriously they must have thought consumers are suckers(and maybe they are right the way things are going).The Sandy Bridge was advertised as a major upgrade even though all other new laptops are going to get it at less than half the price. In this revision, Apple gets to sell 1 Chip (Sandy Bridge CPU) for the price of what was originally...

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