[Beginners]Kabuto's Vista Compatibility Guide Options

[kabuto202]

Many people have bought vista and are now disappointed that so many of their applications don't work on it. Then they begin flamming it because they lack the ability to make things work. Here is a few things you can do to make vista work for you.

Disable User Accounts:
1) Go to Control Panel
2) Click on user accounts
3) Click disable.
Why you should do this: This saves allot of time when your trying to open an application that has that "windows shield" in front of it. It also makes it so that you open everything as an administrator.

Update Vista:
1) Go to control panel.
2) Click on vista updates
3) Select the updates you want and click ok.
Why you should do this: Microsoft is constantly adding compatibility updates. Why not?

Disable Vista fire wall:
1) Go to Control Panel
2) Click on fire wall
3) Click on disable.
Why you should do it: Vista's fire wall is extremely aggressive. While it doesn't do any thing useful (Since there are almost no compatible viruses with vista) it really kills your compatibility and speed of your pc. If your afraid of viruses install Avast (Free software.)

Run XP application in compatibility mode:
1) Right click on the application.
2) Click on properties.
3) Click on compatibility
4) Select XP service pack two.
5) Click ok
Why you should do it: It's vista's built in compatibility generator. USE IT!

Check Google for fixes on compatibility issues
1) Go on google.
2) Type in "[Name Of Application] Vista Issues"

I hope this tutorial helps!

[kabuto202]

First of all I know what I'm talking about. Second of all, speaking from pure experience after having my machine for almost a year now, I have not once contracted any sort of malware, nor did any of the people that I ever spoke too. Disabling UAC does help because IT causes an extremely large amount of compatibility issues. For example when I first got this PC and I tried to run HL2 on it. It began screaming at me that I do not have admin rights even though I set it to run as administrator. When I turned it off it ran perfectly. Same problem my friend had with SCDA. Not only that but sometimes the message will never pop up at all when it's supposed to and it would make it impossible to install a certain software.

As for vista fire wall, it takes up a very large amount of resources. Not only does it slow down web browsing, it kills your torrent rates and makes it almost impossible to play MMO's or just about any thing that requires constant connection to a server. If you had any experience with PCs you would know that the vista fire wall is extremely aggressive. This point you shan't argue with me about for you will lose.

As for the viruses. First of all the only one of the so called sources that you used that supported what you said in any way was from "Computer World" as site that has been know to use broken statistics to help the sale of their partners' products. Second of all I never said leave you computer completely defenseless. I said to use Avast and to surf with Fire Fox. That combined with vista's own structure make it almost IMMUNE to viruses.

Next time try to read the WHOLE post before making a pathetic attempt to prove meh wrong.

Also take NOTE: This tutorial was made to make vista COMPATIBLE with other application AND WAS NOT MADE TO DO ANYTHING ELSE. So tdog please stay on topic next time.

[VxOsx]

First of all I know what I'm talking about. Second of all, speaking from pure experience after having my machine for almost a year now, I have not once contracted any sort of malware, nor did any of the people that I ever spoke too. Disabling UAC does help because IT causes an extremely large amount of compatibility issues. For example when I first got this PC and I tried to run HL2 on it. It began screaming at me that I do not have admin rights even though I set it to run as administrator. When I turned it off it ran perfectly. Same problem my friend had with SCDA. Not only that but sometimes the message will never pop up at all when it's supposed to and it would make it impossible to install a certain software.

As for vista fire wall, it takes up a very large amount of resources. Not only does it slow down web browsing, it kills your torrent rates and makes it almost impossible to play MMO's or just about any thing that requires constant connection to a server. If you had any experience with PCs you would know that the vista fire wall is extremely aggressive. This point you shan't argue with me about for you will lose.

As for the viruses. First of all the only one of the so called sources that you used that supported what you said in any way was from "Computer World" as site that has been know to use broken statistics to help the sale of their partners' products. Second of all I never said leave you computer completely defenseless. I said to use Avast and to surf with Fire Fox. That combined with vista's own structure make it almost IMMUNE to viruses.

Next time try to read the WHOLE post before making a pathetic attempt to prove meh wrong.

Also take NOTE: This tutorial was made to make vista COMPATIBLE with other application AND WAS NOT MADE TO DO ANYTHING ELSE. So tdog please stay on topic next time.

Try Right-clicking:
Properties>Security>Edit>Click on your User Account>Check Full Control
Properties>Security>Advanced>Owner>Edit>Choose your User Account as Owner.

You should now have full privileges on your Game/Application.

If the check-boxes are greyed out, I do not know of any way so far of getting them Checkable.

EDIT:
and UAC makes no difference to Compatibility
It just asks for permission to run the program