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    Vista and UAC

    Discussion in 'HP' started by FDNY2002, Jul 9, 2007.

  1. FDNY2002

    FDNY2002 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok I am definitely far from computer smart but I found a very interesting thing today. I have a new DV9500t, 4Gb Ram, Vista Ultimate 64, pretty much everything maxed. I play 1 game called America's Army. It's a free download about 2.4gb. The problem began when I tried to run the install and Vista basically would just hang and hang and not respond for a while. then nothing would happen. I tried multiple downloads and nothing worked. I came a cross a small article about Vista's UAC and basically recommended disabling it to run the install. Long story short everything worked and now my laptop that took close to 3 minutes to boot boots in half the time. Just figured I would share this in case anyone else is having problems installing large files or long boot times.
     
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  2. Wingsbr

    Wingsbr NBR Decepticon NBR Reviewer

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    There is something else going on if you lappy is taking 3 minutes to boot up and it's not the UAC. Now some programs require you to run as admin by right clicking during the install and you still have to ok thru UAC. You might take a look at some of your startup programs and services that are running in the background slowing your bootup. My max boot up time when I was with Vista was 35 seconds.
     
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    Fant Notebook Evangelist

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    I think he's right...using the hp build on my dv6500t vista takes a long time to boot up. I'll try disabling UAC but I do know those you do a clean vista install have much better bootup times.
     
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  4. FDNY2002

    FDNY2002 Notebook Enthusiast

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    My boot time is now 40 seconds to the login screen. After I swipe my finger to login my desktop shows and loads immediately, it used to go black and take almost 2 minutes to load. All I did was shut off the UAC. I am not advocating shutting it down just showing how I got the America's Army installer to run, I will not be turning it back on either. I am the only one that uses the laptop and it is for casual use anyway so I see no harm in leaving it off.
     
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    Card Shark Notebook Guru

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    What is UAC?
     
    Card Shark, Jul 9, 2007
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  6. AKAJohnDoe

    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    User Account Control.

    I disabled it myself. The sync between Quicken 2001 Deluxe and PocketQuicken for PPC V2.03 via Windows Mobile Device Center does not work with it on. There are ways (like this) to work around it, but disabling works, too.
     
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  7. Wingsbr

    Wingsbr NBR Decepticon NBR Reviewer

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    I disabled UAC when I had Vista before. Mostly because it was just freekin annoying.
     
    Wingsbr, Jul 9, 2007
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