Bypass Windows XP/Vista/Win7 login screen

If you prefer the fast way (less secure), Vista does provide an easy GUI for configure this.

Vista: control userpassword2

Here is the what you have to call. I just wonder why they don’t provide this in normal User Account page. Then you just to select the account you want to access automatically, then uncheck this:-

User Accounts

It will ask you a password of the selected account. Then next time, you restart the computer, you will never have to put a password anymore :-D

Update before Win 7 launch (Oct 19, 2009): Although this command works with Vista and XP, it doesn’t seem to work with Windows 7. The alternative is using ‘netplwiz‘ instead of ‘control userpasswords2′ and yes,  netplwiz works on Vista and XP too. Quite good, huh?

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Disable Adobe Updater

image This was not my issue until today. I just got my hand on tx2500z and as usual HP provides us tons of good & crap pieces of software. I decided to live with this configuration for a while and see how HP manages on its own image. So that I could review it as it really is out-of-the-box. However, one annoying thing I found so far was Adobe Updater from Acrobat Reader was popping up to download newer version all the time. It was quite a big file, so I could cancel it before it finished. By the way, after restarting it was still showing again and again.

So I needed to fix this so badly. The problem was Adobe Updater didn’t have a shortcut available for easy access. You guys might find this after completing first update and be able to disable it. But if you are not that patient, so you have to get into

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater5

You will see AdobeUpdater.exe file which oddly have no beautiful icon for even regular size. Seems like Adobe doesn’t like us to find this really. When you open this little app, you have to click "Preference" to customize its behavior.

disable adobe updater

Once you uncheck this, Adobe Updater will never bother you no more.

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