The downside is that some of the User Account Control (UAC) features
I??™ll discuss in Chapter 8 may stop working with pre-Vista applications,
which may cause those older programs to stop working.
* The Group Policy Object Editor (gpedit.msc) is only available in the Business and Ultimate editions
of Windows Vista; it??™s not available in Home Basic and Home Premium.
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Turn Off Program Compatibility Assistant. The Assistant is the window
that pops up after you install a program or use it for the first time to
inform you that it may not have run correctly. Obviously, this is something
you??™re probably able to determine for yourself, so set this option
to Enabled to get rid of these prompts.
Remove Program Compatibility Property Page. This gets rid of the Compatibility
tab in a program??™s Properties window. If you??™re setting the
other options here to Enabled, you might as well set this to Enabled, too.
When you??™re done, close the Group Policy Object Editor and restart Windows
for the change to take effect. If one of your programs stops working, you??™ll
need to come back here to re-enable the Application Compatibility engine.
See the ???Keeping an Eye on Prefetch??? sidebar, later in this chapter, for
another feature that can affect application startup times.
Make Your Hardware Perform
There??™s no end to the tricks you can employ to squeeze more speed out of
your PC, but few??”apart from the ones in this chapter, hopefully??”will end
up making that much of a difference.
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