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Help me Turn this 'feature' off

Zebo

Zebo

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all I wanted to do is play dx10 bioshock...been tweaking Vista all morning refusing to get assf***ed by bloated vista and it's gayish Aero Glass theme among other things. Ive vlited out .net, mediaplayer, firewall, UAC, search and indexing and many other services are gone. Made tones of registry changes but as soon as I go to install my first application I get this crap about "Open file - Security warning" I will not be doing click throughs like this for the 100 or so apps I have left to install.


PS I spent some time googleing "Open File Security Warning " and it's XP they talk about - how do you remove this under VISTA?

 
That is not a default behavior of Vista at all. Your tweaking probably broke something along the way.

Ironically, in fearing getting "assf***ed" by "bloated vista" (which is mostly FUD anyway) and using vlite, you pretty much did to yourself what you wanted to avoid in the first place.
 
You know what's funny...if you skipped turning all that stuff off, "tweaking" Vista, and asking questions here about it, you could be done with your setup and already using your computer.
 
Turning off UAC without 'stripping' it from the OS takes about two seconds post-install and viola -- it's off. The rest of the stuff you disabled saved you about 1-2GB of hard drive space and zero performance. Running the game would be given priority once you loaded it. Sometimes people are too "knowledgeable" for their own good.
 
I did'nt break what is broken. Vista warns you about it no matter whether UAC was disabled or on the first time I installed it (without vlite) I removed UAC entirely hoping to make this message disappear. Now are you two done with your 'commentary' and care to tell me how to turn open file warning off?
 
That's the thing. You can turn off both UAC and the warning popup using the normal configuration tools in Vista without resorting to flakey tools that were created by people who only have a partial understanding of what they're ripping out.
 
Sorry, if you are getting any sort of error or warning prompt when installing apps without UAC on, something is broken. With UAC off the only prompts received on an unbroken Vista install are those contained in the installer itself.
 
Originally posted by: ChronoReverse
That's the thing. You can turn off both UAC and the warning popup using the normal configuration tools in Vista without resorting to flakey tools that were created by people who only have a partial understanding of what they're ripping out.
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How? When I uncheck the "always ask before opening this file" box the Security Warning continues to appear for other .exe's - Must only be for that instance that particular exe and not system wide.
 
Zebo - As evidenced by the tone of your post, you clearly don't like it. And by ripping out parts of the OS have guaranteed by your own hand that your perceptions of the OS are upheld. Congratulations on the efforts to prove to yourself the OS is as bad as you think it is, as they have clearly been successful. So now that the excercise has been brought to fruition, if you would be so kind as to please do everyone a favor - Uninstall Vista, reformat/zero write your HDD, and install XP. As a matter of fact - Take your existing HDD, RMA it on a made up excuse, then format the new one several times to make sure you have removed even the appearance of having once installed The OS WHich Shall Not Be Named on your computer.

You will certainly be happier that way, since you can now go back to XP having 'proven' Vista is unworthy. And, as a bonus, *we* will be happier not having to read about your self inflicted experiences.

Sincerely,

Scott

p.s - Believe it or not, Vista works fine out of the box.

p.p.s - DX10 is not compatible with any games on the market today. What is being sold as DX10 is actually "DX9ex" - a Variant of DX9 which ships on Vista so Vista boxes can play DX9 games. DX9ex uses the new WDDM to communicate graphical information and includes some additional DX9~compatible commands developers can use to add a little functionality so the box can get a '10' sticker. But if a given game runs on both XP and on Vista, you can be assured it's 9ex, and not really 10. *Therefore* - There is no reason for you to install Vista at all.
 
I'll like Vista just fine as soon I get looking like and as annoying as w2k was, which is to say minimalistic. Spent a day to get a decent ghost image for my XP install too, no big deal as long as I get some help instead of BS marketing and defending by the sycophants. The BioShock water screens are quite different in DX10 or whatever you call it and XP's DX9 pathway is my reason I will get vista working to my satisfaction.
 
Originally posted by: Zebo
How? When I uncheck the "always ask before opening this file" box the Security Warning continues to appear for other .exe's - Must only be for that instance that particular exe and not system wide.
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Depends on what you're doing.

IF UAC is off and you're running an EXE, there will be no dialog

UNLESS, this EXE was downloaded from the Internet. In this case you right-click the EXE, click Properties, then Unblock

OR

UNLESS, you're running this EXE from a network share. In this case, if you're running XP SP3 or Vista, it'll bug you about it. This is the one situation that does require more work to turn off (it's a Local Security Setting IIRC).



I'll like Vista just fine as soon I get looking like and as annoying as w2k was, which is to say minimalistic. Spent a day to get a decent ghost image for my XP install too, no big deal as long as I get some help instead of BS marketing and defending by the sycophants. The BioShock water screens are quite different in DX10 or whatever you call it and XP's DX9 pathway is my reason I will get vista working to my satisfaction.
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I find that the one asking for help in such a mocking and rude tone is the one who's the real deviant.
 
Then kindly reformat and reinstall a clean and unmolested version of Vista. Once you vlite out services and make registry entries/changes/godknowswhat, we can't help you any more because we can't know what you did. No need to rip things out, when you can turn them off from within.

In case you hadn't notced, there's a very nice tutorial section at the site you linked. Also, the forums there should be more helpful than reading the newsgroup correspondence.
 
Originally posted by: ChronoReverse
Originally posted by: Zebo
How? When I uncheck the "always ask before opening this file" box the Security Warning continues to appear for other .exe's - Must only be for that instance that particular exe and not system wide.
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Depends on what you're doing.

IF UAC is off and you're running an EXE, there will be no dialog

UNLESS, this EXE was downloaded from the Internet. In this case you right-click the EXE, click Properties, then Unblock

OR

UNLESS, you're running this EXE from a network share. In this case, if you're running XP SP3 or Vista, it'll bug you about it. This is the one situation that does require more work to turn off (it's a Local Security Setting IIRC).



I'll like Vista just fine as soon I get looking like and as annoying as w2k was, which is to say minimalistic. Spent a day to get a decent ghost image for my XP install too, no big deal as long as I get some help instead of BS marketing and defending by the sycophants. The BioShock water screens are quite different in DX10 or whatever you call it and XP's DX9 pathway is my reason I will get vista working to my satisfaction.
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I find that the one asking for help in such a mocking and rude tone is the one who's the real deviant.
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I think you're right- network share seems to be the issue apps come from my xp box. As far as rude - I don't think I'm rude though for relating my thoughts and experiences. Thanks again.
 
Two things:

If you're getting this issue from a network share, do this:

Go to: Control Panel -> Internet Options -> Security -> Local Intranet -> Sites -> Advanced and add "\\Server\share" without quotations.

If you're getting this a lot from any executable, it may be related to having Cryptographic Services disabled. That's the service that's responsible for checking signatures in files/drivers. Re-enable it.

Let me know if this helps.
 
I don't have anything against apps like vlite but those changes you made aren't going to make jack craps difference when it comes to enjoying your game anyway. I've installed Vista on many machines and some of those things than annoy you take me all of 2 minutes to disable on my first boot of the OS. Really you are just wasting your time, Vista isn't bloated anyway but if you despise it that much you should have just stuck with XP.
 
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