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How to turn off User Account Control?

How to turn off User Account Control?
1. Click on START menu
2. Go to the Control Panel.
3. Look for the ‘User Accounts and Family Safety’ and then ‘User Accounts’
4. There should be an option to ‘Turn User Account Control on or off’
5. Click it to turn it off or on.
6. It will prompt you to reboot [...]

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Word won’t open on Vista

Word won’t open on Vista
Recently my Microsoft Word doesn’t startup and open under Vista.
The version I am using is Word 7 on Microsoft Vista Ultimate.  I tried with and without service pack 1 (sp1) and the same results.
Solution: You can use the ‘/a’ when you run the word program.  e.g. “winword.exe /a”.  Either you type [...]

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Error code 0×80072F8F

Error code 0×80072F8F
When you search for available updates on the Windows Update Web site or on the Microsoft Update Web site, you may receive the following error code:
This issue may occur if the date and time on the computer varies too much from the valid date and time of the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates [...]

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How to Disable TCP Auto-Tuning?

How to Disable TCP Auto-Tuning on Vista?
Here’s how the command to disable tcp auto-tuning for Vista.
Disable TCP Auto-Tuning:
Type in the netsh command below with Administrator rights on the command prompt in your computer
netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled
Enable TCP Auto-Tuning
You do the same but with the following command
netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=normal
VN:F [...]

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