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How to enable or disable the sound for Mail Notification in Outlook 2007.

1. In Outlook, click Tools menu > Options.

2. On the Preferences tab, click E-mail Options, and click Advanced E-mail Options.

3. Under When new items arrive in my Inbox, check or uncheck Play a sound.

How to enable or disable the On-Screen Keyboard in Windows Vista. Use the On-Screen keyboard to type without an actual keyboard.

  1. Click Start and type Ease in the Start Search box. Open Ease of Access Center
    Ease of Access Center
  2. Choose Use the computer without a mouse or keyboard.
    No Mouse or Keyboard
  3. Check or uncheck the box for Use On-Screen Keyboard. Click Save when you are finished.
    Uncheck the box

Now the On-Screen Keyboard should be disabled and not appear.

Source: ITsVISTA Tip 60: Hide a persistant on-screen keyboard in Vista

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How to enable or disable the new email notification box that appears by the time.

1. In Outlook 2007 click Tools > Options.

2. Click Preferences.

3. Click Advanced E-mail Options.

4. Check or uncheck the Display a New Mail Desktop Alert (default Inbox only) box to enable or disable it. Click OK.

5. Click OK again.

Enable or disable Device Driver Signing in Windows Vista.

1. Click START > All Programs > Accessories then right-click on Command Prompt and select Run As Administrator

2. To disable device driver signing, type BCEDIT /set nointegritychecks ON

To enable device driver signing, type BCEDIT /set nointegritychecks OFF

Where to enable or disable the setting to make Internet Explorer remember your passwords.

1. Open Internet Explorer and click Tools > Internet Options.

2. Click the Content tab, then click AutoComplete.

3. Check or uncheck the option Prompt me to save passwords.

Disable the annoying “You’ve opened a new tab” screen from appearing in Internet Explorer 7.

1. Click Start, type REGEDIT and press ENTER

2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then Software
then Microsoft
then Internet Explorer
then TabbedBrowsing

3. Right-click on TabbedBrowsing and select New–>DWORD Value and name it ShowTabsWelcome

4. Double-click ShowTabsWelcome, and set its value data to 0

5. Restart Windows.

Disable this message from appearing in Windows XP:

“The software you are installing for this hardware: “hardware name” has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP”

1. Right-click My Computer.

2. Click Properties.

3. Click the Hardware tab, then click Driver Signing under Drivers.

4. Click Ignore – Install the software anyway and don’t ask for my approval.

How to disable the annying Windows Security Center popup balloon alerts in Windows Vista.

Click on the Security Center logo in the system tray.

2. Click Change the way Security Center alerts me.

3. Select I do not want notification messages from Security Center.

The Windows Security Center balloon messages will no longer appear.

Disable the Office 2007 message that warns you about hyperlinks.

Hyperlinks can be harmful to your computer and data.

1. Click on the start button and key in REGEDIT and press Enter.

2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then Software
then Policies
then Microsoft
then Office
then 12.0
then Common

3. Click once on the Common key, point to New on the Edit menu, and then click Key.

4. Type Security, and then press ENTER to name the key.
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Disable the annoying Windows Vista popup tip and reminder balloons.

1. Click START and type gpedit.msc and press ENTER.

2. Go to User Configuration–>Administrative Templates–>Start Menu and Taskbar

3. Right-click on Remove Balloon Tips under Start Menu items, and select Properties.

4. Select Enable and click OK.

Close Group Policy Editor and now the balloons should no longer appear.

When performing certain actions in Windows Vista, you are given the following message:

Windows needs your permission to continue

If you started this action, continue.

And you are give the options to Continue or Cancel.

In some cases you are prompted for an administrator username and password.

This appears to make sure you are the one performing these actions instead of a rogue program such as virus or spyware on your computer. You can click Continue or you may need an administrator username and password to be entered.

It is part of the Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) feature. You can find out more information about it here.

If you wish to disable this feature and prevent these messages from appearing, you must be an administrator and you can follow the steps to disable UAC in the Technipages article Enable/Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista

Update:
We have also found instructions for disabling this dialog. We have not tested this yet, but feel free to try it.

Disable User Account Control in Windows Vista.

1. Click Start, in the Start Search type control userpasswords and click OK

2. Click Turn User Account Control on or off

3. Uncheck Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer to disable User Account Control or check it to enable User Account Control. Then click OK

4. Restart Windows.

Disable the message from appearing warning you that “The Publisher Could Not Be Verified” when you run certain files.

1. Click Start–>Run and type gpedit.msc. Click OK

2. Go to User Configuration–>Administrative Templates–>Windows Components–>Attachment Manager

3. Add “*.exe” to the “Inclusion list for moderate risk file types” setting. You can also add other file types.

This should disable the “Publisher Could Not Be Verified” messages from appearing for that file type in the future.

This tip was based on tips from the link below:
http://blog.davestechshop.net/archive/2006/10/30/IE7PublisherCouldNotBeVerified.aspx

Enable or disable the warning message that says the following:

You are running out of disk space on [drive]. To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here.

1. Click START–>RUN and type REGEDIT. Click OK.

2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then SOFTWARE
then Microsoft
then Windows
then CurrentVersion
then Policies
then Explorer
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Disable the annoying balloon tips messages that appear in Windows Vista.

1. Click START and in the Start Search and type REGEDIT

2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then SOFTWARE
then Microsoft
then Windows
then CurrentVersion
then Explorer

Right-click on ADVANCED and Select NEW–>DWORD VALUE

Name it EnableBalloonTips

Double-click EnableBalloonTips, and then give it a value of 0

This setting should disable the balloon tips messages from appearing in the future.