If you are a Windows Vista user, there is nothing more bugging than the UAC in Windows Vista. UAC which was supposed to bring improved security in Windows, does it pretty well but at the cost of user friendliness.

There are lots of apps and softwares that I run on my Machine, and Vista bugs me everytime I open them. For quite some time I’ve been looking to disable UAC for select applications, rather than disabling it all together, as that could possibly create a security havoc. After some time looking around for a solution, I finally found a solution that was recommended by Microsoft, and even Worked pretty well for me.

If you are looking to disable UAC for certain applications in Windows Vista, then follow this guide, and once you are done, the UAC may not really be all that bugging as it used to be.

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MagicISO is very helpful utility designed for creating and managing virtual CD drives and CD/DVD discs. You can run programs, play games, or listen to music from your virtual CD-ROM. Allowing you to run your game images at over 200x faster than from a conventional CD/DVD-ROM. MagicDisc is a powerful utility that uses a unique combination of options to ensure a perfect back-up every time.

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Error 1606. Could not access network location %SystemDrive%\inetpub\wwwroot\

To correct this error, you will need to make a quick change in the registry:

1. Make a backup of your registry.
2. Start | Run | regedit
3. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InetStp using regedit

1. Change the key PathWWWRoot to read “@C:\inetpub\wwwroot@” (your default website location in IIS) instead of %SystemDrive%\inetpub\wwwroot

To avoid Spotlight from indexing an entire volume, create an empty file named .metadata_never_index in the root folder of the volume. If your volume is called MYDATA, for example, open up Terminal and type:

$ touch /Volumes/MYDATA/.metadata_never_index

Spotlight should now skip indexing this volume – as long as this file exists.

Configuring the Ubuntu machine is pretty straightforward. Install and configure rsync and xinetd

There are a couple of changes from the rsyncd.conf you get from the URL above, mainly to avoid permission related problems when trying to rsync from a Windows machine. Here is my complete rsyncd.conf

uid = backups
gid = nogroup
use chroot = yes 
max connections = 5 
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
log file = /var/log/rsync.log
incoming chmod = Dg=s,Dug=rwx,Do-rwx,Fug=rw,Fo-rwx

[wbackups]
        path = /home/backups/wserver
        comment = Backups from wserver
        read only = false
        auth users = backups
        secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
        hosts allow = 192.168.1.1

Changes to note from the Ubuntu Wiki example is the “incoming chmod” line and the “auth users” line. I created a separate user called “backups” and store everything under /home/backups. Next, I notified logrotate about the new log being created. To do this, create a file /etc/logrotate.d/rsync with the following:

/var/log/rsync.log {
       weekly
       rotate 4
       compress
       notifempty
       missingok
}

And that is about all you need to do on Ubuntu.

On Windows:

1. Install DeltaCopy
2. Run the DeltaCopy Client, point it to the Ubuntu machine
3. For “Virtual Directory”, my setting was wbackups, defined in the configuration file above
4. Authenticate as the backups user you created

1. Set your rsync options

The rest should be straightforward. The DeltaCopy GUI also allows you to automatically schedule backups.

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No clue why this useful utility is not part of the standard SQL Server 2005 Express installation…

To resolve this issue:

1. Edit C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

1. Uncomment the line that reads ::1 localhost

Now Flush your DNS Resolver cache by running ipconfig /flushdns a couple of times and localhost should resolve fine.

ALTER LOGIN UserLogin WITH PASSWORD='password' UNLOCK
ALTER LOGIN UserLogin WITH CHECK_EXPIRATION = OFF
ALTER LOGIN UserLogin WITH CHECK_POLICY = OFF

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This should stop that error from showing again.