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<blockquote data-quote="zukkster" data-source="post: 392323" data-attributes="member: 89199">Ahhh.I was looking for MediaPortal options not Vista ones. I'm only moderately techie and new to Vista in the last month or so ...I opted for the option of running MediaPortal as admin, because I have young kids and at some point in the not to distant future I'll setup Parental control using the user accounts, so didn't want to switch them off completely.In the interest of other users who might use this thrad for reference. Here's a link to instructions as to how to 1)Disable user accounts<a href="http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vista.htm" target="_blank">Disable User Account Control in Windows Vista</a>2)Run as MediaPortal as admin<a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/always-start-an-application-in-administrator-mode-on-windows-vista/" target="_blank">Always Start an Application in Administrator Mode on Windows Vista :: the How-To Geek</a>Is there somewhere that I've missed where there's a list of general setup tips and tricks on the website? If not, I'm making a note of all of these setup things, with links and instructions because so far I've had a few tweaks I've needed to make, and when I'm a month or so into using MediaPortal and think I've got it runnign smoothly I'll post them as a reference. Even with the setup tweaks, this software beats Media Centre hands down.Can't see how to do thanks</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zukkster, post: 392323, member: 89199"] [b]Ahhh.[/b] I was looking for MediaPortal options not Vista ones. I'm only moderately techie and new to Vista in the last month or so ... I opted for the option of running MediaPortal as admin, because I have young kids and at some point in the not to distant future I'll setup Parental control using the user accounts, so didn't want to switch them off completely. In the interest of other users who might use this thrad for reference. Here's a link to instructions as to how to 1)Disable user accounts [url=http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vista.htm]Disable User Account Control in Windows Vista[/url] 2)Run as MediaPortal as admin [url=http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/always-start-an-application-in-administrator-mode-on-windows-vista/]Always Start an Application in Administrator Mode on Windows Vista :: the How-To Geek[/url] Is there somewhere that I've missed where there's a list of general setup tips and tricks on the website? If not, I'm making a note of all of these setup things, with links and instructions because so far I've had a few tweaks I've needed to make, and when I'm a month or so into using MediaPortal and think I've got it runnign smoothly I'll post them as a reference. Even with the setup tweaks, this software beats Media Centre hands down. Can't see how to do thanks [/QUOTE]

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