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Branding the Vista Logon Screen: Date - Oct 15, 2008; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Enterprises could easily brand the logon screen for Windows XP. For Vista however, doing this requires a third-party product.
Moving user profile location in Windows Vista: Date - Jul 08, 2008; Rating - 1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to move the location where user profiles are stored in Windows Vista.
Disabling File and Folder Encryption: Date - May 24, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to disable file/folder encryption on Windows Vista.
Getting past the size limit for roaming profiles: Date - May 03, 2007; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to enable really big roaming user profiles if needed i.e. roam a lot of stuff.
Vista's Setup log: Date - Aug 23, 2006; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to disable Vista's Setup log
Backing up event logs: Date - Aug 22, 2006; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to configure Vista to back up event logs.
More on preventing device installs: Date - Aug 15, 2006; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Another way you can configure Vista to prevent certain kinds of devices from being installed.
Prevent any new devices from being installed: Date - Aug 09, 2006; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Vista can be configured to prevent any new devices from being installed.
Overriding device installation policies: Date - Aug 08, 2006; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Admins on Vista machines are also subject to device installation restrictions, but you can change this.
Controlling which kinds of devices can be installed: Date - Aug 02, 2006; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; In Vista, you can prevent any specify type of device from being intalled.
Disabling removable devices: Date - Aug 01, 2006; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to prevent USB devices and other removable devices from being installed in Vista.
Configuring device installation timeout: Date - Jul 26, 2006; Rating - 4.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to allow more time for new devices to install properly in Vista.
Device installation and system restore: Date - Jul 25, 2006; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to minimize creation of new restore points due to frequent driver upgrades and installs.
Disabling preferential device drivers: Date - Jul 19, 2006; Rating - 3.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to ensure Vista always uses the latest drivers for your devices.
Disabling device found popups: Date - Jul 18, 2006; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to disable annoying popups for new device detection in Vista.
Event log retention: Date - May 26, 2006; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to configure event log retention in Windows Vista.