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How To Kill Windows Vista Security Center

8. Profit!

Disclaimer(s): This is not recommended for Windows Vista Media Center Edition, where the Media Center itself is dependent upon the wcsapi.dll

Use at your own risk. The author assumes no responsibility for damage you may cause if you can't read and don't do exactly what I said.

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:42 pm Post subject:

Add Registry Editor to Control Panel in Windows Vista & XP:

Open your text editor of choice and copy/paste the following:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00





[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{77708248-f839-436b-8919-527c410f48b9}]


@="Registry Editor"


"InfoTip"="Starts the Registry Editor"


"System.ControlPanel.Category"="5"





[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{77708248-f839-436b-8919-527c410f48b9}\DefaultIcon]


@="%SYSTEMROOT%\\regedit.exe"





[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{77708248-f839-436b-8919-527c410f48b9}\Shell]





[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{77708248-f839-436b-8919-527c410f48b9}\Shell\Open]





[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{77708248-f839-436b-8919-527c410f48b9}\Shell\Open\Command]


@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\


  00,5c,00,72,00,65,00,67,00,65,00,64,00,69,00,74,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,\


  00,00





[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace\{77708248-f839-436b-8919-527c410f48b9}]


@="Add Registry Editor to Control Panel"

Save as AddRegedit.reg (or anything with the dot reg extension) to a location of choice and, in Explorer, double-click the file and accept when prompted with the dreaded "Are you sure".

The Registry Editor will now show up in your Control Panel, whether you use the new Control Panel Home/System Maintenance or Classic View.

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject:

ooo... there's an interesting one... personally I use the keyboard too much and just run it from the run dialog... but for mouse freaks that would be a nice touch

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject:

Slymer wrote:
ooo... there's an interesting one... personally I use the keyboard too much and just run it from the run dialog... but for mouse freaks that would be a nice touch

Run dialog? I have Regedit bound to Ctrl+Alt+R.

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject:

yeah... I've always liked the command line... so it's the closest I get without typing cmd first Very Happy

Butt Sniffer Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 1617

Registry....seriously....still??? Rolling Eyes

Guide Dog Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 8208 Location: MN

AnalogKid wrote:
Registry....seriously....still???

yeah honestly, just open a terminal and "vi /etc/..." wait people use vista?

registry editor is the only response geeks have to the horribly written programs out there that set flags that shouldn't be, or vice versa, and don't give you a way to change it... not to mention malicious programs that don't want you to change settings... (like vista)

if ever I'm not able to load regedit on windows, they best have a replacement for the registry that I can edit available.

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:08 pm Post subject:

They are not all horribly written programs (though most are), many are flagged as horrid when really, MicroSoft merely made bad decisions in their default settings. By default, they treat everyone like a N00b that was born yesterday.

For example, why in Sam Fucking Hell did they delete Display Settings from the Control Panel?

You can add it back in here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\don't load

Delete this key: desk.cpl

Slymer wrote:
ooo... there's an interesting one... personally I use the keyboard too much and just run it from the run dialog... but for mouse freaks that would be a nice touch

I guess I am a reluctant mouse freak. I used to have Regedit and Services on my Quick Launch Bar

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 3:52 am Post subject:

yeah... I know lots of mouse freaks... quick launch is full of utility stuffs and control panels all for the quick point and click.

*looks at quick launch*

right... that's me... guess I'm just weird about regedit... or it's old habit

Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:40 am Post subject:

T wrote:
Slymer wrote:
ooo... there's an interesting one... personally I use the keyboard too much and just run it from the run dialog... but for mouse freaks that would be a nice touch

Run dialog? I have Regedit bound to Ctrl+Alt+R.

I would expect nothing less from the Lord of the Registry!

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:46 pm Post subject:

Apparently you can make Vista Home Premium do Remote Desktop with concurrent connections.
http://www.missingremote.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1220&Itemid=224

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:32 am Post subject:

Ok, I did this and I found that I still had to take ownership of the system32 folder prior to renaming the file. On the command line

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C:\Windows\System32>takeown /f wscapi.dll





SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "C:\Windows\System32\wscapi.dll" now owned by





C:\Windows\System32>takeown /f wscsvc.dll





SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "C:\Windows\System32\wscsvc.dll" now owned by





C:\Windows\System32>takeown /f wscui.cpl





SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "C:\Windows\System32\wscui.cpl" now owned by

so either you need to reboot before step 4 or I guess it was in memory and I should have waited.