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Play .MKV’s in Windows Media Center (WMC)

Play .MKV’s in Windows Media Center (WMC)

For a long time I had resisted converting my DVD and Blu-Ray disks into any other format because I didn’t want to lose any quality.  I had lived by this rule for a long time, and thankfully companies like QNAP and Thecus came to my storage rescue.  However, the day has come where the cost of storing all the extra garbage that comes along with these movies has opened my eyes to benefits conversions.  With that, I have began converting my movie collection to a format that allows me to lose all the excess fat, but keep my movie loss-less. Read More…

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Windows Vista has a lot of things that bother a lot of people.  I, however, don't mind some of the things that bother other people.  Vista has a feature called UAC (User Account Control) enabled by default.  The purpose behind this utility starts many applications in a restricted shell, offering the user a reprieve from apps that he or she may not want installed.  In previous versions of windows an application can be executed as administrator without the user's knowledge.  This was one method in which many malware infected systems.  Vista, in trying to reduce one avenue for these applications, opted to restrict applications to this shell and prompting the user to elevate the installer.

Some of the tasks that trigger the UAC event are:

  • installing and removing applications
  • installing ActiveX controls
  • installing device drivers
  • changing system wide settings
  • and many more...

For those of you that don't want UAC... here you go.

  1. Click Start
  2. go to Control Panel

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  3. type UAC in the search box at the upper right

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  4. click "Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off"
  5. The UAC Window will open and ask to you Continue or Cancel - We want to continue
  6. Uncheck the Box for "Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer" and press OK

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  7. You must restart your computer to apply these changes

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Joe DiFiglia has written 226 Articles at C.O.D.


In early 2000 I became increasingly frustrated with hardware review sites praising less than satisfactory products. The saying: “if you want something done right, do it yourself” applies here. I wasn’t satisfied, so I did it myself; and here we are years later.