Computer trivia

In Windows Vista Home Edition, Group Editing Policy is disabled by default. Group Editing can be used to tweak Windows in many ways like disabling balloon pop ups as described in the previous post. Though disabled in Home Edition, it is possible to enable this functionality with a simple registry hack.

- Open RUN box and type regedit

- The registry editor will be opened and  in the left pane traverse to the following location

“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa”

- Now,  on the right pane create a DWORD value (by right clicking) and name it ‘LmCompatibilityLevel’. Do not create this DWORD if it already exists.

- Open this newly created DWORD by double clicking it and enter 1 in the value section

- Close the registry editor and reboot the machine to enable gpedit.msc (group policy editor)