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How cool is this? MGM is selling off their Stargate prop department piece by piece... I guess after they've shut down and cancelled productions for Stargate SG-1 after 10 seasons and Atlantis for 5 seasons they've reasoned that these props belong to the loyal fans. All auctions start from 0.99 cents but many of them end up at a few hundred dollars for a hunk of painted artificial metal or wood artifacts. But hey - its as close as you can get to the real thing - you can relive famous Stargate SG-1/Atlantis scenes. As I write this the Stargate SG-1 Props: Goauld Ribbon Device is at USD$690 or AUD$1,018.45.... with a bit under 5 days to go. I'm guessing it will fetch at least USD$2,000+? C'mon, this device is iconic in the Stargate universe... It has been with the franchise since the original Stargate movie (I think). And they say that's its the only one being offered in the eBay auctions. they say its a "Metallic Working Ribbon Device. The device is quite heavy as it’s metal that’s painted silver. It has a switch on the base that when turned on allows the device to be activated by a wireless remote. Using the remote the light on the bottom glows on and won’t turn off till the button is pushed again." If I had some spare cash lying around I would definitely buy this prop...

Ok, before you go messing around with your registry make sure you back up and know how to restore your registry just in case anything goes wrong. This Vista registry hack will show you how to turn off and finally get rid of that annoying User Access Control (or was it User Account Control? UAC) dialog box that keeps popping up. You've probably tried this: Open up Control Panel, and type in "UAC" into the search box. You'll see a link for "Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off".

After you've backed up your Windows Vista registry, open up the registry editor by clicking "Start" and "Search" for "regedit". Once found, open up that registry editor.

Use the "Find" function to search for this: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Then find the key for: ConsentPromtpBehaviorAdmin

Change the DWORD entry from 00000002 to 00000000.

Once you've made this simple change in your registry, you won’t be bothered by that annoying User Account Control (UAC) popup anymore. Good luck!