Making Windows Server 2008 Usable

From Ben's Writing

Make "Administrators" actual Administrators

• Open the Control Panel.
• Open User Accounts.
• Click on Turn User Account Control on or off.
• Remove the check mark from Use User Account (UAC) to help protect you computer.
• Click OK.
• You may still want follow the procedures outlined in Getting rid of the notification that you are running in non-approval mode if the notification message start to bother you every tim you log back in yo your computer.

Note that the above steps were taken from: Make Vista "Administrators" actual Administrators

Disable IE Enhanced Security Mode

• Open the Control Panel.
• Open Administrative Tools > Server Manager.
• Click on Server Manager (%COMPUTERNAME%).
• Under Server Summary > Security Information, click on Configure IE ESC
• Turn Off Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration for both Administrators and Users