Vista - Shutting off exasperating alerts

Hello All

How do I get Vista to stop annoying me about opening programs either at
startup or when I open them manually?

I've trying opening the security center and telling Vista not to alert me or
display tray icon. But when I start up, I still get a publisher-not-verified
warning about a program I want to run. And when I try to open it manually
(or another app that contains an internal server), Vista (shield.exe) stops
and asks me if I want to run it. If I take the checkmark out of "Always warn
about this type of program," it's there's the next time anyway.

I'd like to disable all this stuff. How do I go about it?

Thanks.

Anthony Giorgianni
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