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My good buddy and fellow SharePoint Certified Master, Neil ‘The Doc’ Hodgkinson has an excellent little post over on the From the Field blog on setting up SharePoint 2010 the way you want to for the purposes of running a farm on a single machine. Check it out!
Single Server Complete Install of SharePoint 2010 using local accounts - From The Field