Windows Vista comes with its own partitioning software that can be used to partition the connected hard drives. It can be accessed by clicking on Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management. This opens a new window with the entry Disk Management under the storage entry in the left panel. The tool will display [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

The default folder settings are not working consistently in Windows Vista and it becomes quickly annoying to move and resize the folders to the right size all the time in the new Microsoft operating system. Brian Scott posted an interesting Registry hack that makes it possible to define default folder settings for all folders in [...]

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There are several reasons why someone would want to change the language of the Windows Vista installation. Could be that he bought a laptop in another country that came with a different language than his native language or that someone went to a new country for a job or study and that working with the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Windows Vista Ultimate comes with the Dreamscene extra which can turn videos into background screensavers. Several other applications like VLC offer this options as well. A tip was posted over at Tech Recipes today that mentioned a hidden setting in Windows Vista that makes it possible to use any screensaver as a Windows Vista wallpaper. [...]

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Windows Vista made things really complicated for users who are using several different audio outputs, for example headphones and speakers. The problem is that Windows Vista can only support one default audio output and that users who want to change the default Vista audio output have to do that in a menu that is far [...]

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Users with many folders on their system might experience an annoying problem in Windows Vista which has already plagued many Windows XP users as well. Windows remembers by default the folder view settings of 200 local folders and 200 network folders initially. Windows Vista remembers 5000 folders which are usually enough for most users. Some [...]

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Windows Vista users may be surprised to know that they actually have two different versions of the places bar in Windows Explorer. The places bar provides access to several links on the system, for example to the desktop and the My Documents folder. Windows Vista users can either see the old five locations on the [...]

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The Windows Firewall in Windows Vista cannot be quickly disabled or enabled. A user who wants to enable or disable it would have to open the Control Panel and load the Windows Firewall in the Security tab. The option to Turn the Windows Firewall on or off would appear in the menu. That’s not a [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

If you experience slowdowns or poor network performance in Windows Vista like slow browsing performance occasionally or all the time you might use a router or network device that is causing problems for Microsoft’s Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level. It’s not the routers fault or your fault but more something that is caused by how the [...]

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