After a $500 million “Wow Starts Now” campaign completely bombed Microsoft went awfully quiet and let the public, the tech community and Apple noisily tear Vista to pieces.
Understandably of course, there where a lot of serious issues with Vista’s release, nothing we hadn’t seen before, but issues nonetheless. It’s safe to say that 2 years [...]
Microsoft Back on the Offensive
Manage Favorite Links In Windows Vista
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 left [...]
The Windows Start Menu
It took me a little while to adapt, but I soon grew to find the Vista start menu far more useful and productive then XP’s ever was. Granted I’ve read the comments of a lot of people who disagree, but I personally think the integrated search has again made the Windows start menu my main [...]
A Few Useful Tweaks
Since this is a subject we have touched on a couple of times recently I decided to share a a few useful registry tweaks. These apply to Windows Vista.
1) Stop UAC being so annoying
Yes, I leave User Account Control on. I find it bearable with time and its just one extra security caution. However the [...]
Windows Longhorn Blog
It may be a little late to be discussing leaks of Windows Longhorn seeing as the project was reset over 4 years ago and we are now looking at Windows 7 on the horizon.
However I just discovered a very interesting blog today called UX.Unleaked which has been providing regular dialogues over the past month on [...]
Speed up Vista
When I first got Windows Vista about 7 or so months ago it did seem to be pretty slow compared to Windows XP.
After checking out all the online tech websites I followed all the tweaking tips such as disabling background services, turning of animations and visual effects, using the Vista Power Saver application and various [...]
A Few Defragmentation Tools
My defragmenter of choice has always been Auslogic Defragmenter, I have no idea how effective it is compared to other programs but it’s simple enough and looks pretty.
However I came across Piriform Defraggler the other day and I was interested in one feature it had… individual file and folder defragmentation. At first I thought this [...]
