Category: Windows Vista

Windows Vista uses online time servers to keep the correct time on your computer. Windows queries these times servers for current time and corrects the time on your computer regularly. Windows uses its own time servers (time.windows.com) to query the time. Unfortunately, these Microsoft servers do not work always and can be slow to respond. But you can change the time servers to faster and free time servers available on the internet.

How a music file is played in a Windows Vista based multimedia computer, depends upon how you have configured your speakers connected to the computer. The speakers may be configured as simple stereo, quadraphonic, 5.1 surround sound etc. (depending on the capabilities of your audio hardware). Here is how you can change the configuration of the speakers in Windows Vista.

Microsoft has created the XPS format of documents as an alternative to the popular PDF document format. Most of the documents available from Microsoft’s site are also available in XPS and PDF format both. Windows Vista has a built in XPS document viewer. In Windows Vista, you can convert any other document into the XPS format easily.

When you navigate for a folder or file in Windows Vista, it makes clicking sound each time. These sounds can be very annoying after a while, especially if you work a lot on your computer. But there is a way to disable these clicking sounds in Windows Vista.

When you want to open a file or program, you double-click on its icon or shortcut in Windows Explorer. But some people do not like double clicking. If you also do not like the double clicking, you can change Windows Vista settings to use single-click to open a file or program.

Normally, when you want to defragment your hard disk drive, you have to go through many shortcuts in the Control Panel or Start Menu. But now you can add the defragment to the right-click context menu so that you can just right-click on a partition (or volume) and select Defragment.

If you do not use IPv6 tunneling on your computer network, then leaving it enabled may raise security concerns. Although Windows Vista does not allow you to disable the Teredo Tunneling, you can still disable this.

The PDF file format is a portable document file format which is a proprietary format of Adobe Inc. This format can carry text, images and fonts. As such these files are device and platform independent. Windows Vista does not natively allow you to create PDF files. But you can use a freeware third party utility to add this functionality.

How many times, you want to open and see the contents of a file not associated with any program. You can use Notepad to view the contents of such a file. It is even better if you add Open with Notepad to the right-click context menu, so you can easily open any file in Notepad.

Using Group Policy Editor, you can make system wide settings and impose system wide policies. If you find yourself using the Group Policy Editor all the time, you might want to make it appear in the Control Panel along with all the other tools.