Category: Windows Vista

When you start Windows Vista, the first thing you see is the logon screen where you can select a username and enter the password to logon to Windows. If you have got tired of the default logon background then you can change the background of this logon screen to any picture you like.

Starting with version 6, Google Chrome offers in-built PDF reading support. Which means you can read PDF documents inside it without installing any third party PDF reader (like Adobe Acrobat Reader or Foxit Reader). So why not use Google Chrome as a default PDF reader for all the PDF files on your computer ?

If you have a computer which is shared by many people through their own separate accounts, then you may want to encrypt some of your private documents. Windows Vista provides an easy way to encrypt any file or folder. Here is how you can encrypt files and folders in Windows Vista.

Windows Vista has a System Restore feature which can be used to restore your computer back to a specified point of time. But this can waste a lot of your useful hard disk space. Using a group policy you can completely turn off System Restore and its configuration.

Setting a correct time zone in Windows is important because it is used to decide the daylight saving time settings. When Windows contacts the NTP time servers to keep the date and time updated, it also uses the time zone setting to convert the server time into local time. Windows Vista asks and sets the time zone during the installation, but you can change it at a later point too.

Like its predecessor, Windows Vista also offers many of Windows logo hotkeys. For example, you can press Windows logo key + R to open the Run dialog. But if for some reason you want to disable these Windows logo hotkeys, follow these steps.

If a user does not need his/her account for some period of time, you may want to disable his/her account temporarily for security reasons. This article tells you how to disable a user account in Windows Vista. Only an administrator can delete or disable user accounts.

You may have the Task Manager disabled in your Windows Vista installation. This may be because of many reasons. For example, a malicious program (malware) can infect and disable the task manager in your Windows Vista installation. But you can easily enable it again.

Windows Vista has improved and better Windows Explorer offering many new task features like preview and filters. If you do not like these features, you can choose to use the older classic style of folders without the preview and filters bar.

In Windows Vista, you can add up to two additional clocks along with your normal clock. These clocks appear when you click on the clock on the bottom-right of your desktop as shown.