Category: Windows Vista

In Windows Vista Start Menu, a link to Control Panel is shown. If you do not want to see this link here, you can choose to remove it. This can be done easily by changing some settings.

In Windows Vista new Start Menu, a link to default internet browser and the default email client is shown. But you can customize the start menu to show links to any installed browser and the email client you want. They need not have to be the default internet browser and the default email client.

Windows XP, Vista and 7 all come with a command line tool SC to control services through command line. This makes it very easy to start, pause, query and stop services. Although this command line SC can do much more but we will cover only a few options of this command line.

Sometimes a software associates a some files types with itself and it becomes very irritating. Its not an easy job to unassociate the file types from that software manually. But now you can use a utility that you can use to easily unassociate files types.

In Windows Vista, you have a shortcut in the side panel of Start Menu labeled Documents. When you click on it a folder opens up. Normally this folder is %userprofile%Documents which expands to C:Users[username]Documents folder for most of the users, where [username] is your login username for Windows Vista. But you can change this to be any folder of your like.

Windows Defender comes pre-packed with Windows Vista. Its a utlity to fight off malware and spywares that creep into Windows from the internet. But does it work that great? Many people prefer to use tools like Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware instead of Windows Defender. They can remove Windows Defender using these steps.

When you open System Properties window in Windows Vista you can see the Windows Experience Index number. You can manually modify it to be anything you like to impress your friends about your system.

Sometimes Windows’ icon cache gets corrupted and you see one mixed up icons in Windows Explorer for different kind of files. The icon cache can be rebuilt using a simple method as described in this article.

By default, Windows Vista gives you 30 days to activate. Once the deadline of 30 days has passed, you won’t be able to use Windows without activating it first. After the trial of 30 days Windows Vista enters RFM (reduced functionality mode) and eventually starts to disable various components. But using this trick you can extend the deadline for activation infinitely.

Windows Vista allows an administrator to allow only a certain amount of disk space for each user. It can come handy if a lot of people are using the same computer or network. This way each of them are allotted a fixed amount of disk space (Say 10 GB).