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.

After installing Vista SP2, hard disk’s used space increases by more than 1 GB. This is due to the fact that SP2 installation backs up the old SP1 and RTM files first and then installs SP2. You can clean up and recover up to 1 GB using these tips.

Like Windows XP, you can put Windows Vista in hibernate mode too. When you hibernate Windows Vista, your computer saves all contents of the RAM in a file called hiberfil.sys in the root folder of the system partition. You can disable hibernation using these steps.

You can view the Microsoft Windows updates history on Windows Vista. You can see the date and time of the update, whether that update was successful or failed etc. To see the update history follow this procedure.

Driver Verifier Manager is a tool present in Windows XP and Vista both. Using this tool you can verify if an unsigned device driver works with Windows or not.