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So you forgot Windows Vista administrator password or other regular user password on Windows Vista? Do you think you have no other option but to re-install Windows? Well, someone has made a password reset disk just for this situation. The following procedure tells you how to reset a user or administrator’s password in Windows.

When you insert a removable disk like CD or USB thumb drive, Windows starts auto play wizard. Windows searches the removable disk for its contents and suggests an appropriate action. You can reset the auto run feature if you want.

Windows Vista brought a new security feature called User Account Control or UAC in short. This feature makes all users run with the standard user rights and asks the permission of an administrator before making any changes to the system.

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.

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.

An elevated command prompt is a command prompt window running with administrator level access. You can use this kind of command prompt window for accessing files and registry in a way possible only for the administrator.

If you have Windows Vista with MUI language DVD, then no matter which language you select at the time of setup, other languages will be installed on your folder. This creates a mess on your hard disk. Good thing is you can get rid of these extra languages easily.

Windows Vista has a feature that allows you to delete even the Recycle Bin itself. Yes, you can just right-click on the Recycle Bin icon on your desktop and select Delete as shown. This would delete the Recycle Bin. But how would you recover it ?

Windows Vista hides important files and folders by default. Also you cannot see any hidden file in Windows Explorer by default. But you can change the settings to make Windows Explorer show hidden files and folders. You can make changes to show hidden files and folders.