If you are bored with the dull Windows Vista boot logo, you can change it using the Vista Boot Logo Generator tool. You can download Windows Vista Boot Logo generator tool and change your boot logo.
Read moreChange Windows Border Thickness
If for some unknown reason you want to change the thickness of windows’ borders, this article shows you the light. By default, Windows Vista windows have a border of size of 4 pixel on all sides. You can increase or decrease the size of borders.
Read moreUninstall a program in Windows Vista
If like many others, you also download and try many software but only want to keep the ones you really like, then you have to uninstall the ones you want to remove from Windows. If you install a piece of software or program in Windows Vista and later decide to remove it, then you can uninstall it using the following procedure.
Read moreWindows Vista – God Mode feature
Windows enthusiasts have found a hidden feature in Windows 7 (which also works in Windows Vista). They have renamed it the Windows’ God Mode. It lets the users access all the settings of Windows from a single folder. It works in all versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. But some 64 bit Windows user have complained that it may cause the system to crash.
Read moreHide drives in Windows Vista
There are many reasons we all want to hide a drive on our computers at different times. Sometimes, its the little kids who want to play games on your computer and you worry if they can delete your important files. Sometimes, you want to get rid of the legacy Floppy disk drive icon in your Computer folder. You can hide a drive using a little tool.
Read moreStop a program using Task Manager
There are times when a program freezes and hangs up. It wont respond to any mouse clicks or keyboard. Then you can terminate that program using Windows Task Manager.
Read moreStop a program using taskkill command
Windows XP and Vista provide a command line tools taskkill and tasklist to list and kill any running process. Using this, you can kill a process using image path or pid etc. This article shows you how you can use this tool.
Read moreTake ownership of files and folders in Windows XP
Sometimes when you try to delete a folder, you get an error : Access Denied. This may be because you do not have proper permissions on that folder or file. But you easily take ownership of a file or folder.
Read moreSave Windows activation for later use
After installation of Windows XP, you need to activate it with Microsoft over the internet or the telephone. But you do not have to do so every time, you re-install Windows XP. You can backup Windows activation after you have activated Windows, and later use the backup to re-activate Windows after re-installation of Windows XP.
Read moreRepair corrupt files using system file checker
System files in Windows XP may get corrupted because of many reasons like a virus attack, improper Windows shutdown etc. Windows XP has a System File Checker tool (known as SFC in short) which can check all the protected system files against the original versions stored on the Windows XP CD and replace them if it finds them altered or corrupted.
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