If you are using Windows Vista, you might have noticed that when you drag a file to the Recycle Bin, it sometimes takes 30 to 45 seconds to complete the process (sometimes even longer). A feature in Vista has been causing this problem for some, even though it shouldn’t. Remote Differential Compression attempts to moderate [...]
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Windows Vista
If you are using Vista and have a secondary display monitor attached to your laptop, you might have encountered this issue. What happens is, once your computer goes to sleep and then you wake it up, you are not able to see the mouse pointer in the secondary monitor though if you move it to [...]
If you are running Vista, you might find that some of your older applications may not work as expected in Vista. Fortunately, Vista has built in a compatibility mode that will run a program in a previous version of Windows that is more compatible.
When Microsoft overhauled Windows XP and created Windows Vista, it also renovated the Windows email client. Microsoft scrapped Outlook Express and replaced it with Windows Mail, which offers new features including improved junk mail filters and enhanced search capabilities. Combined, these features make Windows Mail a safer, easier-to-use email program than Outlook Express.
Switching from Windows [...]
Windows Vista has a hidden boot screen that you can activate, and it’s totally different. Instead of the boring progress bar, you’ll see a soft aurora against a black background. Here is how to activate it.
Click Start, type msconfig in the Search field, and press <Enter>. After you click through the UAC prompt, a system [...]
Both Windows XP and Vista offer built in Firewall protection. But the difference is that while WinXP offer protection against incoming threats only, Vista is capable of two-way protection, meaning, the Firewall in Vista is capable of watching and blocking both inbound and outbound traffic. Monitoring outbound traffic could be just as critical as monitoring [...]
Unlike Windows XP, in Vista, if you right-click the Recycle Bin icon on the desktop, you will find an option to Delete it. This makes it all too easy to accidentally delete Recycle Bin from the desktop.
But fortunately, getting it back is just as easy. To restore the Recycle-Bin icon on the desktop, here is [...]
Vista’s handy Network Map provides a diagram showing computers on your home network and how they’re linked to each other. To view the map, click Start, type Network And Sharing Center in the Start Search box, and click the corresponding entry.
Vista usually displays your local time in the lower-right corner of the Desktop, but it can also be configured to simultaneously display the time for other locations as well. You can add up to two more time zones to your local time. This could be handy if you travel frequently across different time zones or [...]
Adding your own destinations to the ‘Send To’ context menu in Windows XP is quite easy. While it isn’t too difficult to do the same in Windows Vista, it is a little different. Here is how to do it in Vista.
Open the Control Panel, then Folder Options, then move to the View tab and select [...]
In the pre-Vista days, copying a file or folder path to the clip-board involved 5 steps. You had to right-click on the file or folder, select Properties, highlight the path, right-click again, and select Copy. That’s way too many steps for a task as simple as copying a path.
In Vista you have a much [...]
In an earlier post, I had written about how you can continue to use Windows Vista without activation upto 120 days. But now it looks like that 120 days can become 360 days or even indefinite.
And unbelievably, you can do it with just a little tweak to the Registry. This workaround was discovered by Windows [...]
All versions of Vista allow a 30-day period without activation, except the corporate-oriented Vista Enterprise, which supports only a three-day trial.
But there is a way to extend the trial period from 30 days to as much as 120 days. A very simple way.
Just start a new command prompt and type:
slmgr -rearm
Reboot your pc and you [...]
If you want to run Microsoft’s new Vista operating system on a Mac using Parallels Desktop for Mac, you’re going to have to buy the Enterprise or Ultimate editions.
With the release of Vista, Microsoft has reworded its End User License Agreement (EULA) to forbid the use of Vista Home Basic and [...]
