Category | Windows Vista

Customizing ‘Send To’ context menu in Windows Vista

Posted on 03 May 2008

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 [...]

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Vista - Copying file/folder paths made easy

Posted on 29 April 2008

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 [...]

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Can Windows Vista activation be postponed indefinitely?

Posted on 16 March 2007

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 [...]

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How to run a legal copy of Vista for 120 days without activation

Posted on 20 February 2007

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 [...]

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Windows Vista Home license forbids virtualization

Posted on 03 February 2007

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 [...]

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