Vista Revisited
Helping you get the most out of Vista

If you don’t like Vista’s new Start Menu, you can easily change it back to the Classic menu, like the one in Windows 2000  Just right click the Start button, click Properties and choose Classic Start Menu. But with this option you won’t get the Search box.

What Parental Controls can do:
Web restrictions. You can restrict the websites that children can visit, make sure children only visit age-appropriate websites, indicate whether you want to allow file downloads, and set up which content you want the content filters to block and allow. You can also block or allow specific websites. For more information, [...]

How to set up Vista’s Parental Controls
In this 2 part series we’ll look at adding a new user for your child and setting up the account. In Part two we’ll get down to the nitty gritty and set up the Parental Controls.
You can use Parental Controls to help manage how your children use the computer. [...]

Using the Start menu to open Programs or Documents is fast and easy. The first step is to Pin the item to the Start Menu.
To Pin an item to your Start Menu. Click Start – type it’s name search box, when it shows up right click it’s name and choose Pin to Start Menu and [...]

If you like to put shortcuts to programs or documents you access frequently in the Quick Launch tool bar, Here’s a Keyboard shortcut to open then faster. Press the Windows key 1 to open the first icon, Windows key 2 for the second and so on. If you want to change the icons [...]

Windows Vista’s firewall is turned on by default, but you can turn it off if you want to use a third party Firewall or if you need to trouble shoot a connection problem.
Click Start – Control Panel – Security – Windows Firewall – Turn Windows Firewall on or off – Approve the UAC if asked
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