Change What Happens When you Click The Shutdown Button
When you press the power button of your Windows Vista computer, Windows puts the system into sleep mode by default. If you would like your computer to shut down instead follow the instructions below.
Click Start > type Power in the search box > click Power Options shortcut at the top of the screen.
Select the Power [...]
Search For Files Using the Stack View
With Explorer’s little known stacks feature enabled you can quickly find all the documents you edited, yesterday, last week or maybe last month. Here’s how:
Open an Explorer window, click the little down-arrow next to the Date modified column header, and choose Stack by Date modified. Now you’ll see a collection of stacks (virtual [...]
Using and Saving Search results
If you regularly search for a certain group of files and end up performing the same search over and over again to find them, you might find it useful to save your search results. When you save a search, you don’t have to manually rebuild the same view of your files every time; you only [...]
Enabling the Aurora boot screen
If you’re getting tired of Vista’s default boot screen, There is a different one you can use by following the directions below.
1) Click the Start button, type msconfig and press Enter.
2) Click Continue for the UAC
3) In the “System Configuration” window, click on the Boot tab.
4) Select your Windows Vista installation and under “Boot options”, check “No GUI boot”.Press [...]
Adding more Desktop Background Pictures
When Microsoft was building Vista they asked a number of photographers to take pictures for the desktop backgrounds, you may even be using one now. They only included a few of the thousands taken. Today I came across the site of one of the photographers named Hamad Darwish and he has some more if his [...]
Enable Automatic Logon in Vista
If you’re the only person using your computer and are tired of entering your password each time you start it up and aren’t to concerned about anyone else getting on you computer you can disable the requirement to type in your password every time you start your computer. Here’s how.
1.Click Start.
2. Type netplwiz in the [...]
Windows Slide Show with Themes
A little known feature in Vista is the ability to run a photo Slide Show with themes. Just open any folder with photos and click the Slide Show in the tool bar.
When the slide Show opens choose Themes from the bottom left menu. There are 12 to choose from.
