Vista Revisited
Helping you get the most out of Vista

When you’re navigating your files in Windows Explorer the options in the right click menu are very helpful you can open files,cut,copy, paste, send to and others but there a two that are missing. How about if you could add Move to and Copy to a folder. This little trick has saved me countless time. [...]

If for any reason you can’t boot into in any mode other than safe mode with command prompt, you can still run System Restore. Here’s how.
Booting into Safe Mode.
If your computer has a single operating system installed, press and hold the F8 key as your computer restarts. You need to press F8 before the Windows [...]

Yesterday we created a System Restore point. Today we’ll use that restore point to roll our system back to an earlier date.
Click Start > type in system restore.

System Restore helps you restore your computer’s system files to an earlier point in time. It’s a way to undo system changes to your computer without affecting your personal files, such as e?mail, documents, or photos.
Sometimes, the installation of a program or a driver can cause an unexpected change to your computer or cause Windows [...]

Windows Vista by default hides the operating system files so you can’t delete or change them, but you can make them visible again in Explorer by changing a few simple settings. Here’s how.

The first time you start Vista you normally don’t have any Desktop icons, not even My Computer. I guess Microsoft is going with the uncluttered look now. Well its easy to get the default one back. Here’s how.