Adding Additional Clocks To Your System Tray
A new feature in Vista is the ability to add 2 more clocks to the system tray area and view the calendar. It?s a great feature for travelers or people who need to communicate with others in different time zones, now you’ll be able to tell if you?re going to wake up someone when you [...]
Add tags to your Pictures in Vista
One of the cool new features in Vista is the ability to add tags to your pictures. Tags are description you can add to pictures to make them easier to organize and search. If you’re like me I have thousands of pictures of my kids, vacations, and family members and life in general if you [...]
How to set up Vista’s Parental Controls Part 2
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
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. [...]
Working with Vista’s Firewall and Advanced Firewall
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
In [...]
Windows Vista’s Reliability and Performance Monitor Part 2
In part 1 we looked at a quick overview of what the Reliability and Performance Monitor does.
In Part 2 We’ll look more deeply in each section.
The Performance Monitor:
First open Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor, click Start, right-click Computer, and click Manage. Expand System Tools and click Reliability and Performance.
Next Expand the Reliability and Performance tab [...]
Windows Vista’s Reliability and Performance Monitor Part 1
In this series of posts we’ll look at Vista’s Reliability and Performance Monitor. How it works and how to customize the reports.
Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that provides tools for analyzing system performance. From a single console, you can monitor application and hardware performance in real time, customize [...]
