Changing Vista’s start menu back to Classic style
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.
Pin items to the start menu
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 [...]
Vista’s quick program launching keyboard shortcut
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 [...]
Change which programs Windows uses by default
A default program is the program that Windows uses when you open a particular type of file, such as a music file, an image, or a webpage. For example, if you have more than one web browser installed on your computer, you can choose one of them to be the default browser.
To open the Default [...]
Run or remove a blocked Startup Program
The dreaded (UAC) is at it again. User Account Control prevents programs that require permission or an administrator password from running automatically when Windows starts. If a program is blocked, you’ll see a message in the notification area that says some startup programs need permission to run. You can run a blocked program, remove blocked [...]
Accessing Vista’s Command Window
For those of you who access the Command Window regularly you’ll glad to know you can open it from any folder, just press”shift and right click” or the tried and true method, “Start Pearl - search box - command.
Check Your Windows Vista Experience Index Score
This handy program will give your computer a performance rating based on Processor speed, Memory, Graphics for running Aero and 3D gaming and your hard disks data transfer speed. The index ranges from 1 to 5.9 Mine is 3.5 for a few year old P4 2.4GHz with 1 gig of ram, and Vista runs just [...]
