Use 1 Click To Shutdown Restart or Logoff Vista
We could all use some more time in our lives, so here’s a way to shave a few seconds every time we need to Shutdown, Reboot or Logoff your computer. Lets create 3 desktop icons to Shutdown, Restart or Logoff your computer with 1 click.
This tip was very popular on my other Blog at KevinsCrate.com/blog [...]
Add Move To And Copy To Your Right Menu
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. [...]
Changing The Control Panels Look
Here’s a way to change the look and feel of your control Panel applet.
Open the Control Panel. Start > Control Panel > Click > Classic View
Look at the column headings at the top. Single-click Category to sort,
Click the triangle beside Category; and choose Group.
Now you have one screen with every icon grouped into [...]
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 [...]
Use a Checkbox to Select Multiple files in Windows Explorer
I routinely copy or move multiple files around all my networked computers and hard drives. The old way was to hold down the Control Key (Ctrl) and select the files you want by clicking them in series.
Well I found a easer way to do the same thing. Instead of having to hold the control-key down [...]
Changing Windows Explorer’s Default Opening Folder
It used to drive my crazy when I opened Windows Explorer to navigate around my files and hard drives because it always opens to Documents then I would have to drill down to Computer so I could get to my hard drives, so I tried what I used in XP and it worked fine.
I normally [...]
Changing Vista’s Appearance Settings
Are you tired of the default look of Vista’s colors and appearance, well lets dive in and make some changes.
Right click an empty area on your desktop and choose Personalize.
Click Windows Color and Appearance.
