Speed Up Your Hard Disk Performance In Vista By Enabling Write Caching
You can increase the performance of your computers SATA hard drives by enabling Write Caching.
What is Write caching you ask.
When write caching is enabled, when the system sends a write to the hard disk, the logic circuit records the write in its much faster cache, and then immediately sends back an acknowledgement to the [...]
Delete Your Recently Viewed Items In Vista
In Windows Vista all your Recently viewed documents and programs are visible from the Start menu > Recent Items. You may like the convenience of having the most recently opened files at the ready, but if you share your computer with others or if its in a public place you may not want others [...]
Running Vista’s Disk Defragmenter
Disk defragmentation describes the process of consolidating fragmented files on your computer’s hard disk.
Fragmentation happens to a hard disk over time as you save, change, or delete files. The changes that you save to a file are often stored at a location on the hard disk that’s different from the original [...]
Adjusting Vista’s Error Reporting Tool
Yesterday we looked at how to turn off Vista’s error reporting. Today we’ll look at adjusting its settings.
First open up the Problem Reports and Solutions page by clicking the Start Orb and typing Problem in the Search box, then Click Problem Reports and Solutions in the results under Programs. If Vista finds any problems [...]
Turn Off Vista’s Error Reporting
When a problem occurs on your computer?for example, if a program stops working?you can send a description of the problem to Microsoft to see if a solution is available. If Microsoft needs more information to solve the problem, you might be asked to provide additional details. Windows will ask if you want to send [...]
Restore Your Deleted Or Missing Recycle Bin Icon In Vista
Lets face it, it can happen to anyone, you deleted you Recycle Bin icon and can’t get it back. A few readers have asked, how do I get it back. Well when I first started using Vista I did it too. So here’s how to get it back.
Click the Start Orb, type Control desk.cpl,,@Web and press [...]
Add Items To Your SendTo Menu In Vista
In Xp it was easy to add items to your SendTo menu, but if you try to navigate to your Documents and settings folder in Vista you will get the dreaded error.
The correct path is to use is. C:UsersUsernameAppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsSendTo. Username will be your actual username
So here’s how to add a folder to your SendTo [...]
