Adjust Your Auto-Play Settings In Vista
When your insert media such as a DVD,CD, Software or Games into your computer Vista will ask you what you want to do with it. Here’s how to quickly adjust all your Auto-Play settings at once so you won’t need to tell vista what to do each time, or if you want to turn Auto-Play [...]
Adjust The Text Size On Your Screen
New computers these days are coming with very high resolution monitors and the text displayed on your screen may be difficult to read but you can make the text and other items, such as icons, on your screen easier to see by making them larger. You do this by increasing the dots per inch (DPI) [...]
Running Vista’s Compatibility Mode
Most programs written for Windows XP also work in this version of Windows, but some older programs might run poorly or not at all. If an older program doesn’t run correctly, use the Program Compatibility Wizard to simulate the behavior of earlier versions of Windows.
What is program compatibility?
Program compatibility is a mode in [...]
Changing Windows Default Boot Order
If you are dual booting Windows XP and Vista you know that Vista is the default operating system, however you can easily change that so XP will always start first. Here’s how.
Click the Start Orb and start typing system in the search box.
Select System from the results under Programs.
Click Advanced system [...]
Disable Vista’s Hibernation
Windows hibernation is a feature that lets you store your computers memory to the hard disk then enter a sleep state to conserve power. But it uses a lot of hard disk space in the process up to your amount of ram, if you have 2 gigs of ram your Hibernation file can grow up [...]
Shave Seconds Off Vista’s Boot Time
Vista waits for 30 seconds at startup before loading the operating system, but you can adjust that down to 5 seconds to get working faster. Here’s how.
Click the Windows Start Orb.
Right click Computer.
Click Properties.
Approve the UAC if prompted
Click Advanced System settings.
In the Advanced Tab, Start and Recovery, click Settings.
In the Time to display list of [...]
Remote Differential Compression And Your Vista Network
There’s been a lot of talk on the net lately about Vista and Remote Differential Compression slowing down file transfers. So I decided to give it a test.
Remote Differential Compression (RDC) allows data to be synchronized with a remote source using compression techniques to minimize the amount of data sent across the network. (From Microsoft)
I [...]
