Vista Revisited
Helping you get the most out of Vista

If your getting tired of seeing the Security Center icon and your sure your settings are correct you can change the way it alerts you or disable all together (not recommended) But its your choice. Here’s how.
Open  the Control Panel and click “Check this computers security settings.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Then click “Change the way Security Center alerts me.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Then choose one [...]

Do you miss the classic shutdown dialog box of windows XP or just want a quick way to Switch User, Log off, Restart, Sleep, Hibernate, and Shut Down. From your desktop press “ALT+F4″ Then click the drop down box.

If you need to rename a bunch of files in a folder, Vista makes it easier. By default the file extension is preserved so all you need to do is change the name, also instead of hitting Enter after changing the name press the “TAB” key to highlight the next file and you’ll begin renaming [...]

When you press the power button of your Windows Vista computer, Windows puts the system into sleep mode by default. If you would like your computer to shut down instead follow the instructions below.
Click Start > type Power in the search box > click Power Options shortcut at the top of the screen.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Select the Power [...]

With Explorer’s little known stacks feature enabled you can quickly find all the documents you edited, yesterday, last week or maybe last month. Here’s how:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Open an Explorer window, click the little down-arrow next to the Date modified column header, and choose Stack by Date modified. Now you’ll see a collection of stacks (virtual [...]

If you regularly search for a certain group of files and end up performing the same search over and over again to find them, you might find it useful to save your search results. When you save a search, you don’t have to manually rebuild the same view of your files every time; you only [...]