Jul 9 2007

Vista Service Pack 1 Beta Due in Mid July

Mary Jo Foley of ZD Net is reporting of the launch of SP-1 Beta to be delivered by mid July and a final version in November. Read her article here.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=559 Microsoft is expected to emphasize that SP1 is more about fixes than new features. Most of the elements of SP1 are expected to [...]

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Jul 8 2007

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 [...]

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Jul 6 2007

Using and Customizing the Windows Sidebar

 The Windows Sidebar is a small panel that sits on the edge of your screen that houses small gadgets or mini applications, each can provide different information, gathered from your PC or the Internet. Vista ships with a few of these or you can download more off the Internet at Microsoft.
Windows Sidebar is not displayed [...]

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Jul 4 2007

Use Vista’s Snipping Tool to Capture Screen Shots

Sorry For the huge pictures I’m trying some new blogging software called Windows Live Writer and I’m experimenting with picture sizes.
If you ever wanted to save a screen shot of something on your computer screen like a error message to send to someone for help or just a part of a window. Vista now [...]

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Jul 2 2007

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 [...]

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Jul 1 2007

Turn off Vista’s Unused Features

You can turn off Windows Features to save memory and CPU cycles, on Feature you don?t use or need. Example: I don?t have a Tablet PC so I don?t need Tablet PC components running nor do I use Meeting Space. Here?s how to get rid of them.
Click Start.
Type Features in the search field [...]

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Jun 30 2007

Changing the Registered Owner in Vista

Like all versions of Windows it stores the name and organization of the registered owner, and unless you installed Vista your name and organization is most likely wrong. In the steps below we?ll show you how to view and change the registered owner.
To view the registered owner and organization names for your computer. Click Start, [...]

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