Vista Revisited
Helping you get the most out of Vista

Here’s a great free tool for removing those darn arrows that Vista adds to all your shortcut desktop icons. The Vista Shortcut Manager
From their web page:Windows Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover, aka FxVisor, allows you to either way to remove the shortcut overlay arrow or to even customize it in Windows Vista, so we have [...]

Sometimes it might be embarrassing to have certain files or folders showing up in Vista’s search results or maybe you just want to speed up the search results by excluding some files or folders. Here’s a way to keep Vista from indexing them.

Here’s a quick tip on how to auto-hide your Taskbar. This one may seem too easy but a few readers have ask about it.

Click the Start Orb and start typing Taskbar.
Click Taskbar and Start menu in the results section.
In the Taskbar properties, put a check mark in Auto-hide the Taskbar.
Click Ok to finish.

Here’s a cool way to customize your computer by adding your name to the Vista taskbar.
Before. After.
Here’s how to do it.

A great way to secure your computer is to setup an Account Lockout Policy in Vista. This way there will be only a certain number tries at your password before the account is locked out for a set period of time. I believe this tip will only work in Vista Business and Ultimate, but [...]

Here’s a little trick to check out Vista’s Aurora Animation, its part of the System Assessment Tool but you can run it by itself.