Vista Revisited
Helping you get the most out of Vista

In windows Vista the Default folders for My computer, My Pictures, My Documents, My Music are now called Computer, Pictures, Music and Documents and are located at C:Usersyour user namePictures,Documents and so on, But if you like to keep these files in a different location or hard drive ( I keep my Data on [...]

As you are probably aware of, whenever you create a shortcut on your desktop the word “shortcut” is always included in the name, then you need to go thru an extra step to rename the icon. Here’s a way to prevent the “shortcut” from appearing in the name.

I’ve deleted my Show Desktop Icon quite a few times by accident maybe you have too so today’s tip will show you how to get it back.

Instead of manually checking the Event viewer to see if Vista encountered any problems, how about setting it up to Email you them instead. There are many different events you can choose to monitor but I only setup the Security section. (Be careful what you setup you don’t want to spam yourself.)

If you use Vista’s sleep mode you know that when you wake from sleep mode you are prompted for your password, If you aren’t too concerned about someone else accessing your computer you can disable this feature. Here’s how.

If you upgraded your computer to Vista or you are moving files to your Vista computer you may need to Take Ownership of those files.
Update 12-27-07 From what I can tell this tip only applies to Vista Home Premium. I haven’t been able to get it to work in Ultimate yet.
Here’s a simple way [...]