How To Take Ownership Of A File Or Folder In Vista
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 if you get an “access denied” message when you try to open or change the properties of a folder or file that was created by a different user.
How To Add Your Admin Tools To Vista’s Start Menu
If you go into Vista’s Administrative tools section a lot here’s a way to add them to your Start menu for quick access.
How To Change your Default Folders In Vista For, Music,Documents,Pictures
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 a separate drive to make backups easier.) You can easily change the default location for these folders.
How To Remove The Shortcut Text From Icons On Your Vista Desktop
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.
How To Get Your Show Desktop Icon Back in Vista
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.
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all the readers of VistaRevisited.
Kevin
Setup Vista To Email You Problems It Encounters
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.)
