Vista Revisited
Helping you get the most out of Vista

Here are a few basic tips for Windows users, some you may know others maybe a surprise. Lets dive right in.
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1. Instead of dragging your mouse across a word to select it you can double click it in any document, Email or web page to highlight it, then you can cut, copy or do a [...]

If you’re anything like me ocassionaly your desktop will fill up with shortcuts icons and folders and let’s face it sometimes we don’t have the time to sort through them all to to get that clean look.
Here’s a quick tip to hide that mess untill you get around to clean it up.
Simply right click an [...]

When Vista starts up you hear the lovely startup sound, but what if you’re in a situation where you would rather not hear it like a classroom or maybe someone near you is sleeping and you don’t want to bother them. Sure you could just turn down or mute the volume but its easy to [...]

Here’s a quick way to list all the programs installed on your computer using the command line interface. You can also export the list to an HTML or text file for printing.
The first thing we need to do is open a command Prompt.

Remember the last time you needed to access one of your system folders, maybe your Music or Pictures or any other system folder. You had to click Computer then navagate through all that mess of folders untill you found the right one.
Well here’s a way to quickly get to any system folder. Just click the [...]

With Vista making it a lot easier to run as a limited user, more people are choosing that option for its increase security. Now a few people have been asking if there is a quick way to tell if they are logged in as an Administrator or a limited user.
Here’s a quick and easy way [...]