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Change the location of the My Pictures folder

bcarigtan — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:28:09 +0000

One way Windows helps you organize your files is to direct different kinds of content to different locations. There’s a Music folder, a Videos folder, a Saved Games folder, and a Pictures folder. Put all your digital pictures in your Pictures folder, for example, and that’s where most photo applications will prompt you to open [...]

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Change the location of the My Pictures folder

An advanced registry hack for Vista screensavers

bcarigtan — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:00:44 +0000

Screensavers are usually configurable using the screensaver menu. But sometimes there are options in the screensavers that are only accessible via the registry editor. If you have not used regedit before, this could be a good way to practice your first registry editing task. Remember that registries are advanced Windows and program parameters so make [...]

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An advanced registry hack for Vista screensavers

How to set folder permissions in Vista

bcarigtan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:44:08 +0000

Sharing folders has become a common practice in local and corporate networks. Over the Internet, we can share our latest downloads of pictures of our favorite celebrities, MP3 collections, ripped movies (legal of course) and virtually any other file we want to share. On a shared PC, folders outside a user’s documents and settings folder [...]

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How to set folder permissions in Vista

How to burn CDs and DVDs in Windows Vista

bcarigtan — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:22:12 +0000

In this article we will show you how to burn files on a CD or DVD using the built-in tools of Windows Vista. By using the default burning tools, you won’t have to purchase or install other disk burning software. This is helpful if you are borrowing a computer and you don’t have the admin [...]

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How to burn CDs and DVDs in Windows Vista

How to add a second monitor in Windows Vista

bcarigtan — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:23:30 +0000

Using two monitors with a single PC has become a necessity for many advanced PC users. With more than one monitor, you can handle more tasks and increase your productivity. 1. We will use a laptop and an ordinary monitor as an example, we will label laptop monitor as monitor 1 and ordinary monitor as [...]

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How to add a second monitor in Windows Vista

How to enable and configure the Windows Vista Firewall

bcarigtan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:12:41 +0000

For security reasons, the Windows Vista Firewall is essential for any computer system to prevent any malicious program from running. It restricts probable malwares from sending and receiving malicious data or commands. By default the firewall service is enabled. If, for some reason, the windows service is not running, below are steps you can follow [...]

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How to enable and configure the Windows Vista Firewall

How to add items in the Send To Menu

bcarigtan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:34:38 +0000

Previously, I wrote about how you can add/delete items from the right-click context menu, but didn’t touch upon the Send To menu. The Send To menu is used to speed up transferring of files to a certain location. It acts like a shortcut to a program or a folder. Notice that when you right click [...]

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How to add items in the Send To Menu

How to change the Vista Aero theme

bcarigtan — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:12:51 +0000

Tired of your same old Aero look? The good news is that within Aero there is a built in color mixer so you can get the exact color that you want to use. This means you are not limited to the predefined color palettes. You can make it as pink as a rose or purple [...]

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How to change the Vista Aero theme

How to enable or disable System Restore in Vista

bcarigtan — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:19:01 +0000

System restore is used to restore your system to a previous state. This is a backup of your core Windows system so if you encounter boot-up or hang-up problems, you could restore from a saved system profile. The system restore feature is ideally enabled before you do something crazy to your computer – like installing [...]

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How to enable or disable System Restore in Vista

Tweak the Windows Vista page file size

bcarigtan — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:52:33 +0000

Increasing virtual memory can compensate for you lack of RAM but it also uses space in the hard drive. This means getting data from the paging file takes longer than getting data from the actual RAM. This is why if you really prefer to get a significant performance gain, installing additional RAM is a necessity. [...]

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Tweak the Windows Vista page file size

How to customize the Vista Sidebar slideshow

bcarigtan — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:21:20 +0000

If you have Vista, you might have been thrilled by that cute animating picture slideshow at the right side of your screen. By default, it will use the pictures inside the “sample pictures” folder inside your “my pictures” folder. You will notice that this works like a revolving digital picture frame and is a nice [...]

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How to customize the Vista Sidebar slideshow

Hide the Recycle Bin in Windows Vista

akishore — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:34:41 +0000

If you want to remove your Recycle Bin from the desktop in Windows Vista, it’s a pretty straightforward process. Personally, I don’t really find it very useful on the desktop, so I remove it to reduce the clutter. To remove the recycle bin, there are two ways you can go about it: either delete it [...]

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Hide the Recycle Bin in Windows Vista

Use Windows 7 calculator on Windows Vista

akishore — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:23:40 +0000

If you are not aware, Windows 7 is the next version of the Windows operating system coming from Microsoft in 2009. It will be way better than Windows Vista and has a lot of cool features that people are actually looking forward too. One of the new features is the new powerful Windows Calculator. So [...]

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Use Windows 7 calculator on Windows Vista

Improve Vista performance using ReadyBoost

bcarigtan — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:23:26 +0000

Don’t be alarmed, ReadyBoost is not another software that you will need to download and install. The only requirement is that you have a Windows Vista installed in your PC and a USB 2.0 flash disk with a lot of free space (1G minimum). with a lot of free space we mean the bigger the [...]

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Improve Vista performance using ReadyBoost

Add a second hard drive to Windows Vista search index

akishore — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:48:50 +0000

The new search capabilities in Windows Vista are certainly a significant step up from those in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. For once, you can actually find what you are looking for in a reasonable amount of time. By default, however, the new Windows Search feature only indexes the partition where the OS is installed, [...]

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Add a second hard drive to Windows Vista search index