User Access Control is that annoying thing that keeps on popping up tirelessly to ask you if it is OK to install a particular program when you try to install one. It is one of the biggest irritants in Vista, but I must warn you that disabling it will render your system less secure.
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When you right-click on a file, one of the options you see is “Open With”. These usually contain what Windows thinks are valid programs to open particular file types. Now, sometimes, when you have bad installers or uninstallers, some programs leave their mark on this context menu. Basically, if you want to clean out this [...]
Sometimes, we accidently delete the Show Desktop icon in the Quick Launch menu. Although many of us use keyboard shortcut [windows] + d, there are people who still use this in quick launch. You can manually recreate it by creating a file called “Show Desktop.scf”. Open Notepad, and type in the following:
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Taking ownership of system files and folders in Vista is a pain. You can use the command line or the GUI, but you will tire after a while because there are simply too many steps. Here’s a way that will add this option to the context menu, so all you need to do to take [...]
Computers will get slower and slower with the time. There are many reasons for this like fragmentation of hard disks,lot of useless installed programs etc. Whatever the cause may be, there are a lot of ways to help speed up Windows and make your PC work better - even without upgrading your hardware. Here are [...]
Download speeds of Internet are a major concern when you are running on a low speed connection. In order to get over it, we can increase the speed of downloads with a simple registry hack. This trick involves the increase of download connections from the default value. By doing this, the number of Internet download [...]
Windows Explorer can be used to play many tricks to tease your friends. One of them is making your Menu bar vanish or Disappear and again Re-appear. Menu Bar contains all the options of the file and If it is gone it will definitely lead into confusion for the user. The trick can also used [...]
If you don’t want to move to Vista, and still have an urge to try some of its features, you can do it in the form of standalone add-on programs for Windows XP that can give you close to the entire Vista experience. Vista is an eye candy provided your computer got the resources. Without [...]
The Windows Experience Rating is sort of like a system performance gauging system that you only find in Vista. While many complain that it’s flawed and unfair at times, there’s a way to fool Vista. Basically, we change the performance figures in the XML that holds the scores for each of the subsystems. To see [...]
Vista Sidebar is a very essential feature which is used mainly for fast accessing of a lot of applications. But there are only a limited number of gadgets available for it. Here is a way to convert Google gadgets or almost any type of Gadgets and use them on your Vista Sidebar. You can transform [...]
