How To Speedup Windows XP & Vista Boot

You must read this guide, provided you are a Windows user. Though there are thousands of articles available, what sets this apart from the crowd is this is specially written by tweakwindows!. This guide will show you how to decrease the boot time of Windows to 10seconds. Let’s start with the basics first. 1.Go to [...]

Enable/Disable Search Option In Start Menu Of Vista SP1

As you know, there is no “Search” Option in the Start Menu of Windows Vista SP1. If you want to restore this search option, follow these easy steps.To Enable Search:1.Open Windows Registry Editor by “regedit”(without quotes) in Start Menu Search box.2.Click “Continue” button for the UAC prompt.3.Navigate to the following key in the Windows Registry [...]

Stop Expiration Of Password In Vista

This happens only in Vista Business and Ultimate versions.If you have set a password for your Vista, it will be expired after 42days. Microsoft might have kept this for security reasons, but this is really annoying for some people. Though, Vista warns you about the expiration of password 14 days in advance, it’s a good [...]

Run XP Programs On Vista

There are quite a few useful applications that don’t support Vista by default. This is quite annoying when you have genuine softwares which you don’t like to throw out. Fortunately, you can use those softwares in Vista with compatibility mode as follows. *Right click on the program and select “Properties”. *Navigate to the “Compatibility” tab.*Now, [...]

Rebuild Index To Fix Search Problems In Vista

Windows Vista’s search engine is completely dependent of indexing service. Therefore it’s a good idea to to rebuild the index if your search results often appear to be out of date. To do this just type “Indexing Options” in your Start Menu Search box and hit enter. In the “Indexing Options” window click on “Advanced” [...]

Disable or Enable Details & Navigation Panes In Vista

This isn’t a big tweak or guide, just a simple must know thing for Vista users.Things look tough when you don’t know how to. Sometimes, you might love to remove the “Details Pane” from the bottom of the explorer for any reason. So, if you want to play with this details pane continue reading this [...]

Fix "BOOT MGR Is Missing" Error In Vista

BOOTMGR IS MISSING Press Ctrl +Alt +Del to restartThis is what happend to one of my friends today, after inserting a brand new 400GB hard disk to two years old Compaq Presario system. Usually, this boot time error occurs when you insert a new hard drive or when you change the current hard drive settings [...]

Disable Auto Restart On System Failure

As you might know, Windows automatically restarts when system crashes. To stop this automatic restart in Vista, you need to tweak Vista settings as follows:#Right click on Computer icon, select Properties(or use [Win]+[Pause/Break]as shortcut keys).#In the left pane, select “Advanced” Settings.#Next, select Settings in “Start up and Recovery” option, under “Advanced” tab.#In the “Startup and [...]

Delete File In Use

We often get “cannot delete file: It is being used by another person or program” error message in vista. Sometimes, this happens if a program has not closed a file properly.In this situation, we generally try with a reboot, but if the problem persists you need to use a third party free tool called Unlocker.By [...]

Uninstall Bad Windows Updates

As you might know, updates helps to prevent or fix problems,to enhance the security and to improve the performance of the software and the computer.Sometimes, Windows or softwares might crash due to a bad update.You need to uninstall the bad update to solve this problem. Here is the tutorial to uninstall Windows updates. #Type Programs [...]

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