The Recent Items in the Start menu is a great feature to quickly view recently opened files. By default, the number of recent items shown in the Recent Items is 15 (at least for me). You can increase the maximum number of recent items to your desired one by making a small change to the […]
Slipstream Vista SP1 In To Your Vista DVD
If you often reinstall Windows Vista operating system on your PC, you might want to include the latest updates as well as the Service Pack 1 in the Vista DVD to avoid manually installing updates and Service Pack each time after reinstalling Vista. It’s really a good idea to have a Vista DVD with […]
Change The Command Prompt Font & Color
This guide shows you how to change the font and background color of the Command Prompt in Vista. You can also change the command prompt background color by adjusting the color combination in a few steps. Here is how to do that. Change the Command Prompt font and color in Vista 1. Open the command […]
Assign A Unique Drive Letter To The USB Drive
Almost everyone has a USB drive (also called pen drive, thumb drive, and flash drive) these thanks to the falling USB storage price. Each time when you insert a USB drive Windows might give a different drive letter if you are using more than one drive at once. Although this is not a big deal […]
Disable Writing To USB Drives In Vista & XP
Windows Vista and XP allow users to protect their data by disabling writing permission to USB drives. The provision is useful when you don’t want others using your PC from copying important data to USB drives. When the write permission is turned off, users will not be able to copy data to USB drives. In […]
Clear Windows Product Key From Registry
In Vista and Windows 7, when you activate your copy of Windows by entering a product key, Windows saves the product key deep in the Registry. The saved product key comes useful when you want to reinstall Windows 7 without entering the product key. Since there are many applications available to retrieve the Windows product […]
Turn Aero Off or On With Keyboard Shortcut
If you are a keyboard freak, I have an easy shortcut to turn off and on the Aero glass feature in Vista. The idea behind this tutorial is, creating a shortcut for “Aero off” and “Aero On” and then, using them from the quick launch with shortcut keys. Turn Off Aero with the keyboard shortcut […]
Enable NTFS Compression To Gain Huge Disk Space
When I reinstall Vista or Windows 7, I always do one thing in common for all drives except system file drives. I enable NTFS compression. If you are using this feature already, you might have noticed a huge gain in your hard disk space. Before we tell you how to enable the NTFS file compression, […]
Modding The Windows Vista Theme
If you are bored with the default look of the Windows Vista, you can change the default look of the theme to make it even cooler. Required things to modify the Vista theme *UXTheme Patcher(Download Here) *Restorator 2007. Trial version will do the job. Download it here. *Photoshop or Paint.net to edit images. *Alpha Image […]
Tweak Windows Screensavers
Windows Vista is radically different from previous versions of Windows and comes with hundreds of new features. Aero, new explorer, powerful Start menu, powerful search, ReadyBoost, and Flip3D are some of the features introduced with Vista. Along with other eye candy features, Microsoft has included a couple of good screen savers in Windows Vista. Though […]