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Microsoft Releases Pre-SP1 Updates for Windows Vista

Microsoft has just released a set of updates for Windows Vista, divided into two separate update packs. One deals with performance and the other with reliability, and seems to fix quite a few issues with video drivers and hib…

Lowell Heddings Aug 8th, 2007

Install Windows XP on Your Pre-Installed Windows Vista Computer

The question I am asked most often is “How do I install a dual-boot with Windows XP on my new Windows Vista computer?” The answer is that it’s not that difficult, it’s just very time consuming, and you need to own a copy of W…

Lowell Heddings Aug 4th, 2007

Customize Your Welcome Picture Choices in Windows Vista

Everybody knows how to change their Vista logon/start menu picture, but if you select a new picture, Windows Vista removes the last picture from the list entirely, leaving just the new picture and the default pictures. D…

Lowell Heddings Jul 29th, 2007

Delete Wrong AutoComplete Entries in Windows Vista Mail

If you’ve entered the wrong address into the Windows Vista Mail client, you might have problems getting rid of the wrong autocomplete entries in the list. There’s a couple of things you can try to delete the entries in the li…

Lowell Heddings Jul 28th, 2007

Roundup: 16 Tweaks to Windows Vista Look & Feel

We’ve come a long way in our coverage of Windows Vista, and it’s time to put together a roundup of all the articles that tweak the appearance of Windows Vista. If you’d like to suggest something that we left out, leave a comm…

Lowell Heddings Jul 23rd, 2007

Customize Your Windows Vista Logon Screen

For those of us looking to customize the Windows Vista UI experience, there’s nothing more annoying than seeing the default logon screen every time you start up your computer, or when you lock your workstation. Thankfully the…

Lowell Heddings Jul 20th, 2007

Great Expose Clone for Windows Vista

The market seems to be full of OS X Expose clones, but this is the first one that I’ve found that not only works really well, but has a ton of customization options. It’s called Switcher, and you might already be familiar sin…

Lowell Heddings Jul 20th, 2007

Save 1-4% More Battery Life With Windows Vista Battery Saver

Quite a few people have written in asking me if it’s possible to turn off Aero when on battery power to save a few precious minutes of battery life. While I dispute the claim that Aero drains the battery life, there is now a …

Lowell Heddings Jul 15th, 2007

Use Parental Controls to Filter Websites in Windows Vista

The new Parental Controls in Windows Vista will allow you to filter the content your children can view on the web. You could, for instance, block your kids from using MySpace or other similar sites. Before you set this up, y…

Brian Burgess Jul 15th, 2007

Increase Size of Windows Vista Taskbar Previews

It only took two days for somebody to come through on my offer of a bounty. Reader Shawn wrote in with a link to Vista Thumbnail Sizer, a utility written by Andreas Verhoeven, that performs exactly the features I was lookin…

Lowell Heddings Jul 14th, 2007

Add a User Account In Windows Vista

This will bring up a list of current user accounts on your system. At the bottom of this screen click on ‘Create a new account’

Brian Burgess Jul 12th, 2007

Bounty(Paid!) for Increasing Windows Vista Taskbar Preview Size

Ever since Windows Vista came out, I’ve been trying to figure out how to increase the size of the tiny Windows Vista taskbar preview windows. I’ve scoured the registry, used process monitor to try and find hidden registry key…

Lowell Heddings Jul 12th, 2007

Backup or Restore Saved Network User Credentials in Windows Vista

Whenever you enter user credentials into Internet Explorer, map a drive to a remote server, or connect to a Windows domain, you are given the opportunity to save your password. What you may not realize is that you can backup …

Lowell Heddings Jun 27th, 2007

Roll Back Troublesome Device Drivers in Windows Vista

If you’ve installed a new driver that is causing problems on your computer, you can easily roll back to the prior version of the driver with a few simple steps.

Lowell Heddings Jun 24th, 2007

Tune Your ClearType Font Settings in Windows Vista

Many people have expressed to me their dislike of the default ClearType font smoothing in Windows Vista, and asked for a way to change the settings to something better. You have a couple of options here:…

Lowell Heddings Jun 20th, 2007

Fixing "Visual Studio 2005 SP1 requires an update for Windows Vista"

I’d heard that Visual Studio 2005 has compatibility issues with Windows Vista, so I wasn’t surprised when I got this error message when trying to run for the first time. To resolve this particular error message, you need to i…

Lowell Heddings Jun 20th, 2007

View Hidden 3D Benchmarks in Windows Vista

There’s really nothing useful about this tip, but it’s still pretty cool. There’s a utility built into Windows Vista used for benchmarking your system called the System Assessment Tool. What most people don’t k…

Lowell Heddings Jun 18th, 2007

Re-Enable Hibernate Option in Windows Vista

If you’ve found that your Hibernate option is missing from Windows Vista, it might be from running the disk cleanup wizard and removing the hibernate files. This is due to a known bug in Vista that might not have been hotfixe…

Lowell Heddings Jun 13th, 2007

Re-Enable Sleep Mode in Windows Vista

If you’ve found that your Sleep mode menu is dimmed out in Windows Vista, it’s most likely because Media Center disabled the option when it feels that media is being shared. This is an easy setting to fix, but it’s a little t…

Lowell Heddings Jun 13th, 2007

Make Safari Stop Crashing Every 20 Seconds on Windows Vista

The new Safari for Windows is a very slick browser that beats the pants off everything else in the speed department, but it crashes so much on Windows Vista that it’s virtually unusable.

Lowell Heddings Jun 11th, 2007

Fix "Sleep Mode Randomly Waking Up" Issue in Windows Vista

I’ve been having a very frustrating issue with Windows Vista on my HP notebook: I put the computer into sleep mode, close the lid, and then unplug the network cable… and the computer wakes back up, typically when it’s alrea…

Lowell Heddings Jun 11th, 2007

Show Keyboard Shortcut Access Keys in Windows Vista

Since moving to Windows Vista, a lot of the keyboard shortcuts that I was used to just don’t work quite the same anymore. As a keyboard junkie, I find it imperative to learn the shortcut keys, so it’s good that there is a qui…

Lowell Heddings Jun 9th, 2007

How to Play .OGM Video Files in Windows Vista

So you’ve got a bunch of .OGM video files and they won’t play in Windows Vista… relax, you just need to install the right codecs in order to play them from within Windows Media Player.

Lowell Heddings May 24th, 2007

Disable Hybrid Sleep Mode in Windows Vista

Windows Vista has a neat new feature for laptops called “hybrid sleep”. Actually, Windows Vista has a neat new feature for laptops called sleep too, so I’m getting ahead of myself a bit.

Mr Linux Apr 22nd, 2007

Fix Problems With Copying Large Files in Windows Vista

If you’ve been having problems copying large files over mapped drives, network disconnects, or having to reboot your router a lot more often than normal, then you can try out this fix to solve the problem….

Lowell Heddings Apr 21st, 2007

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