Useful Windows Vista Tips and Tricks
This Vista tips and tricks page is created to help you with out with Windows Vista. This page will be updated often and more tips are coming so return to this page often or bookmark it so you can find it easily. Below you will find the tips which can help you out with your problems in Vista.
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Tip #1: Shrink a partitionIf you have created one or more partitions on your hard drive and a few months later you think "mmmmh this partition has to be a bit smaller", it is possible in Vista to shrink them. You can do this even with a 'system partition'.How to shrink a partition? Step 1: If there is empty space available behind the partition there is also the possibility to extend the the partition using the option 'Extend Volume'. Tip #2: Use ReadyBoost to speed up your system!
How do these technologies work? The memory manager of Windows Vista can change the grouping of the memory any time, which decreases the chance of overloading a part of the memory. Microsoft calls this 'dynamic kernel address space'. The possibility to assign memory dynamically is also used to decide which data have to be loaded into the memory and which data is mend for the virtual memory. Previous versions of Windows did not make any difference between data which is used much and which is used less. Windows Vista does it on another way. SuperFetch doesn't look at the data which is unused the longest, but it predicts which data will be needed as first again and keeps this data stored in the memory.If there will be any free space in the RAM-memory then SuperFetch will fill these spaces with the data of which it predicts it will be needed as first again. Read more about ReadyBoost and SuperFetch... Tip #3: How to disable User Account Control? To keep your computer safe and clean of viruses that's one thing which is very important for your computer. But you don't want to get bothered with annoying warnings from Windows Vista each time you install a program or when you make a change in Vista's settings? Without any doubt is Vista's most irritating tool the User Account Control (UAC). The User Account Control takes care that Windows asks permission to several system sources over and over again. I think your answer is NO! Tip #4: How to make screenshot quick and easy in Vista?
This tool can be found at:
Below you find a screenshot I made using the 'free-form snip'. So if you need to make a screenshot of something on your screen you can use this tool for it.
Tip #5: Enable hidden built in administrator account
This Windows Vista Trick was written by Jinish Kg from India
Tip #6: Display multiple clocksWith huge popularity of social websites there is huge possibility that you have found some friends which are spread across the planet? With Windows Vista, you can display up to 3 clocks, each representing a different time zone. You know immediately what time is in your friend's country. This can help you to know in what time you can contact your friend. Of course these clocks can also have other purpose but this with social website was a simple example. To display multiple clocks in windows vista fallow steps below: 1. In Windows Vista, click the clock in the notification area, right of the taskbar. 2. The clock and a complete schedule appear. Click Change settings of the date and time. 3. Open Additional Clocks tab. 4. Then check the Show this clock, select a new time zone and then give a name to the clock. 5. You can then repeat the operation for a third clock. Click OK when you are finished. 6. Now when you spend a few moments with mouse pointer on the clock your other clocks will be displayed. 7. The time your friends will also be displayed after double clicking the clock.
Tip #7: How to disable unnecessary features in Windows VistaWindows Vista is automatically installed with many features, not always useful for the use of your computer. You can optimize your system and win a few seconds to start disabling the functionality you're not using. Here is how: 1. Click the Start button and then click Control Panel. 2. Click on the Programs icon. 3. Then click the Enable or disable Windows features of the Programs and Features heading. 4. Click the Continue button. 5. The list of features of the system is displayed. Uncheck the boxes just before the features you do not and you want to disable. For example, you can uncheck the box in front of optional components for Tablet PC if you do not have a Tablet PC, before games if you do not use Windows games before DFS Replication Service Windows if you do not need to synchronize files between multiple computers, etc.. 6. Finally, click on the OK button at any time you can re-checking features and return them in their previous state.
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