Windows Vista comes with in-built partition creation which makes it possible to make new partitions on fly from Vista.This takes care of basic partitioning needs without purchasing any extra application. Say if we have Vista installed on a single disk with no partition,we can shrink this single disk so as to have a new partition …
Some things are addictive no matter how old they get,like playing DOS based games for instance. Have you ever wondered how will good old DOS run in Windows XP/Vista boxes? There is a cool free utility that allows you to do just that.It is an emulator of sorts which provides you all the retro DOS …
To fix an error,you should first know the error and then find out what causes this error. System errors in Windows occur all the time(the pretty blue screens of death).The default settings Vista (or even XP) is configured with is to simply restart on own. While this is a common way of troubleshooting errors,not all …
Vista comes with a lot of easter eggs and some of them use screensavers to get activated. Remember the cool swirling colorful screensaver in Mac OSes? This same type of screensaver (Aero screensavers in Vista) can be set as a desktop background using the easter eggs. I will show the most common ones in Vista.Do …
Windows Vista 32-bit version shows less than 4 GB RAM installed when in fact that capacity is actually installed due to 32-bit architecture limitations. It is not necessary to expect that if you install more than 4 GB RAM in Vista,it will provide better performance because it can’t see more than the above limit by …
There are some great themes for Windows Vista but one really cool theme is the Vista to Leopard transformation pack. Download it from here. Installing it is quite straight forward.Once the setup is downloaded,run it. Accept the license agreement and select All the options for the best possible effects of the OS X transformation pack. …
Windows Vista comes with a handy set of tools for diagnosing and troubleshooting system problems.This is under the “Performance Information and Tools” section. Wouldn’t it be handy if we can glance at all the system issues in one go and can immediately correct them? Vista provides this capability of reporting existing system problems and also …
Processors generate a lot of heat and this can be a reason for many computer problems like random restarts,abrupt shutdowns and so on. The overheating becomes amplified in case of dual processor systems and hence it is essential to at least have some kind of tool that reports the processor temperature. Core Temp is a …
Windows Vista by default doesn’t come with Telnet service installed. If you use remote login extensively to connect to a Vista system,I would recommend SSH for that as it is far more secure than telnet which doesn’t encrypt communication between client and server. Installing telnet(client as well as server)in Vista is quite a straight forward …
Till Windows XP,there was no extended support by default for IPv6,only for IPv4 addresses (those are 32-bit in length like 10.10.1.1,255.255.255.0 and so on). With Vista comes the in-built support for IPv6 addresses (these are long ones with 128-bit length like 2002:c058:6301::c058:6301)which can’t be removed unlike in XP. So if we want to renew or …