I remember the first time I saw single click option in Windows.It was in the days of good old Windows 98 where making “web” like desktop was cool,you simply clicked on icons and they opened as if they were web links. Fast forward to Windows Vista.The way to turn on single click on icons here …
Shortcuts in Windows are good,they save time and also are cool.Just think instead of clicking many times,you can accomplish specific tasks in a single click or a single hot key,wouldn’t that increase productivity? Let us take a look at how to make a shortcut to launch any screensaver in Vista.In Windows,screensavers are having the file …
Recently,I tried to update AVG anti-virus definition files like I normally do regularly.This time however,I saw an unusual error message : “Invalid Update Control CTF File, AVG 8.0” What this probably meant was the AVG update database control file was probably corrupt on my Vista machine and hence no updates were getting installed.The definite fix …
Internet Explorer by default allows only 2 simultaneous downloads from single URL.This is in line with the HTTP 1.1 standards that not more than 2 simultaneous connections be permitted at a time. This can be changed by registry hack.Let’s take a look at how can we make IE download more than the default in Vista …
Windows Vista by default will remember/cache user credentials when it is in a domain based environment.Needless to say,this many counts can be a potential security risk in itself as cached logon or cached credentials allow users to logon and use Windows even when it is not actively connected to domain as a kind of work …
On selecting any file or object in Windows Vista and right clicking it will always show the “Send To” option.If this needs to be disabled,there is a simple registry hack (like most of the stuff we come across in Windows) to accomplish that. This registry hack will involve something called as ContextMenuHandlers where the key …
Any external USB drive connected in Windows Vista by default is optimized for quick removal and not quick performance. This is because it is assumed that any plugged in external drive will be removed at some point of time and a quick removal from the computer may result in data loss. What if you use …
>Vista has this service turned on by default called “Superfetch”.What this does is keep track of user patterns like which are the most commonly used applications and on startup,load these frequently used applications first for logged in user. Just like all the Windows services,this too can be turned off or on if you want to …
In my earlier post on security features in Windows Vista,I had described how to turn off User Account Control. What if we want to run applications with normal user rights but only need the command prompt to be launched with elevated administrator rights? There are two ways that I have come across to launch command …
User Account Control is a new security feature in Windows Vista to prevent execution of unauthorized applications. If tired of annoying popups that seem to come when you try to run any application in Vista,it means UAC is in charge of your access. I will show two ways to disable UAC in Windows Vista -the …