Today I’m gono show you some cool Vista tips that I’m sure you haven’t seen.

Open Command Prompt Here:

In Vista you can get some extra menus for your properties box just by holding the “Shift” key and right clicking on a file. As you can see below a command prompt button. Now you can easily open the folders and run, scripts easily without having to type long paths.

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Copy As Path:

Another interesting thing that comes when you use the Shift key is the “Copy as Path”
This will copy the entire file path i.e : C:\File.txt. Which you can use to cd to a directory. But when you got already got the command prompt option? You can guess what I’m telling :)

Bringing Back Start > Run:

In Windows Vista the Run bottom is no where to be seen. All commands like “regedit” “cmd” “msconfig” “calc” “mspaint” and other apps can be opened by just typing in the command in the search box. But most of us are accustomed to running this apps via RUN. Well to get it back:

1. Right-click on the Start menu and choose Properties.
2. Select the Start Menu tab and click on the Customize button.
3. Check the “Run command” option.

Your new menu should look like this:

And the run dialog box should look like this:

Another easy option is to use the shortcut, Windows Key + R to bring up the run command.

Disable UAC:

1. From the Start search bar, type “Local Security Policy”
2. Accept the elevation prompt
3. From the snap-in, select Security Settings -> Local Policy -> Security Options
4. Scroll down to the bottom, where you’ll find nine different group policy settings for granular configuration of UAC.

Or you can disable the whole thing in control panel. Just type UAC in the search bar, and that will pop up.

Running Quick Launch Items:

Last but not the least you can quick launch, e.g browser, music players etc by using the Windows key. As you can see below, each application on the quick launch bar can be launched just by using the Windows key and the number its listed in the bar.

Windows Key + 3 = Windows media player

Windows Key + 4 = Internet Explorer