Most of us have came across Windows Vista, there are many hidden features that are really great and interesting.
Nowadays a standard digital camera supports resolutions upto 7 to 8 megapixels. Recently I purchased one digital cam, as an avid shutterbug I love taking photos here and there. Most of the photos are related to nature, life, gadgets etc and my online buddies love watching them :). As you would know broadband in India sucks, thats why have to resize my images before uploading.
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Finally after some time and customer feedback. Microsoft’s long waited Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is finally free for you to download from Windows Update or Microsoft Download Center. According to Microsoft SP1 will address issues related to performance and reliability. Particular gaming compatibility and networking related issues seem to have been fixed.
Download sizes are quite hefty, might take some time for the download to complete (i completed in 15minutes): Another trick is to download the SP1 update via Windows Update which is incredibly small at 65MB.
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After Windows Vista came out, lot of programmers tried to port the visual styles to Windows XP and many have succeeded it that. One special add-in is the Vista-style breadcrumbs for Windows XP. Especially handy for those who wanna get some Vista looks without switching over to Windows Vista for the time being.
QT Address Bar is simple application, just unzip it to a location of your choice and then double click on the QTAddressBar.exe file.
Select the Install option, and then click the Next button to register the component with Windows.
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Slowness is something you associate with Windows Vista, today i found out a cool trick to fasten menus under Windows Vista. Here’s how it goes.
Click on the Vista Start icon and type in regedit in the search field or use the RUN Command now press Enter.
This opens the Registry Editor. Where you will see the various registry folders in the upper left side as shown below.
Now navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Click on Desktop
This opens several values in the left panel. Now Double click on “MenuShowDelay”.
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If you are already using Google or Yahoo Toolbar you probably won’t want to use the built-in search box in Internet Explorer 7. There’s a quick registry fix that you can do to enable / disable this.
Open up Notepad and copy the following and save it to something “IE7_NoSearchBar.reg”. Then merge it into the registry by double clicking it.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Infodelivery\Restrictions]
“NoSearchBox”=dword:00000001
To disable copy this following code and save. After that merge it to the registry.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Infodelivery\Restrictions]
“NoSearchBox”=dword:00000000
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Manually locating the Windows Vista product key from the registry is next to impossible as its encrypted. Luckily, a number of free programs exist to help find product keys.
- Choose a free product key finder program that supports Windows Vista.
- Download and run the key finder program. Follow the instruction.
- The product key should be formatted like xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx – five sets of five letters and numbers.
- Write this key code down exactly as the program displays it to you for use when reinstalling Windows Vista.
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To me restarting my PC is one of the most annoying thing that I come across daily. Besides Vista takes up around one to two minutes to boot up sometimes. Even Windows XP slowly crawls at around a minute to load. Most of the time this happens due to myself frequently installing things that i shouldn’t and end up trashing the PC which results in a restart. Ofcourse there is a trick involving tricking the PC do a “warm reboot,” rather than a “cold boot.” The trick involves holding down the SHIFT key when invoking the restart.
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