Not everyone likes to upgrade to a new OS every couple of years. Same thing is happening with people using Windows XP resisting the temptation of upgrading to Windows Vista. But still many of us who don’t want to upgrade to Vista would love to have few of the cool looking Aero features. One of the coolest and my favorite Vista features is the thumbnails previews of the windows that comes when you hover your mouse over the taskbar. Now with a tiny application you can get them in XP as well.

Windows Vista 32-Bit by default cannot detect more than 4 GB of RAM. Basically this limitation is set because 32 bit system always lose efficiency in managing memory. Here is a there’s a really technical explanation for this. However there is hack which will easily let you go beyond the limitation.

This is how it goes. Firstly click on the Start orb and in the search are type.

cmd

Don’t hit the enter key however. After a while cmd.exe will appear in the programs list. This hack only can be done if your are in Administrator mode. To do this, right click on it and choose Run as Administrator.

I personally got baffled by UAC after installing Vista. I don’t think its that annoying because you’d know which programs are accessing what especially if are using Internet spy-wares can be a really headache but that black screen that comes each and every time UAC gets invoke is a big annoyance.

But a small program called TweakUAC gets rid of this annoyance putting into “quiet mode.” But it doesn’t turns of UAC just makes it silent. Especially administrators when attempting to do an administrative task. However all other features of UAC still going on, meaning that UAC will continue to run with the standard user permissions by default. Just download TweakUAC by clicking here.

Window Vista has built in support for SATA and external drives, but they seem to be slow because the advanced write cache features aren’t automatically activated. With just few steps you can enable them and get a much faster response.

First you need to go to the Device Manager which you can go directly by just typing device in the start menu search box or just type in devmgmt.msc in command line.

Now open the Disk drives section and right click on your hard drive. Now click on the Policies tab and you’ll find this dialog box:

 You’d probably have noticed that file transfers from Windows XP to Vista are very slow. As most of you who still using their Windows Xp boxes, sometimes you would like to transfer few files to Vista and you would be mad at the slow transfer between.

This slowness can be attributed to a feature in Vista ” Remote Differential Compression” which measures the changes in files over a network to transfer them with minimal bandwidth rather than transferring an entire file that has previously been moved. This constant checking for file changes drastically reduce the transfer speeds. Here how to solve this issue!

Normally when you boot-up in Windows Vista obviously a black screen with just progress bar with the usual to and fro motion shows up. Most of you are sick of this plain crap from Microsoft, with a little trick you can have the hidden boot screen enabled.

Windows Vista Default Boot Screen

Aurora Boot Screen

In just few secs you can have the “Aurora” Boot Screen for Vista. First click on the Start and type in msconfig into the start menu search box.

Kevin Unangst, global director of Games for Windows told that Games for Windows - LIVE is also coming for Windows XP, as it is only present for Vista right now.

Unangst said “There is no charge for Games for Windows - LIVE membership, and it offers a multiplayer experience PC gamers expect while introducing completely new functionality to online gaming on Windows. A no-charge Silver membership offers PC to PC multiplayer play, in-game voice chat, cross-game chat, single-player achievements and a unique identity across multiple games.