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Vista Tip 29: Famous Last Words…
in Vista onThis great tip is masterminded by a colleague of mine, Prakash Punnoor, who fell in love with the Penguin OS.…
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Vista Tip 28: Changing the Default Encoder for Media Center
in Vista onWhen watching TV or other videos, the video decoder integrated into the Vista Media Center isn’t really that great. The…
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Vista Tip 27: Start Media Center in a Specific View
in Vista onIf you don’t like the view in which Vista Media Center starts up by default, you can change that using…
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Vista Tip 26: Switch of Unneeded Aero Effects
in Vista onAero effects are quite nice, but some of them can be annoying after some time. If you also like Aero…
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Vista Tip 25: Harness the Power of Symbolic Links
in Vista onAs I mentioned in the Vista Tip 16: User Folders in Vista and How To Move Them post, Vista finally(!!)…
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Vista Tip 24: Pimp the Start Menu using Start++
in Vista onThe somewhat unimpressive input field in the Vista start menu yields great power, but it can be extended even more.…
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Vista Tip 23: Pin Applications to the Start Menu
in Vista onBy default Vista fills the initial view of the start menu with often used applications. The order of those applications…
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Vista Tip 22: Change Function of Power Switch in the Start Menu
in Vista onMicrosoft seems to think that never ever anyone shuts down their Vista computers. When pressing the red shut down button…
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Vista Tip 21: Show Additional (Meta) Data in Windows Explorer
in Vista onThis is something I stumbled upon, which isn’t really obvious. You can actually grab the bluish status bar in Windows…
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Vista Tip 20: Removing Meta Data using Windows Explorer
in Vista onThe meta data of files sometimes contains sensible information, which should be removed before e-mailing the file for example. Vista…
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