[SHARE]Windows Vista Tips & Tricks

[Vkouk]

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Appear recycle Bin to Desktop

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The 'Delete' option when right-clicking the Recycle Bin is new, giving you the option of removing the shortcut from your desktop easily.

 

To restore it you can go Start->Control Panel->Appearance and Personalization->Personalization

 

and then click

"change desktop icons" from the left-hand column.

 

From there just check Recycle Bin and click OK.

 

 

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How to Delete a System File in Windows Vista

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Warning: Do not delete system files. Bad things will probably ensue.

 

If you need to delete or overwrite a system file in Windows Vista, you’ll quickly notice that you cannot delete system files, even as administrator. This is because Windows Vista’s system files are owned by the TrustedInstaller service by default, and Windows File Protection will keep them from being overwritten.

 

Thankfully, there’s a way that you can get around this. You need to take ownership of the files, and then assign yourself rights to delete or modify the file. For this, we’ll use the command line.

 

Open an administrator command prompt by typing cmd into the start menu search box, and hit the Ctrl+Shift+Enter key combination.

 

To take ownership of the file, you’ll need to use the takeown command. Here’s an example:

 

takeown /f C:\Windows\System32\en-US\winload.exe.mui

 

That will give you ownership of the file, but you still have no rights to delete it. Now you can run the cacls command to give yourself full control rights to the file:

 

cacls C:\Windows\System32\en-US\winload.exe.mui /G geek:F

 

Note that my username is geek, so you will substitute your username there.

 

At this point, you should be able to delete the file. If you still can’t do so, you may need to reboot into Safe Mode and try it again. For the filename in the example, I was able to overwrite it without safe mode, but your mileage may vary.

 

 

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Where is the Telnet client in Windows Vista?

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A. By default, Vista doesn't include the Telnet client, which is a text-based application for communicating with remote systems. You can install it by following these steps:

 

1. Open the Programs and Features Control Panel applet (Start, Control Panel, Programs and Features).

2. Select "Turn Windows features on or off."

3. Select the Telnet Client option and click OK.

4. A dialog box appears, confirming the installation of new features. After installation is complete, close the main Programs and Features Control Panel applet. The telnet command should now be available.

 

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Disable the User Account Control (UAC) feature on my Windows Vista

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Method #1 - Using MSCONFIG

 

 

Launch MSCONFIG by from the Run menu.

 

Click on the Tools tab. Scroll down till you find "Disable UAP" (this should probably change to UAC in next Vista beta builds and in the RTM version). Click on that line.

 

 

 

Press the Launch button.

 

A CMD window will open. When the command is done, you can close the window.

 

Close MSCONFIG. You need to reboot the computer for changes to apply.

 

Note that you can re-enable UAC by selecting the "Enable UAP" line and then clicking on the Launch button.

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Method #2 - Using Regedit

 

Open Registry Editor.

 

In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key:

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\System

 

Locate the following value (DWORD):

 

EnableLUA

 

and give it a value of 0.

 

Note: As always, before making changes to your registry you should always make sure you have a valid backup. In cases where you're supposed to delete or modify keys or values from the registry it is possible to first export that key or value(s) to a .REG file before performing the changes.

 

Close Registry Editor. You need to reboot the computer for changes to apply.

 

In order to re-enable UAC just change the above value to 1.

 

 

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Power Button Default Action

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The default action for the Power button on the start menu in Windows Vista is Sleep, which isn’t necessarily useful for everybody. You can configure this setting easily by using the advanced power settings panel, which is a little tricky to get to normally, but we’ll take the shortcut. Open a command prompt (type cmd into the start menu search bar), and then type in the following: powercfg.cpl,1. You could also take the long route (Control Panel Power Options Change Plan Settings Change Advanced Power Settings) Once you get to this dialog, browse down as shown to “Power buttons and lid”

 

From here, you can change the options:

 

* Power button action - Changes the hardware power button action

* Start menu power button - Changes the power button on the Start Menu

 

You can change the power button to either Sleep, Hibernate or Shut Down, or even nothing for the hardware power button.

 

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Enable Hidden BootScreen in Windows Vista

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The Windows Vista BootScreen is pointless, but Microsoft decided to hide a more visually appealing boot screen that can easily be enabled with very little trouble. I’m not sure why they didn’t make the boot screen better.

 

1. Press Win+R, type msconfig and press Enter.

2. If User Account Control prompts you to allow the action, click on Continue.

3. In the "System Configuration" window, click on the Boot tab.

4. Select your Windows Vista installation and under "Boot options", check "No GUI boot". Press OK.

5. In the dialog that appears, check "Don’t show this message again", and then click on Restart.

6. Your computer will now reboot, and you will see the Aurora boot screen with text that says "Starting Windows Vista".

 

Note: You may get a Windows Defender error on the next startup. You can enable the system config utility using the tray icon and this error will go away

 

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Fix for COM Surrogate Has Stopped Working Error in Vista

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If you’ve been getting the error COM Surrogate has stopped working whenever you browse folders containing Divx avi files, it looks like the latest Divx update to codec version 6.5 fixes the issue, but it also seems to remove the thumbnails. If you want to upgrade, just use the divx update checker to grab the new version. Looks like it’s finally fixed, at least the error message is now gone, although I really wish they would have just gotten the thumbnails working instead.

 

* If you are using Nero, you will need to update to version 7.7.5.1 to fix the problem. I think this is the source of the error for most people.

* If you’ve upgraded Nero and Divx and still have the problem, you can try renaming the file C:/program FilesCommon FilesAheadDSFilterNeVideo.ax to NeVideo.ax.bak This will break Nero Showtime, however.

 

 

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Verify the Integrity of Windows Vista System Files

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Windows Vista includes a utility that will scan your system for corrupt, changed or missing system files. Running this from the command prompt is much easier than booting off the dvd into repair mode. To run this utility, you will need to open a command prompt in administrator mode. You can do that by right clicking the Command Prompt in the list and choose "Run as Administrator" Once you have an administrator command prompt open, you can run the utility by using the following syntax: SFC [/sCANNOW] [/VERIFYONLY] [/sCANFILE=] [/VERIFYFILE=] [/OFFWINDIR= /OFFBOOTDIR=] The most useful command is just to scan immediately, which will scan and attempt to repair any files that are changed or corrupted. You can run that command with this command: sfc /scannow

 

 

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Disable Hibernation & Delete the Hibernation File

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Windows places a file on your hard drive that it uses when your computer goes into hibernation mode. If you do not use hibernation mode, or your computer does not properly support it, you may want to disable hibernation and clear the file off your hard drive to free up some space (the file will use as much space as you have in physical memory, so if you have 1GB of RAM, it’s going to use 1GB of your hard drive space).

 

Disable Hibernation:

1. Click Start, All Programs, and then right click on "Command Prompt".

2. From the context menu click on "Run as administrator".

3. If User Account Control prompts you to allow the action, click on Continue.

4. In the command prompt window, type "powercfg –h off" (without the quotes).

5. Close the Command Prompt window.

 

Delete the Hibernation File:

1. Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and then click "Disk Cleanup".

2. If prompted to choose a drive, select the drive in which Windows Vista is installed on to and press OK.

3. Disk Cleanup will scan the hard drive and present you with a list of options.

4. Check "Hibernation File Cleaner", and then click OK.

5. When asked "Are you sure you want to permanently delete these files?" click on the Delete Files button .

 

 

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Tweak Indexing Options for More Performance

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The indexing service in Windows Vista is responsible for making those search boxes all over the operating system lightening fast. By default Windows automatically indexes all files in your user profile folders, start menu and any files you have setup for offline access. If you have a lot of files in these locations and the files change often you can be putting a heavy load on the indexing service. For maximum performance when using Windows Vista I recommend disabling indexing for all other locations other than the Start Menu. This will lessen the background work that Windows Vista has to do. It will also slow down your searches of other locations but that is the price you must pay for this performance benefit.

 

Follow these steps to tweak the indexing locations:

 

1. Click on the Start Button and type at search key "Indexing Options" and hit Enter. Indexing Options will now load.

 

2. Hit the Modify button.

3. Next, click on Show all locations.

4. Scroll through the tree-view and uncheck any folders you do not want to be indexed. When you are finished, click OK.

5. If you want to change advanced indexing settings such as what file types are indexed click on the Advanced button. Otherwise hit Close.

 

Credits doc100 and Me..

[Freyr]

Omg man i never see better topic for vista than this!!!I buy a new pc vista and i dont  knowthese options so you help me so much!+1 for your work keep up :)

[Vkouk]

Omg man i never see better topic for vista than this!!!I buy a new pc vista and i dont  knowthese options so you help me so much!+1 for your work keep up :)

Thanks man i try to do my best..I try to post new tricks/tips for windows or linux..Stau tuned..;)

[ZeRo*]

Windows discussions are not allowed ;)

[Vkouk]

Windows discussions are not allowed ;)

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[Kяaσh]

windows vista sucks...

[Vkouk]

windows vista sucks...

I know man..I prefer better xp but i have on my laptop vista..And i find this.:)