Flip3D was one of those cool WOW things that Vista marketing couldn’t show enough of. If you are using a low end machine and barely clearing the Aero performance bar you may want to limit the number of windows displayed to keep the performance hit to a minimum. If you haven’t seen it yet […]
I recently had a friend who was messing around with his desktop and accidentally deleted the Show Desktop icon from his quick launch toolbar. This useful little icon minimizes all open windows so you can get to your desktop quickly. It is not really a application but instead a script that causes all […]
If you want to have a more customized desktop you can change your startmenu picture to something different, either one of the
preinstalled ones or one of your own. This change also will be reflected on the welcome screen after bootup for the account picture.
Very simple to do this just follow along:
1) Go to […]
I was helping a friend of mine at the office with a new install of Vista and he wanted to remove the default RSS feeds from Microsoft that come with the sidebar Gadget. In Vista, Microsoft instituted a new RSS platform that allows a structured way for other programs to use the same feed […]
A default setting in the Windows Vista power setting will throttle your CPU to 50%. Change this setting to unleash your full power:
Open your power options menu by typing Power into your Start menu search:
Choose the High Performance radio button and close the window
There you go a quick and easy way to increase CPU […]
