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How To: Disable Windows Explorer Click Sounds In Windows Vista

Tony — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:00:23 +0000

Windows Vista plays a click sound whenever you navigate your way around Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer. You can disable the clicking sound in Windows Vista by a simple method described below: Go to Windows Vista Start Menu > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices Then click on the Sounds tab. Note: To open up the sounds configuration panel quickly in Windows Vista, just type in mmsys.cpl into the start menu search box, and hit enter. You can either click the Sound Scheme and read more

How To: Disable System Beep In Windows Vista

Tony — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:44:23 +0000

System beeps are those sounds you hear when an error message or an information/warning message appears.One of the small but annoying things in Windows Vista is the fact that the System Beep is enabled by default. If you want to get rid of the annoying system beep in Windows Vista, do any of the following methods: Method 1: Through Windows Vista Registry Start the Windows Vista registry editor by clicking Start, then, Run, and then entering regedit. You’ll need to provide administrative read more

How To: Remove Annoying “My Bluetooth Places” Shortcut On Windows Vista Desktop

Tony — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:28:06 +0000

After installing any Bluetooth device(Like USB Bluetooth Dongle,Bluetooth Mouse,Bluetooth Printer etc) on Windows Vista, an icon called “My Bluetooth Places” has appeared on the desktop.If you right click on it, there is no option to delete. In the configuration box, there’s no option to move it. If you attempt to drag it off the desktop to another location it automatically creates a shortcut and leaves the original on the desktop.If you want to remove this annoying read more

How To: Disable Running Of Check Disk(Chkdsk) Utility At Windows Vista Start Up

Tony — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:19:11 +0000

Windows Vista comes with a version of Check Disk that operates in much the same way as in previous versions of Windows.Sometimes it happens that disk check always starts to check the file system on one or more drives for consistency.Check Disk utility automatically run whenever you don’t shut down your computer properly.If any key is pressed, the disk checking is aborted.Basically, Check Disk is a command-line tool that verifies your disks for file system integrity, locates bad sectors and read more

How To: Remove Annoying Windows Security Center Icon From System Tray In Windows Vista

Tony — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:35:58 +0000

Windows security Center is a component that includes in Windows Vista and also in Windows XP service pack 2 for providing information about the status of your anti virus software, firewall and Automatic update.It’s important to understand that Windows Security Center is primarily a monitoring tool.Sometimes,Windows security Center may become annoying as you receive frequent message in forms of pop-up balloon alerts and other notifications.Surprisingly with Windows Vista, Windows read more

How To: Disable Annoying Low Disk Space Warning In Windows Vista

Tony — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:03:31 +0000

When your computer’s hard disk drive is nearly out of free space, Windows Vista will warn you with a little pop-up box at regular intervals.This low disk space warning can be handy the first time but that’s usually where the usefulness stops.Aside from being annoying, Windows Vista’s constant check for low hard disk drive space uses system resources which can slow Windows down. By a simple registry tweak you can easily turn off the low disk space checks and warnings in read more

How To: Disable All Notification Area Balloon Tips In Windows Vista

Tony — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:59:23 +0000

One of the most annoying features of Windows Vista is the constant,irritating, work-interrupting balloon messages in the notification area.These balloon tips can be off Automatic Update,security reminders,anti-virus updates,speech balloon announcements or other system updates.By any of the two simple methods you can easily disable the balloon notifications in Windows Vista. Method 1:Using Group Policy Editor Start up the Group Policy Editor in Windows Vista by press Windows+R, enter read more

How To: Disable Digital Driver Signing In Windows Vista x64(64-Bit)

Tony — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:29:17 +0000

One of the more annoying components in Vista x64 is the prompt for signed drivers.This is because with Windows Vista x64(Windows Vista 64-bt edition), Microsoft has introduced a new kernel security component for the 64-bit editions of the Windows Operating System. Windows mandatory Kernel Mode and Driver Signing implies that all modules or drivers designed to run at kernel level have to feature digital signatures. Microsoft’s initiative is designed to increase the security of 64-bit read more

How To: Disable The Annoying Windows Update Restart Prompt In Windows Vista

Tony — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:02:31 +0000

If you have automatic updates feature turned on in Windows Vista and when your system gets updated, a nagging pop-up comes up asking for a restart. This restart pop-up will be really annoying and this nagging pop-up just doesn’t go off.This nag screen does offer you a way to get rid of it temporarily, but unfortunately it returns within minutes.Another problem is that it’s really easy to click on the wrong button and accidentally reboot the system.So it is better to disable the Windows read more

How To: Erase Or Remove Windows Vista Bootloader

Tony — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:07:53 +0000

About Windows Vista Bootloader: The Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store contains boot configuration parameters and controls how the operating system is started in Microsoft Windows Vista operating system.You can use the Bcdedit.exe command-line tool to affect the Windows code which runs in the pre-operating system environment by adding, deleting, editing, and appending entries in the BCD store. Bcdedit.exe is located in the WindowsSystem32 directory of the Windows Vista partition. Normally read more

How To: Keep My Passwords From Expiring In Windows Vista

Tony — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:13:35 +0000

To increase security, Windows Vista may ask you to periodically change your password.Some users are reporting that Windows Vista is telling them that their password is expired or is about to expire, even though that have not set any password expiration policies.This annoying problem will keep re-occurring until you change your account profile in Windows Vista to prevent password expiration.If your Windows Vista computer is part of a network that has these types of rules set by a network read more

How To: Disable The Annoying Windows Vista Welcome Center

Tony — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:56:31 +0000

As soon as you install Windows Vista you are bombarded by the Welcome Center that is designed to help beginner Windows users easily configure their new computer.With a fresh copy of Windows Vista, the Welcome Center will be enabled by default.The Windows Vista Welcome Center has the links to all the major settings and is very helpful the first time you logon to Windows, but not the second time!.This new welcome screen is a nice feature the first time you start using Windows Vista but quickly read more

How To: Disable or Enable the Transient Multimon Manager (TMM) in Windows Vista

Tony — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:08:59 +0000

Transient Multi-Monitor Manager or Transient Multimon Manager (TMM) is a cool Windows Vista Feature that simplifies the setup of display configurations on mobile computers.Windows Vista Transient Multimon Manager is targeted at improving the user experience of connecting and disconnecting external displays Transient Multimon Manager (TMM) can place a mobile computer display (for example, a laptop computer display) into clone view when a new monitor is detected.TMM is enabled by default in read more

How To: Automatically Log On To a User Account in Windows Vista(Bypass Welcome Screen)

Tony — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:31:04 +0000

If Windows Vista has ever booted on your computer, then you are familiar with the boot screen.Windows Vista will display the logon screen in case there are multiple user accounts or if the single user has set up a password. Of course that the simplest way to circumvent the Windows Vista logon screen, if you own the only user account on your machine, is to do without the password. This will cause the operating system to not display a logon screen during start up. A single user with no password read more

How To: Disable Annoying User Account Control(UAC) In Windows Vista

Tony — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:28:11 +0000

User Account Control is easily one of the most hated features of Microsoft’s operating system, Windows Vista according to the users all around the globe. The seemingly endless stream of UAC pop-ups, asking you to confirm this action or that action, just get in the way (and aren’t particularly zippy, given the screen redraw)User Access Control (UAC) which is enabled by default in Windows Vista allows standard users (non administrators) to complete both standard and administrative tasks (if read more

How To: Make User Account Control (UAC) Stop Blacking Out the Screen in Windows Vista

Tony — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:14:07 +0000

Have you noticed that when Windows Vista User Account Control(UAC) prompts you to allow a program to take action, that the screen blacks out? This is to show you that you are moving to an elevated desktop – where you will allow the program to continue. This blacking out of screen can be annoying but you can disable this feature. Windows Vista Business/Ultimate Users: To get to the configuration screen for this, type in security to the Windows Vista start menu search box. You read more