Vista Tweaks
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This tweak is useful for anyone who wants to restrict users from running specific Windows programs on a Windows Vista computer. You can restrict users from running specific programs by either using Group Policy or editing the Windows registry.
Method 1: By Using Group Policy
To use Group Policy Object Editor to restrict users from running specific Windows programs, use the procedure that is described in the section that is appropriate to your situation.
Click Start, and then click Run.
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Written by Tony on May 15th, 2009 with no comments.
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Microsoft Windows Vista has a new user interface system codenamed Avalon.This new user interface engine in Windows Vista greatly enhances the look by utilizing several cool looking 3D effects(like Aero Glass,Flip 3D etc).Windows Vista’s new user interface system, Avalon requires high system specifications in order to work, with the minimum requirements of at least 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor,1 GB (gigabyte) of system memory and a DirectX 9 compatible graphics read more
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Written by Tony on March 31st, 2009 with 1 comment.
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If you hold down Shift key while right clicking on any file in Windows Vista or Windows 7 explorer, you can see few more options in the context menu.You can easily add one more option to the file context menu called “Take Ownership” option which will be very useful to take ownership of any file.As many of you know, we need to take the ownership of system file in Windows Vista or in Windows 7 that you want to alter by any means. You need to have the ownership to do even simple read more
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Written by Tony on March 11th, 2009 with no comments.
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If User Account Control (UAC) enabled in Windows Vista, one needs to open an elevated command prompt(command prompt with administrative rights) in order to run scripts like VB scrips and java scripts under administrative privileges.There is no ‘Run as Administrator’ for VB scripts. Use the following trick:
Click on Windows Vista “Start” | “Run” | type in “regedit”
Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VBSFile\Shell
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Written by Tony on February 28th, 2009 with 2 comments.
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Did the Recycle Bin icon got deleted by mistake from your desktop in Windows Vista? When you right-click on the Recycle Bin icon in Windows Vista, there is a Delete option and this option is not available in the case of Microsoft’s former operating system Windows XP.Because of this, users may be tempted to click the Delete entry in an attempt to empty the Recycle Bin. That may be why the Recycle Bin icon disappeared in the first place in the case of Windows Vista.You can easily restore read more
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Written by Tony on February 25th, 2009 with no comments.
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You are probably familiar with having to click that annoying little icon to bring up the Safely Remove Hardware dialog box when you need to disconnect a USB device in Windows Vista, but it’s possible to make the disconnect process a little easier.
The purpose of “Safely Remove Hardware” in Windows is that you tell Windows operating system that you’re about to remove a USB flash device so that Windows can finish whatever it needs to do with it. In the case of USB flash read more
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Written by Tony on February 15th, 2009 with 1 comment.
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Even if you turn on show hidden files in Windows Explorer some files will remain hidden in Windows Vista. These files are called super hidden files.This is to prevent those files from being touched or accidentally deleted.But if you are interested to see the super hidden files in Windows Vista, here is a tweak on how to make the super hidden files visible.
You can display super hidden files in Windows Vista by a simple registry tweak as described below:
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Written by Tony on February 9th, 2009 with no comments.
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