Windows Vista Tips & Tricks

1. If you hate the look of Aero, click Start/Control Panel/Themes and you can choose a non-Aero theme, such as Windows Classic.

2. Windows Vista's installer can detect serial-ATA (SATA) drives without the need to provide a driver diskette. Don't bother creating a diskette for your SATA drives before you install Vista.

3. If, for some reason, the Vista installation gets interrupted due to an unintentional shutdown or reboot, start the computer without booting the Vista DVD. Windows Vista's installer should pick up where it left off. If it does-n't, then restart the installation over from scratch.

4. When you perform a search with Vista's new, instant search feature, you can save the search in a special folder. This powerful feature allows you to create a virtual folder which, by default, is saved in your \\Searches\ folder. Every time you open such a folder, the search results are updated.

5. In Windows Vista, you can add additional clocks to the system tray. Click the clock, and then click Date and Time Settings. Click the Additional Clocks tab. You can add one or two additional clocks to the tray and select their time zones.

6. You can save your progress in most of the games included with Windows Vista—even the carry-overs from earlier versions of Windows.

7. You can create XML documents, which are more secure than regular text files or even word processor docs. Just create a document in a word processor, print it via the options menu, and select the XPS printer.

8. If you upgrade your graphics card in preparation for Windows Vista, be sure to get a new card with as much local memory as possible. Since Windows Vista renders everything—even the desktop and windows them-selves—as 3D surfaces, local 3D memory greatly improves performance...sometimes even more than a more powerful GPU.

9. Windows Vista games deposit their saves into a special directory, called Saved Games, in your personal folder. In theory, that will make upgrading to a new system much easier for gamers, who like to migrate their game saves.

10. When using the Help system, it's usually advantageous to include Microsoft's online database in your search. The online/offline status of your search is located on the bottom right of the Help window. You can click it to toggle.

11. The Games folder is a powerful repository of all things gaming. From within, you launch games, update games with the latest patches, enable parental controls to protect younger users from harmful content, and more. Invoke it by clicking Start/Games.

12. Several applications are available to help you tweak Windows Vista for maximum performance. They in-clude TweakVI (www.totalidea.com), TweakVista (www.tweakvista.com/tweakvistautility), and VistaBootPRO (www.vistabootpro.org). And don't forget about Windows ReadyBoost, which lets you use a removable flash memory drive to boost system memory.

13. Do you use the icon in the upper left corner of system and application windows? A quick double-click closes the window (instead of a single click on the X at the upper right). Though Microsoft left the icon out in Vista, the function remains.—Sarah Pike

14. In Microsoft Windows Explorer, you can use column headers (Name, Size, and so on) to sort files. Savvy users may right-click on a column head to remove items or add some—say, Dimensions for images. There are around 45 such columns available in Windows XP. Windows Vista has well over 250, covering a multitude of metadata.—Sarah Pike

15. If you've become used to surfing your Program Menu to get to applications, you'll be in for a shock when you first use Microsoft Windows Vista. The new Program Menu shows you only recently used applications and requires extra clicks to navigate to submenus. This can be very frustrating but, thankfully, the Search box Microsoft has added to the Start menu is a great replacement—as long as you're an accurate typist. As quickly as you can type, it returns intelligent results in apps, files, even e-mail messages.

Start A movie in paint

Start movie in Paint!

* First start a movie in any player.
* Then open Paint.
* Now, in the player when the movie is being played, press "Print screen" button on your key board.
* Now, Press ctrl+v in Paint* Leave the movie player open and don't minimize it.
* Open Paint now and see the movie in the Paint!

Youtube,Mega Video,Streaming Media Caching,etc

http://www.orbitdownloader.com/

Windows XP Live: USB Stick Edition

Ever want to boot up into Windows XP via a USB memory key?
Well, now you can !!!
This is a miniature version of Win XP
Just enough to get you up and running so you can restore from backup, access your files, or do whatever you have to doSize - 60.4 MB packed and 152 MB unpacked

Installation instructions:
livexp usb-stick installer script v0.9 After the download and dearchive, run LiveXP.bat
-[main]-
1) change source path []- path to livexp source files
2) change target path []- path where livexp will be installed -
3) list or format volume(s).- use for formatting usb flash devices
4) create, delete partition(s).- use for partitioning a harddisk -
q) quit.

***Enter your choice :1peinst: please give the location to your source livexp filesenter source path :c:\temp\installdir\
-[main]-
1) change source path [c:\temp\installdir\]- path to livexp source files -
2) change target path []- path where livexp will be installed -
3) list or format volume(s).- use for formatting usb flash devices -
4) create, delete partition(s).- use for partitioning a harddisk -
q) quit.
***Enter your choice : 2
peinst: please give the location where to install toenter target path : drive of your usb ex: f:-[main]
1) change source path []- path to livexp source files -
2) change target path [f:]- path where livexp will be installed -
3) list or format volume(s).- use for formatting usb flash devices
4) create, delete partition(s).- use for partitioning a harddisk
-q) quit.***Enter your choice :3
-[volume]-
1) list all volumes2) format a volume (FAT or NTFS)
q) quit
***Enter your choice :2Enter the drive letter to format (leave empty to quit) :f:Filesystem to use, NTFS or FAT? (n/f/q to quit) :fafter formating select install usbxp.
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/59259293/Windows_XP_USB_Edition.rarpassword :- ddltohdd

RAR Player

play .rar videos without extracting ...even if it is broken

http://rapidshare.com/files/71016989/Rar_Player_0.0087_Play_rar_movies_without_extracting.rar

Text to Speech

convert any text to speech . Just open the s/w after installing and paste any text on it to hear ...dat's it

http://rapidshare.com/files/70951863/Text_to_speech.rar

Total Video Converter

convert videos of any format ( .mpeg , .avi , .rmvb .......) to any other format

http://rapidshare.com/files/68993088/Total_Video_Converter_3.10.rar

Isobuster

IsoBuster is a highly specialized and easy to use CD, DVD and blu-ray (BD, HD DVD) data recovery tool.

It supports all CD / DVD / BD / HD DVD formats and all common file-systems ... Rescue lost files from a bad or trashed CD or DVD disc, save important documents, precious pictures, video from the family, your only system backup, ... IsoBuster can do it all !

http://rapidshare.com/files/68797605/isobuster_all_lang.rar

winrar password remover ..cracked

http://rapidshare.com/files/68793868/rar_password_remover__cracked_.rar

WinRAR 3.70 Professional full

http://rapidshare.com/files/68897511/WinRAR_3.70_Professional_full.rar

Recover your files even after deleting from your PC ( i.e., recycle bin )

http://rapidshare.com/files/68904551/Recover_my_files_3.98.rar

Speed up your Internet by 20%

1) Start > Run > Type gpedit.msc

2) Click Limit Reservable Bandwidth


3) Set Bandwidth Limit (%): to zero.

How to rename your Windows Logon box?
Run regedit and go to HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft \Windows\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Then add or change the key:
LegalNoticeCaption REG_SZ="(Title for Box)"

And the same for this key:
LegalNoticeText REG_SZ="(Message to be displayed in the box)"

Get rid of Windows Update restart

Just > Start / Run / gpedit.msc . See the image below

Then select whatever option you like. Great tip! I'snt it?

Most Useful file Compression Utilities

WinRar

It supports RAR and ZIP 2.0 archives, special algorithms optimized for text, audio, graphics, 32-bit and 64-bit Intel executables compression. You can now handle archives directly from Windows Explorer due to the shell integration including drag-and-drop facility and cascaded context menus. WinRAR features wizards for beginners and command line interface for advanced users.

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7 Zip

7-Zip is an open source file archiver designed originally for the Microsoft Windows operating system, and later made available to other systems. In the form of p7zip, 7-Zip has been ported for use on Unix-like systems such as Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. It is also compatible with DOS via either a DOS port, or by using the HX-DOS extender to run the Windows command-line version.

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Power Iso

PowerISO is a powerful ISO file processing tool, which allows you to open,extract,create,edit,compress,encrypt,split and convert ISO files, and mount them with internal virtual drive. It can process almost all CD-ROM image files including ISO and BIN.

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Magic Iso

MagicISO is a powerful and easy CD/DVD image file edit tool. It can create / edit /extract CD/DVD image files, and convert bin to iso and back.It can also convert BIN or any other format file created by CD burning software. You can directly add/delete/rename files or folder in CD image file(s) with MagicISO.

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