Windows Vista Tips

Introduction to Windows Vista

Microsoft’s Windows Vista provides many robust features such as security, mobility, online communication, productivity and entertainment. You can get more lively multimedia experience, music, video, audio, games and entertainment on your Windows Vista-based computer. It has provides the great features such as network connectivity, additional clocks in the system tray, create XML documents and instant search feature. Following are the some of the best tips.

Top Ten Windows Vista Tips

Pump up Volume

If your PC has Intel motherboard with high definition Audio support then you can take advantages of some cool features. Go to the control panel and open up the sound option, on the playback tab select the speakers and click the properties button. Here you can create bass level, adjust the loudness settings and create virtual sound.

Disable Automatic Startup Programs

If you don’t want to run certain programs on startup then you can disable them by the following method.

Start > Run > Type MSConfig > Click on start up tabs > Uncheck any boxes in the startup items. If you want to re-enable all these programs again then go through the same process again.

Easier Use of Blinking Cursor

Open control panel and in the search box type “optimize visual display” and click the shortcut to see the dialog box. Changing the size of the cursor from 1 to 2 makes a noticeable difference and you can adjust the cursor according to whatever size you want.

Get To Your Desktop Faster

To close all the open Windows press Windows key and “M” at the same time. You can also use mouse for this task and click on “show desktop button”.

Force Windows to Maximize

When you open up a new Window it does not up open to a full screen. You can force the windows to maximize by double clicking the title bar of the open window

Security Center Settings

To make the security center go away in the background open the control panel and click “change the way security center alerts me”. In the search results choose “don’t notify me and don’t display the icon. (This setting is not recommended if you are not sure about the security settings in your PC).

Detailed Shortcut Menu

By Using the Shift-Enhanced shortcut menu you can add any file to the start menu or quick launch bar.

Reduce Desktop Icon size

By default the size of the desktop items is set to medium. If you want to change the size of the icons to large then right click on any empty area on the desktop and select view and then select classic icons.

Adjusting the Text Size

In the search box in the control panel type “Adjust Font Size” it will take you to the link of DPI sizing utility. Here you can change the DPI value whatever you want.

Quick System Checkup

Open control panel > System Maintenance > Performance Information and Tools > Click Advanced Tools and then “Generate a System health Report”.

Get Free Antivirus

Default Windows Vista doesn’t include any antivirus program. You can install a free Antivirus program called AVG Free Edition.