Jack Wallen shows you how to use 360desktop to customize Microsoft Windows Vista with a panoramic desktop configured just the way you like it.
In Microsoft Windows Vista, you can regain control over your default applications, especially when it comes to the Open With menu. Greg Shultz shows you how to clear out the unwanted applications from Vista’s Open With menu list.
You can bump up Microsoft Windows Vista performance by trimming back startup programs that may not be needed. Greg Shultz shows you several methods that you can use to investigate, and ultimately turn off, the programs that automatically start up on your system.
Microsoft changed the way uptime is reported in Vista. It’s still there, but just not in the same format. Greg Shultz examines how uptime is measured in Windows Vista.
To make the task of gathering information on a number of device drivers easier, you can use a native command line tool called Driver Query or you can use a nice little third-party utility called DriverView. Greg Shultz shows you how to gather detailed information on drivers using these two tools.
If you have Microsoft Windows Vista running your machine you might notice that your battery isn’t getting nearly the life that the same laptop did when it was running Windows XP. Jack Wallen takes a look at some methods to optimize your battery power consumption.
Justin James presents a rundown on the October batch of Microsoft Windows patches. He wades through the available resources and brings you the information you need to make the right decision on applying them in your organization.
For some reason, Microsoft decided not to activate the Copy To and Move To menu items in Windows XP Explorer as they did for Send To. This Microsoft Windows Registry hack adds Copy To and Move To to the right-click context menu of Windows Explorer.
Microsoft’s Windows Sysinternals team has developed a lightweight and very dependable virtual desktop manager called Desktops that allows you to create up to four virtual desktops on your computer. Greg Shultz introduces you to Desktops and shows you how it works.
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