Windows Vista

Tutorials

• Article | 5/02/2011 Prepare your PC for future data disasters

  Reformatting and restoring a PC is not fun--in the way spending 2 hours in the dentist's chair is not fun. You have to back up all your data (and pray...
• Article | 14/10/2009 Turn your TV into an entertainment center

  I'm a big fan of Microsoft's Windows Media Center, which is built into Vista and Windows 7.
• Article | 9/10/2009 Create a music playlist in Windows Media Center

  One of my longstanding complaints with Windows Media Center (which for the most part I love) is its lack of support for playlists.
• Article | 23/06/2009 How to get Windows 7 features on a Vista or XP system

  Vista received well-deserved criticism for bringing few noteworthy new features in its train when it arrived to take over from Windows XP. In contrast...
• Article | 23/06/2009 How to get Windows 7's look and feel on a Vista or XP machine

  Much of the excitement about Windows 7 relates to an assortment of user-interface improvements: a little eye candy here, a few window-management tweak...
• Article | 16/06/2009 Customize Vista dialog boxes

  I'm answering my own question this time: How do you configure the Places Bar in Vista's standard file dialog boxes?
• Article | 19/05/2009 Create a fast boot option

  TucsonTJ asked the <a href="http://forums.pcworld.com/community/troubleshooting/answerline">Answer Line Forum</a> for a fast, slimmed-down alternative...
• Article | 17/03/2009 View Vista's Hidden Files and Folders

  By default, Windows "hides" various files and folders that are essential to system operation and data integrity. Why the Big Brother tactic? To protec...
• Article | 18/02/2009 Resize Vista's Taskbar preview thumbnails

  Much as I love the idea behind Vista's window-preview thumbnails, which pop up when you mouse over any running program in the taskbar, I find them alm...