Browsing Archives Tagged 'windows vista'


10
Sep

There are many times when you may have installed a software and accidentally made it the default program for opening certain file types. This is quite common when you install media softwares and image softwares along with browsers.
Unassoc is a small standalone utility that allows you to remove user specific file associations and default to [...]

28
Aug

Internet Explorer 8 has some nice improvements over Internet Explorer 7, but that said many users have been through crashes and more over time, and may want to uninstall Internet Explorer 8 and continue using the older stable version, as with our tutorial about uninstalling Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer 7 in the past, [...]

2
Aug

If you are using Windows Vista and have installed the Service Pack 1, you may be losing up to 1GB of space because of old and redundant files Windows has stored. You can easily recover this space by making Windows Vista Service Pack 1 permanent.
To recover almost 1GB of space after you have installed Windows [...]

26
Jul

Just recently we wrote about a transformation pack for Windows XP which would convert XP to look like Windows Seven (codename Windows Vienna), but before our Windows Vista users could revolt, we researched to find some similar options for them.
Windows 7 M2 customization pack will allow Windows Vista users to customize the OS to have [...]

15
Jul

The icon size in Windows Vista is quite large by default and it is quite a pain to go to personalize and then change the icon size.
Here is a quick tip for those you use Windows Vista and have a mouse with a scrolling wheel.
To change the icon size of the desktop icons, click the [...]

7
Jun

Most laptops and desktop factory models come built in with only one drive no matter how huge your hard drive is. This can be pretty annoying when you want to re-format your PC, in those cases you may first have to move all your data to a external drive before performing a fresh install.
Windows Vista [...]

4
Jun

Windows Vista is visually appealing but at the same time it also uses huge amounts of memory and processing power. If your system memory is 1GB or less you will definitely see slow performance.
The slowness in performance is because of the various goodies Windows Vista provides you with along with many features and components you [...]