vista tips
Pretty Up Windows by Removing the Focus Rectangle
With each iteration of Windows Microsoft continues to polish the edges and work towards a beautiful and elegant working environment. While they’ve made great in-roads with each version, one thing continues to stick out as hideous. Ever since the days of the desktop, even back on Window 3.11, Windows has been plagued with the dotted [...]
Open Icons with a Single Instead of Double Click in Vista
Do you know when to single click or when a double click is necessary? Likely so, but for many the inconsistencies of when to do what is often very frustrating to novice users. Web links open with a single click, icons on the desktop require two clicks to activate, yet items off the Start Menu [...]
Enable and Disable Vista’s Aero Quickly
While Vista’s Aero look is pretty to gaze at, it’s not for everyone. It goes without saying that the effect is not free, at least as it pertains to your system resources. Aero uses more memory and more CPU cycles than Windows last generation interface. All this adds up to increased battery usage on laptops [...]
Update your Windows Experience Index in Vista
Microsoft introduced a new metric in Vista titled the Windows Experience Index (WEI), a numerical representation for performance of the hardware in your computer. The WEI encompasses five sub-scores for processor, memory, 2D graphics, 3D graphics, and disk subsystem. Confusingly enough, the WEI is not an average of the five scores but rather the floor, [...]
Changing the Desktop Icon Size in Vista
Just a quick tip today. Have you noticed that the default install of Vista results in the desktop icons being enormous? Perhaps not, but since I like everything just so, it was immediately noticeable to me. While I don’t understand the rationale behind the decision, it’s extremely simple to fix.
Click your mouse on the desktop. [...]
