Vista
Erasing the Aero Taskbar thumbnail display delay
When Microsoft unveiled the Aero engine in Vista – and later expanded upon for 7 – it brought about a sea of usability and visual changes. While some changes were more just for eye candy, and perhaps trying to match what Apple was doing in OS X, others were more functionally based. Taskbar thumbnail previews [...]
Return the “run” command to Windows 7 Start Menu
The notion of Start->Run has been ingrained in most enthusiasts minds as the premise existed since the days of Windows 95. The method was an efficient way to launch commands without the need of traversing the Start Menu – assuming you knew what you were looking for. For reasons unknown, Microsoft chose to remove the [...]
Safely Disable Unnecessary System Services in Vista
In the days when processing power was measured in megahertz and memory counted by the megabytes, PC users were always striving to eek every little bit of performance possible. Microsoft Windows has long had the stigmata of being a bloated and heavy operating system and a lot of that stems from the sheer amount of [...]
Squeeze Out Extra Juice with Vista Battery Saver
It’s pretty well accepted by computer users that every new iteration of an operating system brings about higher hardware requirements. New features and functionality are not free, especially when it comes to computer resources. This situation was no different when Microsoft released Vista as the replacement to XP. Hardware advances quite rapidly while battery technology, [...]
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 [...]
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