Vista
Bringing Back “Search…” Menu Item After Vista SP1
Because of fears on appearing anti-competitive Microsoft chose to introduce a few visual access points to Vista’s built in search in Service Pack 1. Companies such as Google felt that Microsoft’s built in search was too prominently pushed on the unaware users, who would want to use applications like Google Desktop for their local search. [...]
Remove “Send To” from Vista Right-Click Menu
Do you use the Send To folder option? It’s on the menu pop-up when you right click on a folder or file in Windows Explorer. Traditionally, it provides a quick way to: Email a file Burn the file to a CD Compress the file Copy the file to a floppy I don’t use it and [...]
“Open Command Window Here” Everywhere and Always in Vista
I’ve showed you before that holding Shift and right-clicking on your desktop or a folder reveals the Open Command Window Here menu item. But what if you always want that option available? You could glue your shift key down – but that might have other side effects. No, this is actually possible and it involves [...]
Adding Defrag to Right-Click in Vista
One of the new features introduced in Vista is the notion of auto defragment of your harddrive. Briefly, defragging a harddrive involves scanning the disk and relocating all the data belonging to a file so that it is contained in one continuous block. This generally causes a performance gain as it is much faster for [...]
Moving on Up a Directory in Vista’s Explorer
By now you’ve probably a handful of annoyances introduced by Microsoft in Windows Vista brought about by them simply changing functionality for no apparent reason. Change is not always a good thing, even though I do like to live on the bleeding edge. One such major annoyance is a change made in Vista’s iteration of [...]
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