Fix Windows Vista Errors

You can easily change the registered owners name of your Windows Vista computer by doing either one of these two methods. This can come in handy if you enter wrong owners name info when you setup your PC, or maybe you have bought a second hand PC with someone else’s registered info.

Using Software

This software is the easiest way to change registered name info on your Windows Vista computer, it does require you to edit your registy or do any other complex things. To run the software just click the link below to run the software, it will then go through all the steps with you so you can easily change all details.

Change your Microsoft Windows Vista Registered and Organization Name

Editing Your Registry

If you are experienced enough to be able to edit your registry then this method will work for you. Start off by going to this location;

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

• Find the key RegisteredOwner
• Change the value to your new registered name
• Done

You can make sure the name has been changed by typing winver.exe into your start menu, it will give you all the details.

The Vista Transformation Pack (VTP) is a program that transforms your Windows XP into Windows Vista.  It emulates most of the Vista appearance including taskbar, menus and even the cool sidebar widgets.

The VTP is a popular product and for good reason. It does an excellent job in mimicking Vista, but you can still retain the performance of Windows XP, which relies on less hardware and resources.  The latest release of VTP does have many new and improved features which we found quite impressive. Some of great new features in VTP 9:

• New “Vista Rainbar”
• Improvements to the transparency/glass effects
• Improved file explorer with glass toolbar + built in search
• Improved versions of ViStart and ViOrb
• and tons more

If you have never used a Vista Transformation Pack, then you are missing out. This is a cool program to either emulate Vista appearance or just for something different to play around with on XP. The latest version is Windows XP SP3 compatible and should install smoothly and easily on any XP system.

Download Vista Transformation Pack 9

Here is a cool little Windows Vista secret for opening your quick launch items.

Just press the “Windows key + x”, where x is the number identifying the quick launch icon.

So in the example below, to open up the Thunderbird application, the user would press the Windows key and the number 2 on their keyboard. To fire up Firefox, it would just be a matter of pressing the Windows key and 1.

You will obviously need quick launch items for this to work. You can easily add items to your quick launch bar, just by dragging them in there.

Registry tweaks are a very easy and simple way you can change settings etc in your Windows Vista computer, you can even perform some task not available in your control panel. If you need to know how to access your registry to edit just go here;

• Open start and type run
• In the run box type Regedit
• Your Regedit box will open, it is here that you can edit your registry

Before you do any edits to your registry you should make a backup so if you do make a major mistake you can just restore this good version of your registry. To make a backup of your registry to this;

• Click the Start button and type systempropertiesprotection in the Start Search box
• Wait for Windows to search for available disks and most recent restore points
• In the System Properties dialog box on the System Protection tab click Create
• After the restore point has been created successfully click OK two times

Now here is a link to a list of a bunch of common registry edits for Windows Vista, we will be adding more to this list in the future so make sure you bookmark it.

Windows Vista Registry Edits

Yes, Windows Vista still has the command prompt and it is a useful tool. Many functions done via the command prompt are much much faster. The command prompt also has many cool utilities that can’t be found anywhere else.

In the following article we have compiled a very comprehensive list of all the Windows Vista command line functions. This list isn’t fully complete but it does cover the majority and includes everything you will probably ever need.

Windows Vista Command Line Reference

Feel free to send through any other important commands that we might have missed.

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Well according to recent data, Windows Vista is more secure than Windows XP and according to Microsoft statistics, Vista is actually more resilient to exploits than Windows XP.

Windows XP also has many more vulnerabilities within its own code. Almost half of the vulnerabilities attacked in XP were due to code within the OS itself. Whereas Vista code only accounted for 6% of the vulnerabilities attacked, the rest of the attacks were on third party software exploits.

So one good reason to upgrade to Vista is for clearly increased security. Microsoft has worked hard to release a secure OS and it looks like they have met those goals so far. Microsoft is also improving their own Malware removal tools, specifically the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), which is currently a free download.

However, there are currently less users on Vista, so as it gains momentum, we can expect increased attacks and vulnerabilities. Will Vista security hold up in the future? Time will tell. But for now, it is a safe bet.

You can always further increase security of both Vista and XP by keeping automatic updates turned on, using anti-spyware/virus software and regularly cleaning the registry. Try the free registry cleaner below to fix errors and improve your PC performance.

Registry Cleaner Download - Fix errors and improve performance for Vista and XP

According to the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report malware attacks on PC’s worldwide are becomming fewer. Could this be an indication that modern security measures are starting to beat the hackers?

“The total number of unique vulnerability disclosures across the industry again decreased during the first half of 2008, down 4% from the second half of 2007 and down 19% from the first half of 2007.

In contrast to the decrease in total disclosures, vulnerabilities rated as High severity increased 13% with respect to the second half of 2007, with roughly 48% of all vulnerabilities receiving a rating of High severity. This is still a 28% decline from the first half of 2007.” Microsoft said.

You can read more on the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report here or you can click the link below to run anti-malware product designed to be used with Windows Vista.

Run a Windows Vista anti-malware scan

Transient Multimon Manager (TMM) is a feature on Windows Vista that is targeted at improving the user experience of connecting and disconnecting external displays. TMM automatically finds external displays at boot, it can also remember settings of the same external display if you connect it later.

TMM is great if you often want to connect your PC to any external display etc, but if you never use one you can speed up your boot by a few seconds by disabling your TMM. To disable your TMM just;

• Open control panel
• Open system and maintenance
• Open Administrative tools
• Click task scheduler
• Expand task scheduler library (left column)
• Expand Microsoft and windows
• Click on MobilePC
• In the middle column click on TMM
• Right click and click disable
• Done

Or alternatively you can disable your TMM in your Regeditor;

• Open regeditor
• Go to this location
  • Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\TMM
• Click UseIViewHelper
• Set the value data to 0
• Click OK

Because this is such a hot topic, we have devoted alot of our resources to showing you how to speed up Windows Vista. So far with the tweaks on our blog and website, you can get considerable improvements in Vista performance, in some cases up to 300% improvement.

So what we have done is put together all the best Vista speed tweaks into one article. As we get more speed tweaks, we will continue to add them in.

If you have any doubts about your Vista performance, then get started with these tweaks and you will find some definite improvements.  You will also find this extremely useful if you have hardware constraints and can not physically upgrade your system RAM, etc.

Speed Up Windows Vista Guide

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have probably all heard that Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is on the way relatively soon.

Well, SP2 should be undergoing beta testing as early as next week. We can also expect a public release date to follow soon after this. So stay tuned, because it does sound like SP2 will have some pretty good updates.

Vista SP2 will include a bunch of new fixes and updates, some of which include:

• The ability to burn blu-ray discs without any 3rd party software. This will be a very cool feature.
• Improved bluetooth
• Windows Search 4.0. This will hopefully be a faster and better search.
• Improved security
• Improved WiFi

So far, the feature set of SP2 is looking good. We will keep you updated!