Fix Windows Vista Errors

I don’t know why you would want to do this but in Vista you have the ability to hide the letter of a drive when you are in explorer.

If you want to hide your b/c etc drives then just do the following;

• Open up explorer
• Click alt then tools
• Select folder options
• Open the view tab
• Uncheck show drive letters
• Apply and OK

Microsoft, has suffered its first drop in revenue since it went public in 1986 as the global economic downturn savages its once indestructible sales of PC’s.

The company cited weaker personal computer and server markets and said it also took $710 million in charges.

Client revenue (ie Windows for PCs) was worst hit: revenues fell from $4.0bn to $3.4bn, and profits from $3.1bn to $2.5bn.

“While market conditions remained weak during the quarter, I was pleased with the organization’s ability to offset revenue pressures with the swift implementation of cost-savings initiatives,” said Chris Liddell, the chief financial officer for Microsoft.

The Superfetch feature on Vista machines is a nice little application that essentially tries to make opening applications faster. What SuperFetch does is preload your system memory with all the applications you use often so that when you launch these applications they should open faster.

Now we all remember back in the days when you could open an application, then go make lunch to come back and find it just opened.  Now things aren’t that bad nowdays but you may still want to open applications faster and that is what SuperFetch does.

SuperFetch is automatically enabled on a Vista computer but if you want to disable it you must do the following;

• Open up services (type services.msc in start menu)
• Scroll down and double click on SuperFetch
• Click the general tab
• Scroll down to the startup type dropdown
• Select disabled
• Click apply and ok

If for some reason you are still running all the animations on Vista (you probably are running a powerful PC), then here is a registry tweak you can perform that will enable you to slow the animations down when you want to;

- Remember to backup your registry before performing any edits!

• Open regedit
• Go to this location
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/DWM
• Create a new key
  • AnimationsShiftKey
• Set the value data of the key to 1
• Done, now reboot your computer

You will now notice that whenever you press your shift key before an animation starts on Vista it will slow down.

Whenever you save an Office document the saved file also keeps information about your computer, this can include things like your name.

If you want to remove this information on files you may be emailing out then you can do this easy tweak that will remove all personal information;

• Navigate to your Office file
• Right click on it
• Select properties
• Select the details tab
• Click on remove properties and personal information
• Select remove the following properties from this file
• Select the items you want removed
• Done

Recently we have had some users complaining about their default printer changing in Windows Vista. They would set their default printer, then everything would be fine for a while, but once in a while the default printer would change, or there would be no default printer set anymore.

There was no apparent reason for this to be happening and we couldn’t really identify why the default printer was changing, but we now have a solution.

It seems this particular problem was being caused by the remote desktop connection. If a user connects remotely to their Vista PC and has the local printers option set (under the Local Devices and Resources tab), this causes the default printer on the Vista PC to change. See the screenshot below.

To view your remote desktop settings:

• Click Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Remote Desktop Connection
• Click on the Options button
• Click the Local Resources tab
• Uncheck printers

So if your default Vista printer has been changing and you use remote desktop, try the above and the problem should go away. However, don’t do this if you actually do want to use local printers in your remote session.

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Speed Up Windows Vista - Free Download

What does that title mean? Basically it means that are you looking at removing the ’shortcut’ text link from all of your shortcuts, it is automatically added everytime you add a shortcut.

Removing them manually is possible but just annoying, so here is a registry edit for you to try that will remove the shortcut text (this will remove all ones you do in the future, not shortcuts already done);

• Go to this location
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
• Find the key called link
• Change the value from 1e 00 00 00 to 00 00 00 00
• Done

Internet Explorer 7 stores all its temporary internet file in a special folder located here;

Windows XP - C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\
Windows Vista - C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\

Now some some reason you may want to change the location of the temporary internet file folder, you can easily do this by doing the following dot points;

• Open IE7
• Click tools and select internet options
• Click the general tab
• Click the settings box next to browsing history
• Click the move folder button
• Select the new folder you want to use
• Click OK
• Done