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Enhancing your Windows Vista User Experience

I noticed that when you buy a new laptop, some of them, the desktop icons are too large and not proportional to its taskbar and startmenu. To change, press CTRL key and scroll your mouse down and up. Choose the size that is proportional and comfortable with you.

When I bought my laptop loaded with Windows Vista, the first thing that I have noticed is the RUN command in startmenu is missing. To put it back, Right-click in the taskbar -> Choose Properties -> Start menu tabs -> Customize -> scroll-down and check Run window.

Here’s a guide for changing the function of the Start menu power button. I always mistaken this one for shutdown, It goes to sleep rather than shutdown. If you enabled the Run command in start menu click it, if not just press WindowsKey+R. Type “cmd” and press enter. type “powercfg.cpl,1″ without spaces. Scroll-down and find these options ‘Startmenu power button’.

Turn-on Quick search, this is very useful when searching inside a folder. Read More»

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Windows Vista Finding Your Files

1.Simple Search Use the Start menu Search box to type part of a file is name and see a list of the matching files. Use a similar Search box at the top right of every folder window to search down through subfolders.
2.Advanced Search From the Start menu, choose Search, type what you need to find and Windows Vista will show you all the files matching your criteria.
3.Advanced Search Filters Use + to add filters using keywords, author, title or just about any of the information available in properties.
4.Saved Search – A few clicks of the mouse and you can save a search to revisit later.

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