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Privacy Reviver Privacy Reviver support. MacReviver MacReviver support. Registry Reviver Registry Reviver support. Just in case you believe this is a false result due to slow indexing, create another document in a regular folder, search for that document. You should have a positive result. There is a fancy variation of my non-indexing tip, what you do is use a different clsid extension. Normally you get a grace period of 30 days before Vista insists that you activate, online or over the phone.

However you can increase the period by running this command:. The trick is to run the above command, just before it expires, rather than 3 times all at once. What this does in bring up the System Icon. See more on Windows 8 Keyboards shortcts ». For years I wished that Microsoft would make a keyboard shortcut for the Network Connection.

The nearest I have found is Start Search : ncpa. Try this combination and see the network connections appear by magic. Note: Mr Angry wrote saying ncpa did not work for him, what Mr Angry was missing was the. Reverting to my keyboard shortcut idea, what I did was to make a shortcut to ncpa. See more on creating a Network Shortcut. When you launch this tool it analyzes a users effective NTFS permissions for a specific file or folder, and takes into account network share access, then displays the results in a nifty desktop dashboard!

Here is the scenario, you boot Vista, but for a variety of reasons, there is no keyboard. For this eventuality you can use the built-in program osk. In this hypothetical situation, the mouse is working and you have the foresight to create a shortcut, so that you can double-click and thus launch the On-Screen Keyboard. See more on Windows 8 Touch Keyboards ». However, in Vista Home editions there is a much easier alternative.

Navigate to the Control Panel, User Accounts, Users and remove the tick in: Users must e nter a user name and password. Once Vista restarts it will logon that user automatically. See screen shot. Before you go try this configuration, I did not, repeat, not find this setting in a machine which had joined an Active Directory domain. See more about the registry setting AutoAdminLogon.

One of the most requested menu changes is to adjust the items on the Send To menu. If you right-click any folder, then about half-way down is Send To. If you want to open this folder you need one of the shell: commands.

See more on Shell:commands. To launch and test, click in the Start Search dialog box, and type: msconfig. Mick brings you — refund! Seriously, ask for a Vista refund!

Improved Windows Explorer. Finding Tools Menu and Explorer Settings. How to Create Virtual Folders. Desktop Tips and Tricks. Vista Documents and Special Folders. Sidebar and Gadgets. For laptop users specifically, settings can vary greatly when operating on battery power versus plugged into an outlet. To adjust power settings:. Medium in this case is really quite large. There is also a Large icon setting, but we won't go there. To bring the icons back to a less eye-popping size:.

For many of us working away from home offices at satellite offices, home or on the road, knowing the time across various time zones can be a necessary evil. Windows Vista will allow you to keep time in two additional time zones to the machine time. Now when you mouse over the time in the Taskbar System Tray you will get the time in your chosen time zones. Mark W. Kaelin has been writing and editing stories about the IT industry, gadgets, finance, accounting, and tech-life for more than 25 years.

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