To avoid some of the drawbacks of Vista’s Sleep power-saving mode, you can hibernate your PC. Hibernate saves a copy of everything in your PC’s memory (RAM) onto your hard disk before it shuts down.
Windows uses the file hiberfil.sys, stored in the root folder of your hard disk, to hold your hibernation data. Because it [...]

I have a friend owns an Internet cafe who and for some reason his customers love to tweak the system tray.  He already had the computers logged in as a restricted guest account, but he wanted to completely disable the  system tray to prevent “savvy” customers from accessing the shortcuts from the tray. 
Well, I ended [...]

It’s the Easter holiday season so I will show you how to uncover a really cool Vista boot-up screen.  There is the default and boring black boot screen of Windows Vista (shown below), however, there is also a “hidden” boot screen created by Microsoft.  The alternate boot screen is inspired by the starry display seen [...]

Auto-Play is a Windows feature that lets you automatically play a CD or DVD media when it is inserted.  Notice when you insert an Audio CD that Windows will begin playing the CD using Media Player?
Or when you insert a DVD movie it gets played using PowerDVD or a software that came with your computer?  In [...]

Being able to resize partitions using only Vista’s administrative tools is one of it’s features that I love.  In XP, this is not possible unless you have a 3rd party tool like Partition Logic.
By using Disk Management, you can enlarge or shrink a disk partition in Vista.  Be warned though, when dealing with disk partitions, [...]

We know the pain of forgetting a lost password.  If you only use a single administrator account and you forgot THE password, you’re dead.  To preempt this scenario, Vista lets users create a password recovery disk. Since this is a preemptive tool, you need to do this while you are still logged in to Vista. 
Remember, [...]