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21Jun/090

Display a Text Message On Your Windows Vista Logon Screen

You can put a notice on your Windows Vista logon screen so that each time when your PC is booted up, it displays a notice to the person who boot up the PC. You can put two lines of text: the caption and the message that describes the caption.

12Jun/090

Free Up Hard Drive Space By Installing Windows Vista SP2

Other than fixing various bugs and improvement in performance, some of the PC World forum users report that seeing big chunks of their hard drives freed up after installing Vista Service Pack 2.

Windows Vista

29May/090

How to Enable Hibernate in Windows Vista

Do you realize that Windows Vista does not have the hibernate feature? Instead of hibernate, in Windows Vista, you can only put your PC or laptop in “Sleep” mode (or standby mode in Windows XP) where Windows Vista keeps your session in memory and your PC or laptop in a low power state. So that you can quickly resumes work when you need it.

What is hibernate mode in Windows? Unlike "Sleep" mode, hibernate mode put your session in physical disk (hard disk) and switch off your computer totally. Windows can let you quickly resume your work by loading the session from physical disk without needing to reload the whole operating system.

Enable Hibernate in Windows Vista

14May/090

Use Snipping Tool to Capture Screen Shots

Instead of pressing "Print Screen" and paste the captured screen shot into Microsoft Paint program, you can use Windows' free snipping tool to capture screen shots. It is included in Windows OS.

Snipping Tool 

3May/090

How to Turn Off or ON Windows Live Messenger’s Sign In Feature

Windows Live Messenger (WLM) has a feature that allows user to signin at multiple PCs or devices (e.g. PDA and mobile phones) at the same time. Is it a good feature to have or not? To me, it is better to disable the feature for security purpose.

Windows Live Messenger (WLM) 

3May/090

How to Create Your Own Custom Accelerator for IE8

Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) has a feature called Accelerators. Accelerators allow user to perform browsing task quickly without leaving the navigating website.

IE8 Accelerator 

25Apr/092

How to uninstall IE8 in Windows Vista

Recently I facing problem using (Internet Explorer 8 ) IE8 on certain websites. Some Javascript + css code are not working properly. Even the "Compatibility View" in IE8 can't help. I'm not sure if this is a bug in IE8 or the website itself.

22Apr/090

How to Add Shortcuts to Any Program on Your Desktop Context Menu

Do you have any program that you used frequently and want to access them quickly from your desktop context menu. This tricks can help you. I use Gmail a lot and I have added Gmail to my Windows Vista desktop context menu. Once I click on the menu, my default browser will point to Gmail websites directly.

Any Program Into Desktop Context Menu 

18Apr/090

Windows Vista Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Keyboard

There are a lot of shortcuts that allow Windows Vista user to access to the applications and functions easily. Some of the function Windows Vista are not "visible" to the use and can be access via Microsoft keyboad shortcuts. For example, the "Run" dialog box.

14Apr/090

How to Backup Google Chrome User Data?

Google Chrome save browsing data at user data directory. The user data directory contains data specific to a given user. Some examples of this type of data are: history, bookmarks, and cookies. Note that in both XP and Vista, the profile name is included in the directory hierarchy.