Use Screensavers As Vista Wallpapers
Windows Vista Ultimate comes with the Dreamscene extra which can turn videos into background screensavers. Several other applications like VLC offer this options as well. A tip was posted over at Tech Recipes today that mentioned a hidden setting in Windows Vista that makes it possible to use any screensaver as a Windows Vista wallpaper.
This [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Define Default Windows Vista Folder Settings
The default folder settings are not working consistently in Windows Vista and it becomes quickly annoying to move and resize the folders to the right size all the time in the new Microsoft operating system.
A good suggestion would be to backup the Windows Vista Registry before starting to apply the changes. Windows saves folder information [...]
Create a System Restore Point Shortcut Icon
If you want to manually create the script, create a new file named something.vbs and paste in the following. Otherwise the downloadable scripts are provided at the bottom of the article.
If WScript.Arguments.Count = 0 Then
Set objShell = CreateObject(”Shell.Application”)
objShell.ShellExecute “wscript.exe”, WScript.ScriptFullName & ” Run”, , “runas”, 1
Else
GetObject(”winmgmts:\\.\root\default:Systemrestore”).CreateRestorePoint “description”, 0, 100
End If
You’ll notice that there’s a shellexecute [...]
How to Disable SuperFetch on Windows Vista
The SuperFetch service in Windows Vista preloads your system’s memory with the applications that you use most often. This makes launching of those applications much faster, but it might be an unwanted behavior for system tweakers or gamers.
There’s no hard evidence that enabling or disabling this service will increase performance in general, but if you [...]
Increase Vista External USB Hard Drive Speed
This tweak will increase the performance of your external hard drive (s) by turning write caching on as well as activating advanced performance.
In Windows Vista, write caching isn’t enabled by default because removable devices could lose data if removed too quickly. This is great for USB thumb drives that are frequently inserted and removed, [...]
