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I need to know one thing.Does WIC is inbuilt in Vista or do we need to install it explicitly?Any help thanks.

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Detailed Shortcut Menu

By Using the Shift-Enhanced shortcut menu you can add any file to the start menu or quick launch bar.

Reduce Desktop Icon size

By default the size of the desktop items is set to medium. If you want to change the size of the icons to large then right click on any empty area on the desktop and select view and then select classic icons.

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Access Denied error in windows vista

When you trying to access some windows folder like document and setting you may get error message that “access denied”. you need to change ownership of this folder. So open properties by right click on it. In security button select advance tab and click edit button. Now change ownership to your account by highlighting your account and also select replace ownership to sub containers and apply changes.

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Windows Vista Tips to allow Network access without password

In windows vista you can access computer locally without password but it does not permit to access other network computer to access it without password. But you can change this default setting.
Go to run and type there “gpedit.msc”.
It will open group policy now go to computer configuration- vista setting- security setting
-local policies(here you can set many local policy as per your security demands).-security options.
Now you need to find and disable following options

Double click on accounts: limit local account use of blank password to console login only.

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Displaying Run on the vista Desktop

You can create a shortcut for the Run command on your desktopFrom the Start Menu, go to All Programs / AccessoriesDrag a shortcut for Run to the desktop.

vista Displaying Run on the Start Menu

By default, Run is not shown when you open the Start Menu.To enable this:Right click on the taskbarSelect PropertiesClick on the Start Menu tabClick on the Customize buttonScroll down and check Run (it's about 2/3's of the way towards the bottom.

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De-automate Windows Defender

By default, Windows Defender will run it's anti-spyware scan daily (albeit at a fairly unsociable hour if possible). Though it runs in the background, this can impact computer system performance the same way any full system file scan will. You may prefer to disable the automatic scanning completely and perform only occasional manual system scans at your discretion.

To de-automate Windows Defender system scans:

Open the 'start' menu and type 'defender.'

Click the 'tools' icon at the top of the window, then the 'options' selection.

Uncheck 'automatically scan my computer'. Click 'save'.

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Shut down operating system services faster, for a faster shutdown

When you shut down Windows Vista, all running services are shut down as part of the process (obviously). Now if one or more of these services are engaged in doing something or are hung, Windows will wait as long as 20 seconds before making the executive decision to close each of them down. One easy way to speed up your shutdown process is to shorten the amount of time that Windows will wait before putting the hammer down on errant processes.

To shorten the service shutdown grace period:

Open the 'start' menu, type 'regedit' and hit Enter.

Navigate to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol'

Double click the 'WaitToKillServiceTimeout' DWORD value to edit it. Give it a value between 5000 (5 seconds) and 12000 depending on how conservative you are feeling.

Your computer should now shutdown faster.

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Disable the Vista sidebar

The Vista sidebar is one of the new features of the OS that has attracted wrath and praise in equal amounts. Whether or not you appreciate it's style, ease of use and array of handy gadgets, or hate it's space hogging, system clogging ways, it's impossible to deny that it eats up system resources, even when you are doing other things and not looking at it.

Disabling the Vista gadget sidebar will increase the performance and reduce the load time of your computer system slightly (which is, after all, the point of this PCSTATS Guide). If you do not want to take the drastic step of disabling the sidebar completely, some tips follow which will show you how to make more efficient use of the bar and its gadgets.

To disable the Windows sidebar:

Right click on a blank area of the sidebar and choose 'properties.'

Uncheck the 'Start sidebar when windows starts' option. Hit OK.

Right click on a blank area of the taskbar and choose 'close sidebar.'

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Kill the RSS feed sidebar gadget

Even if you don't tweak the sidebar in any other way, you should take our advice and remove the default RSS feed gadget Microsoft included on the bar. The trouble is that this particular gadget has a nasty habit of running very intensively every few minutes, regardless of what else you are doing on the system. This can cause brief performance stutters in games and other applications.

To remove the RSS feed gadget:

Highlight the feed gadget by mousing over it, then click the small 'x' that appears to the top right of the icon.

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To set the Windows Vista sidebar to low priority permanently:



Go to 'start/computer' and press 'ALT' to bring up the file menu taskbar.

Go to 'tools\folder options' and select the 'view' tab.

Under the 'hidden files and folders' section, select the 'show hidden files and folders' option. Click 'ok'.

Navigate to 'start\computer\c:\users\(your username)\appdata\roaming\microsoft\windows\start menu\programs\startup\'

Right click on the empty directory and choose 'new\shortcut.'

When the shortcut wizard appears, copy and paste the following:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c start "sidebar.exe" /LOW "C:\Program Files\windows sidebar\sidebar.exe"

And click 'ok' to save the shortcut. Now every time you start Windows Vista, the sidebar will be started also, but at low priority only.

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Sathian.K

Disable hibernate on desktops

If you've got a desktop that's on most of the time, doing large amounts of non-critical applications in the background (read downloading), you probably want to disable the hibernation and hybrid-sleep functions of Vista. Doing so will save you a chunk of disk space the size of your physical RAM.

To turn off hibernation in Windows Vista:

Open the 'start menu' and type 'cmd' in the search bar but do not press Enter. Right click on the 'cmd' shortcut where it appears in the search results and choose 'run as administrator'.

In the command prompt, type 'powercfg h off'.

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Sathian.K

Disable the low disk space check

If you've got a second hard drive that is filling up, or a partition that's getting near its space limit, Vista will warn you... And warn you... And warn you, with little pop-up notifications appearing in the taskbar every little while. This can get annoying fast, especially when you see that the system is polling the disks every few minutes to bring you this important warning. It's quite easy to disable though, with a quick registry hack doing the job.

One caveat: Having a decent amount of free disk space IS important if the partition in question is your C: drive where Windows resides. If you want to disable this warning, pay occasional attention to the state of your file space

To disable the low disk space check/notification:

Open the 'start' menu, type 'regedit' and hit Enter.

Navigate to 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies'

If you have a registry key named 'Explorer' at this location, click on it to open it. If not, create one by right clicking on the right hand pane and selecting 'new/key.' Call the new key 'Explorer.'

Navigate to Explorer and create a new DWORD value named 'NoLowDiskSpaceChecks' and give it a value of '1'.

Disk checks will now be disabled.

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Sathian.K

Adjusting the Text Size

In the search box in the control panel type “Adjust Font Size” it will take you to the link of DPI sizing utility. Here you can change the DPI value whatever you want.

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Quick System Checkup

Open control panel > System Maintenance > Performance Information and Tools > Click Advanced Tools and then “Generate a System health Report”.

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Get Free Antivirus

Default Windows Vista doesn’t include any antivirus program. You can install a free Antivirus program called AVG Free Edition.

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Pump up Volume

If your PC has Intel motherboard with high definition Audio support then you can take advantages of some cool features. Go to the control panel and open up the sound option, on the playback tab select the speakers and click the properties button. Here you can create bass level, adjust the loudness settings and create virtual sound.

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