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Make Vista Look Like Windows 7 for Free

Contributed by shamanstears on November 7, 2008 under Microsoft Vista

Gettng tired of the look of your Vista desktop? By using MSStyles, a wallpaper change, a simple change to your Sidebar and a small registry change, you can have your Vista looking like the Windows 7 interface.

Vista: How to Keep Aero’s Transparency in Maximized Windows

Contributed by shamanstears on November 4, 2008 under Microsoft Vista

The Aero interface utilizes a cool transparency effect for the borders of your windows. Unfortunately, the effect is lost once the window is maximized. If you want to enjoy the transparency effect regardless of the size of your window, follow this tech-recipe.

Should I Upgrade or Purchase Vista 64-Bit (x64)?

Contributed by davak on October 15, 2008 under Microsoft Vista

As a follow-up to my popular article exploring 64-bit versus 32-bit versions of Vista, this tech-recipe describes the small subset of users who will receive some benefit from running the 64-bit version of Microsoft’s most recent operating system.

Vista: Use a Screensaver as Your Desktop Background

Contributed by shamanstears on August 22, 2008 under Microsoft Vista

If you are bored with your desktop and want to give it a little style, you can run a screensaver as your desktop’s background to liven it up. The screensaver will hide the desktop icons, but leave your windows and taskbar fully functional.

Vista: Prevent Users from Changing the Display Settings

Contributed by shamanstears on August 19, 2008 under Microsoft Vista

If you have multiple users on one computer, you might want to prevent them from changing the display settings. By following these steps, you can prevent all users on the computer from changing the screen resolution, refresh rate and color depth as well as the DPI size. This is also great for network admins who want to prevent users from changing these settings on their workstation.

Vista: How to Rebuild the Icon Cache

Contributed by shamanstears on under Microsoft Vista

If you run into a situation where your icons aren’t displaying correctly, you may need to rebuild the icon cache. The icon cache can become corrupt but is simple to delete the cache so that Vista will rebuild it.

Vista: Use Large Icons in the Quick Launch Toolbar

Contributed by shamanstears on August 15, 2008 under Microsoft Vista

The Quick Launch Toolbar is an area on the Taskbar for giving you quick access to your favorite apps. By default, it uses small icons which can be difficult to see, especially on computers that are set at a high resolution. Using large icons makes them easier to see and even more handy.

Vista: Disable the Windows Mail Splash Screen

Contributed by shamanstears on July 30, 2008 under Microsoft Vista

If you’re tired of seeing the splash screen for Windows Mail every time you run the application, follow these steps to get around it and be splash screen free.

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