When Vista is installed, it calculates a performance score based on your processor, memory, graphics, gaming graphics, and hard disk. The base score will be equal to the lowest subscore of the 5 components. If you have changed hardware or installed new drivers, you may want to find out what your new performance score has been changed to. You can do this by:
Word 2007 has some cool new features for creating your document like Quick Styles, unfortunately you cannot use these features on documents that were saved in an older format. To gain access to the latest features, convert the old document to the new format by following these steps:
Internet Explorer 7 now comes with an option to automatically delete all your temporary files in your browser cache when IE7 closes. For you who are paranoid about privacy, this is a no brainer.
If your video card is having a hard time with the Aero interface and you’d like to continue to enjoy Aero’s features (such as Flip 3D and the taskbar thumbnails) follow these instructions to speed up Aero…
The controls on the iPod Shuffle are elegantly simple. With simplicity comes limited control (there is only so much real estate). With 200+ songs on the device, control freaks may find it frustrating to navigate. This quick shortcut will jump to the beginning of the playlist.
Previous versions of Windows had an easy way of accessing a list of file types and what program they were associated with. Vista also allows you to do this, but it takes a little hunting before you can find it.
It is so much easier to find bookmarks when they are sorted by name. Sorting alphabetically can be done with just a couple clicks of your mouse.
By default, Excel gives you a standard column width value of 8.43, but what if the worksheet you are working on requires the columns to be wider? You can adjust the width of each individual column or better yet, you can adjust the default width and take care of all of them at the same time. Here’s how:
As I cannot get used to the active screen corners, this tip will show how to activate the screensaver from an icon either in your dock or your desktop.
The toolbar of IE7 gets very minimal and removes most of the text; however, for some reason, the “page” and “tools” text remains. Here is how to get rid of it.
Vista utilizes the AutoPlay function to perform the appropriate task when a CD or DVD disc is inserted. Depending on the type of media on the disc (audio, DVD movie, pictures, audio files, etc.), Windows will take the action you selected and perform it for that media type. AutoPlay can be quite useful once you have customized it to meet your needs. Follow these steps to set Vista’s AutoPlay options:
There are thousands of newsgroups out there covering everything under the sun. Even if you are using another application for your email needs, you might want to try out Windows Mail for accessing newsgroups (for instance, Outlook cannot be used as a newsreader).
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