Vista/7 Tips

If you want to speed up browsing around in Windows Vista explorer, you might think about disabling thumbnail previews in folders.  

How to do it?

Follow me.

In this tutorial, I'll tell about various system files in Windows Vista, which can be hacked using Resource Hacker / Resource Tuner to change the look of Windows dialog boxes, menus, login screen, boot screen and many other things.

Of course, now you guys can use Vista Visual Master to do most of these jobs.

So here we start the tutorial:

The default action for the Power button on the start menu in Windows Vista is Sleep, which isn't necessarily useful for everybody. You can configure this setting easily by using the advanced power settings panel, which is a little tricky to get to normally, but we'll take the shortcut.

Open a command prompt (type cmd into the start menu search bar), and then type in the following:

How often have you opened an Open dialog and wished you could just quickly paste in the path of the file you are already looking at in Windows Explorer?

Well… now you can, in Windows Vista.

 All you have to do is hold down the shift key, and right-click the file.

The Quick Launch menu is one of the most useful features in Windows, and Vista makes it even easier to add a program to the menu.If you don't want to use many additional programs to solve minor problems, and all that you need is fast access to your favorite applications, adding your frequently used software to the Quick Launch menu was always a good idea.

I like to have the quickest access possible to folders on my desktop, which usually means putting something onto the taskbar if possible. You can add the Computer menu as a folder on the taskbar for the easiest access to your drives. You could also use this tip for any folder you want.

To add a folder to the Vista taskbar, just right-click on the taskbar and choose the Toolbars menu, and then click on New Toolbar.