With Windows Vista, Microsoft has delivered an evolution in terms of user experience. Still, as the operating system suffers a decent amount of customization, improvements on the Redmond company’s original design are inevitable. And one of the aspects of Vista that could manage with a tad extra eye candy is the boot screen. Now on the adjacent image you can see a portion of the default Vista boot screen, which otherwise is pitch black. Well, nothing to get excited about there, but you have a few options to kick it up a notch.
First off, you can always dig up the Windows Vista hidden boot screen. All you have to do is make your way to the System Configuration Utility and enable the “No GUI Boot” option. Just follow this link in order to get additional details about how to unveil the hidden boot screen in your copy of Vista. The tweak is harmless but, at the same time, it is also limited to only one image consistent with the Aero theme. (more…)
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Written by Jason on November 20th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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This tip will show you how to create an unattended disk cleanup which will also empty your prefetch folder. This tip assumes you have Windows XP installed in c:\windows.
Step 1.
Create a new text file and place the following contents inside:
c:\windows\system32\cleanmgr.exe /dc /sageset: 1
c:
cd \
cd c:\windows\prefetch
del *.* /q
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Written by Jason on November 15th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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This tip will show you how to create an unattended disk cleanup which will also empty your prefetch folder. This tip assumes you have Windows XP installed in c:\windows.
Step 1.
Create a new text file and place the following contents inside:
c:\windows\system32\cleanmgr.exe /dc /sageset: 1
c:
cd \
cd c:\windows\prefetch
del *.* /q
(more…)
appication,
cache,
cleanmgr,
cleanup program,
disk cleanup,
disk space,
performance decrease,
prefetch folder,
unattended,
Windows,
windows prefetch directory,
windows system32
Written by Jason on November 15th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Super fast user switching is a powertoy which makes it easy to switch the active user. But you must be a member of the administrator group to see other users! Quite useless for normal users, but this is done on purpose. I contacted Lou, the programmer of fast.exe, and he said (quote):
“It actually has to do with permissions. As a regular user, you don’t have access to the (InteractiveLogon) service. This is because I didn’t want to open another hole in Windows. This is unavoidable.”
The solution opens a hole, but makes super fast user switching usable. (more…)
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shortcut,
switching,
Windows,
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Written by Jason on November 14th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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