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Vista tip - Get sound back

If you’ve got sound problems like I do in Vista then I’m sure you just want a quick solution in getting your sound back if it ever stops while watching videos on Youtube or listening to music in any media player. The method I use to get my sound back is simply go into task […]

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Vista is invading!

With the long rant of windows vista and Microsoft that i posted yesterday well it’s not looking like it’s going to go a step further for me now…. The college i go to has now said that every machine will be gone with xp and installed with vista (yay!!!). Now i’ll admit that even with […]

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Microsoft, the gloves are off

Here we go again, this is indeed a rant about both vista and Microsoft, I have been watching many videos about ranting on at vista and Microsoft and in a lot of ways i agree with those people. In some ways i do see that saying vista “sucks” is  something you can’t really say that […]

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Windows extra right click menus

After a recent flaw in my earlier tip i thought i’d post a new one to make up for it and this can be used in both windows xp and windows vista. All this does is simply add two extra menus to your right click, you get to add copy to and move to options. […]

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Faster Boot up time for XP

After doing my faster shut down post i had a request to post a faster boot up speed, i don’t think it’s a great improvement but it’s here to help you out if you want to try it.
1: Go to start then run and type regedit
2: Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControl Set\Control\ContentIndex
3: On the right, scroll all […]

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Faster windows shut down

This is a little tip i found that works for both windows xp and windows vista, it simply speeds up the shut down process so you don’t have to wait for (possibly) a long time.
1: Go to start and then click on run and type regedit
2: browse to this location:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControl Set/Control.
3: you should see something […]

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windows desktop manager has stopped working

A while ago in a blog post i stated the error messages that i get in vista and one of them being windows desktop manager has stopped working, I’ve noticed a lot of people have been getting this and after all the research i have done it seems to boil down to the aero glass […]

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Windows Vista Snipping Tool

Ever since i got the apple wireless keyboard i have been lacking the option of having a print screen button so for a while i was using the on screen keyboard to take print screens but then doing that i would have to edit out the actual keyboard if i needed to. After reading up […]

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Apple wireless keyboard: vista tutorial

Well as readers will know I have an apple wireless keyboard working in windows vista with no problems at all well now anyway. At first I did have some problems with it as the keyboard wasn’t detected when booting up so I didn’t actually have access to my pc unless I had a wired keyboard […]

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Virtual Vista

I just thought I’d try something out with vmware earlier today and that was to install vista home premium in a virtual machine, installation was faster than what i thought but when it actually got to using the OS it was terrible. Vista didn’t detect any sound or Internet connection, none of the “WOW” features […]