There are many instances when we like to disable Task Manager especially if you share your PC with others. Once task manager is disabled users will not be able to kill processes or services using the Task Manager. Task Manager can be disabled from the Group Policy editor. This option is available only in Vista [...]

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Few days back we had written about some beautiful themes for Windows Vista based on Aero effects. Here is another theme for Windows Vista based on Windows Seven OS and created by Vishal. This theme was created based on the request from few people.

1. New Taskbar similar to Windows Seven (although the actual look of [...]

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In case your PC is shared one and many others users access it, then there are chances of virus or malware attack through removable drives(CD/ USB drives). You can configure your PC such that removable drives are not accessible in Vista. If this setting is enabled, then no access is enabled for removable. To disable [...]

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When Windows is switched to hibernation mode, Windows saves the current state into a file called hiberfil.sys. This files size is very huge and will extend to several GB. In case you are not using hibernation, you can disable it to save hard disk space. To disable hibernation, open Start-> All Programs-> Accessories-> Command Prompt. [...]

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Whenever a program hangs or crashes occurs, Vista is able to automatically send relevant information about the failure to Microsoft using Windows Error Reporting (WER), have this information analyzed and obtain a solution to the problem if one exists. In case you are testing beta versions of applications, you might encountered this situation many times. [...]

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When you have installed two different versions of Windows, say Vista Ultimate and Vista Home premium or XP and Vista as dual boot, these options show up when you boot Windows. But many times the timeout seconds is set as very low value and it becomes difficult to select an OS which is not the [...]

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Windows Vista has improved the UI and added lots of features like Aero effects when compared to XP. Vista is definitely a great looking OS (we are comparing only the looks here). You can customize Vista just like XP using visual styles. There are lots of styles available based on whether you have/enabled aero effects. [...]

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