How to Set Background for Vista Folders

In Vista, the ability to have custom backgrounds images in explorer view is not available. But this functionality can be enabled using a freeware called Vista Folder Background. This small application makes folder backgrounds possible and can be automatically applied to subfolders.

In order to set a background, right click on the folder and check the [...]

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How to Manipulate the Performance Index of Vista

Vista has a Performance Index which is determined based on the hardware of the system. Vista inspects the hardware of the PC and determines the Performance Index and this is important as some Softwares enable some functionality based on this value. Vista also does not support Aero effects if the performance index is less than [...]

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Change Vista Color Automatically with Vista Color Transform

Vista Aero effects has different colors to choose from, but each time when you need to change it, you need to make changes in the settings. Vista Color Transform is a light-weight freeware application that works in your System Tray alternating the colors of the Taskbar and window-borders found in Vista. All you need to [...]

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Run commands are always useful for the fact that you can access Windows programs and features quickly instead of going through control panel. Windows Vista has many new commands and with these commands you can directly open features which are available in Control panel. You can execute these commands either in through Run or typing [...]

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Enhance GUI in Windows Vista with Vize

Few days back I had written about a freeware to improve the GUI experience in XP. Although Vista has a very much improved look and feel there still few places where Microsoft has to still improve. Vize is a freeware application which can improve the GUI experience in Vista. It replaces most of the non-Vista [...]

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