Knowledge Base Tips topic
Most Popular "User Tips" Tips
- 1) Removing the Hand from Icons of Shared Folders
- Date - Jun 26, 2008
- Rating - 2.3
- Author - Eric Geier
- Section - Misc
- How to prevent the hand from appearing on the icons of shared resources.
- 2) USB device not recognized
- Date - Jun 23, 2009
- Rating - 2.8
- Author - Mitch Tulloch
- Section - Misc
- A simple thing to try when your flash drive or other USB device doesn't mounted by Windows when you plug it in.
- 3) Moving the system hard drive to another computer
- Date - Jun 09, 2009
- Rating - 4
- Author - Mitch Tulloch
- Section - Misc
- How to move the system hard drive of a computer running Windows Vista to a new computer without generating a Stop message.
- 4) Creating a Hidden or Administrative Share
- Date - Feb 18, 2009
- Rating - Not Rated
- Author - Eric Geier
- Section - Collaboration and Sharing
- Preventing a shared folder or drive from showing in My Network Places and Network
- 5) Performing a Recovery Using Complete PC Restore
- Date - Nov 25, 2008
- Rating - Not Rated
- Author - Mitch Tulloch
- Section - Misc
- Here's a simple tip to make sure you are able to properly recover a Vista system from a backup you made using Complete PC Backup.
- 6) Changing Login Credentials for Shared Computers
- Date - Feb 17, 2009
- Rating - 5
- Author - Eric Geier
- Section - Collaboration and Sharing
- How to change the username and password used to access a shared resource.
- 7) Customizing Send To
- Date - Feb 08, 2007
- Rating - 2.8
- Author - Mitch Tulloch
- Section - Misc
- How to customize the Send To menu in Vista.
- 8) Accessing a Hidden or Administrative Share
- Date - Feb 18, 2009
- Rating - Not Rated
- Author - Eric Geier
- Section - Collaboration and Sharing
- Bringing up a shared folder or drive you or the system have hidden.
- 9) Using Multiple Monitors in Vista and getting Aero
- Date - Nov 13, 2008
- Rating - 2.5
- Author - Mitch Tulloch
- Section - Shell (GUI)
- You can use multiple monitors with Vista if you have multiple video cards, but how can you get the Windows Aero experience on these monitors?
- 10) Backing Up the Outlook Auto Complete Name List
- Date - Oct 02, 2008
- Rating - 5
- Author - Chris Sanders
- Section - Misc
- Backing up the Microsoft Outlook auto complete list is indeed possible and easier than you think.
- 11) Indexing a Second Hard Drive on Vista
- Date - Aug 05, 2008
- Rating - 4
- Author - Mitch Tulloch
- Section - Search
- Making sure a second hard drive is indexed in Vista requires two settings.
- 12) Free Network Analyzers/Sniffers for Windows
- Date - Apr 08, 2009
- Rating - Not Rated
- Author - Eric Geier
- Section - Misc
- Several tools to see a network's raw packets for troubleshooting or security audits.
- 13) Boosting Vista Startup Performance
- Date - Nov 20, 2008
- Rating - 4.7
- Author - Mitch Tulloch
- Section - Misc
- How can you improve the startup performance of your Vista computer? Disable SuperFetch!
- 14) Disabling Autoplay on Vista
- Date - Aug 12, 2008
- Rating - Not Rated
- Author - Mitch Tulloch
- Section - Misc
- You can completely disable autoplay on Vista computers if needed.
- 15) Vista Logoff/Shutdown and Accessibility
- Date - Nov 04, 2008
- Rating - 1
- Author - Mitch Tulloch
- Section - Shell (GUI)
- If you find it tricky to logoff/shutdown Vista using the Start button because of accessibility issues, here’s a solution.
- 16) Restoring a Complete PC backup
- Date - Jun 18, 2009
- Rating - 4.3
- Author - Mitch Tulloch
- Section - Misc
- How to avoid problems when restoring from a Complete PC backup.
- 17) Removing RTM Files from Vista SP1
- Date - Oct 22, 2008
- Rating - 5
- Author - Mitch Tulloch
- Section - Misc
- Installing Service Pack 1 on Windows Vista archives certain files so you can remove SP1 later if you decide to. You can reclaim disk space by deleting these files.
- 18) Vista SendTo shortcuts
- Date - Feb 25, 2009
- Rating - 5
- Author - Mitch Tulloch
- Section - Shell (GUI)
- How can you add entries to the right-click (shortcut) menu in Vista?
- 19) Searching for Arbitrary Files on Vista
- Date - Sep 09, 2008
- Rating - Not Rated
- Author - Mitch Tulloch
- Section - Search
- The quickest way to find an arbitrary file on a Vista computer.
- 20) Formatting USB Flash Drives Using exFAT
- Date - Mar 03, 2010
- Rating - 5
- Author - Mitch Tulloch
- Section - Misc
- How to format a USB flash drive using the Extended FAT (exFAT) file system.
- 21) Changing the Default IP Address of ICS in Vista
- Date - Jan 07, 2010
- Rating - 3
- Author - Eric Geier
- Section - Collaboration and Sharing
- Change the Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) IP if 192.168.0.1 is already in use.
- 22) Net Send Alternative in Windows Vista
- Date - Jan 07, 2010
- Rating - Not Rated
- Author - Eric Geier
- Section - Collaboration and Sharing
- Discovering MSG, the new Net Send for Vista.
- 23) Using Shared Printers over Internet
- Date - Jan 14, 2010
- Rating - Not Rated
- Author - Eric Geier
- Section - Collaboration and Sharing
- Discover how to print remotely or when client isolation is enabled on the network.
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