Windows Vista Tips & Tweaks

[weasel]

wow very nice finds widkidone i'm considering reinstalling vista thx to you

[Widkidone]

Hopefully this will be useful to Vista Users.

Windows Vista Top 10 Tips and Tricks

[Widkidone]

The TweakGuides Tweaking Companion (TGTC) is the complete system optimization guide for Windows users. Designed for novice and advanced users alike, it is written in plain English to help you genuinely understand all aspects of Windows and your PC. The guide covers every major topic, from the correct installation of Windows and critical drivers and software, through to recommendations for every significant setting and feature, all the major performance and convenience tweaks and customizations, as well as detailed troubleshooting advice. There are also links to a range of reliable free applications for optimizing and maintaining your system, as well as to important resources for finding out even more about Windows and your PC.

TweakGuides Tweaking Companion

[Widkidone]

DTweak allow you to tune, optimize and increase the speed of your Windows Vista system without manually modifying registers or ini files.

Site

DTweak has a lot of tweaks, and even more are plannet.

The most important of them are:
- Disk: Intelligent Disk Cleaner.
- Registry: Backup, Restore and Intelligent Cleaner.
- Security: Firewall, IE, Wnidows Update and other thweaks.
- UAC: User Account Control tweaks
- Mail Tweaks: Outlook and Windows Mail
- Optimizations: StartUp, Cache and Visual Effects tweaks
- and many other important tweaks

[weasel]

interesting tweak program but i use vista manager its payware but its good

[Widkidone]

The feature that I've revealing today shows that Microsoft has built into Vista a function that allows anyone to extend the operating system's activation deadline not just three times, but many times. The same one-line command that postpones Vista's activation deadline to 120 days can be used an indefinite number of times by first changing a Registry key from 0 to 1.

The following describes the Registry key that's involved.

Step 1. While running a copy of Windows Vista that hasn't yet been activated, click the Start button, type regedit into the Search box, then press Enter to launch the Registry Editor.

Step 2. Explore down to the following Registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ SL

Step 3. Right-click the Registry key named SkipRearm and click Edit. The default is a Dword (a double word or 4 bytes) with a hex value of 00000000. Change this value to any positive integer, such as 00000001, save the change, and close the Registry Editor.

Step 4. Start a command prompt with administrative rights. The fastest way to do this is to click the Start button, enter cmd in the Search box, then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter. If you're asked for a network username and password, provide the ones that log you into your domain. You may be asked to approve a User Account Control prompt and to provide an administrator password.

Step 5. Type one of the following two commands and press Enter:

slmgr -rearm
or
rundll32 slc.dll,SLReArmWindows

Either command uses Vista's built-in Software Licensing Manager (SLMGR) to push the activation deadline out to 30 days after the command is run. Changing SkipRearm from 0 to 1 allows SLMGR to do this an indefinite number of times. Running either command initializes the value of SkipRearm back to 0.

Step 6. Reboot the PC to make the postponement take effect. (After you log in, if you like, you can open a command prompt and run the command slmgr -xpr to see Vista's new expiration date and time.)

Step 7. To extend the activation deadline of Vista indefinitely, repeat steps 1 through 6 as necessary.