When you download the programs or applications in the Internet Explorer in Windows Vista, such downloaded files are placed inside the “Downloads” directory by default. This directory is in real situated at c:\users\Your_USER_NAME\Downloads.
If you want to make downloads as much easy to access as possible then you must do it only by situating a link to the folder of the download state directly from the start menu. On the other side, allow the Start Menu to expand up to a menu that displays each and every download, allowing you to have easy access to deletion and power options as needed.

How to display link or Menu to Downloads in Start Menu:

1. At initial step you will have to Right-click a vacuous area on the taskbar and choose “Properties”.

2. The “Taskbar and Start Menu Properties” windows will open up, which has so many multiple tabs inside it. After that, choose the option the “Start Menu”.

3. After that you need to choose the button named the “Customize”.

4. The dialog box named “Customize Start Menu” will open up. Underneath, the option “Downloads” choose either the “Display as a menu” option or “Display as a link” radio option.
5. Finally you need to click “OK” button to close the window in the end.

The above easy steps would guide you through the process to make downloads in easy access. For avid computer users it’s good to make programs or files in an easy reach and hence it’s always a better choice to change settings according to you.

The separate process for launching folders actually permits you to have control over each folder as whether it should be open in a separate window or must be expanded in the similar window. If each folder appears and has its window then the user is going to have excellent control over the different folders but still it will take some more resources of the system than just normal resources.

Steps for launching a folder or all folders as a separate process:

• At initial step, open up the Registry by typing “regedit” in the Run command.
• Now visit one of the defined locations.
• In order to take the changes to occur for the recent user, go to location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ Explore

• In order to take the changes to occur for all the users, go to location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ Explorer

• Now create or just make modification if there is an existence of Dword value known as “SeparateProcess”
• You will have to set the value as 0 in order to disable or set it 1 in order to Enable the separate process option.
• Now restart the windows or just logout for the setting in order to take up the effect.

Windows Vista surely has some good features that are not available in the previous versions. Following the above steps you can easily change the settings according to your needs within no time.

In windows XP the Run option is by default available in the start menu but in Windows Vista this feature is not present by default as instead of Run option search box is present in the start menu. The search box is the place where you enter the desired topic and you will see the results if there are any.

For adding the run option you will have to make an extra effort by altering the administrative or registration settings.

How to Set the Run option in the Windows Vista Start menu?

1)      Just by right clicking on the Start button symbol select the option “Properties.”

2)  The properties dialog box opens up, from there go to the Start menu tab and select the “Customize” button.

3)  Now you just need to check out the option “Run Command” in order to enforce the alterations you have made.

4)  Select the OK button and finally click on “Apply” button.

5)  Now the Run command is present in the Start menu window and is within your reach.

In case you want to remove the “Run command” from the start menu, you just have to repeat the above mentioned steps and need to uncheck the Run option box. You are then done with it. Now, you can use your computer according to your needs and desires. Windows Vista has got so many features that you can’t resist to trying your hand on them.

There are so many people who have been searching around for the methods to remove the arrow along with the “shortcut” text from the Windows Vista shortcuts. Therefore there is proper guide to make you understand how to perform this operation.

This is surely a topic that is meant for the expert users on the Windows operating system who very well know how to make use of the registry editor, the below are the steps that are at most made really simple as much possible.

How to remove the arrow and the “shortcut” text from the Windows Vista shortcuts?

• Log on as an administrator. The next step is to download the defined archive and then extract it towards a folder as of your own choice.
• You will have three different files in the archive provided to you by the website providing solution to this problem. Those are “rem_shortcut_arrow.reg”, “rem_shortcut_text_from_machine.reg” and “rem_shortcut_text_from_user.reg”.
• In order to remove the arrow you will have to run the first file “rem_shortcut_arrow.reg” and then make out the right confirmations.
• In order to remove the “shortcut” text you will have to run the third file “rem_shortcut_text_from_user.reg” al for the current users.
• If you need to remove it for all the users then run the second file “rem_shortcut_text_from_machine.reg”.
• Restart your computer system and then log on, the result will be there for you.

Following the above steps would lead you through the process.

Windows Vista is the operating system that is automatically pre loaded with several mind blowing features but they all may not be helpful for your computer system. After Windows XP, Vista was released with so many features that would make any one fall for this platform. You have the right to optimize the computer system and can win over certain functions to be able to disable them which are otherwise not in use. Still many people don’t use all of the features and in this case it would be better to disable the unnecessary features.

Steps to disable unnecessary features in Windows Vista!

1. Select the Start button and then choose Control Panel.

2. Select the Programs icon.

3. The third step is to select the “Enable or disable” option for windows programs and features, under the same heading.

4. Then you will have to select the “Continue” tab.

5. After the above step, the list of the features present in the system will be shown. You have to uncheck the boxes of all those features that you do not want to use. For an instance, you can uncheck the box of Tablet Pc in case you do not have that or can also uncheck the games box if you are not using Windows games prior DFS Replication Service and so on. The choice is entirely yours.

6. Finally, Select the OK tab when you are done with it. You can again recheck them if the need arises.

Many times it occurs as if you have done nothing to protect your documents, files, folders, and other sensitive sections and information even after having the updated and installed anti-spyware and anti-virus. You may also have a firewall in perfect condition but still feeling a little unprotected. Do not worry; you can do one more thing to protect your files that is “Encryption”.

In case you have preinstalled Ultimate, Enterprise or Business edition of the Windows Vista on your PC or laptop then you can easily make use of the Encrypting File System in order to make your most substantial documents completely safe and secure.

Here are some steps on how to encrypt files in Windows Vista?

• The initial step is to navigate on to the file or the folder that you want to encrypt for protection purposes.
• Then right click on the file or the folder and select option “Properties”.

• Select the “Advanced” button in order to bring the “Advanced Attributes window”.
• The other step is to select the check box present next to option “Encrypt contents to secure data.”

• Then click on the button OK in order to return to the Properties dialog box and then again select OK button.

The Windows Vista is the operating system having newest feature of “hybrid sleep” for the laptops.  It also has a new feature of “Sleep”.

The Hybrid sleep option actually saves the Operating system to state into the RAM but it also writes all information into the hard drive too. This actually assures that when the power is lost then also the data will not be gone.

How to disable hybrid sleep mode in Windows Vista?

• Initially open up the options for power settings from the Control Panel and then choose the “Change plan settings” link that is present beneath the chosen power plan option.

• In the resultant window, select “Change advanced power settings”. This is the time you will have to scroll via miles of choices in order to search out for “Sleep” mode. Just expand this option and then select it’s underneath option “Allow hybrid sleep” node.
• After this you will have two options, “Plugged in” and “On battery”.  You have to set both of them off.
• After completing this, click on “OK” button and you are ready with your settings.

Now after following these steps, the laptop will go into “Sleep”. If the laptop is not in use for few seconds or the lid has been shut down, then the laptop will actually enter into complete sleep mode instead of hybrid sleep.

isn’t it easy to turn your pc settings to “Sleep” rather then sticking with the “Hybrid sleep”?