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Add Administrative Tools to the Vista Start Menu

Buddy — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:07:42 +0000

Many times when you work as a Network Administrator you generally receive a home user’s computer system and need to pause for some seconds in order to receive the Administrator applications which you make use of in order to provide solution to the day to day problems that are regularly encountered by the users themselves. There is an easy way to place the administrative tools directly into the Vista Start menu.

To add Administrative Tools to the Vista Start Menu!

1) The first step is to Right-Click on to the Start Button, and from there select the option Properties

2) From the Start Menu Properties dialog box click on the Customize button.

3) Then you just need to scroll down into the menu list and you will get to see content for System administrative tools.

4) After that alter the radio button in order to Display All Programs option along with start menu.

5) You will have to twice click the OK button for the completion of the task.

The result is that all types of administrative tools are now present at the fingertips and that also with some mouse clicks only. This way you are done with the process in 5 simple steps.

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Windows Vista- Add Favorites to Start Menu

Buddy — Fri, 14 May 2010 04:25:42 +0000

If you are a frequent Internet Explorer user in Windows Vista and also want your favorites more easy to access then you must check out the below supplied measures. Favorites are important because you are not able to remember so many favorite and regular using websites. This is an important feature of Windows Vista for the regular internet explorer users because they desperately need it. By adding the favorites to the Start Menu you get an easy and faster access to the website or internet address you wish to open. With the help of following plucks you can easily add up a submenu in the Start menu which provides wink access to all your favorites. Have a nice look at the following:

Measures to Add Favorites into Start Menu:

1. Initially, Right-click on a vacuous area of the Windows Vista taskbar and then click on “Properties”.

2. The “Taskbar and Start Menu Properties” window will appear with multiple tabs. From there you need to select the “Start Menu” tab.

3. After this just select the “Customize” option.

4. After choosing the customize option a dialog box naming “Customize Start Menu” will appear and check on “Favorites menu” option.

5. Select “OK” in order to save the settings and close the dialog box. Now you are done with the process of adding favorites to the start menu in the Windows Vista platform. Windows Vista has got the newest and best features that a platform could have.

Bring back your desktop by restarting Windows explorer.exe

mitz — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:34:35 +0000

When your computer crashes, sometimes you lose your icons, taskbar, start menu, and so on. This is called Windows Explorer.exe. This video tutorial shows you how to stop or restart explorer.exe so you can get the desktop back to normal. Starting the explorer.exe will bring back your desktop icons, taskbar, notification area, and start menu.

Add or remove icons from your Windows Vista notification area

mitz — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:44:16 +0000

The Windows notification area is the most frequently used part of the desktop taskbar. It keeps you up to date with whats going on on your computer by animated icons that occassionally poup with messages for you. A great example is when there are Windows updates ready for your computer or if your laptop battery is running low.

The notification area also holds the volume control icon, the time, and any other program icons that are enabled to show there. You can change the settings for a program icon to Hide when inactive, Always hide, or Always show. This allows you to remove annoying icons and just keep the important ones.
What are the most common icons that appear in the Windows Vista notification area?

Time
Volume
Windows update icon
Network connections icon
Bluetooth icon
Laptop Power icon
Windows Live Messenger

How to add or remove icons in the notification area in Windows Vista

Go to the start menu icon in the left corner
Right click on it to bring a menu
Choose properties from the menu
Go to the Notification Area Tab
Click on customize to change the settings for each icon that shows up in the notification area

Watch this video tutorial to see more details..

Change the Windows Vista start menu to a classic XP style

mitz — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:49:19 +0000

If you can’t handle the new Windows Vista start menu, and you cannot seem to find what you want, then don’t pannic. You have two choices for a start menu in Windows Vista. If you have Windows Vista you would have seen the default start menu. It seems a little confusing after dealing with Windows XP

Classic Windows Vista menu

Here’s how to change the Windows Vista start menu to a classic menu.

Go to the Windows Icon in the left bottom corner and right click on it.
A menu will appear. Choose properties from the menu.

The taskbar and start menu properties will appear.
Go to the start menu tab.
Put a check next to Classic Start Menu.
Then press apply for the menu to change.

Start menu properties