Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 - multiple operating system at same time in same PC
Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 is a software that allows you to run multiple operating system in the same PC at the same time. This provides lot of benefits such as easy migration, test software in different OS and also accelerate the development.
Check this video to get started with Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
Windows Vista Tips - How to increase the speed of your Vista PC
Most of the Vista users who have used XP before feel that Vista is slower than XP. One of way to speed up Vista PC is to turn off the indexing done for the drive.
- Click on Start
- Click Computer
- Right Click drive C. This should display the below dialog
Uncheck Index the drive for faster searching
You will be prompted with another dialog
and select Apply changes to drive C:\, subfolders and files
This operation would require administrator privileges for applying the changes. And this change would have provide some improvement for your Vista PC.
Windows Vista Tips - How to avoid showing recently accessed files
There are information already available in this blog regarding how to clear recently accessed files in Windows XP and also how to clear recent files from Real One Media Player and Windows Media Player. Windows Vista also has a similar feature for disabling the recently accessed files from the system. This can be done by right clicking the Start button and selecting properties. This action should display the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog box
And Start Menu tab has an option for not storing and displaying the list of recently opened files under the Privacy section. Unselecting the check box would result in system not storing the recently accessed files.
Windows Vista Tips - How to enable Run command in Start menu
Windows Vista’s Start Menu by default does not show the Run command. As you see in the picture below the run option is not available.
to enable the option right click Start button and click on properties and select the Customize button. This would display the Customize Start Menu dialog as as shown below
Select the checkbox adjacent to Run command to enable the Run command option in the Start Menu.
An alternative to this is to use the Windows Key + R to invoke the Run command dialog.
Windows Vista - How to set defaults program access for your computer
Windows Vista provides option for setting default access to programs installed in your computer. You can choose the type of configuration depending upon your preferences like Microsoft Windows or Non-Microsoft or Custom. The default and the preferred one should be Custom.
And on expanding custom option, you can set default program access for different programs like
- Web Browser
- e-mail program
- Media Player
- Instant messaging program
- Virtual Machine for Java
Apart from setting the access if you want to access other programs also then you have the option of doing that as well. As you can see in the below picture, the default web
browser has been selected as Use my current Web browser but Enable access to this program for Internet explorer has also been checked which means that you can use your default web browser as well as Internet explorer.
