Tips and tweaks from the Windows Vista experts

Ed Bott has posted an excellent list of 10 tips and tweaks for Windows Vista that could help the more advanced users do what they want with Windows Vista.

One of my favorites, as with many others here internally at Microsoft, is #5:  the ability to create a System Health Report.  This report will help you diagnose your system’s health and provides possible solutions issues that may be affecting your PC’s health.

Another expert, Andre De Costa, has also posted a few Windows Vista tips of his own.  His latest talks about where the Run command went (i.e., it's easily displayed on-screen by using the Windows key + R key sequence)...very handy.

I look forward to seeing more of these tips and tricks for Windows Vista as we move past RTM :)

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  1. douglas
    Posted on: November 20, 2006 at 7:27PM  

    Thx..I have looked extensively...believe me...and had no success. But---I'll look again and let you know. Thx again.

  2. douglas
    Posted on: November 21, 2006 at 11:18PM  

    Nope..that options appears to be absent. Any suggestions?

  3. Dodge34
    Posted on: November 23, 2006 at 4:54AM  

    Thanks Tmike for the tip about dragging a folder or shortcut to the edge of the screen got my favorite toolbar with the content of the "My Computer" linking all my disk drives and partition on top of the screen. I was desparate to not be able to do this simple toolbar on top of my screen (I've been used to this since Windows 98 so really boring to loose that but now its back, thank you), Now Windows Vista is the best I can use for now, but a little bit slow with only 512MB of DDR RAM.

  4. nghthawk47
    Posted on: November 23, 2006 at 11:47PM  

    I am having problems reinstalling Vista after my system crashed on an older laptop.  I bought a new Toshiba Laptop with A core2 duo and tried installing RC2.  It gets to the very last stage "starting Vista for the first time"... then after a few minutes the screen goes blank and then no further activity occurs....even for hours.  When I do a hard reset, it just restores XP OEM.  I even tried installing clean over the hard drive, same result.  Any ideas?

  5. Nick White
    Posted on: November 27, 2006 at 11:26AM  

    Hey nghthawk47:  not sure what the issue is here with your new machine, but you may simply want to wait until retail availability to install Windows Vista; alternatively, you might drop a line to one of our newsgroups or Web forums to see if someone has had a similar problem.

  6. Michael_Moor
    Posted on: January 31, 2007 at 11:46AM  

    Hey "Nick White",thx for share

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  7. notrlilirela
    Posted on: November 05, 2008 at 11:21AM  

    cormonla

  8. ravindra106
    Posted on: May 28, 2009 at 8:35AM  

    great tips thanx for sharing this.

  9. Colon Cleanse
    Posted on: October 18, 2009 at 4:22AM  

    I assume that you DO realize that you can create another toolbar by dragging a folder to the edge of the screen.  I, for example, keep a "folder of toolbars" in my documents.  in that folder, i have separate folders for various of my personal toolbars - e.g., "apps", "folders", "dev", et cetera.  each of these subfolders contains the shortcuts to appear on that toolbar.

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