Tips and tweaks from the Windows Vista experts

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Colon Cleanse — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:22:17 GMT

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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ravindra106 — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:35:32 GMT

great tips thanx for sharing this.

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notrlilirela — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:21:04 GMT

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Michael_Moor — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:46:49 GMT

Hey "Nick White",thx for share

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Nick White — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:26:06 GMT

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.

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nghthawk47 — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 05:47:38 GMT

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?

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Dodge34 — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:54:14 GMT

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.

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douglas — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:18:25 GMT

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

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douglas — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:27:56 GMT

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

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Nick White — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:38:39 GMT

Hey douglas: while I've not checked this in all cases, I believe you can stil do this in Windows Vista via the same or a very similar set of commands -- have another look.

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douglas — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:16:59 GMT

Just curious: Back in XP, the user could change the file-type icon (eg; the icon that was displayed for .reg files, ,doc files, etc). This feature does not appear to be present in Vista RTM. Is this the case, or am I just missing it?

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jtherrien — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:52:31 GMT

This isn't a tweak, but I wish it was possible to close programs from within Alt-Tab or Flip-3d but right clicking on the window or something like that.

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tmike — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:40:42 GMT

regarding krotch's comment: i agree that the ability to undock a toolbar would be great.

To the the whole process started, i left-button-drag one of them, say, "apps", to the left edge of the screen and the shell automatically turns it into a toolbar. then i right-click on it to set it to "small icons"/"auto hide"/"always on top". Then, i right-click and add any additional "sections" that i want. I even add quicklaunch to the top of my side-edge toolbar so that i have fast access to quicklaunch from both the bottom of the screen and the top of the screen. (which is very useful at 2048x1536 resolution).

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Skymax — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:39:15 GMT

Any chance we can get a "Special Folders" option as in Tweak UI for XP? I keep my IE favorites folder on a network drive for use across several computers but have not figured out how to make this work in Vista.

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Nick White — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 05:49:58 GMT

Hey Posted by krotch: thanks for the idea, I'll pass it along to our shell and Sidebar teams.