What is Windows Vista Flip 3D?
One of the innovative feature on Windows Vista is the Windows Vista 3D flip. It is a feature rich expanded system similar to Ctrl-Tab. Using Ctrl-Tab, you can only see the icons of open Windows. Instead of these icons Vista 3D Flip allows you to watch live animation of rotating Windows.
For doing this press WinKey [...]
Windows Vista User Account Control
One of the latest additions to Windows is the User Account Control system or so called UAC. Even though we have already experienced similar feature (Limited Account, User Account Protection etc) in earlier versions of Windows, this time it is slightly different. This security feature prevents ‘standard user‘ from running programs that may harm the [...]
Windows XP Superfetch
Eventhough this is not exactly related to Vista, I thought I would post it for current XP users.
Microsoft has already implemented SuperFetch in Windows XP SP2. This means Superfetch is not new to Windows vista as ealier described. You can enable Superfetch in Windows XP SP2.
Enable Superfetch In Windowx XP SP2
Start Regedit ( Click Run [...]
Windows Vista SuperFetch
MS Windows Vista’s SuperFetch is a memory management program that actively monitors the user behavior and pre-loads frequently used programs to un-used memory. Thus when you need a program, it will be loaded very quickly than in XP based based systems.
Another specialty is that this allows other routine programs such as defragmenter and Windows defender [...]
Windows Vista Sleep Function
Microsoft Windows Vista’s new feature is the sleep function. This function has the benefits of earlier Windows’ hibernation & standby modes. By sleep function you can easily resume you PC faster than in the state of hibernation or standby.
Before going to the sleep function details, let me quickly explain you how standby and hibernation works. [...]
Windows Vista ReadyBoost
Windows Vista allows you to use flash based memory to be used as RAM(Random Access Memory). You can plug-in your high speed USB flash drive in to your computer and use this as an additional memory. Even though it won’t be as much fast as regular RAM, this concept will improve the overall system performance. [...]