Windows Vista Tips

Windows Vista Tips

I have deliberately chosen a wide range of tips - something for everyone. A few of my tricks were also available in earlier operating systems, but that revelation does not make them any the less useful for Vista.

• Mouse Scroll Wheel Resizes Icons
• Check Your Vista Stats
• Environment Variable: To Troubleshoot 'Phantom' Devices
• Open Command Window Here
• Hide Contents of A Folder From Vista Indexer
• Speed up Vista?
• Increasing the Vista Activation Period to 120 days.
• Microsoft Software Licence Manager
• Shortcuts
• NCPA.CPL - Network Connection Shortcut
• On Screen Keyboard osk.exe
• Auto Logon for Vista Home Editions
• ClearType Font
• Sendto - Try, Shell:Sendto
• Ask for a Vista refund!
• 10 New executables - and 20 old friends
• 10 Lost Features

Mouse Scroll Wheel Resizes Icons

Let us start with a quick, easy, yet flashy Vista tip. We are going to resize the desktop icons by holding down the Ctrl key, and scrolling the mouse wheel. See how icons such as the Recycle Bin enlarge or shrink as you turn the mouse's wheel. By scrolling you can get over 20 different sizes of icon, there is bound to be one that suits you. Incidentally, this a classic for learning a tip once, on the Vista Desktop, and then applying wherever you go, for example try Ctrl + scroll the mouse wheel when you are next in Windows Explorer.