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Windows Vista is full of nice features that can't be found on earlier Windows versions. One of them enablers opening your favorite websites directly from start menu. But forst of all there is a little tweaking needed.

Probably you have tried searching functionality from Start menu. Once you type a keyword Vista offers two choices: "Search Everywhere" and "Search the Internet". So wee need to add one more choice which allows us to browse by name. For instance you type in DiBugs, Gmail and you are directed to corresponding sites.

Let's do this.

A Windows Vista installation disk essentially has all of the various editions of Vista included on that one disk. Which version gets installed is dependent on what product key you enter during the installation process. At some point you may want to upgrade your current version to a version with more bells and whistles, which would require a new Product Key.

Or you may want to Activate your Windows Vista under a different Product Key for some reason. The easiest way to change your Product Key is through the System applet in the control panel

If you've installed a new driver that is causing problems on your computer, you can easily roll back to the prior version of the driver with a few simple steps

First you'll need to open Device Manager. The easiest way is to just type device manager into the start menu search box, but you could also go through the control panel if you choose

Once you have it open, browse down to the problem device, right-click and choose Properties

The hibernation can be really useful for some people, but others won't ever use it, so best thing to do for them is to disable it. reason why to disable Well, when Hibernation is enabled, a file that has exactly the size of your computer's memory is created on your hard disk, and you can't remove it, even if you're not using the feature at all. When you disable it, this file automatically goes away

The System Restore service is one cause of performance issues, and for some people, it doesn’t even work and is disabled by default in this build. You may wish to enable it, as it is a very useful feature if it works for you.

Click Start
Hover over Computer, right click on it and then click Properties
On the left hand side, click Advanced Settings
If asked to permit the action, click on “Allow”.
Click on the “System Protection” tab.
Check any checkboxes listed for your hard drives that you wish to include

You can resize the large Vista desktop icons by right clicking on the Desktop, View, and selecting one of three sizes, Large, Medium, and Classic.

Im on the internet several dozen times a day. But it is usually just to check a fact or grab a quick link. So I'm always jumping to a handful of regularly used web sites, over and over, all day long. Rather than having to open my browser all the time and then entering the web URL into the address bar, I can save time by just adding the address bar to my screen. This way, when I need to quickly jump to a web site, I can just type the URL into the address bar at the bottom of my screen and hit enter. That'll cause my browser to open right to the page I need.

Heres how to run your Windows Vista with your Voice. Follow these steps and you will be able to. You need a microphone for this to work.

1. Click the Start

2. Click Control Panel

3. Click Ease Of Access

4. Click Speech Recognition

To be able to make your partition bigger or smaller please follow these steps

1. Click the Start Menu

2. Right click Computer and then Manage which is the 4th from the top

3. You might get a User Account Control Dialog here if you do please press continue

4. On the left panel please open the Storage category and then click disk management

You are able to extend you Windows Vista trail by an extra 30 days by entering a simple comand prompt but you may only do this 3 times then Windows will block it all together. So in total you willhave an extra 90 days not bad!

1. Click Start

2. Where it says start search type: command then press enter