If you spend a lot of time inside your registry editor, you might already know that you can use the Favorites feature to add in a bookmark to a specific key in the registry, saving you immense amounts of time when you need to check a bunch of diffe... [More]

       If you walk away from your computer for more than a few minutes or even for a few seconds if your computer is accessible by othersyou'll want to either lock the computer or switch it to a low-power state that saves ene... [More]

As everybody knows, using the Windows+L keys together will lock your workstation running XP or Vista. Did you realize that you can also disable this function by using a registry hack? I suspect that this article will be much more useful to ... [More]

A source of annoyance for many Windows users is the " - Shortcut" text that is added to the name of newly created shortcuts, and every time you have to manually edit the shortcut and remove that text. Wouldn't it be great if there was ... [More]

Reset Open/Save Choice for Internet Explorer Downloads in Vista If you've removed the checkbox from the "Always ask before opening this type of file" on the downloads window and now you no longer get the dialog that says "Do ... [More]

Remove Winamp Context Menu Items from Vista I get very tired of every application adding items to my Windows Explorer right-click menu and making it difficult to remove them. Winamp has an easy preferences panel to let you configure which items... [More]

Still Useful in Vista: Startup Control Panel  Anybody that has been a geek for a while is already aware of the greatness of the tiny Startup Control Panel written by the legendary Mike Lin, but I'm here to tell you that it's still... [More]

Fix Sleep Mode Randomly Waking Up Issue in Windows Vista I've been having a very frustrating issue with Windows Vista on my HP notebook: I put the computer into sleep mode, close the lid, and then unplug the network cable… and the c... [More]

Bring Misplaced Off-Screen Windows Back to Your Desktop (Keyboard Trick) If you've ever hooked up your laptop to a secondary monitor and then disconnected without remembering to move the windows back to the primary desktop, you've probably... [More]

Skip the product ID: One of the very first steps in setting up Windows Vista is this prompt to enter a product ID. If you're familiar with Windows XP, you probably enter this reflexively. But in Vista RC1 (and probably in the fina... [More]