Changing My Pictures and My Music

Normally, when you open up the Start Menu, below Documents, is shown My Pictures and My Music

If you want, you can change these to any other locations you may use more frequently.

1. Start Regedit

2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

3. On the right side, change the location for My Pictures and My Music

4. This new location will now show on the start menu

]]> http://www.imrozbaig.com/changing-my-pictures-and-my-music-locations-in-vista/feed/ 0 http://www.imrozbaig.com/changing-the-desktop-icon-size-in-windows-vista/ http://www.imrozbaig.com/changing-the-desktop-icon-size-in-windows-vista/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:04:58 +0000 imroz http://imrozbaig.com/?p=313 Changing the Desktop Icon Size

By default, the icons on the desktop are quite large.
To change the size

1. Right click on the Desktop
2. Select View
3. Set it to Classic Icons

 You can also hold down the Control key while the desktop is displayed

1. Use the wheel mouse to make the icons larger or smaller
2. This gives more control

1. Start Regedit

2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Policies Explorer

3. Create a new DWORD key NoCDBurning

4. Give it a value of 1

5. Log off and back on again

To see what these may be and make any changes you want:

1. Start / Control Panel

2. Programs and Features

3. Click on Turn Windows features on or off

4. It typically takes a little while for this window to populate

5. Hovering the mouse over an entry gives a short description of it

6. From here you can check or uncheck any entries you want.

7. For example, you may not need Windows Fax and Scan

8. Click the OK button when you are done

Do you want to speed up Vista? Well this is not a surprise. Although Microsoft has made some improvements with their latest OS, Vista can still run very sluggish at times. The problem is Vista cannot perform maintenance on itself. The longer we use our computers the more we need to continually tweak and optimize it in order to speed up Windows Vista. And fortunately for those non computer experts, there is software available to perform the tweaks for you. Here is what you should be doing.

1. Free up as much memory space as you can. This includes hard drive memory and RAM. The best way to do this is target the programs you are not using and remove them. Remove all temporary, partial, and redundant files. Kill those startup programs that launch every time you boot up. This will speed up Vista considerably by increasing RAM availability.

2. Schedule a day to run maintenance features like Windows disk clean up and defragmenter software. Think of these like bringing your car in for a tuneup. Microsoft recommends running each once a month at the least. This will streamline the way Vista processes information and in turn increase Windows Vista speed considerably.

3. Install a Windows Vista registry cleaner and fix all errors. These errors screw with the OS processing. A clean and error free registry will do wonders to speed up Vista performance overall. Vista does not come with a program that can adequately fix up the registry. You need to get one on your own.