12 handy things/tips to know about Vista

re: 12 handy things/tips to know about Vista

c quinn — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:20:55 GMT

#7 is not quite correct. Readyboost does not use a USB flash drive as extra memory.

It uses it for a copy of the Superfetch cache, which will help Vista gain faster access to files on the drive, but if you need better performance for most programs once they load into memory, you may still want to upgrade your RAM.

re: 12 handy things/tips to know about Vista

llester — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:12:46 GMT

yeah you are right... meant it to be as virtual memory :).. thanks for catching it.

re: 12 handy things/tips to know about Vista

vansen — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:38:19 GMT

Ever tried the speech recognition feature in Windows Vista ? Just fire up the control panel and click on the item called "Speech Recognition Options" - a cool feature...

re: 12 handy things/tips to know about Vista

Thomas Holloway — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:52:17 GMT

I really love the breadcrumb menu in windows explorer. Vista has a lot of really amazing customization features. Great tips on optimization

re: 12 handy things/tips to know about Vista

Tester — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:55:36 GMT

Linux sucks

re: 12 handy things/tips to know about Vista

rabidrobot — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 02:57:00 GMT

Thanks for pointing out the Snipping Tool. I typed snip in the search box to find it, tehn added it as a quick launch.

Hint #8, Ctrl+MouseWheel also has some other cool abilities. In an Explorer window it will cycle through views, including thumbnail and icon sizes. On the desktop you can scale your desktop icons with Ctrl+MouseWheel as well!

Thanks again for these hints!

Lester's WPF blog : 12 handy things/tips to know about Vista

Relationship Compatibility — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:46:54 GMT

By now I hope that most of you have atleast tried Vista. If not, join the bandwagon . INSTALL VISTA!!! :) I love every bit of Vista and would like to share some handy tips and also bring into focus some apps that I use a lot. 1&gt; Launch group favorite