Posted in Windows Vista, Tips'n'Tricks on Nov 1st, 2009
When you open a photo in Windows Photo Gallery, it looks too yellowish (or too redish or too greenihs or too blueish), but when you open it in another picture viewer such as IrfanView or XnView, it looks quite normal and all colors are well balanced. It’s especially noticable when opening scanned documents and the paper […]
Posted in Windows Vista, Tips'n'Tricks, Software on Oct 25th, 2009
When trying to download Microsoft Security Essentials you got this message: Not available in your country or region ? Don’t worry, just point your browser to this address and you’ll get your download: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/?mkt=en-us. I’ve been using AVG, Avast, Antivir and others for ages, but since there was lot of positive feedback on the net I’ve […]
Posted in Windows Vista on Dec 20th, 2008
I just discovered that hibernation option wasn’t available any more on my Vista Business laptop. I discovered simple and effective way to turn it back on. Just open command prompt and type: powercfg /hibernate on. Then restart your PC. After that, hibernation should be available again.
Posted in Windows Vista on Nov 11th, 2008
If you are running out of disk space on your system partition (disk C) with Windows Vista, there is a way to free up large amounts of disk space with Disk Cleanup utility. First of all, you should get rid of all temporary files such as Temporary Internet files, Recycle Bin and files in Temp folder. […]
Posted in Networking, Windows Vista on Jun 20th, 2008
If you get blank screen when you click Network and you have “red X” on you network icon in system tray and you just can’t establish any network connection then probably some of the following services isn’t started well:
Function Discovery Provider HostFunction Discovery Resource PublicationNetwork ConnectionsNetwork List ServiceNetwork Location AwarenessNetwork Store Interface Service
Usually Network List Service […]
Posted in Windows Vista, Tips'n'Tricks on May 22nd, 2008
Depending how lucky you were after installing Vista SP1 there was a great deal of chance that you’ve stumbled on the problem where you weren’t able to create and establish VPN connection on your Windows Vista. Well, I had this problem for quite some time and after fair amount of internet research I still wasn’t able to […]
Posted in Windows Vista, Tips'n'Tricks on Dec 26th, 2007
If you CD/DVD drive acts funny lately in terms of working slower and knocking your CPU up to the top, probably your drive’s settings have been changed from DMA (Direct Memory Access which is better) to PIO only mode which uses your CPU for transfering and mananging all the data coming from and to optical device. […]
Posted in Windows Vista, Tips'n'Tricks on Oct 16th, 2007
Did you ever wanted to have nice and convenient way to open Command Prompt window for any folder (e.g. using Context Menu in Windows Explorer). In order to achieve this, copy/paste following code to Notepad and save it as a file with .reg extension and then double click it to execute it. This will add […]
Posted in Windows Vista on Aug 26th, 2007
Assuming that you’ve already seen this annoying error alert in Windows Vista while browsing your media files (videos) that are dependent on various codecs, probably you’ve wondered what is this all about. Well some older video codecs are not really Vista compilant and therefore, whenever you access folder containing media files or you play the file that requests such a […]
Posted in Windows Vista on Aug 22nd, 2007
Hard disks are bottlenecks in computer performace, especially when it comes to memory hungry OS-es such as Vista. Things on Vista that cause lots of disk activity and thus poor performance, when comparing to ordinary XP on the same machine are:
Windows Search/Indexing (Indexing is very disk intensive)
SuperFetch (causes lots of disk activity)
Aero user interface (Basic Vista theme […]