Do you run multiple user accounts with Vista and share your computer with them? if you do and you have data you want to hide from them you can encrypt these files so only you can access them.
This is registry tick to add shortcut to the Right-click menu in vista to quickly encrypt your files.
Open start menu then choose run and type regedit, Or (press Winkey+R)
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Create a new DWORD value and name it EncryptionContextMenu and set the value to 1
Today Microsoft announcement Windows 7 during the PDC keynote. With a demo of new features. The screenshoot didn’t impress me until i read this
We’ve always known Microsoft intends Windows 7 to run on netbooks, and we got a small taste during the PDC keynote: Windows SVP Steve Sinofsky held up his “personal” laptop running Windows 7, an unnamed 1GHz netbook with 1GB of RAM that looked a lot like an Eee PC, and said that it still had about half its memory free after boot. (We’re guessing it was running a VIA Nano, since most Atoms run at 1.6GHz.)
Just like vista SP1 there is a small trick to download windows vista SP2 (Pre Beta) directly via windows update. Microsoft has released a Pre Beta of vista SP2 only to testers.
Although of you want to download and try the new vista SP2 use this small trick to download it directly via windows update.
Most of us leaves our computers on 24/7, For many people they just forget to shut it down, or you just too lazy to shut down your computer.
Not to mention that leaving your computer consume more power and raise your utility bill, So here is Freeware software to Schedule the windows shut down.
AMP WinOFF is an utility designed to schedule the shut down of Windows computers, with several shut down modes and fully configurable.Some of these features are:
Scheduled shut downs, either at a set time (e.g. 12:00 PM) or after a period of time (e.g. 1 hour and 15 minutes).
Perform a shut down when the CPU becomes idle.
Several types of shut down (shut down, restart, close session, power off, administrative shut down/restart, suspend, hibernate and lock computer).
Immediate shut down and computer lock from the task bar icon menu.
Several security options including anti-close protection and password protected access to the configuration.
Option of capturing the desktop, executing a program and/or hang up the modem before the shut down.
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