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Most Popular "Windows Vista" Tips

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1) Disable hibernation: Date - Jun 21, 2006; Rating - 4.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Misc; How to disable hibernation in Vista.
2) Disabling UAC: Date - Jun 20, 2006; Rating - 4.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How to disable the UAC feature in Vista.
3) Troubleshooting Regsvr32 Error 0x80004005: Date - Jan 17, 2008; Rating - 4.3; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Application Compatibility; Until software vendors get totally Vista compatible, having to manually register DLL files is going to be a pretty common task. Here is how to troubleshooting one of the most common errors received while doing this.
4) Robocopy in Vista: Date - Jun 20, 2007; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Misc; Robocopy is now part of Windows Vista
5) Free up disk space: Date - Apr 28, 2006; Rating - 2.8; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Misc; How to free up disk space used by System Protection in Windows Vista.
6) Vista command line tips: Date - Feb 20, 2007; Rating - 4.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Misc; Two tips for using the command line in Vista.
7) Identifying IPv6 Link Local Addresses: Date - Nov 15, 2006; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Troubleshooting; How to identify IPv6 Link Local Addresses
8) Identifying the IPv6 Loopback Address: Date - Nov 14, 2006; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Troubleshooting; How to identify the IPv6 Loopback Address
9) Changing the Remote Desktop Port: Date - Jun 19, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Registry Hacks; Changing the listening and connecting port for Windows Remote Desktop Connection.
10) Where is Sysprep in Vista?: Date - Apr 15, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; Where can you find the Sysprep.exe utility in Vista?
11) Getting past the size limit for roaming profiles: Date - May 03, 2007; Rating - 2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Networking; How to enable really big roaming user profiles if needed i.e. roam a lot of stuff.
12) How To Quickly Check IP Address on Remote Computers?: Date - Oct 21, 2008; Rating - 2.3; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Networking; How to quickly check IP Address information on all the computers using a single command.
13) Moving user profile location in Windows Vista: Date - Jul 08, 2008; Rating - 1.8; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; How to move the location where user profiles are stored in Windows Vista.
14) Watching for network activity: Date - Jun 14, 2006; Rating - 3.1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Networking; How to watch for network activity in Vista.
15) Disabling File and Folder Compression: Date - May 16, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Misc; How to disable file/folder compression on Windows Vista.
16) Creating a New User Profile in Vista: Date - Jan 16, 2008; Rating - 1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Troubleshooting; How to repair a lost or corrupted user profile in Vista.
17) Disk Cleanup in Windows Vista: Date - Oct 02, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Misc; Windows Vista is just like any other operating system in that it uses a whole variety of temporary storage that must be cleaned occasionally. Here is how to do it.
18) How to run your own application when Windows Starts?: Date - Sep 17, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Registry Hacks; This article explains a registry entry which you can use to run your application instead of Windows default Shell (Explorer.exe).
19) Tips for Securing Your Wireless LAN: Date - Feb 04, 2009; Rating - 3.5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Security; Ways to protect your Wi-Fi network from eavesdroppers and hackers.
20) Disabling File and Folder Encryption: Date - May 24, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How to disable file/folder encryption on Windows Vista.
21) Removing the Hand from Icons of Shared Folders: Date - Jun 26, 2008; Rating - 2.5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Misc; How to prevent the hand from appearing on the icons of shared resources.
22) Migrating unattend.txt to unattend.xml: Date - Jul 23, 2008; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; Here is a quick tip for migrating your XP answer files to Vista.
23) Breaking into a command prompt in Windows PE: Date - Apr 24, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; How to open a command prompt during the Windows PE phase of Windows Setup for Vista.
24) Where's the Run Box?: Date - Jun 14, 2006; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Misc; How to quickly run programs in Vista.
25) Windows cannot find the local profile: Date - May 13, 2009; Rating - 1.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Troubleshooting; What to try if you see "Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile."
26) ImageX with a GUI: Date - Mar 05, 2008; Rating - 1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; How to get a GUI for the imagex.exe command.
27) Adding Boot Critical Drivers During Unattended Installation of Vista: Date - Feb 13, 2008; Rating - 1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; How to add Boot Critical drivers during Unattended Installation of Vista
28) Logon Scripts, Group Policy Preferences, and Windows Vista: Date - Nov 05, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Administration; Many logon scripts that worked with Windows operating systems won’t work with Windows Vista. Here’s what you can do to replace them.
29) The Windows Automated Installation Kit: Date - Oct 25, 2007; Rating - 2; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Deployment; Deploying workstations is something that can be very time consuming. Microsoft has recently released its Windows Automated Installation Toolkit to aide in this process.
30) Vista's Setup log: Date - Aug 23, 2006; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Administration; How to disable Vista's Setup log