Category Archives: Vista

Enable Screen Magnifier

Do you find parts of the interface hard to see or would you like to zoom in on your work in photoshop? The Magnifier tool in Windows Vista is a great little utility that is a great help.    1. Click on the start button.    2. Key in magnifier and hit Enter.

Install Vista without product key

Don’t feel like typing in your product key before installing Windows Vista? It is now possible to install any version of Windows Vista and use it for 14 days before having to enter a product key and activating it.

Make NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices work in Vista

If you are like me and have a NAS device on your network that is not compatible with Windows Vista, now you can tweak Windows Vista to make it work again. You do not even have to wait for your device manufacturer to release a new firmware any more! Just follow these steps below:

Missing the old File, Edit, View menu bar?

One of the main concepts of Windows Vista is to make things more simple, basically take some of the complexity out of Windows. The decision was made to do away with the old menu bar in many of the windows of Windows Vista because they simply looked too busy and offered the user too many, often confusing, choices.

Run as administrator start menu keyboard trick

If you are like me and use the search box in the new Start Menu in Windows Vista as a run box, you can run any command you type in as an administrator by holding down CTRL + Shift and then pressing Enter.