We can easily running out of disk space if we keep on saving files without performing disk clean up from time to time or move them to external storage device. In order to avoid such incident from happening, proper control of disk usage is important and Windows Vista has a feature that allows you to set quota of disk space usage besides triggering you when the warning limit is being hit.

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When creating shortcut in Windows Vista, - Shortcut is added as a suffix of the file or folder name. For instance, if you create a shortcut for a text file named as abc123, you will notice the shortcut being created is named as abc123 – Shortcut. If you don’t like the – Shortcut suffix that is tagged along with the file or folder name by default and you would like it to be named as what the original name is, here is a simple trick you can do to remove – Shortcut suffix.

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When opening a file with unknown extension, normally you will see an additional window popping up that give you options of whether to use the web service to find the correct program or select a program from a list of installed programs. Some times it is quite annoying as you probably already know which program should be used to open the file. To bypass this additional window, you can use a simple registry hack to skip the right program searching option but only pop up “open with” window instead.

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If you spend a lot of time in searching useful information in Wikipedia, Google or Yahoo, instead of going to Wikipedia or Google or Yahoo homepage itself to type the keyword and perform the searching, you actually can add search Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo option to Windows Vista Start Menu Instant Search Box so that you can type the keyword from the search box and choose to search in either Wikipedia, Google or Yahoo websites.

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Microsoft has updated the list of notable changes that are applied by the Service Pack 2 (SP2) RC to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, which have changed slightly when comparing the changes made during SP2 Beta. The SP2 includes all previously released hotfixes and security updates, and also changes to support new types of hardware and several emerging standards, in addition to further streamline deployment and management of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 for IT administrators.

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Microsoft has decided to tighten the grip on ability for pirates and crackers to crack and bypass Windows Vista activation scheme, by releasing an WGA update to Windows Vista Ultimate Edition based system that will detect the presence of SoftMod hack activation exploit, which is currently been pioneered by Vista Loader. However, it’s unclear if the WGA technology update will indeed detect both SoftMod and Vista Loader, or just SoftMod activation crack, which is the predecessor version to much enhanced Vista Loader.

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Looking to optimize and tune up the Windows Vista performance? Microsoft, via the Springboard Overview Series, is publishing free “Windows Vista Performance and Tuning” e-Book to help Windows Vista users to improve performance quickly and easily. The “Windows Vista Performance and Tuning” guide focuses on performance improvements on a single computer, but also takes a look at some of the tools used in enterprise environments to help make performance tuning manageable on a much larger scale.

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Windows Vista Ultimate users, who do not know how to take full advantage of the superior features come with the operating system, can refer to “Windows Vista Ultimate – Helpful Hints” book published by Microsoft. “Windows Vista Ultimate Helpful Hints” provides tips, tricks and guide to master the Windows Vista Ultimate operating system.

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