Hold down SHIFT and right-click the folder in Explorer - click the new context menu option "Open Command Window Here" Open a command prompt window from any folder (Hitting TAB whilst holding down the Win key will flip between the open windows)
Open a few windows then press the Win key + TAB, this makes them all visible each behind the other Using Flip3D feature (on systems running Aero Glass) Hold down CTRL and use the mouse scroll wheel Note: Also cycles through the view types in Explorer, and scales pages rendered in Internet Explorer Untick "Hide Extensions of Known File Types" and click OKĬhange the size of the icons on the desktop This secton is a collection of tweaks or tips that are achieved through the UI directly through user actionsĮnable file extensions in Explorer įrom an Explorer window, click Organize / Folder and Search Options To keep the thread clean it has been locked, questions can be made in separate posts if needed.
To add to these posts, please PM me the addition or a pointer to an existing post to copy/paste from. The section is thus named "tips of contention" - I can guarantee there will be people that disagree with me and will claim first-hand experience to the contrary. The UI methods are often just a friendly front-end for editing the registry, and group or local policy is just a set of dynamic changes to the registry without "tattooing" it (so they are reverted back to their original settings if you return to "not configured") - so there may be multiple ways to achieve the same goal.Īt the end is a discussion on a few common "performance tweaks", with citations from the original thread where available, along with my personal views & reasons for not using any of them. Where external references were broken due to age, they have been removed. Some of the original entries were only applicable during early betas and so have not been included.Įach entry is tagged as if I managed to implement it can confirm the desired effect. Where possible, the tips have been verified as accurate on Windows Vista x86 SP2 (running under Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2). This is a compiled list of tips, tricks & tweaks for Windows Vista, using this 3 year-old thread started by Martin L as a base.įor each entry copied, the original poster has been credited.
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