Windows Vista: Turn off unnecessary features

The high-end versions of Windows Vista like Enterprise, Business Edition are packed with many features. But sometimes they are not necessary and make the machine work " sluggish ". The best way is to turn them off so that the system doesn't waste resources.

You can turn off or completely remove the seizure on the Start button, select Control Panel . In " Programs " click " Uninstall a program ".

Remove unnecessary features.

On the menu, click " Turn Windows features on or off ". Scroll down the list of applications, features that are removed and uncheck any applications or features you don't want to use. For example, uncheck Windows Fax and Scan when you never use these two fax and scan functions. Click OK to complete the change of settings.

Change the default location of Windows Explorer

You want to set the default location yourself that Windows Explorer will open instead of the Documents folder of the current account, select the shortcut of Windows Explorer, right-click it and replace it with the optional code below:

- Highlight for " Computer " in the left menu with all drives displayed but not expanded and drive C selected in the right menu: % SystemRoot% explorer.exe / e, / select, c:

- Desktop is selected and nothing else is expanded: % SystemRoot% explorer.exe / e, / n, / select, / root, c:

- All drives are displayed and the system partition is expanded in a small interface: % SystemRoot% explorer.exe / e, / select,% systemroot%

- Only Windows Directory is displayed and expanded: % SystemRoot% explorer.exe / e, / root,% systemroot%

- All drives are displayed but only drive C is selected and extended: % SystemRoot% explorer.exe / e, c:

Show hidden "super" files

In Windows Vista, there are many hidden "super" system files, although you have opened the view of hidden files in Windows Explorer. To view these files requires you to "scan" to the registry. Therefore, you need to back up the registry before "touching" sensitive parts of Windows.

Type regedit in the Search dialog box, then find the key: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced . In this key, there is a subkey " SuperHidden ", we reset its value to " 1 ", we will see "hidden" files with Windows Explorer.

Automatically login account

If the computer is only used by one person, you can set it to automatically log in to avoid losing time to enter your account name and password. The operations are as follows:

- Select Start button (globe), type " netplwiz " in the Search dialog box and select " netplwiz ".

- Frame " Advanced User Accounts " appears, select the Users tab.

- Uncheck the " Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer " section. Click " Apply " to execute.

- When the " Automatically Log On " dialog box opens, you need to enter the password in the required sections (enter carefully to enter 2 identical passwords). Click OK to finish.

You can now reboot the system to test the newly changed settings.

Thanh Truc