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By default Windows Vista allocates 15% of your hard drive to storing System Restore points - which turns out to be a couple dozen gigabytes on a large drive. The user-friendly Windows XP slider bar which sets System Restore space has disappeared on Vista; instead a little command line action’s required to reset this percentage.

You just got a new PC with Windows Vista pre-installed, and you want to dual-boot Windows XP for old programs.....

One day you turn on your Windows Vista PC, and it gives you the dreaded “BOOTMGR is missing.....

All-things-Google site Google Operating System shows you how to back up a Blogger-hosted blog in just a few easy steps.

You just got a new PC with Windows Vista pre-installed, and you want to dual-boot Windows XP for old programs - or just nostalgia’s sake. You already know how to dual-boot Windows Vista on your XP machine, but you can also set up Windows XP to boot from a separate partition on your Vista PC.

If you’ve set up your kid’s login to the family PC with limited rights, you can run programs as an administrator by using Windows “Run As..” option.

Web site Windows Secrets posts a registry hack that claims to allow users to bypass Vista activation altogether.

The Lockergnome weblog details how to speed up your Vista start menu search by selectively enabling how deep your search goes.

You just got a new PC with Windows Vista pre-installed, and you want to dual-boot Windows XP for old programs - or just nostalgia’s sake. You already know how to dual-boot Windows Vista on your XP machine, but you can also set up Windows XP to boot from a separate partition on your Vista PC.

Power-user site ExtremeTech helps Vista users tweak their systems to run faster–and there’s more to it than just ReadyBoost...