Customization

The New York Times tech Q&A covers how to change the icons Windows XP and Vista uses on the desktop and for folders.....

Free software Visual Tooltip can give you Vista’s pretty taskbar window previews in XP.

You’ve taken the leap into Windows Vista, but once in awhile, your heart yearns for the classic features and functionality of XP. Maybe you’ve got software that doesn’t yet work in Vista, or maybe you just want to see how a web site looks in Internet Explorer 6.

Tech blog The Tomorrow Times shows you how to gain access to your PC even if you’ve gone past the 30-day Windows activation period.

Planning to make the move to Vista when Microsoft ships the new OS at the end of the month? Tech site ExtremeTech tells you everything you need to know about upgrading your XP PC. For example, is your system even a candidate?

Free software Visual Tooltip can give you Vista’s pretty taskbar window previews in XP.

Windows Vista adds some big-ass arrows to its desktop shortcut icons. Luckily, the How-To Geek site has instructions on how to remove them.

The Quick Launch menu is one of the most useful features in Windows, and Vista makes it even easier to add a program to the menu....

One of the new changes in Windows Vista is that each user has a "Home" directory that is actually accessible and meant to be used. In XP and 2k, you had a hidden home directory that you weren’t meant to muck around in....

I know what you are thinking. Can’t I just make a shortcut? Of course you can....