Customization

Windows Vista includes an enhancement to the system clock that lets you display 2 additional clocks when you hover your mouse over the system clock....

The Windows Vista BootScreen is pointless, but Microsoft decided to hide a more visually appealing boot screen that can easily be enabled with very little trouble. I’m not sure why they didn’t make the boot screen better....

It’s really very simple to enable the system clock to show military time in Windows Vista, but the setting is not in an obvious place, so you might not have found it....

A number of people have asked me how to enable the old Run dialog that existed on every other version of Windows until Vista. ...

If you’ve been getting the error COM Surrogate has stopped working whenever you browse folders containing video or media files, you have come to a good place for some possible solutions....

It was only a matter of time before people started cloning Windows Vista features and adding them into Windows XP. ...

Some icons are just obvious enough that nobody should need text below them to tell them what the icon is for. A good example of this is the icon for Internet Explorer. We’re all really used to it by now, and the text just makes it ugly....

Windows Vista by default shows the most recently used programs on the start menu, and there’s a submenu for recently used files....

The recycle bin is really obvious. We’ve been seeing the same thing since Windows 95, so having text on the icon to tell us what it is seems a little unnecessary....

The Recycle Bin icon is horrible and I hate it. Windows Vista has an even simpler way to hide the icon than XP does, but why couldn’t they have disabled it by default?