Microsoft always provides updates for Windows operating system in order to make sure that Windows runs smooth, free from problem. You can set so that Windows automatically updates itself or you can install Windows updates manually.
Learn Vista - Viewing Your Computer Score
Windows Vista can measures the capability of your computer by testing CPU, RAM, hard disk, general desktop graphics, and 3‑D gaming graphics hardware components of your computer. Each hardware component has its individual subscore. Whereas the base score of your computer is determined by the lowest subscore (not the average of the subscores).
Learn Vista - Viewing Your Computer Information
Need to know the specification of your computer? You can view the basic and also the advanced information about your computer easily.
Learn Vista - Viewing The Usage of Your Computer's CPU and Memory
You can know your computer's CPU and memory that are being used through the Task Manager.
Learn Vista - Restoring System Changes
If you change your Windows Vista System or you install a software, and then you find your Windows doesn't work correctly, you can try using Windows System Restore to restore your computer's system to an earlier date (restore point) when everything worked correctly.
Learn Vista - Managing Startup Programs
Startup programs are programs that run automatically when Windows starts. However, if too many programs run on startup, it can make your Windows starts slowly. Moreover not all of the programs are necessary enough, and if one or more programs are broken or missing, then you'll get error messages when Windows is starting. Therefore you need a tool that can manage them. Windows Defender has a facility for that. By using Windows Defender, you can view all programs on startup, as well as disabling, enabling, or even removing them.
Learn Vista - Deleting Unnecessary Files Using Disk Cleanup
In order to free up your disk space and help your computer run faster, one way that you can do is by deleting unnecessary files such as temporary internet files, files in recycle bin, etc. Windows provides you the Disk Cleanup, a tool that can scan for various unnecessary files and deleting them as your need.
Learn Vista - Defragmenting Your Drives
Windows Vista provides a tool, called Disk Defragmenter, that functions to perform defragmentation, by rearranging the fragmented data so that your drives (hardisk) can work faster.
Learn Vista - Creating a Restore Point For System Restore
Actually Windows Vista creates a restore point automatically just before the significant system events happen, such as the installation of a software or device driver. But, if you want, you can create it manually.
Learn Vista - Checking and Fixing The Disk For Errors
Windows has an error-checking utility that can check and try to fix your disk for errors. If your harddisk has no errors, surely it will improve the performance of your computer.
Learn Vista - Backing Up and Restoring Backed-Up Files
You may lose your datas (files) because you accidentally delete them or your harddisk gets damaged. Therefore, in order to protect them, you should back up them routinely so that when they lose, you can restore them back.
Understanding Parental Controls on Windows Vista
Parental Control is one of the new features in Windows Vista. As the name says, it is very useful for parents to view their children's computer activity as well as controlling how they use computer.
Learn Vista - Using Windows Firewall To Block All Incoming Connections
When you are connecting to a public network such as in a hotel, airport, etc, that you think it's not really secure for your computer, you can set your computer for optimum protection especially from incoming connections. In this matter, you can use Windows Firewall to block all incoming connections.
Learn Vista - Using Windows Defender To Scan For Spyware
There are three kinds of manual scan that you can perform on Windows Defender: Quick Scan, Full Scan, and Custom Scan. Quick scan checks specific files on your computer that spyware is most likely to infect. Full scan checks all files on your computer and all currently running programs. And Custom scan allows you to scan only selected drives and folder.
Learn Vista - Using Parental Controls to Restrict Games that Children Can Play
By using Parental Controls, you can specify which games that your children can and can not play on your computer.
Learn Vista - Using Parental Controls to Restrict Accessed Websites
By using Parental Controls, you can restrict websites and web contents that your child can visit.
Learn Vista - Using Parental Controls to Limit Programs That Children Can Use
By using Parental Controls, you can determine which specific programs your children can and can not use
Learn Vista - Using Parental Controls to Define When Children Use Computer
By using Parental Controls, you can define which hours are allowed for each day of the week your children can use the computer.
Learn Vista - Updating Windows Defender Definitions
Definitions contains list of spyware identities that Windows Defender can detect. By updating the definitions regularly, so your Windows Defender will always be able to detect the new spyware.
Learn Vista - Turning Windows Firewall On and Off
If you install another Firewall, you may want to turn off Windows Firewall. However if you don't, it's very recommended to turn it on. Because a firewall can help preventing malicious software or even hackers from gaining access to your computer through a network or the Internet.
Learn Vista - Turning Windows Defender On or Off
Windows Defender is designed to find and remove spyware. So it is recommended that you always turn on your Windows Defender.
Learn Vista - Turning On Parental Control
As its name says, Parental Control is very useful for parents to monitor their children's computer activity as well as controlling how they use computer.
Learn Vista - Turning Off Windows Security Center Alerts
Actually, this action is not recommended, because Windows Security Center is very useful to warn you when security software is not up to date or get some trouble. But for any reason, you may want to turn it off.
Learn Vista - Monitoring Computer Activity Using Parental Control
By using Parental Controls, you can monitor all computer activities of your child, such as websites your child visits, applications or games he/she opens, and so on. In this tutorial, we will learn about how to turn on Parental Controls Activity Reports, and how to view the reports.
Learn Vista - Introduction to Windows Defender
Windows Defender is a software that protects Microsoft Windows Operating System from the attack of spyware and other potentially unwanted software. This software is a part of Windows Vista and can be downloaded for free to be installed in Window XP and Windows Server 2003.
Learn Vista - Checking Security Status Using Windows Security Center
Windows Vista provides you a place to check the status of security essentials on your computer, namely through Windows Security Center. It can detects a problem with any of these security essentials, whether they are installed on your computer or not, or whether they've been out of date or not.
Learn Vista - Changing Internet Explorer Security Settings
In order to protect your computer from potentially harmful online content, you can set and customize your own Internet Explorer security levels.
Learn Vista - Allowing Programs and Ports Through Windows Firewall
Windows Firewall is designed to block all outside sources from connecting to your computer, except for those you determine in Firewall exceptions.
Section 08 - Using User Accounts on Windows Vista
Using user accounts make it so that you can share a computer with other people, but still have your own files and settings. In this tutorial, we will learn topics relating to user accounts.
Learn Vista - Turning The Guest Account On or Off
A guest account is an account for users who don't have a permanent account on your computer. So if you want to let someone log on to your computer but you don't want them to have access to all of your files, you can turn on the guest account. By default, the guest account is turned off.
Learn Vista - Enabling or Disabling User Account Control (UAC)
User Access Control (UAC) functions to stop the automatic installation of unauthorized applications, and prevents inadvertent changes to system settings. It can also help preventing malicious programs (malwares), from damaging a system, as well as helping organizations to deploy a better-managed desktop.
Learn Vista - Introduction To User Accounts on Windows Vista
A user account is a collection of information that tells Windows which user rights and access permissions a person has on a computer. User accounts make it so that you can share a computer with several people, but still have your own files and settings. Each person accesses their user account with a user name and password.
How to Reset Your Windows Password on Windows Vista
When you try to log on to Windows, you need to enter your account password. But what will happen if you forget it? You have to reset it by using a password reset disk or by using administator account. If you want to use a password reset disk, you have to make it first. The reset disk can be a USB storage disk or a CD. In this tutorial, we learn how to make a password reset disk and how to reset Windows password using the reset disk and using administrator account.
Deleting a User Account on Windows Vista
You can easily delete a user account through the Windows Control Panel.
Creating a User Account on Windows Vista
If someone wants to use your computer, it's a better way to make a user account to him instead using your account. It will be easier for you to control what they can do on your computer, especially relating to privacy and security.
Changing Name, Type, Picture, and Password of a User Account on Windows Vista
You can change the name, type, picture, and password for an account easily and quickly.
Section 07 - Using Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista
Internet Explorer is one of the famous web browsers. On version 7, IE has lots of new great productivity features such as tabbed browsing, instant search box, improved zoom feature, and so on. New security and privacy features are also added to make you browse the web safer.
Learn Vista - Viewing Web Pages On Internet Explorer 7
In order to open and view a web page, you must use an internet browser. There are many browsers you can use to view web pages. Internet Explorer 7 is one of them. In this tutorial, we will learn how to open and view web pages on IE 7. This is a very basic tutorial, and aimed for beginner users.
Learn Vista - Using The Search Box of Internet Explorer 7
Search box is one of new features of Internet Explorer 7. It will make you quicker and easier to search information on internet without having to open the search-engine website first.
Learn Vista - Using Quick Tabs in Internet Explorer 7
Quick Tabs is one of the new features you can use in Internet Explorer 7. It provides list of thumbnails, mini layouts representing to all your open tab layouts. So, it works like the Windows Flip 3D on Windows Desktop. It's very useful when you're opening many web pages simultaneously on a single browser window.
Learn Vista - Using Favorite Sites List on Internet Explorer 7
If you have a favorite site which you often view, you can add it into Favorite Sites List of Internet Explorer. So when you want to view it back, you just click it from Favorite List instead of retyping its url.
Learn Vista - Understanding Pop-Up Blocker in Internet Explorer 7
Did you ever get a small web browser containing advertisement, appears immediately when you're exploring internet? That is called pop-up window. It often opens while you start viewing a particular website which offers you products, services, and other ads. For many people, pop-up windows make them getting annoyed, particularly when the pop-up window is hard to close. Maybe, you ever found when you close the pop-up window, but it appears again, or even it duplicates itself to be many windows so that depleting your computer system resources, and leading to computer runs slowly or your browser stops responding.
Learn Vista - Setting Internet Explorer 7 Home Pages
Home Pages are websites which are automatically opened when you start Internet Explorer. Setting home pages in IE 7 is very easy.
Learn Vista - Saving a Web Page Or a Picture From a Web Page
Internet provides you much valuable information. You can save the valuable web page as a file. There are four ways to save it: saving it as complete web page (including images, script, and other associated files), saving it as html only (not including images, script, and other associated files), saving it as single file (all information including images, script, etc, are saved into one file), and saving it as a text file. You can also save a particular picture from a webpage into your computer.
Learn Vista - Resetting Internet Explorer 7 Settings
Resetting IE 7 settings is useful if you've changed IE settings, then you found your browser didn't work correctly and you don't know how to turn it back again. Resetting IE to the default settings won't delete the favorites, feeds, and a few other personalized settings.
Learn Vista - New Features and Security on Internet Explorer 7
Microsoft is very serious to enhance Internet Explorer security. Different from IE 6, IE 7 has undergone many changes particularly relating to security issues. One of the changes made to IE 7 is the separation of browser and critical components of Windows system. On Windows Vista, IE 7 in standard condition, runs on Protected Mode. It means browser have no privileges on significant system files, except folder of Temporary Internet Files. So that, IE 7 is getting safer because it's not easily infiltrated by spyware, worm, virus, and bad hacker. However, surely you still have to put anti-virus and other security softwares on your system.
Learn Vista - Managing Internet Explorer 7 Add-Ons
Add-on is a small program that provides additional features to a web browser. For instances, add-ons for extra toolbars, animated mouse pointers, stock tickers, pop-up ad blockers, and other interactive web contents. In Internet Explorer, add-ons are also known as ActiveX controls, plug-ins, browser extensions, or Browser Helper Objects. You can get various add-ons from internet available as freeware or shareware.
Learn Vista - Deleting and Managing Browsing History on Internet Explorer 7
When you're opening a website in Internet Explorer, all associated files to the website including webpage contents, images, style sheets, scripts, etc, are stored in particular location in harddisk. Internet Explorer 7 allows you to delete them for privacy reason as well as managing all related settings.
Section 06 - Using Windows Media Player 11 on Windows Vista
Windows Media Player 11 is the engine for playing back and managing music and video files, ripping digital music from audio CD, burning CD and DVD, and also has capability to synchronize all media files from computer to portable devices such as mp3 player, smartphone, etc.
Learn Vista - Watching Visualizations On Windows Media Player 11
When listening music using Windows Media Player (WMP) 11, it's more pleasant to watch visualization. Like other music softwares, WMP also own this feature. By default, there are three groups of visualizations you can watch, namely Alchemy, Bars and Waves, and Battery.
Learn Vista - Synchronizing Media Files To Portable Device Using Windows Media Player 11
You can use Windows Media Player (WMP) 11 to sync media files from your computer to a mobile electronic device such as mp3 player, smartphone, pocket pc, etc.
Learn Vista - Ripping Music From CD Using Windows Media Player 11
By using Windows Media Player 11, you can copy (rip) digital media content from an audio CD (an album or selected tracks) into your computer. You can also convert the content into different file format.
Learn Vista - Playing Music or Video Using Windows Media Player 11
You can use Windows Media Player (WMP) 11 to play audio and video file from harddisk or even from internet (streaming).
Learn Vista - Managing Your Digital Media Using Windows Media Player
If you have many digital media files (music, videos, recorded tv, etc), Windows Media Player 11 has a facility to manage all of them namely by using WMP library playlist which can classify items easily.
Learn Vista - Introduction to Windows Media Player 11
Windows Media Player (WMP) is a digital media player which is developed by Microsoft. You can use this software to play video and audio files on Windows operating system. Besides its capabilities on playing digital media, Microsoft also adds other power on it such as burning CDs and DVDs, ripping music from a CD, enabling you to find and subscribe to music, video, radio services, and other types of content from online stores, etc.
Learn Vista - Burning a CD or DVD Using Windows Media Player 11
You can make an audio or data CD/DVD easily from Windows Media Player 11.
Section 05 - Using Windows Photo Gallery on Windows Vista
Windows Vista provides a program called Windows Photo Gallery (WPG), to specially organize and even edit your photos/images before printing them on photo paper. In this tutorial, we will learn about the use of Windows Photo Gallery on Windows Vista.
Learn Vista - Viewing Camera Information of Your Photo
The photo you took using digital camera, has all information relating to camera, such as dimension/resolution, camera model, ISO speed, exposure time, etc. If you are a photographer, this information is very necessary, at least you can know the camera settings if the photo looks disappointing. So that you can change/fix the camera settings to get better photo result on next capture.
Learn Vista - Printing Pictures Using Windows Photo Gallery
Learn Vista - Playing The Picture Slide Show
You can play your pictures as a slide show on full-screen. You can also set the zooming, panning, and transitions.
Learn Vista - Organizing Pictures in Windows Photo Gallery
If you have many pictures and photos, Windows Photo Gallery can assist you organizing them. On the left pane, it exists navigation tree which consists of filters for arranging and clasifying your pictures based on tag, date, folder, and rating.
Learn Vista - Introduction to Windows Photo Gallery
Windows Photo Gallery is a nice image tool included in Windows Vista, which you can view, edit, share, and print your pictures and photos.
Learn Vista - Editing Your Photos Using Windows Photo Gallery
Windows Photo Gallery provides some basic photo editing functions which you can use to improve your photos/pictures.
Learn Vista - Adding Pictures Into Gallery
Adding pictures into picture list inside Windows Photo Gallery, can be done in two methods, namely by dragging the pictures from Windows Explorer, and by adding the folder of pictures from Windows Photo Gallery.
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