Vista Tips - Changing Skin of Windows Media Player 11

When you feel a little boring using the default skin of Windows Media Player 11, you can change it. Vista provides two other skins that you can use.

Clearing List of Recently Played Files on Windows Media Player 11

When you play a music or a video using Windows Media Player 11, then WMP add the music/video path into recent list. You can see the recent list in the File menu.

Vista Tips - Saving a non .txt file using Notepad

Basically, notepad is not aimed for .txt file only. You can use it to edit many kinds of files such as .html, .asp, .php, .htm, .js, .css, or else, except binary files (executable or library files, or else).

Getting Special Characters from Character Map on Windows Vista

Like its predecessor, Windows Vista comes with a program called Character Map, which can display the character look of each fonts available in your System.

Viewing The Amount of Free Space on Your Drive

When you try to copy a large amount of files or some big files into your specific drive or into your flash disk, you need to know how much the capacity of free space that your storage device has.

Saving Harddisk Space by Disabling The Hibernate Feature

Hibernate is one of shut down options, that functions to put your PC into a power-saving state by saving your work to your hard disk so that you can safely turn off your mobile PC. You can see the Hibernate button from the Start menu:

Vista Tips - Showing Favorites Menu, Printers, and Run Command on the Start Menu

By default, Favorites menu, Printers, and Run command are not visible on Start menu. You can set it from one dialog box so that they can appear.

Vista Tips - Putting a Program Shortcut on The Start Menu

Putting a program shortcut on the Start menu makes it faster to access the program. Actually you can put it on Desktop for faster access, but if you want to locate it on Start menu, you can do these steps:

Vista Tips - Hiding Control Panel From Start menu

You probably want to hide the Control Panel link from Start menu to prevent others from changing any options inside it.

Vista Tips - Enable or Disable List of Recently Opened Files and Programs on Start menu

When you click the Start menu, you'll see the list of recently opened programs, and if you then click Recent Items, you'll get list of recently opened files. If you want to disable/enable these features, you can do that from the Taskbar and Start menu Properties dialog box.