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Windows Vista Tips
Make the text on your screen bigger or smaller PDF Print E-mail
You can make the text and other items, such as icons, on your screen easier to see by making them larger. You do this by increasing the dots per inch (DPI) scale. You can also decrease the DPI scale to make text and other items on your screen smaller, so that more information fits on the screen.
 
Change start menu button from sleep to shutdown PDF Print E-mail
By default the power button on the Vista Start Menu is set as ‘Sleep’. You can change this power button to ‘ShutDown’ as follows :

Open Control Panel > Power Options > Change when the computer sleeps > Change Advanced Power Settings > Scroll down the list in the window till you find 'Power Buttons and lid' > Change the default action of the Start Menu Power Button, by expanding its view.
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How To Reserve an Entire Taskbar Row for Taskbar Buttons PDF Print E-mail

You can set your taskbar so, that one entire row at the top can be reserved for the Quick Launch Icons, and the bottom row for the Taskbar Buttons.
To do so, un-check Lock Taskbar, after right-clicking on Taskbar. Drag the Taskbar up, by the border, so that it doubles in size. The position your mouse's' cursor on the upper half of the dotted vertical Quick Launch Border. The cursor will now change to the 'resize arrow'. Now, click and hold down the mouse button to drag it to the area below the Quick Launch.

 
Running Disk Defragment on WIndows Vista PDF Print E-mail
As with Windows XP, it goes a long way in improving the speed and efficiency of your computer if you defragment your hard drive once in a while. Usually running disk defragment atleast once in a week (especially if you work with lots of files) is a very good idea. Running disk defragmenter on Windows Vista is same as in Windows Vista, unlike many other things that have changed a lot. To take a look at the screenshot click here .
 
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