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If you’re able to recognize all the symbol icons on your destop correspond to what programs?

1. Click Start
2. Select My Computer
3. Click Tools
4. Click Folder Options
5. On the View tab check mark Hide Extensions For Known File Types
6. Click Apply

7. Right-click on the icon that you want to remove the text
8. Select Rename
9. Press the ALT key down and hold it
10. Using keypad, type 255
11. Release the ALT key and hit Enter

Windows Vista can self-diagnose a number of common problems, including failing hard disks, memory problems, and networking issues. Built-in Diagnostics provides information to IT professionals to solve those problems that can’t be resolved automatically. Whenever Windows Vista detects a potential problem, it raises an event. IT professionals can use these events to monitor the behavior of desktops in their organization or to troubleshoot problems that cannot be resolved automatically.

1. Click Start
2. Select Control Panel
3. Choose Classic View
4. Double-click System icon
5. Next to the Rating points, click
6. Left side of Task menu, click Advanced Tools
7. Click Generate a system health report to run

Note: Before running this tool, close all the applications that are running on your system. It might takes a few minutes to complete

1. Click Start
2. Type REGEDIT.EXE in the Run Command box
3. Press Enter key
4. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
5. Navigate to LNKFILE
6. Rename the value IsShortcut
7. Log out and back in again.
8. To reset it, just rename the key back again, and log off and back on.

By default, the “Run” dialog is not displayed in the Start Menu. To enable it, just follow these 5 simple steps:

1. Right-click on the taskbar
2. Select Properties
3. Click on the Start Menu tab
4. Click on the Customize button
5. Scroll down and check Run

By default, Windows Vista scans thru every folder and file that stored on your hard drive when you search. One way to speed-up searching in your Start Menu applications is limiting the results. To configure the search results, follow either one of two methods below:

Method 1: Registry Hacks
1. Click Start -> type regedit
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Explorer -> Advanced
3. Find and right-click on Start_SearchFiles and select Modify
4. Set the Value to 0
5. Restart the Explorer.exe process or reboot the computer

Method 2: Manually
1. Right-click on the Start Button and select Properties
2. Click on the Customize button
3. Uncheck Search Communications
4. Set Search Files to Don’t Search for files
5. Click OK

Click -> Start -> Control Panel and type Adjust font size in the Search box. DPI Scaling windows will pop up, showing you two default options: 96 DPI and 120 DPI but you can change to different size if you like by clicking on Custom DPI lower bottom right-hand side and adjust the scale that fit you.

If you’re able to memorize all of these commands, it would save you a lot of time to open any applications which don’t have to click thru folders and folders. It sounds scary but keep on practicing, you’ll get familiar with it.
click Start -> Run -> type cmd -> click OK

Click on the the Control Panel -> Folders icon
Click on the View tab at the top
Check or uncheck the options you want

While you’re using the computer and suddenly, bluescreen displayed with a bunch of white text message; something like “A problem has been detected and windwos has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer…” This message is telling you that there is a critical system error and can be caused by poorly written device drivers, corrupt Registry, faulty memory, or incompatible DLLs. Another word for bluescreen, we called it Blue Screen of Death. To prevent this bluescreen appears again when windows crashes, follow these steps:

Click Start -> Run -> type REGEDIT -> click OK
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl
Right-click AutoReboot -> Modify
Set Value Date to 1 for for automatic reboot
Click OK -> Exit Registry Editor
Reboot your computer

Spyware is computer software, also called Adware that hides itself somewhere on your computer collecting personal information about yours without your knowledge and/or consent, usually for advertising purposes. Spyware applications are typically bundled as a hidden component of freeware or shareware, such as KaZaa, LimeWire, iMesh, BearShare, etc…

Spyware monitors your activity on the Internet, possibly including email addresses, passwords, or credit card numbers and transmits that information, in the background, to someone else. Other kinds of spyware make changes to your computer that can be annoying and can cause your computer to become sluggish and cause programs to crash or freeze. These programs also make it very difficult for you to change your settings back to the way you originally had them.

Whenever you install something on your computer, make sure you carefully read all disclosures, including the license agreement and privacy statement. Sometimes the inclusion of unwanted software in a given software installation is documented, but it might appear at the end of a license agreement or privacy statement.

Some telltale signs of computer spyware or adware infection are:
• Your computer is dialing up numbers on its own that show up on your phone bill.
• Advertisements pop up even when you are offline.
• Your bookmarks change on their own.
• System slows to a crawl due to several spyware programs using up your memory resources.
• Additional browser toolbars that you did not install on your system.
• You click on a link to go to one site, but your browser gets hijacked and you end up at another site.

Anti-spyware Tools:
Lavasoft Ad-aware
www.lavasoftusa.com

Spybot Search & Destroy
www.safer-networking.org

CWShredder
www.trendmicro.com/cwshredder

AVG Anti-virus
www.grisoft.com

Avast Anti-virus
www.avast.com

Trend Micro Housecall
housecall.trendmicro.com

Panda ActiveScan
www.pandasoftware.com

BitDefender Online Virus Scan
www.bitdefender.com

Microsoft Windows Defender
www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx