How to use the Advanced Query Language to improve Windows Search results

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There is a great deal of confusion among people as to whether or not Vista Search works or not, and an even greater number of people that just don't use it because they don't know how, or are not aware of it's advanced facilities. This intention of this tutorial is to show people just how much more...

How to Use Character Map in Vista

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Character Map is a feature in Vista that makes it possible to use characters that are not displayed on the keyboard. You can use Character Map to insert special characters into your documents, such as the trademark symbol, a special mathematical character, or a character from another language.

Simple solution to avoid the common raid boot error.

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Vista is still catching up to raid configurations and booting from a raid setup can cause problems.
I'll explain the main problem I had and hopefully save everyone a bit of time.

Cannot Select Multiple Files and Folders Fix for Vista

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This will show you how to fix the problem of not being able to select multiple files and folders in Vista Windows Explorer.

How to Change the Date Format in Vista

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This will show you how to change the Date Format in Vista to how you want the date to appear. For example, the default short date: M/d/yyyy and Long date: dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy formats.

How to Add or Remove Copy as Path from the Vista Context Menu

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This will show you how to add or remove Copy as Path from the context menu for all users on the computer.

How to Enable or Disable Pin to Start Menu in Vista

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This will show you how to enable or disable Pinned Programs and Folders in the Start Menu pin area and the Pin to Start Menu context menu item for all users on the computer.

How to Disable All Sleep Modes in Vista

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This will show you how to disable all Sleep modes in Vista.

How to Enable or Disable Sound Recorder in Vista

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This will show you how to enable or disable the ability to use Sound Recorder for all user accounts on the computer in Vista.

Your Activation Period has Expired

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This will show you how to get out of Reduced Functionality Mode if you did not activate Vista within the trial period, Vista determines that it is running on a different computer than it was originally activated on, or you have a non-genuine version of Vista.