Instead of using Print Screen to capture the entire window, why not use Vista's Snipping Tool which lets you capture only the part of the screen you need? To access this handy tool, go to the Start menu and then into your Accessories folder and click Vista's Snipping Tool.

To use it, all you have to do is create an outline of the screen by using the mouse to click and drag the image and release the mouse button to capture.  

You can then draw on the image, highlight or erase part of the images and save it to a file.

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When Wndows has completed the search (from the Explorer), click Save Search. This will create a vitual folder that will run the specified search every time you click on it, and the search will always be updated.

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You may have noticed that Windows Vista is available in 32bit and 64bit versions, and you may be asking yourself what the difference is.

Simply put: the higher amount of bits you have, the more memory you can use. Windows 32bit versions can access a maximum amount of 4bg of RAM, whereas the 64bit version can access a total of 17 million gigabytes.

This is because CPUs communicate with the system’s RAM memory via numeric addressing. The maximum amount of memory that can be addressed by a 32bit processor is 2^32, so 4GB. The maximum amount of memory that can be accessed by a 64bit processor is 2^64, approximately 17 million GBs.

When selecting a 64bit OS, the amount of RAM you are looking to install is not your only concern. There are other factors to take into consideration. While a 64bit OS can run most 32bit programs, it is not compatible with 32bit device drivers, so you must ensure you have native 64bit driver for all the devices on your system. It is also worth taking into consideration that Vista 64bit is not fully mainstream software at the moment and many developers and manufacturers aren’t too keen to support 64bit drivers and applications. This, however, will change with time.

It is possible to order a version of Vista 64bit if you already own a 32bit version. All that is required is that you pay the shipping of the product. It is important to note that once you activate your Vista 64bit with your existing 32bit activation key, it will not be possible to revert back to your 32bit installation with the same key.

 On a final note, you might need to stay with your 32bit Vista installation if your business is running older software, particularly 16-bit software, for everyday use as such software won’t run on Vista-64.

 

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You may have found yourself, when moving or deleting files, selecting the "Yes to All" option& to repeat& a particular task for all remaining items in a list. This is a very useful option when dealing with hundreds of various items.

A "No to All" option seems to be missing, but we have a solution. To mimic the "Yes to All" for a No option, all you need to do is hold the shift key down the first time you press No.

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Moving and copying files can sometimes be a little tedoius when you have to scour through very deep directory structures. Now you can speed up these processes by simply adding a destination to your Send To Menu, generally found when right-clicking on a file.

To add a new destination to the Send To Menu, go to Run in the Start Menu and type shell:sendto in the text box. Now you will need to create a shortcut of the desired destination folder on your desktop.

Once you have created the shortcut, all that remains is to copy the shortcut into the newly opened SendTo folder.

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