ista’s sidebar can be a very useful tool in helping you see the upcoming weather forecast, check your Xbox Live gamerscore, and even see how much of each of your cores is being used at the moment. If you have disable this for one reason or another, but couldn’t figure out how to turn this feature back on, this article is for you. Click the Windows icon, open “Control Panel”, and make sure you are set on “Control...

Has Vista been booting a little slower than you would like it? Do you have more than 1 core on your CPU? If your answer was yes to the above questions, I have a nice way to help Vista take control of those extra 1-3 cores that aren’t currently in use at the time of booting up. Click the Windows Icon or the button on your keyboard. Type “Run” into the search bar just above the Windows Icon and hit enter. Next type in...

Wouldn’t it be nice to not have to worry about defragmenting your hard drive every week, month or how often you want it defragged? Windows Vista has a nice defragmenting tool built in to the operating system that has several different features including a scheduler. By doing this, you don’t have to worry about doing it your self, and you know that it gets done as long as the computer is on at the scheduled time. I’m...

Windows Vista provides you, the user, several different ways for all its updates to be installed. The two main options you have would be having Vista automatically install them, and you choosing to manually check for them yourself and pick which ones you think are important/needed for your personal computer to run better. This guide will also show you the several other choices that you have when it comes to these updates and...

Okay, so you bought your new computer and didn’t think you would be interested in Vista’s nice little password feature that can provide you a bit more security or even save your PC from that 3 year old corruptionist(yes I made this word up). This guide will get you one step closer to having a 100% secure computer and its relatively simple for those of you who aren’t very computer literate. Click the Windows icon, open...

Computers are all about speed, so it is no surprise than many more advanced users like to “overclock” their computers, especially the processor. Overclocking is basically just increasing the speed of the processor to make it faster. This has a few bonuses, as well as a few drawbacks. The biggest drawback is heat because, obviously the fast it is running the hotter it gets. Too much heat can be bad! The bonuses include,...