In order to speed up the display of the Start Menu Items is to turn off the Shadow shown under all the menus. To do this

1. Right click anywhere on the “Desktop“.

2. Select “Properties“.

3. Click on the “Appearance” tab.

4. Then Click on the “Effects” button.

5. Uncheck “Show shadows under menus”.

In order to restart your Windows without actually restarting your Pc, You have to follow the Below trick.

To do this,

1. Before you click on the “SHUTDOWN” button in the Start Menu, make sure to simultaneously press the “SHIFT “Button.

2. If you hold the Shift key down while clicking on SHUTDOWN button, you computer would restart without restarting the Computer.

3. This is equivalent to term “HOT REBOOT“.

windows Vista, by default, doesn’t enable the advanced write caching feature of SATA hard drives.

You can considerably speed up your SATA hard drive by enabling this.

To do this, Open Device Manager by running “devmgmt.msc“.

Open the “Disk drives” section of the tree. …click here to read more

There is a easy way to highlight multiple files without using shift or CTRL by using the checkbox. Once you have enabled this feature, you will see a little checkbox at the upper left corner of each icon in the explorer window. Checking this box will highlight the file.

In order to enable checkbox file selection in Windows Vista, Follow the Below Steps.

Click on the “start” Button.

Select “computer“. …click here to read more

In order to Change the “Default Wallpaper folder” to the “My pictures” folder you can follow the below trick in order to use your own images right from the “Desktop Properties“.

To do this

1. Click on the “Start” Button.

2. Open the “Run” menu from it and type “regedit.exe” in order to bring the registry editor.

3. Then navigate down to the following key.

4. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

5. On the Right hand side you should see a value called “WallPaperDir“. If the key does not exist, then you can create a new string value with the same name.

6. Double click on the value to change the path to your My Pictures folder. (or any other folder)

7. If you dont want the images present already in the list, You can delete these images to make them stop appearing in the wallpaper selection list from the c:\windows.