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The default behaviour of the power button in Windows Vista is Sleep mode.In order to change the buttons to shutdown do the following.
1. Open “command prompt“.
2. Type the following line in the command prompt.
3. “powercfg.cpl,1” (without the quotes).
4. In the dialog, browse to “Power buttons and lid“.
5. There you can change the properties of both [...]

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

Right click anywhere on the “Desktop“.

Select “Properties“.

Click on the “Appearance” tab.

Then Click on the “Effects” button.

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you want to disable the “Take Tour of Windows XP” that comes up after you install WindowsXP, then follow the below tips.

Click on the “Start” Button.
Select “Run“
Type “Regedit” and press enter.
Go to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour“.
Create a new “DWORD key” called “RunCount“.
Give it a value of “0“.

www.frameworkx.com introduces the new Windows Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover, allows you to either way to remove the shortcut overlay arrow or to even customize it in Windows Vista.
In the new version 2.0, Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover now called as Vista Shortcut Manager has added many new welcome features like:
Custom overlay icons,
Enable/Disable “-shortcut” extension, [...]