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The Vista Start Menu has links to almost everything: Music, Games, Pictures, Documents, etc. You may not need all of these, or you may need to add some more shortcuts.
To remove these links,
1. Right-click on the taskbar.
2. Click on “Properties“.
3. Click on the “Start Menu” tab.
4. Here you can choose to set the Start Menu to look like older Windows versions.
5. You [...]

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 update or upgrade your system , you must know the full Details of your system. In order to know the full details of the system including your uptime, do the following (Professional Edition only).
1. Click on the “Start” Menu.

2. In the Start menu, Click on the “All Programs“.

3. Go to the “Command [...]

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 [...]