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In order to add your home icon to the desktop of windows vista, do the following.
1.Click on the “Start” button.
2. Right click on your User name.
3. Choose “Show on Desktop” option.
4. Now the home icon shows up on your desktop.
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If you want to make easy your copying and moving files work, you should have the “copy to” and “move to” in the right click .In order to add the Copy to/Move to options to the windows explorer right click menu, do the following.

If you want to force your screen saver to start, you can create a shortcut icon in your desktop to do the job.To do this,
1. Right click on desktop.
2. Choose New –> Shortcut.
3. Enter the full path shown below to the file.

Defragging is a must. Vista has an inbuilt scheduling feature that allows you to set when you want your drives to be defragged.
1. Start “Disk Defragmenter“.
2. Click on “Modify Schedule” and select when you want the defragging to take
place.
3. You can set the frequency, the day and time for the defragment process.

You just learnt how to use the Start Menu to search the Net. You can also
change the default search engine Vista uses. To do this,
1. Start “Internet Explorer“.
2. Click on the dropdown in the Search field.
3. Click “Find More Providers“.
4. A page should load with a list of some search engines.
5. Click on the search engine you want to use.
6. A [...]

One of the characteristics of Vista is that there might not be any File menu in some of the applications such as Windows Explorer for example.
1. At any time to access this menu, press [Alt].
2. To permanently enable the menus, open “Windows Explorer“.
3. Go to Organize > Folder and Search Options.
4. Click on the “View” tab and check the box for “Always show menus“.
5. [...]