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Toggle Copy/Move Drag Action. Not exactly a "Vista only" trick, as it works on previous versions too. How many times have you dragged a file or a folder to a location in a different volume and realising just before releasing the mouse button that what you really wanted was move rather than copy? Well, all you have to do at this stage is press and hold the shift key before releasing the mouse button and voilà… no more repeating the whole action. I know it's a huge drag...
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"When any visual element in a software, print or electronic media bears resembels known visual attributes of the Windows Vista UI it's said to be Vistafied." Example: This site's footer. I am not taking any credits for coining or suggesting this term. But I do believe it's a much better term than the other term on the rise: Vistified .
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Everyone who knows me; knows of my love for Microsoft, so of course there will be the talk of heavy bias in whatever I am about to say. Yes I am biased , but I am biased to wards, not biased against something and I am not prejudicial. Adobe has monolpoly over the portable document format they practically invented it. So much for PDF! What we have here is a monopoly playing around with the law; twisting it to eliminate their competition against a seemingly notorious monopoly who is; but a new entrant...
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Disabling UAC prompts for Administrator accounts in Multi-User scenario… Perhaps my first blog post with a sub-title. After 12 days since I thought of writing about this tip I almost gave up thinking it will never see light of the day. I've been busy with a lot of things, so I am happy that I am finally able to publish it. Now, there may be so many articles and blogs showing you how to disable UAC that if you search using these 2 words it will generate thousands of results. But if you...
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I was supposed to start my whole Windows Vista blogging on Friday September 8th with my very 1st Productivity Tip for Vista but I was still suffering from connection jitters . And I need to work on Jaxon Rice's Kid Congo blog skin that I'm using; before I can publish that, mainly to let me fit in images atleast 500px in width so they can have noticeable details. Since the 6th of this month I've been running Windows Vista RC1 build 5600 on my office workstation (yeah I was bold and stupid...
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I was watching a documentary called " The Beslan Siege " on Discovery Channel the other day. This documentary returns a year after the horrific conclusion to the attack on Beslan's school No. 1 to ask why the seige ended so disasterously. The film hears first hand from children and adult survivors and from the officials involved. Among the victims interviewed in the documentary was a woman ( wish I had remembered her name ); Dr. Larissa Mamitova, who along with her young boy were among...