Windows Vista

How can I quickly open a Command Prompt on a folder in Windows Vista? Although most of the Windows operating system tasks can be performed through the graphical user interface (or GUI) you can still find many important tasks and operations that require a Command Prompt window. Running CMD.exe from the run command is quick,…

The Event Viewer is an application that enables you to browse and manage event logs. Event logs are special files that record significant events on your computer, such as when a user logs on to the computer or when a program encounters an error. In Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Event Viewer has been…

With the new Aero Theme Microsoft introduced 3D look to windows, something that Mac OS X users have had for quite a while. With Aero, the user can view the 3rd dimension of a window by flipping the window by pressing the Windows Logo key + TAB. The overall appearance of the Windows Vista desktop…

Keyboard shortcuts in Windows Vista In Windows Vista, as in other Windows Operating Systems (also see Keyboard Shortcuts), you can use many shortcut keys as an alternative to the mouse. You can open, close, and navigate the Start menu, desktop, menus, dialog boxes, and Web pages using keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts may also make it…

Windows Vista has some great additions. One of them is the new and re-designed Performance Monitor. You can open the Performance snap-in from the Computer Management tool (see below), or as a separate snap-in. Inside the Performance tool you will find a Monitoring Tools folder, and in it you will find the Reliability Monitor. The…

Knowing how much time your system has been running is a piece of information useful for administrators. Sometimes you might need it in order to know when the machine has recovered from a possible power failure or any other issue it might have had. While there are plenty of 3rd-party tools that allow one to…

The Command Prompt is a native Windows program that lets you execute commands without using a GUI. You can accomplish pretty much every task in the Command Prompt as you can with the GUI and a mouse. The Command Prompt gets its roots (arguably) from a combination of UNIX and MS-DOS. Consider it “Windows without…

After a long delay, this is a part 4 of my MCSE and System Administrator job interview sample questions. See previous parts at: Part 1 – Networking Part 2 – Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Part 3 – Exchange Server 2003 This article set is targeted at both the interviewer (who needs a pool of…

Through the use of VNC and port-forwarding, you can control your Windows Vista or Windows XP computer from inside and outside your local area network. For the purposes of this tutorial, assume you have a Windows XP laptop and you have Windows Vista installed on your desktop, and you want to have complete control of…

Microsoft defines the Windows Experience Index as the following: “The Windows Experience Index is a new feature built into Windows Vista that is designed to help you better understand how well Windows Vista and other software will perform on your PC. Your computer, running Windows Vista, is assigned a rating number called a “base score”…

Windows Vista SP1 is now RTM, and will be shortly available for download for all Vista users. You can read more about it on my Changes in Vista Service Pack 1 article and my Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is RTM article. SP1 is made of a large number of individual files and components, resulting…

An .ISO file is a file that contains the complete image of a disc, either a CD or a DVD. Such files are often used when transferring CD and DVD images over the Internet (for example, most MSDN downloads that are available from the MSDN subscriber downloads page, AND the files that are delivered monthly…