Changes to user profiles in Vista improve logon performance for users with roaming profiles. For employees whose primary computing device is a desktop PC, moving to another computer often results in ...

Last week, I explained how to create a connection on a computer running Windows Vista to access a shared folder (or directory) on a Linux machine. Today, I show how to connect from a Linux machine to ...

Ever wish you could save the results of a desktop search so you didn't have to repeat the search in the future? Windows Vista lets you do exactly that with a new feature called Virtual Folders. Press ...

Q: I want all of my Windows Vista folders to display the Details view, with my own custom column headings and column widths. Unfortunately, Vista does not seem to consistently remember these settings ...

When working with files (especially when downloading stuff from the web using my web browser), I quite often keep downloaded .zip, .rar, etc files on my Desktop. Quite often I keep running into a ...

Hi.<br><br>I searched through the forum for ideas on this topic but a lot of threads are roughly 5 years old and I'm hoping that there are something else out now ...

An earlier version of Windows for the desktop. Released in late 2006 for businesses and early 2007 for consumers, Vista came in six versions (see Windows Vista versions). Numerous features were added, ...

In the last installment of this series I showed how to quickly mount a shared folder on a Windows Vista machine from a Linux machine (specifically, from one running Ubuntu 6.10). This solution works ...