The following are common Microsoft Windows network commands
ipconfig
Ipconfig is a Console Command which can be issued to the Command Line Interpreter (or command prompt) to display the network settings currently assigned to any or all network adapters in the machine. This command can be utilised to verify a network connection as well as to [...]

Changing My Pictures and My Music
Normally, when you open up the Start Menu, below Documents, is shown My Pictures and My Music
If you want, you can change these to any other locations you may use more frequently.

Start Regedit

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

On the right side, change the location for My Pictures and My [...]

Changing the Desktop Icon Size
By default, the icons on the desktop are quite large.
To change the size

Right click on the Desktop
Select View
Set it to Classic Icons

 You can also hold down the Control key while the desktop is displayed

Use the wheel mouse to make the icons larger or smaller
This gives more control

Since most computers come with 3rd party programs that are easier to use than Vista’s CD/DVD burning,
you can turn this off with a simple registry edit.

Start Regedit

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Policies Explorer

Create a new DWORD key NoCDBurning

Give it a value of 1

Log off and back on [...]

There are likely Windows Features running on the computer you don’t need.
To see what these may be and make any changes you want:

Start / Control Panel

Programs and Features

Click on Turn Windows features on or off

It typically takes a little while for this window to populate

Hovering the mouse over an entry gives a short description [...]

If the boot record need to be repaired

Boot from the Vista installation CD
Although they are likely set correctly, select a language, a time, a currency, a keyboard or an input method, and then click on Next.
Click Repair your computer
Click the operating system, and then click Next.
In System Recovery Options dialog box, click Command Prompt.
At [...]

Easy ways to speed up and maintain your Windows Vista
Want to perform a Vista speed up procedure? I often think of new ways to make my computer run faster. The problem with our lightning quick, just out of the box CPU is it gets slow and sluggish over time. And Windows Vista especially which has [...]

How to speed up windows Vista
Do you want to speed up Vista? Well this is not a surprise. Although Microsoft has made some improvements with their latest OS, Vista can still run very sluggish at times. The problem is Vista cannot perform maintenance on itself. The longer we use our computers the more we [...]

When you connect to a web site your computer sends information back and forth. Some of this information deals with resolving the site name to an IP address, the stuff that TCP/IP really deals with, not words. This is DNS information and is used so that you will not need to ask for the [...]