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 [...]

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