Customize your desktop icons
Recently we have received e-mails from our readers asking us to help them customize or restore their standard desktop icons. In order to answer their questions and also help other … Read more
Appearance And Personalization
Tutorials showing you how to customize the following: looks (resolution, colors, etc), the taskbar and start menu, Folder Options and Fonts.
How to customize the Start Menu search box
This is the last in our series of articles about Instant Search. In the previous articles we tried to explain how Instant Search works and how to improve it. In … Read more
How to improve Instant Search
We mentioned in our previous article that Instant Search uses an index to return the results of your searches as quickly as possible. The index is like a library that … Read more
Put the Shut Down, Log Off, Restart and Hibernate shortcuts on your desktop
One of the small but important changes in Windows Vista is the redesign of the Shut Down Start Menu options. Even if some people might have a different opinion, we … Read more
How to switch back to the Classic Start Menu
One of the biggest changes in Windows Vista is the complete redesign of the Start Menu. While this change is a good thing for some people, others prefer to use … Read more
Windows Sidebar – the complete guide
In this tutorial we will show you how to use the Windows Sidebar – a new application included in the Windows Vista operating system. You will learn how to tweak … Read more
Put the Shut Down button back on your Start Menu
In one of our previous tutorials we where showing how to configure Windows Vista to shutdown when you press the power button of your system case. Since then, many of … Read more
Windows DreamScene
DreamScene is a tool that allows people to use videos and other optimized animations as desktop wallpapers. It is included in the Windows Ultimate Extras package and can be downloaded … Read more
Remove the arrow and the “shortcut” text from your Windows Vista shortcuts
Since we launched wintuts.com we noticed that quite a high percentage of our visitors searched for a way to remove the arrow and the “shortcut” text from their Windows Vista … Read more
Take advantage of the new Quick Launch Bar
One of the small but nice new things in Windows Vista is the Quick Launch Bar. It is not just a bar with nice little shortcuts on which you click, … Read more