I purchased a new PC with Windows Vista Premium about three months back. I wanted Vista and after a bit a time am comfortable with the interface and where to find things. I remember when XP came out. People at the business I worked at were always talking about how bad XP was and how slow it was. How hard it was to find things and use the control panel.
Because I remembered all of that and know now how well XP is thought of as an OS, I assume the same process will happen for Windows Vista over time. Because of this I decided to use Vista as it was out of the box and learn the new interface and now I am glad that I did.
For those of you who cannot get through this process or have tried and still cannot get comfortable with the Vista Aero Interface, PC World has an article about making Vista look like XP. You can hit the read link to find it.
I lost a lot of hard drive space after installing SP1 of Windows Vista. I searched the Internet for a reason why and found this how-to from Alan at PCSupportforums.com
When you install Vista SP1 on your computer, the installer does not remove any of the older versions of Vista files from the hard drive.
This is because the older files will be needed if you decide to uninstall SP1 and these files, naturally occupy a lot of disk space.
If you are completely happy with SP1 and are sure that you will not want to remove it later, you can with the help of a little app remove the old files and regain your disk space.
All you need to do is open a command prompt (click on the ‘orb’ and type cmd).
In the window that opens type vsp1 cln.exe, this file is added to your system folder when you install SP1.
When asked if you want to continue, just click yes.
Be Warned! This will make Vista SP1 a permanent feature on your computer, all the older files will be deleted but you will gain a lot of space (around one and a half gig).
Online How-to’s is going to be a site with varied topics and areas of interest. We will help around the house as well as help in other areas.
We are going to start with a longtime challenge that I completed about 25 years ago but with shear luck. Solving the rubik’s cube. Here is a great video from pogobat that shows how to complete this mysterious challenge.
It is not a easy trick, but does show you the process to go through to complete this task.
