Lots of useful Windows Vista tips are now starting to materialize. A new one that I’ve just implemented on my external Lacie USB Hard Drive is to enable Write Caching, which is turned off by default. By enabling Write Caching you can significantly speedup external Hard Drives in Windows Vista.

Although Windows Vista is a major improvement over Windows XP, there is one particular bug that has really upset me which is how slowly it moves or deletes files. In Windows XP there were no problems moving big files. However, with Windows Vista if you move big files even on the same drive [...]

I’ve finally started making a few changes to my Windows Vista setup. One of the most annoying recurring problems I’ve had is that User Account Control, which is designed to protect your computer from unauthorized changes isn’t very intelligent and doesn’t learn from past behaviour. So, if you will constantly have to approve [...]

Let’s face it, upgrading to Windows Vista is too expensive for most of us mere mortals, with the top-of-the-range Vista Ultimate weighing in at a whopping $379. For that kind of money you can buy an 80GB iPod.
Luckily there is a cheaper way to get your hands on a copy of Windows Vista that [...]

I’ve been cleaning out my PC this weekend in preparation for installing Windows Vista, as well as implementing a new theme which I think might finally be the one I’ve been searching high and low for (please let me know if you see any bugs!).
I’m getting quite excited about getting my hands on a copy [...]