Vista- Change the registered user and company name
Network administrators have had countless times that they need to change the registered user and company name for a Windows installation. Unfortunately, this process is rather difficult and needs to be done through the registry. Fortunately, by following the steps below you will be able to edit the registered user and company name for either a Windows XP computer or a Windows Vista computer.
To begin, first verify the registration details of your Windows computer. For Windows XP and Windows Vista click on Start and right-click on My Computer (just Computer).
In order to change your registered user name, you will need to edit this information in your registry.
Note: Editing the registry has the potential to cause serious (and unrecoverable) damage to your PC. If you are at all uncomfortable editing the registry, please do not attempt the following.
In Windows Vista, open your registry by clicking the Start Menu and typing regedit. Windows will prompt you for confirmation before running the Registry Editor. In Windows XP, open your registry by going to Start and then Run and typing regedit.
In your registry you will have several choices, untie the tab named HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
Continue to navigate through the registry by untying the following tabs: Software, Microsoft, Windows NT, Current Version.
The Current Version will have two editable sections called RegisteredOrganization and RegisteredOwner.
In order to change either of these fields double click the field name and enter your information in the “Value data” section and click OK
Vista – Widescreen Vista wallpapers.
When Microsoft went shopping for panoramic, widescreen wallpapers for Vista, it tapped Hamad Darwish to shoot some photos. Some of his photos made it into the initial shipping version of Vista, but many did not. Now Darwish is offering all of them for download, absolutely free. Some of them are absolutely remarkable, in our opinion, so go ahead and check them out.
Vista – Increase SATA drive performance.
This tip “enhances” drive performance by allowing the drive in question to perform more write caching to system memory. The danger is if your system loses power and you do not have a backup power source (UPS), whatever data is cached to system memory will be lost. If you’re the adventurous type and want a bit more responsiveness out of your system, click Start, type Device Manager in the Search box, click the Device Manager, open up the Disk drives tree, right-click a drive, and select Properties. Go to the Policies tab and check “Enable Advanced Performance.” Click OK.