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*Enable Screen Magnifier
Do you find parts of the interface hard to see or would you like to zoom in on your work in photoshop? The Magnifier tool in Windows Vista is a great little utility that is a great help.
*Hide Highlighting of Compressed or Encrypted Files and Folders
By default XP displays compressed or encrypted files and folders with a unique color.
*How to break WEP Encryption
Breaking any encryption involves knowing a few things.
*Enhance Performance by Moving the Pagefile
Boost performance by moving your pagefile to a separate volume.
*Naming Printers
Be careful naming your printers if you want to be able to manage them!
Ever deployed a printer and then tried to open its properties from the print server and found the Security tab missing or some of the buttons on the property sheet not working? You may have given your new printer a name that contains a reserved name.
Control Incoming Read Receipts
Are you concerned about having e-mail tracking options enabled or that someone is spying on you? Here are a couple of tips you can employ that will put your mind at ease:
Follow these steps to customize your Outlook mailbox so that you can see at a glance which messages have read receipts attached:
Open your Outlook inbox.
*How to customize the Send To menu in Vista
A useful trick in Vista is being able to right-click on an item, select Send To, and then send the item to your Documents folder, a mail recipient, a USB drive, and so on.