Aero effect is one of the amazing effect in windows vista , if you have desktop window manager clubbed with your windows vista edition you can enjoy the aero effect in vista.
What is DWM?
DWM (Desktop Window Manager ) previously known as Desktop Compositing Engine or DCE) is a compositing window manager, introduced with Windows Vista, that enables the Windows Aero user interface. DWM requires graphics cards supporting DirectX 9.0 and Shader Model 2.0.
But if your graphic card does not support directX 9.0 and Shader Model Technology, you may not be able to run aero effect.
But you can still run aero with your unsupported graphic card with TweakVista
Let’s see how can you run aero effect then.
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By default auto login feature got disabled in windows when ever you create any other account in windows XP other than default administrator acoount.
What is AutoLogon?
When a user got logged in windows XP without entering username and password. Don’t you think this could be more convenient when logging to windows?
Note: When you turn on autologon in Windows XP becomes more convenient, but turning this setting on can pose a security risk, but still if you want to do it.
Let’s see how you turn this setting on.
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May be you are very much annoyed by UAC but still does not want UAC to be turned off in your user account in vista but want to perform some task without user account control elevation prompts.
You can do these tasks by using default build in administrator account but you will have to enable it first.
Follow the procedure below to enable default admin account in Vista
1. Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
2. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
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Most of us miss the most accessible Bookmarks Toolbar as there in firefox but not found in IE7.
But there is a bookmark toolbar in IE7 but it is not enabled by default so you need to enable it explicitly.
To Enable the Bookmarks Toolbar follow the steps given below.
1. Start >> Run and type iexplore and press Enter.
2. Press Alt key , go to view>>toolbars>>Select Links(as shown in the image below)
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There are lots of process in windows which keeps on running in the background using some share of windows resources all the time.
These process are most of the time are not use full to all of us, one of those process is wmpnscfg.exe
What is wmpnscfg.exe?
wmpnscfg.exe is used to alert users when a new media device is found on the network. When wmpnscfg is notified that a new media device is available on the network, it displays a popup in the system tray that informs the user about the availability of the new device.
How To Disable or Stop WMPNCFG.EXE service ?
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