It occurs many times when you need your laptop battery power the most, like when you are giving a presentation or doing some important work but battery goes down and reaches a critical battery level.
Specially with windows vista powered laptop this situation occurs more often, as the Graphic User Interface in vista like Aero, Vista sidebar etc. consumes much more battery power.
But you can make better and efficient usage of your battery using an application called Vista Battery Saver which will save 70% of the battery power in vista by disabling these nice looking features Aero and Vista Sidebar.
Let’s see what more features it can offer
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I have been using my tx1000 hp laptop for a year now, It has been an amazing experience working with it, but I have been always annoyed by the low battery notification in vista.
When ever my laptop battery reaches to a critical low level it does not sound me an alarm rather it shows a pop up ( a balloon tip ) which indicates the low battery and normally I don’t pay attention this warning, and after some times windows hibernate the laptop automatically which I have configured myself so that I don’t loose my data and opened programs.
I would prefer to setup my windows to use the windows low battery alarm system to sound an alarm, when it shows the low battery notification so that I can let .
Let’s see how can we setup and alarm in windows vista at the time of critical battery notification.
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Yet, again like Windows XP, Windows vista also have a shortcut arrow on each and every shortcut you create and you cannot remove it or modify just through a registry hack.
I have been searching it for days but could not find out a way to do it manually through some registry tweak then, last night I found a cool utility called Vista Shortcuts Overlay Manager.
( click the image on the left to enlarge )
As seen in the image above you can easily select different radio buttons which says arrow , light arrow , custom arrow , no arrow.
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Recently just by chance when, I was normally writing some new articles for troublefixers.com.
I opened run prompt to to test something, but accidentally make a typo by typing \ (backward slash) in run. I get a list of all the folders in the root directory which I can select to open just by pressing up and down arrow key (as shown in the image below).
This small windows tip applies to both windows XP and Vista can be very productive at times.
Tip: You can also read about our previous tip on run prompt on How To Run Your Favourite Software’s and Songs Directly From Run
After windows restart or even after windows explorer quick launch items got arranged in a alphabetically and also resizes to the default.
According to the default settings of windows it does not save the settings when you customize the quick launch items ,it does not save the quick launch items location and its size also.
This issue of quick launch items location changed and resize applies to both windows XP and windows Vista
But this can be easily resolved by a registry fix.
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