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Usefull Windows Media Center( MCE ) keyboard shortcuts..

Here are some shorcuts for media center in winodows vista…. Navigation

Open Windows Media Center or return to the Windows Media Center start screen Windows Key+ALT+ENTER
Close Windows Media Center ALT+F4
Accept the selection ENTER
Go back to the previous screen BACKSPACE
Go to the first item in a list HOME
Go to the last item in a list END
Go to the next page PAGE DOWN
Go to the previous page PAGE UP
Move left, right, up, or down ARROW KEYS
Go in and go out of windowed mode ALT+ENTER
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Remove the annoying Security Center pop up in windows vista.

Now a days i am getting lots of messages and emails asking me about the trick to disable the annoying pop up message in windows vista.So for all here is the solution…

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Use Snip Tool in windows vista as a small replacement for snagit.

Well finally microsoft has included a inbuilt snipping tool called Snip in their latest release operating system windows vista in all the editions.Now at least for those using conventional method for snapping various screen shots by those who cant afford screen casting softwares like snagit can have a somewhat better approach then the previous one.

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Some Awesome Commands To Clear The IE7 History in vista and xp

You can automate any one of the functions on the Internet Explorer 7 Delete Browsing History dialog.By Putting all selected commands in a batch file and simply scheduled the history clean up by putting the shortcut to the batch file in the common startup folder in all programs.

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Use Windows Mail In Windows Vista for your gmail or any pop3 account.

Yes there is no need to download any mail client in case of windows vista as you can do the same using windows mail comes by default with a windows vista.

So, no thunderbird required in this case if you have windows vista installed.I have configured my gmail account in windows mail. As per the interface quite a sleek and fast interface with looks similar to thunderbird.

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Cool keyboard shortcuts tricks for windows vista and xp.

All of us know almost the most common keyboard shortcuts using the window key listed below.

Vista Shortcuts using the Windows key:

Window key+B Sets focus to first icon in the notification area. You can use arrow keys to move among the icons in the notification area or press Tab to move around
on the taskbar.

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New tips & tricks and hacks for Windows Vista

I have been getting lots of feedbacks about vista user experience from my friends about various features and some adhock functionalities which compelled me to prepare this post which is all about tweaking vista and not only in terms of Gui but various features & functionalities of windows vista.

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Disable or Access denied on data writing on usb drives by your computer in windows vista or xp

So there is a simple way to stop writing of data on any machine having windows xp or windows vista.

Since Windows XP SP2, you can disable writing to USB devices altogether using a simple registry hack.This hack also works on windows vista.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies]
“WriteProtect”=dword:00000001

Go to the location and set the dword value as 1 or copy the registry settings given below in notepad and save it as .reg file and enter these settings in the registry by double clicking and confirming the entry by clicking ok button of the message window.

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