There are so many different tips and tricks that enable you to improve your user experience. Many of these can take quite a while to set up on your computer, so we’re going to give you a few helpful suggestions that will not take so long. We call these small tweaks, tweaklettes.
Go undercover
Vista has two different types of user accounts: administrator and standard It is better if potential hackers don’t know which is which, so right click computer and then click on Manage, then Local Users and Groups, then Users, then right click Administrator and rename and change the description too.
Listen to the wireless
In Vista terms (in fact in all computer terms) this means to find your wireless router and be able to fiddle around with it. Whoever is your ISP, whether www.o2.co.uk or anyone else, you just have to type 192.168.2.1 into your browser address bar, you’ll then be asked for your username and password. Once logged in you can make all the changes you want.
Go into Administration
No we don’t mean declare insolvency, this means learn to use your administrator account. Vista Ultimate or Business editions allow you to right click Management console and uncheck the Administrator’s ‘Account is disabled’ in the properties. For users of the ordinary edition, open the Command window and right click the cmd.exe then you’ll see that you have the option to Run as Administrator. If you put in net user administrator /active:yes and then log off, you’ll have see the account pop up on the screen.
Push your performance envelope
Learn how your computer is performing having a look at the Management Console. This is found by right clicking on Computer then selecting Manage, then Reliability, then Performance then look at the Reliability Monitor.
Those are our top tweaklettes for becoming more of a Vista It Guy. The tricks are relatively simple and you should really benefit from using them.