Tips for using Windows Vista

As we all know, in Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced UAC. Although there is a user-friendly graphical interface, sometimes you still need to execute some operations that can only be executed at the command line prompt. In the run dialog box, Enter cmd
Click OK to open a command line prompt with normal permissions. Sometimes, if you want to perform operations that require administrator permissions, you need to click all programs → attachments → right-click command line prompt → run with administrator permissions, not only is it troublesome,
It is also a waste of time. In fact, we have a better method:

1. Click Start → run, enter "% systemroot % \ system32" (excluding Chinese quotation marks, the same below), and click OK.
2. Right-click in the blank window, select new shortcut, enter "% ComSpec %" in the position bar, and click Next. Enter "acmd" (any) as the shortcut name and click Finish.
3. Find the created shortcut, right-click it, and select Properties. Click the Advanced button, click "Run as administrator", and click OK twice.
4. In the future, to open a command line prompt with administrator permissions, just open the Run window and enter the shortcut name entered in step 1.

2. Vista games also cheat

In Windows XP, some games that come with the system, such as mine clearance, can cheat, and those methods are not working in Vista. I modified the game files through tools, cheat with the following methods:
1. Obtain the "Vista game cheating patch" patch file from below and decompress it to any folder.
2. run Setup. bat as an administrator and follow the prompts.
3. Start the game that comes with Vista. You can find that there is an additional Debug menu or some more options in the game menu, that is, the cheating option. Do not say it here?
Tip: This patch only works for the following games: Chess Titans, freeloaders, red hearts, minesingers, cards, and spider cards.

3. Start Menu search box secret

In Windows Vista, there is a search box in the Start menu, but do you know what functions this search box has? Let me tell you!
I. Search for files
The most common use of this search box is to search for files. You only need to enter a keyword to search for files.
Ii. Running
In Vista, the search box can also act as a running window. You only need to enter a command such as "cmd" and press enter to open the command line prompt.
3. Folder Browser
Enter a path, such as "c: \". In the search panel above, you can see the document under this path, select one with the cursor up and down, and press Enter, you can open this file/folder. You can also
Press "\" to display the contents in this folder.

4. display or hide common icons on the desktop

Vista hides many icons on the desktop by default. You can choose to display common Windows functions on the desktop. Follow these steps to add these icons to the desktop to make it easier to find and use.
1. Right-click the desktop and select personalization.
2. In the left pane, click Change desktop icon ".
3. Under "desktop icon", select the check boxes corresponding to each icon to be displayed on the desktop. Clear the check box corresponding to the icon you do not want to display, and click OK ".

5. Retrieve the hidden IE icon on the desktop

Although some icons can be retrieved through 4th tips, due to the EU relationship, Microsoft hides the Internet Explorer icon on the desktop, and 4th tips cannot be found, some may say, put the Quick Start Column
Can I copy the IE icon to the desktop? In fact, the icon is just a shortcut, not a real IE icon. to retrieve the real icon, follow these steps:
1. Open the run dialog box, enter "regedit", and click OK to go to the Registry Editor.
2. Go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ explorer \ hidemo-topicons \ NewStartPanel" in the registry.
3. Double-click the CLSID icon on the right and change the value to 0 to display it on the desktop.
Tip: The CLSID of Internet Explorer is {871c5316-42a0-1069-a2ea-08002b30309d}, and the public folder is {4336a54d-038b-4685-ab02-99bb52d3fb8b}

6. stored documents in the computer

In Vista, "my computer is changed to a" computer ". Generally, files cannot be stored in this location. However, you only need to store the documents on the" System Disk: \ Users \ USERNAME \ AppData \ Roaming \ Microsoft
\ Windows \ Network Shortcuts can be displayed in computer.

7. Playing Aero with low Configuration

Because the Vista system has high hardware requirements, especially for Aero special effects, some users who use MB of memory cannot enable them at all. In fact, we can use special methods to force Aero special effects to be enabled.
1. Open the run dialog box, enter "regedit", and click OK to go to the Registry Editor.
2. Locate "HEKY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ DWM ".
3. Double-click "Composition" on the right, change the value to 1, double-click "CompositionPolicy", change the value to 2, and exit the Registry Editor.
4. Run the command line prompt as an administrator and enter "net stop uxsms & net start uxsms"
5. log out of the user and log on again. You will find that Aero is enabled, but the system speed slows down.

8. Error Code finder provided by the system

The blue screen has existed since the birth of Windows, and the blue screen information of the NT and above systems has an error code (Format: 0x ????????, Where? Is a hexadecimal Error Code), it is not too troublesome to query the internet, but 2007
The EP Process Manager 4.2 query introduced in phase 3 software guide is not too troublesome. In fact, Windows itself comes with a queryer.
1. Open the run dialog box, enter "cmd", and click OK to enter the command line prompt.
2. Use the calculator on the computer to convert the error code into a 10-digit system.
3. Go to the command line prompt and enter "net helpmsg ?????" (Where? 10-digit error code), you can see the help for Chinese errors.

9. Use smart ABC in Vista

Intelligent ABC, a very good Pinyin input method, was removed from Vista somehow. In fact, Microsoft did not pick this out, but integrated it into the Microsoft Pinyin 2007 categories. Just call up Microsoft Pinyin and click on the status bar
A button behind the Microsoft Pinyin icon, with the ABC input style selected, can be switched to the smart abcinput style. However, we all know that Microsoft Pinyin occupies a large amount of resources and is not easy to use, someone has made free intelligence on the Internet.
ABC 5.22 Vista, but one problem is that the account used for this input method must have administrator permissions.
1. Obtain the "Vista Smart ABC installer" from the CD and run the installer.
2. Right-click the language bar, select properties, and add the itABC 5.22 input method.

10. Find the hidden "command line prompt here" Function

You can open a command line prompt and call it to the current directory. Vista also considers this. You only need to press Shift and right-click the directory or drive to see several features that you cannot normally see. Convenient though
But if you need to do this frequently, it is not too troublesome to press Shift each time. In fact, you can modify the Registry to always display this function in the right-click menu.
1. Open the run dialog box, enter "regedit", and click OK to go to the Registry Editor.
2. Go to "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ Directory \ shell \ cmd"
3. Delete the string value "Extended" on the right"
4. Repeat the preceding operations to perform "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ Directory \ Background \ shell \ cmd" and "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ CLSID \ {d8fba-ad25-11d0-98a8-0800361b1103}
\ Shell \ cmd "and" HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ Drive \ shell \ cmd "make the same changes.
5. restart the computer and check if it is successful?

11. Add "Administrator command line prompt here"

We have talked about two tips: finding out the hidden "command line prompt here" function and quickly opening a command line prompt with administrator permissions, but some people say they have enabled the UAC function, and sometimes in some Directories
Run some commands that require administrator permissions. Although you can click Run, enter "acmd", and then use the "cd" command to convert to that directory, it is inconvenient. After research, I wrote a small program to solve this problem.
Question.
1. Obtain the "Administrator command window program and Registry File" created below and decompress it to any folder.
2.copy acmd.exe to the c root directory.
3. Select a registry file (see Registry File) and double-click it to import it to the Registry.
4. now, press Shift or right-click the folder/drive directly (depending on the registry file you selected), and you will find an additional command: "Open the Administrator command window here (2 )", click it.
The prompt box shows that the program is not recognized. You can click Allow directly. As you can see, a command line prompt is opened and has the administrator privilege.
Tip: acmd. reg is installed (Shift is displayed); acmd_noext.reg is installed (always displayed); acmd_uninstall.reg is uninstalled.

12. display the UAC window on the current user's desktop.
In Windows Vista, if a UAC prompt is triggered, Windows Vista performs the following operations by default:
1. capture the current desktop background image
2. process the desktop background image in the memory and change it to a grayscale image.
3. Switch to the Winlogon Security desktop of the current user and use the processed image as the background image.
4. Display UAC prompt dialog box
5. record user operations and switch back to the user's original Desktop
In the above steps, desktop switching is one of the reasons for screen flickering. If you do not want to see the flickering screen switch, you can use the following methods to display the UAC prompt dialog box on your desktop instead of Winlogon
Desktop.
1. Press Win + R to open the run dialog box, Run "Gpedit. msc", and click Continue In the UAC window.
2. Find "Computer Management → manage templates → Windows Components → Credential User Interface → trusted path for requesting creden。" and double-click.
3. Select the enabled dialog box and click OK. Run a command that requires administrator privileges. The UAC prompt box is displayed on the current user's desktop.
Note: The above method will reduce the Windows Vista UAC security feature (simply put, [url = secure), only when you really want to take a UAC image or program needs
Is recommended.
: The Winlogon Security desktop is the SYSTEM user's desktop. In Windows XP/2003, the Session ID of the First Login User is 0, and the service and the first user run on this Session. In Vista,
The Session ID of the SYSTEM user is 0, and the Session ID of the First Login User is 1, that is, the service and the user program are run separately. On the security desktop, there are no input method vulnerabilities and other programs cannot be run.
That is to say, there cannot be viruses to control the UAC prompt box on the secure desktop.

13. manually add a custom search engine to IE7
IE7 has built-in search functions and can add other search engines to the Microsoft website, but sometimes it is not convenient to add them to the Microsoft website, such as installing Windows XP + IE7 in batches, then add the company's internal search
It is too cumbersome to add a plug-in one by one. In fact, you can add a plug-in using a registry file.
1. Obtain the "IE 7 Custom Search Engine file" I created from below and decompress it to any folder.
2. Copy Google. reg and open it in notepad.
3.open guidgen.exe, select registry format, and click Copy. Replace the long curly braces in the notepad with the copied content.
4. Open a search engine with IE, search for TEST, copy the content in the address bar, replace TEST with {searchTerms}, and copy it to the clipboard.
5. Put "http://www.google.cn/search? Q = {searchTerms} "is replaced with the copied content. Then, replace "Google Search" with the name of the search engine.
6. Double-click the import registry to view the effect.

14. Open the program with Administrator permission in Batch Processing
You sometimes need to run some batch files obtained from the Internet in Vista, while some batch files require administrator permissions. Sometimes you forget to run them in administrator mode and run the batch directly, batch processing error. Its
To avoid these errors, you only need to use the command that requires administrator permission to upgrade the permission through a small program during batch writing. Obtain a "permission escalation tool" for my applet from the following
Cmd.exe/c) for example:
@ Echo off
At h: \ windows \ system32 \ notepad.exe
Change
@ Echo off
Runadmin.exe at.exe :30 h: \ windows \ system32 \ notepad.exe
You can.

15. Enable the check box to select a file
As we all know, you can press Ctrl and click to select a folder that is not consecutive. However, when you are not careful, all the work will be abandoned. Vista provides the check box selection method. In the folder window, click
"Organization → folder and search options → view → advanced options → use the check box to select items → OK ". Now, you will find a selection box on the file where the mouse passes. You can hook the corresponding box if you want to select one.

16. Create a shortcut for the system spam function of IE.
The system privacy cleaning function is added in IE7, But to be clear, you need to open IE first, and then click the menu in sequence. We can create a shortcut on the desktop for the system spam function of IE. Right-click the desktop,
Select New shortcut. Enter the command in the following table, click Next, enter a name, and click Finish.

Role command
Clear IE cache Rundll32.exe InetCpl. cpl, ClearMyTracksByProcess 8
Clear Cookie Rundll32.exe InetCpl. cpl, ClearMyTracksByProcess 2
Delete IE history Rundll32.exe InetCpl. cpl, ClearMyTracksByProcess 1
Clear the saved form Rundll32.exe InetCpl. cpl, ClearMyTracksByProcess 16
Clear the Saved Password Rundll32.exe InetCpl. cpl, ClearMyTracksByProcess 32
Clear all the above content Rundll32.exe InetCpl. cpl, ClearMyTracksByProcess 235
Clear all IE privacy and add-on settings Rundll32.exe InetCpl. cpl, ClearMyTracksByProcess 4351

Tip: The command must be in correct case; otherwise, the command may fail to run!

17. Quickly jump to a location in the Registry
You sometimes have to jump to some locations in the registry, but those locations are very deep and you are tired of finding them one by one. We can obtain and run the "dedicated version of the Registry jump tool Vista" from the following, which is allowed in the UAC window,
Enter the location to jump to in the location column, delete the content in the key value column, and click Open Registry Editor.