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Vista's Partition Magic

Did you know that Vista natively supports partition resizing in Windows Vista? If you go into Computer Management and navigate down to Storage, and then Disk Management in the right window pane you can select a volume, shrink that volume by right clicking on the volume and selecting Shrink Volume. This will open a dialog box to shrink the volume where you can configure how small you would like to make it, of course it cannot shrink it past the size of the data on the drive, if you want to completely...  ... Read the full post or  the 2 comments. Filed under: Tools, et. all, Vista, Hack

Booting Your Vista Box From A WIM File Stored Locally

Let me first say Happy Mothers Day to all the wonderful Mothers out there hopefully you are having/had a superb Mothers Day!!! Today is Mothers Day in the US if you hadn't guessed. This is just amazing, this is the third time today that I have found someone already had a solution to a question I was asked just this last week. This is one, managing SMS clients in both workgroup and a domain, and problems with WinPE and RealTek drivers. This is a very cool solution to someone asking me something...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: Tools, Vista, Hack, OSD, WAIK, Windows PE, BDD

Hack Vista's ReadyBoost

Hope everyone had a great holiday. Mine was outstanding! I always love giving more than getting but my wife always amazes me because I am so hard to shop for and yet she always gets me something great, usually more than one thing. Below is a hack on how to enable ReadyBoost in Vista on devices that may not be quite fast enough to be supported. Source . Windows ReadyBoost is a great technology, caching things on USB drives to improve system performance, but Windows Vista insists on checking the drives...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: Vista, Hack

Run Your Screensaver As Your Deksktop Backgound

I have tired this out on my HP tablet and it works great! Nice work Jason! Make any Screensaver as your desktop Wallpaper You can run a screensaver, ANY screensaver as your Vista Desktop. System impact? Zero. Vista performance impact? Zero. So, are you ready to give it a try? It involves a bit of a hack. But if you are the farthest thing from a Windows power user, you can do the same thing via an application that automates the process. This tool will enable you to select the screen saver and schedule...  ... Read the full post or  the 2 comments. Filed under: Vista, Hack