Videos tagged with Windows Vista

A simple tool cuts down on your electricity usage Never forget to turn off your monitor again! On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you a free simple tool that shuts off your screen when you're not using it with the press of a button.

Skip the middle screen to get to your applications No need to go through the intermediate screen to access your task manager. On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you how to go directly to your processes and applications.

A Vista tip for calendar users Do you use Vista's calendar? On today's Tekzilla Daily, Patrick has a tip to make your life easier.

Save yourself the hassle of rebuilding your system in the event of a catastrophic disk failure, by creating a custom recovery disc... and learn about Rescue CDs and Slipstreaming while you do! Eventually it will happen: your hard drive gets corrupted, damaged or wiped. Your PC has become a giant paperweight. If you have backups all of your data -you do back up your data, right?- you can spend h...

Simple solution to Vista's compatibility issues with older Windows software. On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica gives you a tip on how to make those older programs behave with Vista.

Discover how to easily add support for Web feeds to your client applications using the new RSS platform services provided with IE7 and Windows Vista. This session covers the components of the platform, what they can do for you, and how to integrate them with your application. Learn from case studies of the different approaches Outlook, OE Live, and the Windows Sidebar used to take advantage of ...

From HD to mobile, Windows Media technologies are enabling new content distribution models and powering the digital media user experience of tomorrow. If you care about publishing models, consumer scenarios, building rich media driven applications and want to understand the future of the Windows Media platform then this session is for you. In this session we will drill into the state of Windows...

Media Center for Windows Vista gives you new ways of delivering compelling entertainment to the Digital Home. In this technical session, learn how to create rich, engaging content and services for the home, using DHTML, Windows Presentation Foundation, and the new Windows Media Center Presentation Layer. Also, see how you can take advantage of Xbox 360 to deliver those services to multiple room...

Vista's file indexing can even make super fast PC's feel slow. So turn it off and speed up Vista's look and feel. While you're computing away, vista's working hard indexing all your files in the Start menu, user profile folders and files. This is great if you need to do a fast search for a file or folder, but If you have a lot of these files, indexing can make your overall system performance a ...

Give your taskbar a facelift Getting tired of the same old Quicklaunch bar staring back at you? Veronica shares a viewer-submitted tip for adding some life back into that toolbar.