TweakUI was a very famous tweaking utility for Windows XP but there was no such similar utility for Windows Vista. Ultimate Windows Tweaker is tweaking utility for Windows Vista and it can be rightly called as “Tweak UI for Vista”. It allows you to customize Windows Vista with over 130 changes.

Many of us must have disabled the default Windows Vista UAC on our system due to its irritating nature. Even though it is a good security measure to have User Account Panel, no ones likes to get disturbed for simple actions. But since there are a lot of malicious programs that can harm our system, disabling UAC creates a security risk. Smart UAC is very nice alternative to Vista’s default UAC. It replaces your Vista’s UAC with something that is more secure, configurable and less irritating.

Today when I tried creating a New Folder in Windows Vista, I saw that the option was missing from the right click “New” menu. I tried creating it through the explorer by going to “Organize – New Folder”. This option was there but it was doing nothing. I was able to successfully able to create a folder through DOS but that is not something you prefer.

One of the security features in Vista is the User Account Control (UAC) feature. When ever you try to install a program or any processes try to change the system setting, it displays a prompt through which you can accept or disable the action. This increases the security of the system but can sometime turn out to be annoying if you are trying to install some programs. Here is the simple process of disabling it

Whenever you install Windows Vista on your machine, it comes with a lot of components or utilities that you probably don’t want. vLite is a software that lets you create a Vista installation DVD that will only have the things that you want. You can also use it install vista without responding to any prompts, all by automating those actions. You are not doing anything illegal as long as you are making these changes to your own Vista DVD and keeping it to yourself.

Vista Manager is a all in one utility to tune up, tweak, optimize and cleanup Windows Vista. It contains an impressive collection of tools which will improve your Windows Vista every aspect from security to optimization to performance.
Some the main utilities which it has are

Normally when you have to open the command prompt in Vista, you have to do so by navigating the menu. There is a small trick using which you can open the command prompt just by right clicking.

Yahoo has announced the launch of its messenger 9.0 Beta, a new version of its messaging software that can work on both Windows Vista and Windows XP. There are several new features and a new look.

This is an interesting hack for Vista through which you can enable “Slow Motion” animation that will work if you are holding the “shift” key while minimizing , maximizing , closing a window.
This will work if you can run the Windows Aero glass theme . To make this work , just download this file . Unzip it and duble click it to add it to the Windows Registry . Two new values will be added to the registry . Just restart and the effect will be visible . …

I have been using Windows Vista for 3 months now and one error that has always annoyed me is the “COM Surrogate Error ” . This error generally occurs when you open a folder thaty contains a lot of media files . The error is

Beleive me it is irritating . This error is mainly caused due to codecs i,e Divx , Nero etc which might not be compatible with Vista . Some possible solutions to this problem are