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I am reading this post from Serve’s SharePoint blog and one of his post is about the process on deciding about a SharePoint farm implementation.

The post covers a lot of topics that I recommend you reading through them (read here).

The Windows Vista icons are default to use Large Icons. You can however change the size of the icon to use small icons or change it back to large with the following steps:

I was looking for a Windows Vista screen capture software and one of the options I had was SnagIt; however, after I used the trial version I was disappointed as it took so much of my process. For some reason, the CPU registered 70-90% all the time and it around four minutes before my screen capture would display in its gallery. With that, I was able to find out that Windows Vista actually had a built-in screen capture utility called Snipping Tool. It is not powerful compared to SnagIt but it definitely did its job with speed and efficiency.

We have talked about the built-in Windows Vista snipping tool and today, we are talking about assigning a specific hotkey to the snipping tool.

Below are the steps to assigning a hotkey to the Windows Vista snipping tool:

Currently, the Windows Vista Power button would go into sleep mode when pushed. I like this default mode; but nonetheless, you can configure it to shut down you Windows Vista computer. Following are the steps:

1. Click on Start menu

2. Type “cmd” in the Windows Vista search input box

3. Click on “cmd” with “Run as administrator” privilege (see image below)

4. Type “powercfg.cpl,1”

You can customize Windows Vista number of recent items. The default number is 15.

1. Click on Start Menu

2. Type “regedit” in your Windows Vista search bar

3. Right-click on regedit.exe and Click on “Run as administrator” (See image below)