Do you want to create a wallpaper, an icon, a button or anything vista-like? 

This is going to be a short compilation of some very nice tutorials creating vista-like designs.

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Did you get a new HDD for Christmas, but you don’t have a clue how to install it? This is going to be a guide how to properly install a HDD without help from an IT-expert. I really hope this will help some people! For the more advanced users this guide will also give you background information about disk and allocation sizes as well as GPT disks (GUID Partition Table).
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According to the 2008 State of the Net summary 1 in 7 computer users had major virus problems.

Having a firewall is a necessity today. Supposedly more than 50% of the PC’s connected to the internet are either not or unsufficiently protected. Because there are so many unprotected PC’s many people become a victim of hackers. A very common scenario: If you do not have a firewall a hacker might abuse your PC to attack other people without you even knowing about it. Many people, even advanced users, tend to use the easiest firewall-solution they can get, but is that the best solution too? This is going to be a review of the FREE Vista firewall Comodo. Help to make the internet a safer place and try to contribute to this or tell other people about it.
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Well recently I had some real performance problems. Vista was running fine for a long time, but then I realized that my computer was getting slower and slower.  What can you do if you experience the same problems?
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Migrating to Windows Vista also means that you will have to uninstall your mouseware logitech drivers, but there is another software you can use to bind keys to your mouse buttons.

Logitech SetPoint will help you to fully customize your mouse behaviour.
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To improve your system security and speed it helps to find out more about the processes that run on your PC. Unfortunately unknown processes can establish a connection through the internet to send personal data to a hacker and usually there are also a few processes that consume a lot of resources. Wouldn’t it be great to know the exact location of that process to investigate it?
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I want to show you exactly how to properly install vista themes, since some people do not know how to do it. Although this seems to be a long post, there are just a few steps. I have described every step in detail. Should there be any question left, feel free to use the comment form!
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If you have some folders you want to access quickly, because you regulary open or save files inside, then it helps a lot to add this folder to the file dialog. The file dialog has already a few folders on the left side, usually “Recent Places”, “Desktop”, “Computer”, “Network”. If you want to increase your productivity, then it is necessary to replace the folders with your most commonly used folders.
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Ok I know a lot of you have trouble with all that tech stuff, that’s why I want to help you to tweak Vista.

This is my first post of the series: “Solved: How to …”

One of the problems many people face once they have installed Vista is that their folder view will change every time they close and reopen a folder. This is annoying right?

Well here is the solution… (pictures inside)
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The last couple of days I had to deal with a few problems, that were mainly caused by some stupid mistakes. I turned off my computer holidng the power-on button for a few seconds (this will usually shutdown a PC completely), because I was in a hurry and had to leave. After I turned on the PC again a couple hours later I received a message that the file /system32/config/system was missing and this is a crucial file of the operating system…

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