This works on Windows Vista as well. Here’s the window you’ll get when you try and write to a USB drive:

To change this setting, we’ll need to get to the Regional and Language Options screen. The easiest way to do so is just enter intl.cpl into the Start menu search box and hit enter. Otherwise, throw in region into the Control Panel. Windows 7 Military Time It’s even easier in Windows 7 - just change the drop-down as shown:

I know what you are thinking. Can’t I just make a shortcut? Of course you’re free to. If the key does not exist, then create a new 32-bit DWORD value with the same name. To remove the icon, you could set the value to 1 instead. Download Registry Hack Even easier, you could just use one of the registry files I’ve prepared. Just unzip and double-click to enter into the registry....

When you launch the tool, you might choose to either backup or restore the profile.

An example is if you wanted to start numbering your ID column at 1000 instead of 1. It would be wise to first check what the current identify value is. (which it really shouldn’t) DBCC CHECKIDENT ( ‘databasename.dbo.orders’,RESEED, 999)

One of the things that drives me crazy on Windows Vista is all of the optional updates that show up in the Windows Update list. I want to look at Windows Update and see that there are no updates, not see that there’s a list of 14 language packs that I don’t really need Just open up Windows Update, and you might see something like this: But when you select View available updates, you see this:...

There’s two ways that you’ve got the option to disable tabbed browsing. If you are a system administrator, here are some registry hacks to Enable/Disable Tabbed Browsing. Just unzip, and double-click.

Firefox resizes large images by default to fit in the online window window. This can get really annoying if you are browsing a lot of large images. To see this in action, you could tap the link to the really nice Ubuntu wallpaper.

This is just a small registry hack that will set the home page for IE6 or IE7. Here’s the registry hack. You’ll potentially want to change the home page listed.

you might speed up your gear by enabling this mode in gear Manager.

And just like that, no more Favorite Links bar. The only problem with this is that it also hides the Folders view as well.

This can be a little frustrating when trying to quickly look at a feed without actually adding it. Firefox also supports bloglines and yahoo as well. you might select this checkbox to set the default feed reader for the first time. you’re free to set the default software to handle feeds here. Note: If you are a serious RSS user, you should use Google Reader.

What’s this all about, you ask? Start++ is a small add-on system that lets you create aliases of words and characters to commands or searches. you’re free to set the commands to run with administrator privileges.