Posts Tagged ‘Vista’
Windows 7 Build 7057 Login Screen for Windows XP, Vista and 7
Most of you already know that Windows 7 build 7057 was leaked. Most of you probably noticed the lovely new login screen and would like it on previous versions of Windows.
Look no further, you can have the Windows 7 Build 7057 Login Screen working on Windows XP, Vista and 7 now! Continue reading to see how to download & install them after the jump.
Desktop Icons as list view
I remember back when I was using Windows XP there was a shell extension that allowed you to have your Desktop Icons as a list view. I did a quick Google Search and found an application called Deskview.
Deskview not only works in Windows XP but also works in Windows Vista (x86 and x64). To really shrink your icons in Vista, essentially what you would want to do is set them to “classic” icons or hold down your CTRL key and use your mouse wheel to shrink or enlarge them. Then you will want to run deskview.exe to change them to list view.
Now what this small application does is simple and it doesn’t have any options. You double-click it to set your Desktop Icons as a list view then double-click it again to change them back to the default setting.
On the left is what the normal icons look like, and on the right is what the list view looks like.
Note: I didn’t create this program, nor do I know who did. If someone knows of, or you are the author of this software please don’t hesitate to contact me to add your credit!
Tags: Software, Vista, Windows, XP
Where did hibernation go, Vista?
I was going through all the Vista power options, trying to get my Hibernation mode back on, which seemed to have disappeared.
I found out the hibernate option will disappear if you have recently run Disk Cleanup, which I did. By running this it removes the hiberfil.sys file resulting in no hibernation. See Microsoft article KB928897.
After googling around, I found a simple method to enable / disable hibernation:
1. Click start, type “command” in the Start Search box (without quotes)
2. Right-click Command Prompt in the Programs list, and click “Run as Administrator”
3. If User Account Control prompts you to allow the action, click on Continue.
4. In the Command Prompt, type “powercfg –h off” (or “on” without the quotes), then press enter.
5. Close the Command Prompt window and you’re done 
You should now have hibernate and hybrid sleep options for your power profiles.
Tags: Microsoft, Software, Vista, Windows
Replace Notepad with Notepad2, Vista
One of my previous posts was about the text editor Notepad2. Which as I mentioned before is a lightweight editor which also has syntax highlighting.
Now I recently noticed a forum post on MSFN, on how to replace Notepad with Notepad2, so without further ado, here is the code:
takeown /f %Systemroot%\notepad.exe
takeown /f %Systemroot%\System32\notepad.exe
icacls %Systemroot%\notepad.exe /grant "%username%":f
icacls %Systemroot%\System32\notepad.exe /grant "%username%":f
IF EXIST %SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64 (bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions "DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS")
copy %Systemroot%\notepad.exe %Systemroot%\notepad.original.exe
copy %Systemroot%\System32\notepad.exe %Systemroot%\System32\notepad.original.exe
ECHO.
ECHO Original notepad.exe has been renamed to "notepad.original.exe" in its original folder.
ECHO.
copy notepad2\notepad2.exe %Systemroot%\notepad.exe /y
copy notepad2\notepad2.exe %Systemroot%\System32\notepad.exe /y
Now all you need to do is save this into a bat file, I called mine replacenp2.bat. Then just create a folder called notepad2, with a subfolder the same, and place the notepad2.exe file in it, and run the command, and voiola, Notepad is replaced with Notepad2.
So the directory structure should look something like this:
- notepad2
- replacenp2.bat
- notepad2
- notepad2.exe
- notepad2
Update: Now, I tried running the command, but for some reason (even ran as admin), it didn’t want to copy it. So I opened up an elevated command prompt, and it seemed to copy & replace fine.
History repeats itself
Well it seems like everyone touted Vista as “the bad OS”, especially when SP1 came out, causing reboot loops. A lot of people seemed to steer clear of SP1, saying that XP was a lot better.
Now, the question is, everyone that put dirt on Vista SP1 for the endless reboot loop, and sticking with XP for the stability, seems like they got what they asked for. Microsoft recently released SP3 for XP, and guess what – it has an endless reboot bug also.
Now, I haven’t noticed many people saying things like “XP is a piece of sh*t”, but why? It has the same bug that Vista SP1 had. I thought everyone would now be saying “I’m sticking with Windows 2000 SP4″, since it seems to be “the stable one” now.
Well there’s my rant for the day. Vista SP1 reboot loop vs XP SP3 reboot look, take your pick.
On a lighter note, the Vista SP1 reboot loop has been fixed for awhile now, so it seems, in light of things, Vista seems to be the stable one for now.