If you have recently bought a new computer, chances are pretty good that it has Windows Vista installed. The new look may confuse you, but there are some neat features. And if you miss the old features, there are ways to find them. For example when you click on the computer icon to view/find your resources, you’ll find that things have changed from the old Windows Explorer (My computer) layout. The folder tree is now the Navigation pane which provides access to commonly used folders and the Folders list (click image for larger view).

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Recently Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged that Microsoft was aiming to deliver Windows 7 in mid-2009. This is even earlier than previously announced indicating what may be a less-than-enthusiastic acceptance of Vista.

Up until now, Microsoft’s official line has been that Windows 7 will ship three years from the date that Vista became generally available. Microsoft began offering Vista to its business customers in the fall of 2006 and to consumers in January 2007.

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Redmond is citing the revised launch date is due to the holiday PC sales season. With Vista, Microsoft missed getting code to its PC partners early enough for them to preload it on machines they sold during the holidays and my guess is that Ballmer won’t let that happen again.

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Everytime you change the display settings, install a new hardware, or have a new user log on to the system, you are adjustiing registry values. Microsoft Windows operating system uses the registry to hold these configuration settings for how the computer should run. The next time you turn on the computer, the boot process uses the values stored in the registry to load a hardware profile (if applicable) and authorizes device drivers.

It might help if you think of the registry as a database to organize your systems information. The registry organizes similar information into files, or Hives. These Hives are stored in the %systemroot%\system32\config as Default, SAM, Security, Software, and System.

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Microsoft Office Outlook

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I’ve been wanting to be able to edit the subject line of emails while they were in my Inbox so that when I file them in different folders I can more accurately remember what is in the content of that email. What you should put as a subject line of your email is a whole different topic!! I knew you could do it in other email packages, so Microsoft had to hide it somewhere, right? Well it is there….just a little buried.

While looking at your Inbox go to View/ Current View / Customize Current View. Click on the Other Settings button. There is a check box along the right that says Allow In Cell Editing. Click that check box and you can now edit your subject line. Quick and easy!

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