Hide System Tray with a simple Registry hack..!

I just got a new tricks for Vista as well as XP users from howtogeek and it will show you how you can disable the system tray from your computer with a simple registry hack..!
N.B -> disabling the system tray doesn't actually prevent system tray applications from running, it will only hide them. You may still disable or enable any applications that aren't needed.
Follow the steps to do this :
Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then navigate down to the following key (Create if it doesn't exist):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Create a new 32-bit DWORD value in the right hand pane with these values:

• Name: NoTrayItemsDisplay
• Value: 1

just reboot your system and you are done. If you don't like the process or unfortunately you saw that your system tray has vanished, then you will get it back by reversing the above process by setting the value to "0"
There may be same registry key exist in more than one location, so if you are trying to reverse this hack, you should search the registry for NoTrayItemsDisplay.

Make Windows Vista Super Fast Like Never Before.

Make Your Windows Vista super fast like never before with Vishal Gupta's master tutorial and it will take a maximum of 2 min to experience a noticeable improvement in your Vista..!
Let's not waste time any more , Just follow the steps..!
First get the modified registry file from here and run it then follow the 3 more steps
(1) Right-click on My Computer icon on Desktop and select Properties (or press key + key), click on Advanced system settings link in left side pane (You can also open it by typing sysdm.cpl in RUN or start menu search box and press Enter). Now click on Settings button in Performance section: and disable all unnecessary options in Visual Effects tab..
For your Reference visit here to know which option you can set enabled ...!
(2) Open Folder Options and click on View tab: and disable these following option

• Display file size information in folder tips.
• Display simple folder view in Navigation pane.
• Hide extensions for known file types.
• Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color.
• Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items.

(3) Now goto Services & Applications -> Services. Here you can set a few unnecessary services to Manual, which will not start with windows and will decrease the boot time and will increase system performance.
Follow the link to know about which services can be safely set to MANUAL:
Few More steps are available in Vishal's Tutorial, but i got a massive improvement in my Vista with these three steps and hope it will work for you also...
Don't Forget to thank Vishal Gupta in Digit Forum....!

Expand Vista Trial Period Legally....!

The great thinks about Microsoft is that they are giving a 30 days Evolution period for vista users to activate their Windows Vista, this let the users to to get habituate with the new operating system before before buying the activation Keys from Microsoft...!
May be some user thinks that 30 days is not enough for them to study the new OS in that case You can Expand the trial version to up to 120 days. Remember it is a legal way and we are not using any crack, Patch or any Pirated code..
Just follow the steps :
Suppose you have 12 days remaining for your activation, something like this(1) Open up an administrative mode command prompt by typing in cmd into the start menu search box, and then hit the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Enter to launch in administrative mode.
(2) Now run this command from the prompt: "slmgr -rearm"
It will take a little while, but eventually a dialog will pop up telling you to reboot. Do so, and you'll see that the activation period has been reset to 30 days...Note that if you want to get a full 120 days out of this tip that you need to use this command on day 29th or 30th day of your trial mode. Remember you can only use this command 3 times after the first one i.e a total of 4 times after that you have to purchase the original License from Microsoft...!

Source : How to Geek

Reduce The Start UP time of Vista...!

I recently upgraded my self from Windows XP to Vista and i noticed that it is taking much more time than XP to start up, and while surfing internet i found a simple tweak by which you can speed up the boot up time of vista.. just follow the steps...
Windows Vista provides a simple method to delay the startup of a service so that you can boot more quickly.The service will still eventually be started, but in the background after you are already at the desktop and the process is called Delaying Service start up
Search in your start menu search box by typing the keyword "services", or you can get in the administrative tools section of control panel...Here you will find some less important item like the Cisco VPN client required by my employer, or services installed by your printer etc which are not required by you but are starting along with Windows start up..

Select the above mention service or those service which you think in not required by you, right-click on it and choose Properties (or just double-click it)
Now change the "Startup type" drop-down to "Automatic (Delayed Start)", close the dialog and then go on to the next item.
This process will surely reduce the start up time of your Vista and it recommended that you make one change at a time..

Source : Howtogeek

Two New Sound Card Device To Enhance Vista...!

In order drop hardware acceleration Microsoft has included DirectSound 3D audio in their latest released operating system Windows Vista, along with this the motherboard makers have diligently worked to improve the quality of onboard audio solutions which posed a challenge to the sound card manufacturer...
keeping this in mind Auzentech and Asus release their latest two new sound card device one of which is Asus' new Xonar D2X, which is based on a tweaked version of C-Media's Oxygen HD and it comes with a PCI Express interface providing fodder for the scores of empty PCIe x1 slots that dot the enthusiast landscape...The second one is Auzentech's X-Fi Prelude, which is the first third-party card to employ Creative's X-Fi silicon. The Prelude uses a custom board design and upgraded components in an attempt to wring better sound quality from the already impressive X-Fi audio chip...
These two are expected to target the high end of the desktop sound card spectrum..
get more information from TechReport ...!

Source : Techreport

GIve a MAC looks To Your Windows XP...!

At this moments still 50% of PC users are using Windows XP and we are so famelier with Windows XP that we never think of changing it, Microsoft is releasing new version everyday which is having better graphics, better looks and more enhanced but as far as performance is concerned we strongly believe that XP is better and with this concept we are unable to change our OS.
Anyway we can give our XP a different looks, download a small application from Flyakiteosx.com and give your XP a MAC looks..
Download the software directly from here ..!After your downloading is compleate, extract the archive and run the installation file and follow the instruction..
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After installation reboot your system and see the all new MAC looks of your Windows XP..
there are so many transformation software are available that will change the look of your XP and give VISTA looks, they also slow down the PC but this will not slow down your PC and it can be uninstall the program any time to go back to your normal old looks...

Source : helpero.com