http://www.vistaclues.com Windows Vista tips, hints, and shortcuts Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:35:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Question: Hi Tony         I have Windows Vista Ultimate. For some reason right-clicking Computer has no effect, so how do I enter the product key?             Regards                 Peter Answer: http://www.vistaclues.com/right-clicking-doesnt-work/ Question: I just purchased a dv6500 notebook direct from HP. Before I bought it, the sales guy on the phone assured me that this laptop included a TPM chip, and thus could run Bitlocker. I bought the system with Home Basic, and then installed a copy of Ultimate (which I bought ... http://www.vistaclues.com/bitlocker-says-i-dont-have-a-tpm-chip/ Question: Hello Tony: Well, here's one for you... I purchased Windows Vista and a brand spankin' new computer a month ago.  Needless to say, it's bee harried at best! Well, anywho, here's the problem now:  Periodically (often, but not always), when I try to get online via email or internet (I have DSL), a ... http://www.vistaclues.com/unknown-error-connecting-to-the-internet/ Question: In the Windows Explorer window there is a folder named Searches which contains a folder named Recently Changed. This folder shows every file that I have ever recently changed. These are not shortcuts so if I try to remove this evidence of my work by deleting a file in this ... http://www.vistaclues.com/privacy-problem-with-recently-changed-folder/ Question: Hi there, i'm having some trouble with my Vista search function. it has suddenly stopped working. When i use the search in the start menu, i get this message "search failed to initialize". When i try opening the the "search window", nothing happens when i press enter. Please help! Answer: http://www.vistaclues.com/vista-search-problem-search-failed-to-initialize/ Question: I cannot open any WMV sent to me. I see a one shot preview but that is all. Then I get is a pop up that states I have no rights or proxy setting s are wrong or file location not correct. Everything looks ok to me. Regards, Steve Answer: http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-wmv-files-cannot-open-on-vista/ I wrote an article about this topic for Microsoft a while back, and got an e-mail from someone with some tips that are actually pretty useful (rare for one of these sales-type articles). Here ya go: http://www.vistaclues.com/tips-for-taking-your-laptop-on-vacation/ Question: Hi Tony I have a new laptop at home that has Vista Home Premium. I am really disappointed to find that when I email work Excel spreadsheets to my home computer – spreadsheets with several tabs of worksheets, Vista will only allow me to open one tab at a time in ... http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-office-in-windows-vista/ Question: Tony, I have Windows Vista Home Premium, and want to use Task Scheduler to schedule Automatic Backup to my DVD to wake-up and run this task after I put my computer into Sleep Mode.  In Task Scheduler, I click on Create Task, and when I get to the Actions window, I ... http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-vista-backup-from-sleep-mode/ Question: I installed windows vista on my laptop computer and the computer desktop shrunk and got very small. How can I fix this problem? Answer: http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-smallshrunk-desktop/ Question: Tony I am a novice with a laptop on vista. I tried to put the software for photocam and it crashed my computer. Saying vista does not take this software, I am looking for a software to put in so I can put my pictures from my camera to it ... http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-importing-pictures-from-your-camera/ Question: Hi Tony, I am now preparing for MCTS 70-528 certification. I have studied the training kit of yours. But is it sufficient for the exam? This is my first certification so I am not having any idea of how difficult ... http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-mcts-70-528/ Question: Tony, I am still using Windows 98 on one of my old computers (I just like 98!) and I have been unable to download for quite a while. I have spent hours on the Microsoft web site trying to resolve this issue but nothing has worked!   I found your "fix" on ... http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-internet-explorer-cannot-download/ Question:  Is there a way I can get the MS Scanner and Camera Wizard on my laptop that has Vista?  I really do NOT like the way the pictures download with Vista (no preview available to see the pictures I want to download before the download starts and save, is my ... http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-ms-scanner-camera-wizard-lacking-in-vista/ Question:  I have been having problems using multiple monitors recently.  I hook up to a projector as my second monitor.  It used to work just fine, but suddenly not.  Now, when I connect my laptop, the monitor on my laptop shows a blank desktop (as I would expect ... http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-problem-using-multiple-monitors/ Question: Hello Tony. I came across your site looking for an answer to a question I have and you seem to be the man to ask. I am running Vista Ultimate 32-bit on my machine. All things being equal, when I run only 2GB of RAM I have a Windows Experience Base score of ... http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-reduced-windows-experience-index-score-when-adding-memory/ Question: I have docking station for my new Dell Latitude and I plugged in one monitor via VGA and the other DVI.  However, the VGA monitor remains blank, and I don't see a third monitor in display settings.  Do I need to do something on my PC to make this additional ... http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-two-external-monitors-on-a-docking-station/ The Windows Vista Resource Kit is now available for order from Amazon.com or your local bookstore. It's the definitive guide on Vista, and there can't possibly be another book like it--nobody else had direct access to internal Microsoft product managers and developers like we (the Vista Resource Kit authors) did. ... http://www.vistaclues.com/now-available-windows-vista-resource-kit/ Question: So I want to use Bitlocker, don't have a TPM and my bios doesn't seem to 'see' the usb drives in time. Now I know I can still use bitlocker... by entering a 48 or so pin key but that's a bit too long. I could update my Bios but I have ... http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-bitlocker-without-tpm/ Question: i have a problem with vista media center after a few  weeks running smooth ..sudenly  when  i try to  see a  video gives me a  vdeo error message  ...restart the  windows media center  i do that but still the  problem ...i can  reinstall vista  again but i want to save  ... http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-video-error-message/