Windows Vista Howto

edition

2010-01-09T19:36:00.002+05:30

Vista Home and Vista Home Premium does not support offline files feature. See the table below to know which editions support offline files. Windows 2000 Supports Offline files XP Home Does not support Offline files XP Professional Supports Offline files Vista Home Does not support Offline files Vista Home Premium Does not

vista offline files not available

2009-12-01T22:27:00.002+05:30

On Vista Offline files feature is available only in the following editions. Vista Business Vista Ultimate This feature is not supported by Vista Home and Vista Home Premium editions.

Offline files missing in network and internet

2009-11-20T22:38:00.000+05:30

If you do not see Offline files option in Network and Internet in Control Panel, then it could be that you are running an edition of OS which does not support Offline Files feature. Offline files feature is provided only in Vista Business and Vista Ultimate editions. It is not supported by Vista Home and Vista Home premium editions. Also Windows Server 2008 does not have offline files feature

Make a share available offline

2009-11-19T22:40:00.001+05:30

After enabling Offline files feature as said in this article , we can start marking network shares for offline availability. Right click the network share/folder/file you want to be available offline, you can see the option 'Always available offline' in the context menu. Click on it and offline files marks the selected file/folder for offline availability and copies them to the local CSC folder.

Make network share available offline in Windows Vista

2009-11-19T22:38:00.002+05:30

Offline files feature allows to access network shares even in offline mode i.e even if the machine is not connected to the network. To use this feature first thing we need to do is enabling offline files feature. This can be done as explained in the post How to enable offline files in Vista. Once offline files is enabled, we need to mark the share for offline availability. This can be done as

Offline Files folder location in Vista

2009-11-10T23:03:00.003+05:30

Offline files are stored in the folder [systemdrive]:\windows\csc. If the system drive is C: then offline files cache will be in the folder c:\windows\csc. This is system default location and can be changed by editing the registry key Cachelocation.

How to view offline files in Vista

2009-11-06T23:13:00.000+05:30

On Windows Vista you can view offline cached files as per the following steps. Click on Start button(Shortcut for this: Ctrl-Esc) Select Control Panel from the start menu Click on Network and Internet Click on Offline Files. Click on 'View Offline Files'. Note: This article applies only to Windows Vista. On windows XP the mechanism to view offline files is different from the above.

Windows Vista command line tips

2009-11-03T23:33:00.000+05:30

In the below site you can find lot of command line tips that are applicable to all versions of Windows OS including Windows Vista. Click on the link to know the tips. Command line tips on Windows vista

How to disable offline files in Vista

2009-11-03T20:32:00.000+05:30

On Windows Vista system Offline files feature can be disabled as follows. Click on Start button (Shortcut for this: Ctrl-Esc (or) windows key) Click on Control Panel Click on Network and Internet Click on Offline Files. In the 'General' tab click on 'Disable Offline Files' Click on 'continue' if user account control asks for confirmation.

Delete offline files in Vista

2009-11-01T22:14:00.001+05:30

The local cache of offline files can be deleted/reinitialized by setting the registry key FormatDatabase to 1 under the following node. HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CSC\Parameters Value Name: FormatDatabase Type: REG_DWORD After this machine need to be rebooted. Post reboot we can notice that there are no offline files stored in CSC cache. Important note: This registry change

Offline files location in Vista

2009-10-31T23:53:00.000+05:30

Offline files cache is stored in windows\csc folder on system drive. If the system drive is labeled c: then offline files cache would be stored in c:\windows\csc. As in windows XP, this location can be changed by editing registry database. Registry key for this is HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CSC\Parameters\ Regkey : CacheLocation Type: REG_SZ By default cache is stored in [

Encrypt offline files in Windows Vista

2009-10-29T10:42:00.000+05:30

On Windows Vista operating system offline files cache can be encrypted as follows. Click on Start button Select Control Panel Click on Network & Internet Click on Offline files Select Encryption tab Now click on Encrypt button

How to enable Offline Files in Vista?

2009-10-28T15:46:00.000+05:30

In Windows Vista offline files feature can be enabled in the following way. Click on Start button (Shortcut for this: Ctrl-Esc (or) windows key) Click on Control Panel Click on Network and Internet Click on Offline Files. In the General tab, click on 'Enable Offline Files'. Say continue if user account control asks confirmation. Now you can see the offline files window in the below state.

Keyboard shortcut for switching windows in Vista

2009-10-24T20:51:00.002+05:30

We can use Alt-Tab to switch the windows in the old fashion i.e the way we used to do it in Windows XP. To see the windows switch in 3D use Windows - Tab key combination. Hold Windows key pressed and then keep on pressing the Tab key. You can see the windows moving to the front one by one in 3D. When you see the desired window in the front position stop pressing tab and release Windows key. This

Increase Vista performance by switching off Aero

2009-08-22T20:01:00.002+05:30

If you are feeling that Vista is running slow on your machine, you can improve the performance significantly by switching of Aero effects. This can be done by choosing Vista basic color scheme as described below.Click Start Click Control Panel Select Appearance and Personalization Now under Personalization click on "Change the color scheme" option. Now in the color scheme select "Windows Vista

Open network connections from run window

2009-07-15T20:40:00.000+05:30

Network connection window can be opened by opening propertes of 'My Network Places'. There is also a more straightforward way to open network connections. Just run ncpa.cpl from run window. Run window can be opened from start menu or by using the keyboard shortcut Win-R.

Open task manager from run window

2009-07-14T23:56:00.000+05:30

We usually open task manager by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete and then selecting task manager. We can open it from Run window also by executing taskmgr.

Open control panel from run window

2009-07-14T23:49:00.001+05:30

We usually open control panel through start menu. We can open it from Run window also by typing control panel in the run window and then pressing Enter.

Keyboard shortcuts for Mozilla Fiirefox

2009-05-23T16:56:00.003+05:30

For people who prefer to use keyboard rather than mouse, below are some shortcuts for most common actions while using Firefox web browser. Open new tab Ctrl -T Close tab Ctrl - W Open history Ctrl - H Open Downloads windows Ctrl -J Bookmark current opened page Ctrl - D Open New window Ctrl - N Close Window

Windbg basic commands

2009-05-20T23:18:00.000+05:30

Below is the list of commonly used windbg commands. You can also see the syntax of these commands. Command Description Syntax BP Create break point Bp function_address BP module_name!function_name BL List the breakpoints Bl BC Cancel break point BC breakpoint_no (Breakpoint number can be obtained by doing bl) K Show current call

My computer missing from start menu in Vista

2009-04-22T15:59:00.001+05:30

In Windows Vista, My computer is renamed as just Computer. With default configuration it should be shown in the start menu as below. In case if you are not seeing this link, you can enable it by doing the following steps. Right click on Start button. Select Properties Make sure that Start menu tab is the active tab Select customize against the start menu/classic start menu depending on which

Disable Recent Items list

2009-01-08T17:24:00.000+05:30

We can disable Recent items list which shows the list of recently opened files. It can be done in the following way. Right click on Start button in the task bar Select Properties Under Privacy section uncheck "Store and display a list of recently opened files" Click Apply and OK

See list of folders shared

2009-01-02T23:02:00.000+05:30

As in Windows XP, we can see the list of folders shared on a vista machine using compmgmt.msc. See the article How to view the list of folders shared on a Windows XP system.

A website wants to open web content using this program on your computer

2009-01-02T18:44:00.001+05:30

Today when I launched Internet explorer and opened a site, IE had repeatedly warned me with below message. I was opening a news portal and I knew there would be nothing fishy on that portal so I clicked on 'Allow'. But IE bugged me with the same warning again and again even after selecting 'Do not show me the warning for this program again'. I realized that some thing has changed in the

Redirect my documents folder on Windows Vista

2009-01-01T18:41:00.000+05:30

Click on Start button Right click on Documents Click Properties Select Location tab Click on Move Select the destination folder and click OK. Then you will see a window like below. Click Yes if you want the files from the old location to be copied to the new location. Otherwise click No.