Though Firefox 3 introduced greater blending with OS themes, the blending is not upto what it should be. Mozilla Links blog has a nice article on how to blend Firefox in Vista Looks using various add-ons like Glasser to make Toolbar area translucent just like title bar, Compact Menu to convert menu bar into a single button and some user styles to give Bookmarks bar a glossy effect just like standard toolbar in Windows Vista Explorer.

Here’s the comparison of looks before and after applying those tweaks.

In windows Vista start menu, the Run entry is not readily available. If you are used to start run window from start menu in windows xp, then here’s how to display the Run entry in Vista Start Menu.

1. Right click on Start Button and select Properties.

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These 11 tricks will help make your Windows Vista system more useful than before and save time doing routine tasks on Vista machine.

This list also covers some of the annoyances of Windows Vista and how to remove them using simple tricks.

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Keeping your Windows system up to date with latest security patches and updates makes it less prone to threats. Though users with fast Internet access can easily update their windows system online but what if you don’t have Internet access or on a slow connection, windows update would take ages to complete.

Also, in case you need to re-install Windows, you’ll have to update your system again from start as Windows Update doesn’t give you an option to save updates for later use. Surely, it’ll become quite annoying? Isn’t It.

But here’s a workaround to download windows updates for later use for both Windows XP and Windows Vista.

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Microsoft now provides an official guide to Fine tune and speed up your Windows Vista System. The guide is a 14 page PDF or XPS which you can download for free from microsoft website.

Though the guide covers common tweaks that most of the experienced users already know, yet it is quite useful for a new inexperienced user who wants to easily fine tune Windows vista system.

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