Vista Updates
Encrypt / Decrypt Options to Windows 7 / Vista Right-Click Menu
If you use the built-in file encryption in Windows 7 or Vista, you might be interested in adding an option to the right-click menu to more easily encrypt and decrypt your files, rather than having to use the file properties dialog.
Adding this to the menu couldn’t be simpler – there’s only a single registry key [...]
How to Add Control Panel to the Desktop Right-Click Menu in Vista
when you right-click on the desktop you’ll see a new menu item called Control Panel:
Once you select that item, obviously it will immediately open up Control Panel:
Of course you could use the same technique to add any item into the context menu, or you could even use the same location in the registry to remove [...]
How to Add Any Application to the Desktop Right-Click Menu in Vista
We’ve previously written about how to clean up your messy Windows context menu, and recently we’ve written about how to add the Control Panel to the desktop menu, but instead of writing separate articles for each application I’m just going to show you how to add anything to the menu that you’d like.
If you don’t [...]
New Updates to Windows Vista available via Windows Update this week
As you probably know and as we’ve mentioned in previous posts, we use Windows Update to periodically deliver updates for Windows Vista. We do this so that customers need not wait for a service pack or another larger release to benefit from the ongoing improvements we make to Windows. With Windows Update, we can [...]
