All articles tagged: control panel

Change the Power Button in the Start Menu in Vista

By default, the Power button on your Start menu is set to put your PC in Sleep mode. Though this might be fine for some, you might want the Power button to simply shut down your PC. For example, if you usually choose to shut down your PC instead of putting it into Sleep mode, then you're likely aware that it takes an added click to the arrow on the Start menu to shut down your PC. In other words, it's a waste of time. Reconfiguring the Start menu Power button shaves a few seconds off the usual process.

Enable/Disable the Guest Account in Vista

The Guest user account, as mentioned, is sort of a catch-all account for guests, people who want to borrow the computer for a short time. Allowing such people to use the Guest account prevents them from accessing any other user accounts.

How To Hide Unwanted Control Panel Icons in Vista

You can hide certain types of icons in Control Panel's Classic View with a quick Registry hack. Just open the Registry Editor, and expand the branches to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load\.