Nicholas Rayner pointed out (via Twitter linking back to his blog) a new article available for download on Microsoft.com looking at 5 misunderstood features in Windows Vista today.

Download: 5 Misunderstood Features in Windows Vista

Those 5 misunderstood features include:

• User Account Control (UAC)
• Image Management
• Display Driver Model
• Windows Search
• 64-bit architecture

The article looks to clear up some confusion IT Pros might have with these features. This article is part of the Springboard Series on TechNet offering a collection of resources, tools, and monthly articles to address your questions on Windows Vista based on community feedback and feedback from early adopters.

We blogged about a Springboard Series Live Roundtable event in February in which Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich took part of addressing Windows Vista Deployment and Adoption. You can watch the recording of the session here.

Thanks Nick (a.k.a "aussienick") for pointing this out!

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A very simple concept that makes us ask a question, Why Microsoft set the default to turn to sleep instead of shutting down?

Here's how:

1. Open the Run Window. If you can't see the option in your start menu, just press Windows Key+R.

2. Type cmd and press enter > enter powercfg.cpl,1 without spaces, Scroll-down and find the option "Startmenu power button" and Finally, change the options to Shut down as shown in the picture above.

Easy? Enjoy!

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Some years ago, you would think that having a 40 gigabyte hard drive would be more than enough. Documents, spreadsheets and a couple of images could be stored with plenty to spare. But it seems that all of this has changed today.

We are now in an age where videos and audio files are a demand. Many people are downloading like crazy, disregarding the matter of space that some people consider a problem since they barely had enough time to address it. With gigabytes in play, who would ever thought that you would need something bigger than the average 40 gigabyte before?

Today we find hard drives that shoot up to 160 gigabyte, that is 4 times the previous hard drive space we had. With that much space, what would you store in them? Well here are some things we can download today that makes it necessary for us to get more files:

1. Movies
2. Music (albums)
3. Photos and Images
4. Software

When we say movies, we are referring towards the usual VCD and DVD formats. A standard VCD format would normally have 700 MB of space while DVD’s would need approximately 4 gigabyte. So if you look at it, 160 gigabyte hard drives can

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Once you install Windows Vista SP1 the Windows Search disappears.There are certain Keyboard shortcuts which could help you out.

These shortcut will bring up Windows Search
1.Windows Key + F.

2.You can also press CTRL + ESC and then F3.


3.Click on Taskbar and press F3.

4.You can open up Start menu, Windows Explorer or Vista Desktop and hit F3.

5.Got to command prompt and type "start search-ms:" without quotes.

Microsoft has also explained in Knowledge base article KB KB941946 how can u bring up Windows Vista default Desktop search.