Fast PC Mods

The power management options on Vista laptops is a very broad and useful tool that allows you to select your required power / performance ratio and manage different power plans amongst many other things. To begin editing Vista’s Power Management Options, left click the battery icon typically found on the bottom right of your toolbar.

When a program crashes in Windows, by default a message box appears asking if you would like to report the error to Microsoft. 99.9% of PC users never do and never will which therefore makes this feature unnecessary and time consuming. Windows Error Reporting’ (also known as ‘Problem Reporting’) can be disabled in a few [...]

Most Vista users tend not to notice the sidebar that lurks on their desktop 24/7, but this is a huge mistake. For the sake of a few ‘Gadgets’, the Sidebar uses way too much system memory. Just like User Account Control, the Sidebar is yet another pointless and power hogging application thrown into Vista.