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Are you settled in with Windows Vista yet? By now, having put the new operating system through its paces, you’ve gone beyond the novice user’s infatuation with the glitzy new Aero interface. It’s time to kick it up a notch and add some slightly more sophisticated options to your Vista palette. Here are five [...]

Hey Guys,
I’m just about to install vista to dual boot with win xp, I have 2 HDDs, 1 160GB Primary Master and 1 80gb Primary Slave.
Currently I’m using the 80GB for Downloads and such, and the 160gb has 1 15gb partition with XP and 1 135gb Partition for games and such.
I’m just wondering, [...]

By default Windows Vista allocates 15% of your hard drive to storing System Restore points – which turns out to be a couple dozen gigabytes on a large drive. The user-friendly Windows XP slider bar which sets System Restore space has disappeared on Vista; instead a little command line action’s required to reset this [...]

This is a tutorial compilation that compile by a Malaysian in Lowyat.net’s forum. This tutorial is quite easy because the writer give out most of links to download additional software to turn your XP to a wow Vista look!
Check this out , How to change Windows XP to Windows Vista, [Now with even MORE visual mods] [...]

Change your boring old Windows XP theme to look like Vista using MSStyles (no shell-packs!) for free! Plus you don’t need to download any software to do it either (so your computer won’t get messed up!). You can do it all by yourself and when you are done it is surely going to look like [...]

With a few modifications the vista sidebar has been hacked enough to get it to work with windows XP. Here are the directions.
First few steps ripped directly from davak’s directions from Installing The Sidebar into Vista.
1. Download the Vista Sidebar files
2. Unrar the files
3. Copy the Windows Sidebar folder into your Program Files folder. [...]