Unlike a Linux distribution, Windows - all versions, does not allow you to customize its installation that is to select the details of the components, services and other language packs to install or not. Nonetheless, it is this is now possible thanks to vLite - NLite under XP, which not only offers the possibility to create a personalized DVD of Vista but also include the Service Pack 1.

At a system failure (the Blue Screen of Death, for example), Windows included in a file data in memory in order to be used in a possible debugging. Hardly very useful, this feature slows down the system then disable it!

Here is a small tip to show the version number of Windows on the desktop. Fun but useless, therefore useful advice to amateurs personalization!

Make the household in the zone of notification (systray) and performance boost!

By default, Windows allows connections remote assistance. Very little used, this option is no less dangerous in terms of security because it allows fairly easily, an attacker to infiltrate your computer. Désactivons there without further delay!

Windows Vista offers a very interesting feature: that of offering direct access to his FTP server. This trick can thus escape FileZilla whose time sessions are definitely too short!

This tip you will not only guard against viruses but also save several gigabytes of disk space.

The startup screen default Windows Vista (bootscreen) resembles a little close to that of Windows XP. However, a hidden function allows you to activate another, with a visual theme more fun, without installing third-party software.