Disable Recent Items list

We can disable Recent items list which shows the list of recently opened files. It can be done in the following way.

• Right click on Start button in the task bar
  
• Select Properties
  

• Under Privacy section uncheck "Store and display a list of recently opened files"
  
• Click Apply and OK
  

See list of folders shared

As in Windows XP, we can see the list of folders shared on a vista machine using compmgmt.msc. See the article How to view the list of folders shared on a Windows XP system.

A website wants to open web content using this program on your computer

Today when I launched Internet explorer and opened a site, IE had repeatedly warned me with below message.

I was opening a news portal and I knew there would be nothing fishy on that portal so I clicked on 'Allow'. But IE bugged me with the same warning again and again even after selecting 'Do not show me the warning for this program again'. I realized that some thing has changed in the setting and then grabbed my attention was the below on the status bar of IE.

When I moved the mouse cursor over the protected mode text it showed a pop-up saying "Double click to change security settings". I did that and then it showed the security settings window.

I unchecked "Enable Protected mode" and restarted IE. Things were fine after that. Please note that protected mode is a security feature and it is not safe to disable it especially if you are logged in with administrator privileges.

Redirect my documents folder on Windows Vista

• Click on Start button
• Right click on Documents
• Click Properties
• Select Location tab
  

• Click on Move
• Select the destination folder and click OK. Then you will see a window like below.
  

• Click Yes if  you want the files from the old location to be copied to the new location. Otherwise click No.