Every windows user is used to strange bugs, but this time Microsoft did again a great work….

Bellow is a screenshot from my vista powered laptop. I tried to download my emails, and here is what happened. After that I’ve lost all the emails and whenever I open the vista mail client I see the same screen…

Chinese say that one picture worth 1000 words, so see this for yourself….

Windows Vista have some great improvements in AutoPlay, but yet a power user usually want to disable it or configure it for better performance.

If you want to simply disable autoplay in Windows Vista, go to control panel and double click on the “Play CDs or other media automatically” to open the AutoPlay dialog.

Disable autoplay in Windows Vista

To disable autoplay globally, just uncheck the “Use AutoPlay for all media and devices”

Disable for a single type

To disable autoplay for a single type (eg. DVD movies, or audio CDs) first make sure that the “Use AutoPlay for all media and devices” is checked. Select the type that you want to disable and then select “Take no action” from the drop down menu. In the above example we disable autoplay for blank CDs :

Whenever you perform a search using the search functionality in the start menu, Windows Vista also searches the files in your hard drive. Depending on the size of your hard disk and the amount of files that you have, this can make the whole process really slow.

To avoid such problems you can set windows not to search the file index :

1. Right-click on the Start Button and select Properties.
2. Click on the Customize button.
3. Uncheck Search Communications.
4. Set Search Files to Don’t Search for files.
5. Click OK.