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In Windows Vista, if for whatever reason the drive letter or paths assignment to a disk drive, CD or DVD drive, flash memory disk drive, or external hard disk drive needed to be changed or modified, users can use Disk Management console to manage the volumes and drives on the computer just like in Windows XP, including changing the drive letter and paths.

To change the drive letter or paths in Windows Vista, just follow these simple steps:

- Right click on Computer and select Manage to open and access Computer Management Console.
- Navigate to and expand the Storage section, and click on Disk Management to access Disk Management Console.
- Disk Management Console display the details of all available volumes and disk drives in the computer configuration in the right pane.
- Right click on the volume or disk drive that you want to change the drive letter, and select “Change Drive Letter and Paths).
- Then click on “Change” button.
- Use the drop down list to select the new and your desired drive letter to assign to the disk volume.
- Click OK.
- Click Yes to confirm.

Any letter between C and Z can be assigned to a hard disk drive, CD drive, DVD drive, portable external hard disk drive, or USB flash memory key drive, while floppy disk drives use up letters A and B. Beside, the drive letter for the system volume or boot partition cannot be modified or changed. And if you install some applications or programs in the drive that you have just changed the drive letter, they may not functioning properly after the change due to the possibilities that the programs will also refer to the specific drive letter or original path used when installation as environmental variables.

Windows Vista has inbuilt feature to display up to three clocks using different time zones.

To enable multiple clocks from various time zones, follow the steps :

1)Move to Control Panel > Clock, Language and Region > Date and Time > Add clocks from different time zones.

2)Date and Time Dialog box will open, tick show this Clock and select appropriate time zone. You can select upto two additional clocks and give appropriate name to your additional clock. When you’re done with settings, click Ok.

3)Now if you place mouse pointer on ur clock in system tray, it’ll show time for additional zones you selected.When you click on clock in system tray, it’ll display three nice clocks depicting your system clock and additional clocks.

Windows Vista: Select Start, then hover over the right arrow that is to the right of the padlock icon until the pop-up menu appears that contains “restart” as one of it’s choices. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “restart” choice.

Windows XP: Select Start. Select “Shut Down…”. Change the drop-down combo box under “What do you want the computer to do?” to “Restart”. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “OK” button.

You can put customized text in the Windows taskbar to the right of the time. To do this, open the Control Panel and select "Regional and Language Options". When this opens, click on the "Customize..." button and then select the "Time" tab in the new window. You should see fields called "AM Symbol:" and "PM Symbol:". They probably have the text "AM" and "PM" in them. But you can change this to anything you like and this text will then show up after the time in the taskbar.

Once you make a change hit the "Apply" button, then "OK", then "Apply" and "OK" again to save your changes and have them show up. This works in both Windows Vista and XP.

Here is a quick Vista tip that you can quickly open Command Prompt in Windows Vista from your right-click menu. It comes in handy when you don’t have a quick launch icon or a hotkey set to open a command prompt, and you have to go down all the way to Start menu to start it. This trick can be used without navigating the menu.

How To Open Command Prompt From Right Click Menu :

Just hold down your Shift key and right-click anywhere on your desktop, in a folder or on a folder to open Command Prompt. The current location of Command Prompt will depend from where you open it.

Vista has lot of improvements over XP in features and design. People who use Vista for first time feel that many commands or features available in XP are missing in Vista. When using Vista for first time, it may be difficult to catch common commands used in XP and one such is the Run Command. Run Command is not available in Vista start menu by default. You can always use the run command using short cut key- Windows +R. If you need the run command in start menu, you can restore it in 3 simple steps.

1. Right click on the Vista start menu and click Properties.



2. In the properties window select the tab and click Customize.


3. Click OK and now you can see Run Command in the start menu.