Thread: Hidden features in Windows Vista

Beneath the surface of Windows Vista is a lot of useful hidden. We have the hidden GUI programs and little-known command-line tools for you dug. Little known programs are the Vista and.Credwiz - a comfortable assistant - all major stores passwords in a CRD file. Be activated for later reading the file, the service "Windows CardSpace". Wab is accustomed to working with the phone book, although this has been known to replace Vista "Windows Contacts".


Who on Control Panel, Programs, Windows functions, the Tablet PC components receive active switches, additional accessories like Stikynot.exe, and Journal.exe Snippingtool.exe.The latter is a tool for creating screen shots. Under Cmd.exe there is a whole number part inconspicuous innovations that Microsoft does not mention size. The internal CMD command creates symbolic links to files MKLINK (no parameters) and folder (parameter / d). With parameter / h created hard links.






Small but useful are the following external commands for the Vista command line: Choice.exe: new version of the familiar selection tools for batch files Timeout.exe: waiting time in seconds Forfiles.exe: Compared to the For command simplified mass editing files Clip.exe: Write to the Clipboard Fsutil.exe: Utility for Hard disk tuning (over XP Extended) Vssadmin.exe: An almost indispensable utility for damming the monstrous piles of backup restore points and shadow copies.


It is a mystery: Who's watching the programs of a Vista installation comes closer to tools that work at all or not as expected either. Usually these are programs that accompany Windows for historical reasons, although partly the technical requirements are no longer available.Some tools, however, seems rather accidentally get on the computer.One example is Recdisc.exe from the System32 directory (Vista SP1).


The description of the file: Microsoft to create a recovery disk. After the start of calls Recdisc admin rights and then goes nothing. In the beta version of Vista SP1 have a working version was included. There was even a shortcut in the Start menu. The task of the program you may create the Vista DVD from a bootable CD with repair and restoration functions.