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Published in July 22nd, 2008

Here are a few cool tweaks I have discovered for Vista, hope they are useful.

Rename Your Recycle Bin

For some reason in other versions of Windows you could not rename your recycle bin (I don’t know why you would want to!), but in Windows Vista they have made it very easy;

Right click on your recycle bin
Select rename
Type in your desired name
Done

Change Your Start Menu

You may not like the new version of start in Vista, so just change it;

Right click your start button
Click properties
Here you can select what format you want

Explorer Classic Menus

Have you just switched to Vista and have no idea what is going on in explorer, or do you just want to swap back to the old look? If so, just do this simple tweak;