If you want to change the view mode of the Windows Photo Gallery software, this option may not be as easy to find as one would expect, especially because the way this program's interface was conceived. Microsoft's choice was to take some options out of the menus and bring them one step closer to the user, and while this may be a good move for novice Windows users, experts may find themselves lost for a while...


Today, I will show you how to change the view mode of the Windows Photo Gallery, as I was saying, but I'll also show you how to sort your pictures, as a bonus. Here we go...

- First of all, press the Start Orb, type "gallery" and open the Windows Photo Gallery.


- Navigate to the folder where your pictures are located. I will use the ones that are already available in Vista Ultimate.

- Press the small button located to the left of the search box, and select a new view mode.


- Go to Group By to change this setting, if you need.


- If you want to change sorting criteria, choose a different option in the Sort By submenu.


- Check the Table of Contents view below, maybe this is what you were looking for!


While Windows Photo Gallery is available in all Vista versions, the themed photo slideshows are only available in the Home Premium and Ultimate ones, but I'll leave this topic for a future article. This is it for now, I hope you found out something new today, and you'll get back tomorrow too!

The Telnet client was always a part of the Windows operating system, but if you type "telnet" in Vista's search box, it won't come up. If you really need it, the good news is that Microsoft didn't remove it, they simply disabled it, but you can make it available again in only a few easy steps, as I am going to show you right now...



- Press the Start Orb, and open the Control Panel.


- Left click on Programs.


- In the window that opens, left click on Turn Windows features on or off.


- Scroll down to the item called Telnet Client and select the radio button to its left.


- Press OK and wait until Microsoft gets all your personal data(don't worry, I was joking!).


- Press the Start Orb again, type "telnet" in the search box and click the highlighted item to start the program.


- Enjoy the old Telnet client in Vista!

While your computer may work perfectly, when various applications stop working on a regular basis, this means the reliability index is affected. The problem is that, sooner or later, you may end up losing some work because an application that you are using twice a month crashed exactly before you managed to save your documents.

Today, I'll show you a quick method to look back and see all the software and hardware issues encountered by your Vista computer...

As a bonus, I'll also show you how to check the current system activity graphs, so let's get things started, shall we?

- Press the Start Orb, type "relia" in the search box and click the Reliability and Performance Monitor to open it. If you're really in a hurry, you can also press Enter as soon as you finish typing and see the highlighted item.


- Check the Resource Overview in the Reliability and Performance Monitor window. Expand an item to see details about programs using it.


- Expand the Monitoring Tools, if it's not open already, and select Reliability Monitor.

- Left click a day containing errors and scroll down to find details about the problems encountered.


That's it, a pretty easy way to find out what happened in the past with your computer without having to check cryptic logs that usually require a computer guru to get all the information out of them...