Apart from the in-built features of a computer, so many times, additional components are added to your device. These are mostly external components added to enhance and support some of the key functions of your computer. For instance, you might have a chip to increase the memory of your computer or a cartridge to add graphics or simply some other expansion boards. These add-ins can help you enhance your output both qualitatively and quantitatively, while working on your Microsoft Word 2007 document. But what if you don’t know that these exist at all? The answer is that there presence or absence will make no difference and these device buddies will go unused. On the other hand, you can try and detect these. You can follow some very easy steps which can help you identify all the add-ins that are installed in your Windows Vista PC. Become aware about them to enjoy an enriching experience and output. Here’s how:

1. Open a Word document
2. Click the “Microsoft Office Button”
3. Click “Word Options”, and then click “Add-Ins”
4. View the add-ins and application extensions that are categorized as:
• “Active Application Add-ins”
• “Inactive Application Add-ins”:
• “Document Related Add-ins”
• “Disabled Application Add-ins”

There is nothing like more worthy and interesting form of putting together a great content other than PowerPoint. But the same PowerPoint presentations can look extremely unbearable if there is a lot of dense content. What can you do in this case? Well, the best option is to support it with lot of graphics and visual elements to make it more interesting. These features may not be necessarily embedded in your Windows Vista PC, more so, if you are looking for extensive features to support your graphical requirement. In this case you can explore your computer further to identify if there are some add-ins or not. These add-ins are external chips or boards or in other words application extensions that enhance your speed and help you to have added features. With their help you can make a great presentation, but you need to follow some easy steps to identify if they are installed in your system or not. Let us see how:

1. Open Microsoft PowerPoint
2. Click the “Microsoft Office Button”
3. Click “PowerPoint Options”, and then click “Add-Ins”
4. View the add-ins and application extensions that are categorized as:
• “Active Application Add-ins”
• “Inactive Application Add-ins”
• “Document Related Add-ins”
• “Disabled Application Add-ins”

Once you locate them, you can use them to create an impactful presentation. Get going now!

When you installed Microsoft Excel 2007 in your computer, did you know something else got tagged along also? Did you know that you had the liberty of availing some extra features that could enhance your storage capacity, speed-up your program or simply help you chalk out some amazingly appealing graphics. Well, the answer is ‘yes’ you have such add-ins, but at the same time you are faced with a challenge of knowing that they exist and finding out their exact location. So do you need an engineer to help you with the task? No, you can do it yourself with hardly any technical skills required, simply with a few easy and quick steps.

By following these steps you can identify the current add-ins and find out the ones that have been inactive. All set to explore? Get going:

1. Open Microsoft Excel
2. Click the “Microsoft Office Button”
3. Click “Excel Options”, and then click “Add-Ins”
4. View the add-ins and application extensions that are categorized as:
• “Active Application Add-ins”
• “Inactive Application Add-ins”
• “Document Related Add-ins”
• “Disabled Application Add-ins”

As we all know, Windows Vista is an advanced operating system that has become a popular choice among the Windows users. Because of its complexity, some users find it difficult to operate and have another operating system installed on their PCs so as to make a switch from Windows Vista to the other operating system anytime they want it. For this reason, users are always anxious to know about how to specify the default operating system for start-up on a Windows Vista-based PC.

Here are the simple steps using which one can easily set an operating system as default on start-up on a Windows Vista-based PC.

1. Click on the “Start” button
2. Select “Control Panel”
3. Click on “System and Maintenance”, and then click on “System”
4. Click “Advanced System Settings”, and then Click “Continue” in the User Account Control dialog box
5. Click the “Advanced” tab, and then, under “Startup and Recovery”, click “Settings”
6. Under “System startup”, in the “Default operating system” list, click the operating system that you want to use when you turn on or restart your computer.
7. Select the “Time to Display list of operating systems” check box, and then type the number of seconds for which you want the list displayed before the default operating system starts automatically.
8. Click “Ok” and then click “OK” again

The above mentioned simplified steps can easily let you set any operating system as default, and the next time when you boot your system, you can easily work with the operating system that you have set as default on a Windows Vista-based PC. For using the other operating system installed on your PC, you need a reboot of your system and select the other operating system while the system is booting to work with the other OS. You can also check the below-mentioned URL for further clarity on the above.

Windows Vista allows you to share hardware devices when two or more computers are connected to each other in a network. When you have multiple computers at your home or office, you can connect all these computers to a network – and on this network, you can share files, folders, and hardware. If you have recently bought a Canon printer for your home or office network, you can effortlessly share the printer with all the computers on your Windows Vista network and take print-outs from all the computers in the network instead of connecting the printer individually to each computer when you have to take print-outs.

Do you know how to share your Canon printer on Windows Vista network at your home or office?

Here’s how you can do that in a few simple steps:

1. Click on ‘Start’ and select ‘Control Panel’
2. Click on ‘Network and Internet’ and select ‘Network and Sharing Center’
3. Select the ‘Show me all the shared network folders on this computer’ link
4. Open ‘Printers’ folder
5. Right-click on the ‘Canon’ printer that is installed on your computer and select ‘Sharing’ from the menu that appears
6. Under the ‘Sharing’ tab, click on the ‘Change sharing options’ button
7. Click on ‘Continue’ on the ‘User Account Control’ window
8. Ensure that the ‘Share this printer’ check box is marked and you have named your printer
9. Click on ‘Apply’
10. Click on ‘OK’

Congratulations! Now you can take print-outs from every computer in the Windows Vista network on your Canon printer.

If you have multiple computers and just one printer how do you usually take print-outs from those multiple computers? If your printer is connected to just one computer, do you usually transfer all your data that needs to be printed to the computer that’s connected to the printer? You can either do that or you can create a network for all those computers and share your hardware with all the computers that are present in the network. Yes, you can create a network on Windows Vista for all the computers at your home or office and easily share your hardware devices like printer with all the computers on the network. All those computers need to run on Windows Vista for this to happen and if they do, then you can share your printer on the network instead of transferring your data to a computer that’s connected to the printer when you have to take a print-out.

Do you know how to share a Dell printer on a Windows Vista network? Here’s how you can do that in a few simple steps:

1. Click on ‘Start’ and select ‘Control Panel’
2. Click on ‘Network and Internet’ and select ‘Network and Sharing Center’
3. Select the ‘Show me all the shared network folders on this computer’ link
4. Open ‘Printers’ folder
5. Right-click on the Dell printer that is installed on your computer and select ‘Sharing’ from the menu that appears
6. Under the ‘Sharing’ tab, click on the ‘Change sharing options’ button
7. Click on ‘Continue’ on the ‘User Account Control’ window
8. Ensure that the ‘Share this printer’ check box is marked and you have named your printer
9. Click on ‘Apply’
10. Click on ‘OK’

Congratulations! You have successfully shared your Dell printer on Windows Vista network