Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Getting More Information from Programs and Features

When you go to the Control Panel's Programs and Features page, normally you get a view somewhat similar to what was available with XP.
With Vista you can customize the information shown on that page.
For example, normally you only see the Name, Publisher, Installed On, and Size.

  • If you right click on the menu bar with these names, you can add in other useful information like Support Link, Used and Version.

  • Support Link lets you directly go to support for a particular program.

  • You can then sort by Used to see which programs you use the least. Perhaps there are some you can remove to help keep a cleaner system.

  • You can look at the Version to make sure you are current with your applications.

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