Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ All in One

Chapter 33. Configuring Windows Vista

In This Chapter:

• Change your computer’s startup options
• Modify the programs that load when Vista loads
• Set your computer’s clock and calendar
• Change regional settings when you travel
• Add a second or third clock to your taskbar
• Synchronize your computer’s clock to accurate Internet time
• Change event sounds
• Work with Windows themes
• View all your system settings

Throughout a lot of this book you’ve been configuring Windows Vista. You customized your screen’s theme and colors as well as its background image in Chapter 7, “Changing Windows Vista’s Look.” You set up speech recognition and trained your computer to understand your voice in Chapter 23, “Speaking to Your Computer.” You learned how to upgrade your ...