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* Make the Vista Taskbar Look Like Windows 7 *
An easy way to give your Windows Vista box a clean look is to remove the application labels on the taskbar. With a registry hack you can make your Windows Vista taskbar look similar to the Windows 7 icon only taskbar.

1. Click on the start button and type in regedit in the search bar and press Enter.
2. Navigate to this registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Desktop\WindowMetrics.
3. Create a new REG_SZ value and call it MinWidth
4. Set the value of MinWidth to 56
5. Close out Registry Editor
6. Restart

* Make Windows animation go slo-mo *
This registry hack serves absolutely no useful purpose except for entertainment and eye candy. It lets you slow down the animations that occur when windows minimize and maximize to and from the taskbar on your command.

1. Click on the start button and type in regedit in the search bar and press Enter.
2. Navigate to this registry key - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM.
3. Select Edit > New DWORD (32-bit) Value and create a new DWORD called AnimationsShiftKey. Give it a value of 1.
4. Close the Registry Editor, log off of Windows, and then log back in again, or restart.
5. Hold the Shift key and minimize or maximize a window. The animation will be slowed down considerably. To make the animation go at normal speed, let go of the Shift key.

WARNING: editing the registry is a very dangerous activity. Especially if you don't know not what you're doing — you could utterly destroy your computer. However, quite often it's the only way to get a neat feature, special behavior, or even a FIX, out of your Window's system. Please only perform the actions provided and nothing else. Any modifications could potentially be fatal to your system.