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Windows Vista SP1 Toilet Paper Released in Japan
2008-03-17 10:35:00 Well you may have thought that this post is about some software called “Toilet Paper ”. Nope, it is actually about the real thing. The Japan ese folks are very much excited about the release of Windows Vista SP1 and that they even created toilet paper with highlighted vista features! According to AKIBA PC hotline, this is in ... More About: News , Windows Vista
Microsoft to Reduce Windows Vista Prices
2008-03-03 07:16:00 BBC has a news story stating that Microsoft plans to reduce the price of Windows Vista in the near future. This means, single copy of Windows Vista Ultimate would now cost only $319 instead of earlier $399 price mark. Microsoft expects this move will improve the number of people upgrading to Windows Vista. We believe it ... More About: News
Internet Explorer 8 Passes the Acid 2 Test
2007-12-28 13:00:00 IE8, the latest version of world’s most popular browser Internet Explorer passes the web standard test called Acid 2 test. For those not familiar with Acid 2 test, here is small description: The web pages are designed using a coding language called HTML and to standardize the coding, we have many web standards. The acid2 test ensures ... More About: Internet Explorer , Internet Explorer 8
Windows Vista SP1 RC Available for Public Download
2007-12-27 08:01:00 Microsoft on December 12 said that the Windows Vista SP1 has reached the RC (Release Candidate) state and now every one can download and test it. You can even contribute to improve windows vista by giving valuable feedback to MS. MS official blog says, SP1 RC is time-limited software and it will not work after June ... More About: News , Windows Vista , Download , Public
Microsoft Offers Free Windows Vista Ultimate for Your Time
2007-12-11 08:32:00 Microsoft’s latest feedback program to learn the possible problems and difficulties of an average user allows you to own Microsoft software without shedding a penny. The feedback system consists of surveys and automatic feedback system. The automatic feedback system works such that your computer will be monitored automatically by the feedback software for 3 month. Data ... More About: Windows , Microsoft , Windows Vista , Time , Vista
Enhanced Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista Released
2007-12-06 11:01:00 Yahoo yesterday released its Windows Vista enhanced IM software called Yahoo Messenger. This is an updated version of popular Yahoo Messenger 9.0 released on last week of October. To harness the full features of Windows Vista , this updated vista version supports multiple skins, aero design and Windows Vista sidebar integration. Yahoo says, it will maintain both version ... More About: Software , Yahoo
Optimize Windows Vista Settings with Vista Manager
2007-12-04 11:51:00 If you are looking for another Windows Vista Tweaking Utility, then here is one: Windows Vista Manager . As the name suggests, this software is like a manger more than a tweaking utility. It is a collection of utilities to tweak, customize, clean and manage Windows Vista. Vista Manger can customize many windows vista features. Then functionalities ... More About: Software
How to: Restore Run Command in Windows Vista Start Menu
2007-11-27 12:05:00 If you are using the default Windows Vista start menu, you will be surprised to see the lack of the commonly used Run command option. The newly designed start menu almost hides this feature. Fortunately, you can enable it yourselves. Here is how: Right Click Start Menu and select properties. In Start Menu tab, you will see ... More About: Windows Vista
How to: Turn on Alternate Windows Vista Boot Screen
2007-11-26 07:28:00 Do you wish to change the boring progressive bar booting-up screen in Windows Vista ? Yes, you can. Here is the small tweak that can change your old boot-screen to an aurora boot screen. Original Boot Screen (Boring Progressive Bar!) This boot screen is actually coming with Windows Vista . However, Microsoft did not make it the default one. Aurora ... More About: Turn
Testers Claim Windows XP SP3 is Faster
2007-11-26 06:42:00 Shortly after release of the beta version of Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft few days back released the RC 1 (Release candidate) of Windows XP SP3. This update initially will be available only to the private Microsoft testers. From the initial reports, testers says that they see 10% speed improvement under same configuration compared to Windows XP ... More About: Windows Xp , Aster
Microsoft Releases Windows Vista Performance Patch
2007-10-06 07:45:00 Only few days after the official announcement of Microsoft ’s release of Windows Vista SP1 beta, Today, released a quick “Performance & Reliability” patch. It seems this update it targeted towards improving the speed and reliability of Windows Vista . From Microsoft: ?It extends the battery life for mobile devices. ?It improves the stability of portable computers and of ... More About: News
What is Windows Vista Flip 3D?
2007-10-04 07:47:00 One of the innovative feature on Windows Vista is the Windows Vista 3D flip. It is a feature rich expanded system similar to Ctrl-Tab. Using Ctrl-Tab, you can only see the icons of open Windows. Instead of these icons Vista 3D Flip allows you to watch live animation of rotating Windows. For doing this press WinKey ... More About: Features
How to Disable User Account Control?
2007-10-02 08:53:00 Even though this new feature can help you prevent messing up your PCs, it is becoming an annoyance introduced in Windows Vista. UAC always asks for administrative rights to run some programs and it’s sometimes irritating. User Account Control is the feature introduced in Windows Vista to control user behaviour and program behaviour for multiple user ...
How to install Windows XP & Windows Vista on same PC?
2007-10-02 08:35:00 This is the important question that I’ve been asked so many times. Hence thought I would post it for beginners. Actually the solution is quite simple. 1. Resize Hard Drive and create two separate partition for Windows XP & Windows Vista . 2. Install Windows XP first on first partition. (C Drive ) 3. Then install Windows Vista on the ... More About: Windows Xp
Optimize Windows Vista with Tweak VI
2007-10-02 08:26:00 A small, but power utility to optimize Windows Vista , Tweak VI can help you tweak many hidden Window Vista settings. Tweak VI is the successor of Tweak XP Pro, the popular Windows XP system optimizer. The important benefits of using TweakVI: * Adjust many hidden Windows Vista settings, that normally stay un-noticed. * Help you cleaning registry. * Optimize disk ... More About: Software
How To: Improve Windows Vista Performance
2007-09-18 12:54:00 It is a fact that Windows Vista is almost similar to Windows XP at base system properties. Hence, many of the tips that was useful for improving XP system performance works on vista too. 5 Steps to Speed Up Windows Vista Step: 1 - Optimize Hard Disk Policies for Better Performance . Windows Vista comes with a ... More About: Improve
Windows Vista User Account Control
2007-09-14 08:49:00 One of the latest additions to Windows is the User Account Control system or so called UAC. Even though we have already experienced similar feature (Limited Account, User Account Protection etc) in earlier versions of Windows, this time it?s slightly different. This security feature prevents ‘standard user‘ from running programs that may harm the entire ... More About: Windows Vista , Vista , Features
Apple iTunes 7.4 Fully Compatible with Windows Vista
2007-09-07 12:53:00 After many updates and repair from both Apple & Microsoft, iTunes still crashed on Windows Vista . Apple yesterday released latest iTunes (7.4) and now they say its fully compatible with Windows Vista . Apple released this updated version of iTunes in the event of their new products iPod touch and next generation iPod nano. The newer iTunes ... More About: Itunes
Apple iTunes 7.4 Fully Compatible with Windows Vista
2007-09-07 12:53:00 After many updates and repair from both Apple & Microsoft, iTunes still crashed on Windows Vista . Apple yesterday released latest iTunes (7.4) and now they say its fully compatible with Windows Vista . Apple released this updated version of iTunes in the event of their new products iPod touch and next generation iPod nano. The newer iTunes ... More About: Itunes
Arriving Soon : Windows Vista Service Pack 1
2007-09-06 11:56:00 Almost after 8 months of public release, Microsoft is now planning to release SP1 for Windows Vista . Earlier, SP1 was leaked through internet and majority of installed users found huge performance improvement. Microsoft says they are planning to release Vista SP1 in first quarter of 2008. Currently in beta 3 stage, Vista SP1 is under testing ... More About: Windows Vista , Service , Issues
Arriving Soon : Windows Vista Service Pack 1
2007-09-06 11:56:00 Almost after 8 months of public release, Microsoft is now planning to release SP1 for Windows Vista . Earlier, SP1 was leaked through internet and majority of installed users found huge performance improvement. Microsoft says they are planning to release Vista SP1 in first quarter of 2008. Currently in beta 3 stage, Vista SP1 is under testing ... More About: Windows Vista , Service , Issues
Review: Windows Vista: The Missing Manual
2007-09-06 09:07:00 From the name itself you can easily guess what this book is all about. David Pogue clearly understood the need of a simple manual that every Vista user should find useful; and that is the inspiration of this book. Windows Vista: The Missing Manual is the perfect book for a Vista beginner. Windows Vista : The Missing ... More About: Books , Review
Review: Windows Vista: The Missing Manual
2007-09-06 09:07:00 From the name itself you can easily guess what this book is all about. David Pogue clearly understood the need of a simple manual that every Vista user should find useful; and that is the inspiration of this book. Windows Vista: The Missing Manual is the perfect book for a Vista beginner. Windows Vista : The Missing ... More About: Books , Review
How to Enable Windows Vista ReadyBoost
2007-09-05 09:38:00 Windows Vista comes with a new performance feature called Vista Ready Boost. This feature allows you to use your USB flash drives as temporary memory instead of the regular HDD pagefile. As USB drives are faster than hard disk drives, using readyboost can improve your system performance when you are low on installed RAM. To Enable ReadyBoost ... More About: Windows , Windows Vista , Readyboost
Windows XP Superfetch
2007-09-05 09:22:00 Eventhough this is not exactly related to Vista, I thought I would post it for current XP users. Microsoft has already implemented SuperFetch in Windows XP SP2. This means Superfetch is not new to Windows vista as ealier described. You can enable Superfetch in Windows XP SP2. Enable Superfetch In Windowx XP SP2 Start Regedit ( Click Run ... More About: Features , Windows Xp , Etch
Apple iPhones Won?t Work with 64bit Windows Vista
2007-07-05 08:05:00 Only few days after Apple officially releasd iPhones to public, it has been identified that Windows Vista 64bit editions do not support iPhones. Apple has already confirmed that iPhone software will only work on Mac OS , Windows Vista 32bit editions and earlier Windows XPs. The additional memory addressing capability of 64bit editions will cause ... More About: Work
The Final iPod Update for Windows Vista is Now Available
2007-05-10 10:00:00 That’s indeed a good news for Apple iPod users having a Windows Vista platform. A critical bug which corrupted data in iPods when they eject the hardware via Windows explorer or safely remove hardware function in the system tray has been fixed through this update. The updated version works fine with the latest of Apple iTunes. ... More About: Ipod , Windows Vista , Issues
Halo 2 for Windows Vista, Launch Delayed
2007-05-10 07:05:00 Shattering the expectations of Halo 2 for Windows Vista hitting the market on May 8th, Microsoft officials announces a new shipping date as May 22nd. The cause for unexpected delay is to provide some improvements and address some technical issues. ?We recently adjusted our May 8th ship date for Halo 2 for Windows Vista ... More About: News
Microsoft Releases iPod Fix
2007-03-30 14:08:00 Even though Apple released a new version of iTunes, it did not help in removing all the bugs that caused problems with Windows Vista. Finally MS released a set of bug fixes that include the iPod patch and now iTunes can work perfectly on Windows Vista. “The most prominent of the five-pack of patches is the ... More About: Microsoft , Ipod , Release , Soft
Windows Vista ReadyBoost
More articles from this author:2007-03-07 12:37:04 Windows Vista allows you to use flash based memory to be used as RAM(Random Access Memory). You can plug-in your high speed USB flash drive in to your computer and use this as an additional memory. Even though it won’t be as much fast as regular RAM, this concept will improve the overall system performance. Thanks to faster transfer rate of USB based flash drives. Windows Vista will cache programs in these memory that are not required in RAM, but not ready enough to be put in page file. Microsoft Says: Windows Read yBoost introduces a new concept in add-on system memory. You can use nonvolatile flash memory devices, such as universal serial bus (USB) flash drives, to improve performance without having to add memory “under the hood.” The flash memory device serves as an additional memory cache?that is, memory that the computer can access much more quickly than it can access data on the hard disk drive. More About: Windows , Windows Vista , Wind 1, 2 |
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