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DirectX 9.0c June 2008
2008-06-07 15:57:00
Microsoft DirectX is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full-color graphics, video, 3D animation, and rich audio. DirectX includes security and performance updates, along with many new features across all technologies, which can be accessed by applications using the DirectX APIDownload: DirectX 9.0c june 2008
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Battlefield Bad Company Demo
2008-06-05 16:41:00
The battlefield awaits in this innovative next-generation shooter and now you can get a taste of all the single-player and multiplayer action with the Battlefield: Bad Company demo witch was released for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 today. The demo reveals how the game's tactical destruction will change the way shooters are played, and it features both single-player and multiplayer modes. You can get an early look into Bad Company's Quest for Gold by playing solo, or go online and try out the new Gold Rush mode on the Oasis map, highlighting land, sea, and air vehicles. And, if you reach Rank 4 in the demo, you'll unlock an exclusive in-game weapon. View: Battlefield Bad Company Home Page
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Mozilla Firefox 3.0 RC 2
2008-06-04 19:39:00
Firefox is a free, open-source web browser for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and is based on the Mozilla codebase. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over Internet Explorer, such as the ability to block pop-up windows.Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2 is available in more than 45 languages as a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. There is no word about whats new in RC2, but once the release notes are out, I'll update this post.Download: Firefox 3.0 RC 2 Windows US EnglishDownload: Firefox 3.0 RC2 OS X US EnglishDownload: Firefox 3.0 RC2 Linux US EnglishView: Mozilla Firefox 3.0 RC 2 Home Page
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Windows Live Writer CTP Released
2008-06-03 18:14:00
On the Windows Live Writer Blog today, they announced the availability of the Windows Live Writer CTP (Community technology preview). With this new build comes a lot of new features, which I will discuss in this blog post. So why is this a CTP and not just a normal beta? Well the main reason is that it features a new set of plugin APIs (version 1.1) and the whole Technical Preview is more intended for developers rather than consumers. Nonetheless, there are still some nice new additions for consumers.Changes:- Everything from Windows Live Writer 2008 plus: - New and improved category control (you can now search through your categories)- Image cropping (from the Advanced tab when you have an image selected)- Word Count - Tabbed view switching- Alignment commands in toolbar work on images (not just text) - Typographic replacement (characters like ©, TM, en-dash, em-dash), also works with “…” - Automatic linking to terms in your link glossary - User-interface updates in the menus and c...
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IETester 0.22 Alpha
2008-06-01 22:10:00
Like any web browser, IETester has the usual forward and back buttons, refresh, stop, home, and favorite buttons, but it also has a special feature that allows you to launch new tabs which render the web site in different versions of IE. With IE8's public beta just around the corner, web site owners need to verify that their sites are going to display properly in the new browser, which runs in standards-compliant mode by default. You can download IETester for free (donations accepted).Download: IETester 0.22 Alpha View: IETester Home PageSource: Neowin
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Battlefield 2142 patch 1.50
2008-05-30 22:35:00
The 1.50 patch for Battlefield 2142 has been released after the public beta that was held for this patch. Aswell as the two new maps there is a number of fixes. Be sure to check below for the whole change log:After a successful open beta phase of Battlefield 2142 Update 1.50 and tweaks and updates being made based on feedback on the forums we have released the final version of Battlefield 2142 Update 1.50. Servers are being updated and the client files are now available for you to update and get into the new content.As we mentioned with the Beta release we have added a number of new features and added new content to Update 1.50FEATURES- Added community maps, Wake Island 2142 and Operation Shingle- Added the ability to use widescreen resolutions.- Added No Vehicles mode.- Added Conquest Assault mode.- Changed the volume control for the Commander Voice Over on request of the esports community.- Changes made to pod steering mechanism to improve control while limiting pod surfing.FIXES-...
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Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.0.1389 Beta
2008-05-30 17:56:00
Yahoo! has released a new update to Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta . This version includes a few new features along with bug fixes, stability and speed improvements, plus some changes to the contact list. Here's a quick look at what's new:Bigger emoticonsThey're not massive, but a little bit bigger so you can express yourself with more oomph.( vs. ). We also enabled a few more for use in your status message.Games are back!We know you missed them in the earlier releases of 9.0, but games are now back! Click the new "Activities" button while you IM to choose a game to play with a friend (or for a plug-in). Checkers, pool, toki toki boom…you know the rest. Note that your friend needs to be on 8.1 or this latest release of 9.0 Beta to play games with you.Status message improvementsThe status message menu has been split into two parts - one where you can indicate your availability (busy, available) and the other for putting in a custom message or a link you want to share. That way even if...
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Flock 1.2
2008-05-30 17:43:00
Flock is a social Web browser, open source, cross platform and based on Mozilla technologies. Currently, the browser implements support for del.icio.us and Flickr. Users can also install alternative hosted bookmarks or photo sharing services. In the search box and the blog manager, Flock offer users a number of choices and the ability to install other services using open standards. Expect the same, over time, for hosted bookmarks, photo-sharing and other services Flock integrates. Flock is based on the open source Mozilla code base.Flock is focused on fundamentally evolving the browser, bringing a refreshing new approach to how people use and participate on the web and simplifying social and web-based applications by bringing them one step closer to the user and integrating them directly into the browser.When using Flock, people can easily discover, access, create and share videos, photos, blogs, feeds and comments across social communities, media providers, and popular websites.New...
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CCleaner 2.08.588
2008-05-29 17:57:00
CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it's fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) it's free and contains no Spyware or Adware.CCleaner has been tried and tested with Windows 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista. It's currently partially compatible with 64bit XP and Vista, there are a few non-critical issues which are still being worked on.Changelog:- Added Startup tool enable/disable checkbox.- Fixed problem with Vista "low" folders being removed.- Improved index.dat detection on multiple scans.- Secure deletion improved with IE History index.dat files.- Added OS detection to INI files.- Added Vista Thumbnail Cache cleaning.- Added ImgBurn cleaning.- Added Secure deletion to "Recent Documents" cleaning.- Improved Vista "Recent Documents" cleaning.- Fixed bug with Chkdsk chk files not bei...
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Yahoo! BrowserPlus
2008-05-29 17:55:00
Fresh off the latest round of its public feud with Microsoft, Yahoo ! has announced a new software title, to be known as "BrowserPlus".Designed to "expand what's possible", BrowserPlus is similar to Google Gears. It allows users to extend the functionality of their browser windows into areas typically dominated by desktop applications. One of the center-pieces of these additional browser capabilities is the ability to send notifications to the desktop, eliminating one of the traditional browser limitations. Yahoo! hopes other functions, such as drag-and-drop, acquisition of online feeds and simpler file uploads, will serve to entice users.As it has not yet been released, it remains to be seen whether or not BrowserPlus will find a substantial user-base; however, it does show that yahoo is serious about continuing to contend in the ever-more-competitive market for online presence.View: Yahoo! BrowserPlus Home PageSource: Neowin
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Orgoo Invites
2008-05-28 17:26:00
Orgoo is an e-mail/IM integration service that, like goo, sticks together all your different mail accounts, contacts, and IM buddies onto one page.Key Features- Send/Receive all of your email, from any account, within a single inbox. - Talk to all your buddies, on any IM network, from one buddy list. - Have text message (SMS) conversations with your contacts, right from Orgoo. - See your friends in live multi-person video chat rooms. - Stay organized with messages of all types with Orgoo’s built-in organization tools.If anyone wants to try out Orgoo I have 5 invites available.To request an invite leave a comment with your email and I'll send you one. View: Orgoo
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Digsby Beta Build 31
2008-05-28 17:04:00
Digsby is a new, multi-network IM client that connects to all the big IM networks. AIM, ICQ, Hotmail, Yahoo, Google Talk and Jabber, and can integrate with your email, Facebook and Myspace accounts. Digsby's goal is to give you one place to manage your online contacts.Here are some key features of DigsbyInstant Messaging:Supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat.Email:Manage your Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts right from digsby. - Get popup notifications when new email arrives. Clicking a popup takes you right to the message with auto-login into webmail accounts.Social Networking:- Stay up to date with everything happening on your Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace account (other network support coming soon). - Receive alerts of events such as new friend requests, messages, group invites, etc.Take a look at Digsby's home page for a complete feature list.Download: Digsby Beta Build 31View: ChangelogView: Digsby Home Page
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Windows Live SkyDrive Updated
2008-05-24 12:40:00
The Windows Live SkyDrive team has announced that there are new updates to SkyDrive Here's a quick rundown of what's included:- More places. Windows Live SkyDriveis now live in 24 additional locations, bringing our grand total to 62 countries and regions! We welcome new users in Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, Ukraine, and Venezuela! - Comments. You can leave comments on any file in SkyDrive and see all of the recent comments people have left for you. - Captions. A picture's worth a thousand words, but sometimes you need a few more. Now you can add captions and descriptions to your files and photos:Click control. When you click on any file, you can speed through all the files in the folder:- Larger photo previews - we've made the photo previews even bigger.Other features added are Details view a...

Google sites open for all
2008-05-23 14:59:00
Google sites, a service previously only available to google apps users, is now open to all.Google plans to extend this simple hosting and design solution to those wanting to host simple web-pages. Google Sites offers a variety of themes, and arrangements to help create your website. There is also the ability to integrate your Google Calendars, Mail, and Files with ease. Google Sites are collaborative, which engineering manager Andrew Zaeske said in the announcement makes them ideal for "team projects, company intranets, community groups, classrooms, clubs, family updates, you name it." No HTML knowledge is required, and your website will be hosted for free on the Google domain. View: Google Sites
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FileZilla 3.0.10
2008-05-21 07:51:00
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. Changelog:- Precompiled binaries available from filezilla-project.org now link against GnuTLS 2.2.5 due to security vulnerabilities in previous GnuTLS versions, see http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/securi ty.html- MSW: Performance improvements. Windows is inherently flawed since it does not cache directory contents.+ Commandline arguments, see manpage for details+ Columns in file lists can be reordered or hidden by right-clicking the column header+ Added some useful links to help menu- Don't sen...
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Recuva 1.14.321
2008-05-20 17:55:00
From the makers of CCleaner. Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!Changelog:- Added support for video, audio, and compressed files in deep scan.Formats: .wma .ogg .wav .mov .mpg .mp4 .3gp .flv .wmv .avi .rar .zip- Added 'Compressed' option to the filter.- Fixed bug that could cause crash during deep scan, caused by corrupt image files.- Added support for Microsoft Office tmp files.Allows recovery of files lost if Office crashes.- Various small UI tweaks.- Added Ukrainian translation.( Click Image to Enlarge )Download: Recuva 1.14.321View: Recuva Homepage
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IE7pro 2.3 Final
2008-05-20 17:03:00
IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable. With IE7pro you may switch proxy, set agent identification, block ads and flash, apply super drag-drop, refresh tab automatically, recover session crash, manage tab history, view page information, save image files quickly and more. IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins and many more power packed features. You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro.Changelog:IE7Pro:1.New Module: FasterIE,It will increase your IE surfing speed.*The mean of prefetching: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Link _pre...
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AIM Express 7.0 Beta
2008-05-20 16:58:00
With AIM Express you can send IMs to your friends without installing any software. AIM Express service is convenient whenever you're away from your home computer: at school, the office, or a friend's house. Talk to your friends from any computer with a Web browser and access to the Internet . View: AIM Express 7.0 Beta

Google Health Public Beta
2008-05-20 16:21:00
Google Inc. is now offering the general public electronic access to their medical records and other health-related information.The Mountain View, Calif.-based Web search leader announced the public launch of Google Health during a Webcast on Monday. It lets users import records from a variety of care providers and pharmacies.Google tested the service by storing medical records for a few thousand patient volunteers at the not-for-profit Cleveland Clinic."It's a really exciting day for us. We're really happy to be able to offer this service to all our users," Marissa Mayer, the Google executive overseeing the health project, said in the Webcast.View: Google Health Source: Neowin
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Trillian 3.1.10
2008-05-20 16:12:00
Trillian is a multi-network chat client that currently supports IRC, AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! Messenger. It supports all of the features you've come to expect from a good IM client, including but not limited to docking, multi-line edit boxes, buddy alerts, multiple connections to the same medium, a powerful skinning language, easy importing of your existing contacts, skinnable emoticons, logging, "global" away invisible features, and a unified contact list. It is completely free with no nag screens or built-in ads.Download: Trillian 3.1.10.0View: Cerulean Studios
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IE7pro 2.3 RC 2
2008-05-19 19:09:00
IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable. With IE7pro you may switch proxy, set agent identification, block ads and flash, apply super drag-drop, refresh tab automatically, recover session crash, manage tab history, view page information, save image files quickly and more. IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins and many more power packed features. You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro.Changelog:RC 2: 1. MiniDM support drag & drop now2. View file info SaveAs dialog support multi-select now3. MiniDM https support button support vista ...
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Pidgin 2.4.2
2008-05-18 12:18:00
Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr.Users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same timePidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conve...
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Mozilla Firefox 3.0 RC 1
2008-05-17 09:04:00
Firefox is a free, open-source web browser for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and is based on the Mozilla codebase. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over Internet Explorer, such as the ability to block pop-up windows.Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is available in more than 45 languages as a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed.Download: Firefox 3.0 RC1 Windows US English (7.15 MB)Download: Firefox 3.0 RC1 OS X US English (17.17 MB)Download: Firefox 3.0 RC1 Linux US English (8.65 MB)View: Mozilla Firefox 3.0 RC 1 Home Page
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Flock 1.1.4
2008-05-16 16:45:00
Flock is a social Web browser, open source, cross platform and based on Mozilla technologies. Currently, the browser implements support for del.icio.us and Flickr. Users can also install alternative hosted bookmarks or photo sharing services. In the search box and the blog manager, Flock offer users a number of choices and the ability to install other services using open standards. Expect the same, over time, for hosted bookmarks, photo-sharing and other services Flock integrates. Flock is based on the open source Mozilla code base.Flock is focused on fundamentally evolving the browser, bringing a refreshing new approach to how people use and participate on the web and simplifying social and web-based applications by bringing them one step closer to the user and integrating them directly into the browser.When using Flock, people can easily discover, access, create and share videos, photos, blogs, feeds and comments across social communities, media providers, and popular websites.Cha...
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IE7pro 2.3 RC 1
2008-05-14 16:29:00
IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable. With IE7pro you may switch proxy, set agent identification, block ads and flash, apply super drag-drop, refresh tab automatically, recover session crash, manage tab history, view page information, save image files quickly and more. IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins and many more power packed features. You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro.Changelog:1. Session Manager add shortcut & default directory2. You can copy session to system clipboard3. Support copy selected page's source code t...
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nLite 1.4.5
2008-05-11 10:51:00
nLite is a GUI for permanent Windows component removal by your choice After removal there is an option to make bootable image ready for burning on cd or testing in virtual machines So that means that with nLite you will be able to have Windows installation cd which on installation doesn't install or even contain on cd unwanted componentsMaybe you won't believe it at first but it's not easy to not install what you don't want when it comes to Windows It involves many setup files to be edited carefully without interfering with basic Windows componentsRequires Net Framwork 2 0Changelog:- XP SP3 Slipstream under Vista, CD-Key issue fix.Download: nLite nLite 1.4.5View: nLite Home Page
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Battlefield 2142 1.50 Beta Patch
2008-05-08 18:02:00
EA and DICE have announced today the release of the Battlefield 2142 v1.50 beta patch. Here's what they had to say:Starting today you can be part of the Beta phase of Battlefield 2142 Update 1.50. Update 1.50 is a big step for Battlefield as it is the first time we have included community created maps and included them into an update. Wake Island makes a come back thanks to The Sir. Community and appears alongside a brand new map new to Battlefield created by Jason Brice, Operation Shingle. Also, for those who prefer to fight on foot, we have added a No Vehicle option to a number of maps to allow you to fight without worrying if you’ll come face to face with a Battle Walker. Also, as requested by match broadcasting groups we have separated the Commanders voice volume from the Sound Effects so you can keep the explosions and gun fire without the Commander interrupting the broadcastFEATURES:- Added community maps, Wake Island 2142 and Operation Shingle- Added the ability to use wides...
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Overclocked A History of Violence English Demo
2008-05-06 18:12:00
Lighthouse Interactive has released a playable demo for Overclocked: A History of Violence , allowing you to try out their just released psychological adventure game.Set against the backdrop of a catastrophic thunderstorm raging over New York City, step into the world of Overclocked as former army psychiatrist, David McNamara. You are called to the Staten Island Forensic Hospital in New York City to consult on a case that requires your expertise in forensic psychiatry. Tasked with exploring the minds of five young men and women who were found scared, screaming, and without memory, you make alarming discoveries as you begin to cautiously probe the psyches of your young patients. Throughout the game, you will play as five other characters in this chilling interactive psycho thriller.Download: Overclocked A History of Violence English Demo View: Overclocked Home Page
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FileZilla 3.0.9.3
2008-05-06 18:03:00
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. Changelog:+ Fix rare race condition in IO thread leading to data loss. Was possible to lose up to 3*65536 bytes at the beginning of a download.- *NIX: Renaming local files did not change local filelist- OS X: Deleting non-empty local directories did not work in all cases- MSW: Program could become unresponsive if update available dialog appears while a menu was opened- MSW: Update wizard should use correct download location on Vista to save installation files- Fix possible duplication of queue ite...
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vLite 1.1.6
2008-05-06 17:55:00
vLite is a tool for customizing the Windows Vista installation before actually installing it.Main features are: - Hotfix, language pack and driver integration - Component removal - Unattended setup - Tweaks - Split/merge Vista installation CDs - Create ISO and burn bootable CD/DVD Windows Vista from Microsoft takes a lot of resources, we all know that. So here is the tool for easy removal of unwanted components and bootable ISO creation in order to make Vista run faster and to your liking. This tool doesn't use any kind of hacking, all files and registry entries are in their original form and protected as they would be if you install the full version only without the components you select for the removal.It configures the installation directly, before the installation, meaning you'll have to remake the ISO and reinstall it. This method is much cleaner, not to mention easier and more logical than doing it after installation on every reinstall.Download: vLite 1.1.6View: vLite Home Page
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