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Rate Wireless Network Scanner inSSIDer

Original at gHacks technology external link    9 hours ago

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By Martin Related posts Windows Tabbed Browsing (3)Windows Run Aliases (8)Windows Management: Super Maximize Windows (7)Windows DJVU Viewer (1)Window Management Software Taekwindow (3) The wireless network scanner inSSIDer can be used to quickly scan the area for wireless networks. The so...

Rate Windows 7 Ultimate Extra: You still pay the Extra price

Original at Houston Chronicle external link    9 hours ago

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By Dwight In fact, Microsoft has apparently removed the Windows Vista Ultimate Team Blog, which once contained both promises of goodies to come and apologies for the failure to deliver them. But was the promise of the Ultimate Extras a factor in your purchase? If so, how do you feel about the way Micr...

Rate Linkpost | 7.3.2009

Original at Houston Chronicle external link    11 hours ago

By Dwight • Some Vista users say they're getting the Ultimate shaft - Those who bought Windows Vista Ultimate say they're unhappy with the fact that there's no price break for them to upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate. • How to Buy a Netbook - An excellent guide from PC World.

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Rate What Windows 7 Version is right for you

Original at everyjoe.com external link    23 hours ago

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By Milo Riano It’s just four months from now before the release of Windows 7, and Microsoft has already announced that there are three major versions: The Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, and Windows 7 Ultimate. Image from Windows 7 brochures. Post from: Windows Vista Weblog

Rate Announces Windows 7 Ready USB Flash Drive - XPG Xupreme 200X

Original at Legit Reviews external link    Thu, Jul 2

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By nate@legitreviews.com (Nathan Kirsch) The XPG Xupreme 200X flash drive also certified for Windows Vista and Windows ReadyBoost, offering the high performance advantages to this operation system. Moreover, the XPG Xupreme 200X flash drive also comes with a practical leather strap and provides true "Plug and Play" function...

Rate SCCManager 2007 Service Pack 2 Beta aka ConfigMgr07 SP2

Original at Windows Vista Team external link    Wed, Jul 1    2 related articles

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By Stephen L Rose I recently interviewed fellow product manager, long-time friend and fellow “automator” of operating system deployment tasks, Jeff Wettlaufer, from the System Center team. He explained the new features in the recently released System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack...

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Rate Get ready to deploy Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta 2.

Original at Windows Vista Team external link    Wed, Jul 1    3 related articles

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By Stephen L Rose MDT 2010 is the next version of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, a Solution Accelerator for operating system and application deployment. New features such as flexible driver management, optimized user interface workflow, and Windows PowerShell™ can simplify deployment and make your...

Rate Microsoft Security Essentials is lean, but is it effective?

Original at Houston Chronicle external link    Mon, Jun 29

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By Dwight Microsoft Security Essentials is designed to replace Windows Live OneCare, paid software that had a mixed reputation for effectiveness. (Microsoft will quit selling OneCare on Tuesday.) It uses components from various Microsoft security products, such as OneCare's scanning engine....

Rate The Windows Marketplace Advantage

Original at gHacks technology external link    Mon, Jun 29

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By Orrett Morgan Related posts Zune does not allow to share all songs (3)Zoom It (4)Yuck new Windows Vista Ultimate Extras (19)Yahoo, sick of them yet? (4)XP SP3 and Vista SP 1 available through Windows Update (6) It has been known for some time that hardly any innovation goes into the technology world the...

Rate 15 days to decide: Windows 7 upgrade at half price or better

Original at Houston Chronicle external link    Sat, Jun 27

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By Dwight • If you're a happy Windows XP user: Skip Windows 7. At its core, the new operating system is a refined version of Vista. If you avoided Vista because you weren't happy with its interface changes, you probably won't want to move to Windows 7, either. If you're an if-it-ain't-broke-don't-fix-...

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Rate Opinion: CyberNotes: Share a Firefox Profile Between Ubuntu and Windows

Original at CyberNet Classics external link    Thu, Jun 25

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By Ryan One of the new things in Ubuntu 7.10 is the ability to read and write to NTFS formatted drives, which is great for Windows XP and Vista users. What that means is that you can create a Firefox profile in Windows and set it up so that Ubuntu uses the exact same profile.

Rate Opinion: Upgrading to...ur Migrating to Windows 7 from Windows XP

Original at adacosta.spaces.live.com external link    Fri, Jun 19

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Can I upgrade to Windows 7 from Windows XP? Preparing to install the Windows Easy Transfer software on Windows XP and there you have it, a successful migration from Windows XP to Windows 7 Windows Upgrade Advisor - Find out how ready your Windows XP system is for Windows 7.

Rate Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 Beta Now Available!

Original at Bink.nu external link    Wed, Jun 17

By Sumeeth Evans Covers Wide Range of Scenarios--from Desktops to Servers. MAP Toolkit offers technology assessments and planning recommendations for many Microsoft desktop and server products including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V R2, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V,...

Rate Opinion: CyberNotes: How to use Google Gadgets in your Vista Sidebar

Original at CyberNet Classics external link    Sat, Jun 13

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By Ryan Tutorial Thursday Google Gadgets have been around for several years now and number in the thousands (more than 4,400 at the time of this writing). Windows Vista, on the other hand, is still pretty new and the selection of gadgets is slowly making progress with just over 1,100 currently ava...

Rate How To: Re: Re-installing and Formatting Windows Vista

Original at setup Google Group external link    Sat, Jun 6

By gu...@unknown-email.com (Brink) Hello Ladiesman, Your laptop should have a recovery partition or set of recovery discs to do format your hard drive and do a factory restore of Vista with. What brand is your laptop? I'll see if I can find the instructions for you on how to do a factory restore with it. :) Shawn

Rate Microsoft Patch Bulletin for June

Original at everyjoe.com external link    Thu, Jun 4

By Milo Riano Microsoft has released an advanced notifications for their June patch which affects Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008. The Microsoft bulletin is found here — Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for June 2009

Rate How To: Windows Vista turn to Windows XP black edtion sp3 2009 part 3Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Thu, Jun 4

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By rss@youtube.com (DhenProduction) Author: DhenProduction Keywords: this video show how to change your windows vista in xp black edition sp3 install OS BIOS boot recovery disc Added: June 4, 2009

Rate Windows 7 is what Windows Vista should have been?

Original at 4sysops external link    Thu, Jun 4

By Michael Pietroforte lt;p><a href="http://4sysops.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/windows7logo1.jpg" onclick="return enlarge('http://4sysops.com/wp-content/plugins/zap_imgpop/','http://4sysops.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/windows7logo1.jpg','',event,300,75)">...

Rate Patch: 10 Microsoft Security Bulletins for June 2009

Original at MSMVPS.COM external link    Thu, Jun 4

By donna 1.  An updated version of Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool 3.  Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [June 2009] (KB905866) 4.  Cumulative Update for Media Center TVPack for Windows Vista (KB966315) 5.  Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista (KB96763...

May of 2009

 

Rate Patch: Vista Service Pack 2 Standalone is available

Original at MSMVPS.COM external link    Tue, May 26

By donna Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 - Five Language Standalone (KB948465) Note: Windows Server 2008 released with Service Pack 1 included. Windows Vista SP1 information and downloads can be found on the Windows Vista SP1 TechNet page.

Rate Podcast: Windows 7 Graphics - WIC

Original at Channel9 posts by user: The Channel 9 Team external link    Thu, May 21

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By Yochay Kiriaty ·         Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview - Part 1 ·         Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview - Part 2 ·         Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview - Part 3 ·         Developer for Windows MSDN page ·         Windows 7: Unlocking the GPU with Direct3D

Rate Opinion: What are people saying about the Windows 7 Release Candidate?

Original at Windows Vista Team external link    Thu, May 21

By Brandon LeBlanc We did this before with Windows 7 at PDC and the Windows 7 Beta – I figured it’s time to do it for the Windows 7 RC. Here are a handful of quotes of what people are saying about the Windows 7 RC: Windows 7 RC1 includes a substantial number of productivity and performance tweaks that make an already...

Rate Opinion: How To Install Windows 7 On Almost Any Netbook [How To]

Original at Gizmodo external link    Sat, May 16

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By John Herrman • A Windows XP/Vista PC or a Mac to prepare the flash drive Getting Windows 7 This is the annoying part, but it's not necessarily that difficult. Here are some guides, by OS (some linked for length): • Windows XP • ">Windows Vista • Mac OS X (courtesy of Ubuntu, funnily enough):

Rate Patch: LogonStudio 1.5

Original at lockergnome network external link    Wed, May 6

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By sscott721 LogonStudio is an application that allows you to easily change the Windows logon screen in Windows Vista.  There are thousands of logons available for download from WinCustomize.com, and creating your own logon is as easy as dragging and dropping an image into LogonStudio.

Rate How To: IT Dojo: Run Windows Vista on your Mac with VMWare Fusion [video]

Original at Steve Gillmor's GestureLab external link    Tue, May 5

By Larry Dignan If you’re a Mac user who also needs to run Windows, there’s an easy way to get the best of both worlds. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler shows you how to run Windows Vista on Mac OS Ten using VMware Fusion. For those of you who prefer text to video, you can click the Transcript [...]

April of 2009

 

Rate Windows 7 Starter Edition: 'No, you can't' is a deterrent

Original at Houston Chronicle external link    Thu, Apr 23    3 related articles

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By Dwight What he found was that, yes, there's a three-program limit, but some components of Windows don't count against that limit. Windows Explorer Windows, Control Panel modules, program installers, Desktop Gadgets, the command prompt, the Task Manager and some system utilities aren't cou...

Rate Light Up with Windows 7 Libraries

Original at Windows Vista Team external link    Thu, Apr 16    2 related articles

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By Yochay Kiriaty Libraries are the new entry points for user’s data In Windows 7. Libraries are an integral part of the Shell and are promoted across Windows in Windows Explorer, Start Menu, and Common File Dialog. Windows 7 Users will use Libraries in their day-to-day activities. As such, they will expect a...

Rate (HD) Windows Vista Tutorial Speed Up Your PC! + How to Use RocketdockVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sun, Apr 12

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By rss@youtube.com (tobleroneuk) None Author: tobleroneuk Keywords: Windows Vista SP1 SP2 SP3 tutorial make faster startup shutdown msconfig nvidia gtx 260 Added: April 12, 2009

Year 2009

 

Rate Microsoft Cooking Critical Patch for Vista SP1 and XP SP3

Original at Softpedia external link    Fri, Mar 6

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By Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) Microsoft plans to release a total of three security bulletins come next week, all focused exclusively on the Windows client and server operating systems. The Redmond company revealed that the latest Windows releases were impacted, including Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows X...

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Original at YouTube external link    Thu, Mar 5

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By rss@youtube.com (vanityscreamreacords) this is a short video on some steps you can take to make your Vista... Author: vanityscreamreacords Keywords: Windows Vista Faster fast 90% 80% really how to Make Added: March 5, 2009

Rate How to disable the User Account Control on Windows VistaVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Wed, Feb 18

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By rss@youtube.com (MicroPCHelper) This will disable that annoying UAC (User Account Control) From popping up for your permission for opening up Programs, like "Add or Remove", "Windows Sidebar". It really gets Annoying... So In this video I will show you on how to disable it, it's very easy and simple. ______________________...

Rate Opinion: Windows 7 Enterprise - Exclusive features that Windows 7 Professional lacks

Original at 4sysops external link    Thu, Feb 12

By Michael Pietroforte BitLocker & BitLocker to Go I have already written a lot about these two features. As far as I know, BitLocker for fixed drives isn’t installed on many Vista machines out there. The complicated installation procedure might be one reason. Probably a bigger factor is that it is only availa...

Rate Podcast: Is the Macintosh tide ebbing?

Original at Houston Chronicle external link    Thu, Feb 12

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By Dwight • Hype. Apple's a master at getting others to do promotion on its behalf. The Fanboy Nation is a powerful force (watch for its presence to manifest itself in the comments under this post), and it saves Apple a bundle in marketing costs. But at the moment, Microsoft's winning the buzz contest be...

Rate Bad economy could slow enterprise adoption of Windows 7

Original at InfoWorld external link    Fri, Feb 6

For Cherry, a more compelling reason for companies to upgrade is a set of features in Windows 7 that take advantage of new capabilities in its companion server OS, Windows Server 2008 R2, which Microsoft is expected to release shortly after Windows 7, he said.

Rate Podcast: Windows 7 = Vista Upgrade

Original at LarrysWorld.com external link    Mon, Feb 2

I don’t know why it took so long, but Microsoft has finally fixed Vista. Only it isn’t calling it Vista. Instead the company is working on what it’s calling a new version of Windows, Windows 7. The operating system isn’t commercially available, but is likely to be out by the end of the year.

Rate Patch: Testers get RC-Escrow build of SP2 for Vista and Server 2008

Original at Ars Technica external link    Wed, Jan 28    8 related articles

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By (Emil Protalinski) Microsoft has sent out an e-mail to testers announcing that the RC-Escrow build of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is available for download. The company is letting testers grab it via Windows Update (available this Thursday in available languages of Vista and Se...

Rate Podcast: BitLocker on TechNet Radio

Original at Windows Vista Team external link    Fri, Jan 23

By Paul Cooke Not sure how many of you are familiar wtih TechNet Radio, but I did a piece for them the other day that I encourage you to go check out. It's a quick interview on BitLocker Drive Encryption. In it, I get asked about BitLocker not only in Windows Vista, but also around some of the changes we have mad...

Rate Why You Should Go 64-Bit With Windows 7

Original at Gizmodo external link    Mon, Jan 19

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By matt buchanan Basically, anyone geeky enough to read this. If you have an Intel Core 2 Duo or newer processor, you've got a 64-bit CPU, and you should install the 64-bit version of Windows 7 to play with. (Here's how. You've got like 5 days left, BTW.) Microsoft itself is pimping 64-bit over 32-bit now and note...

Rate Podcast: CRM Accelerators: Notifications (RSS)

Original at Channel9 posts by user: The Channel 9 Team external link    Wed, Dec 10

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By girishr This is just a tip of iceberg on how RSS can be used with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Since the accelerator ships with the source code as well, developers can further extend this or create new and interesting applications based on RSS & CRM.

Rate Patch: Information about Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2

Original at msnn.ms external link    Thu, Sep 18

By BSchwarz • Windows Vista Business 64-bit Edition • Windows Vista Business • Windows Vista Enterprise • Windows Vista Home Basic • Windows Vista Starter • Windows Vista Ultimate • Windows Server 2008 Datacenter • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise • Windows Server 2008 Standard

Rate Security Garden: Windows Vista SP1 Update Information

Original at Security Garden external link    Thu, May 8

Sunday, February 24, 2008 Windows Vista SP1 Update Information KB937287 -- "configuring updates stage 3 of 3. 0% complete" A few people have run into a problem after installing KB937287, of the pre-requisite updates for SP1. The solution for this issue is available in KB949358. If you have...

Rate Windows XP SP3 Released

Original at Security Garden external link    Tue, May 6

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By Corrine Remember - "A day without laughter is a day wasted." May the wind sing to you and the sun rise in your heart... Computer security news & information, help, tips and more, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Rate Opinion: My Vista Experience just got sooooo much better

Original at MSDN Blogs external link    Sat, Mar 22

By DotNetInterop Quietly I've been suffering through an experience with Windows Vista on my laptop.  I got my laptop, a HP/Compaq nc8430, in October 2006 and had been running Vista on it since then.  In the early days, I used a pre-release version of vista, but I switched to the generally-released (RTM) vers...

Rate How To: Creating a Windows Vista Sidebar gadget using Silverlight 1.0 (Chopsticks Video)

Original at MSDN Blogs external link    Mon, Feb 18

By tommer See how you can create a Windows Vista Sidebar gadget using Silverlight 1.0 applications. During this 25 minute Chopsticks video, Sven Van Oirbeek explains how to create a Silverlight 1.0 application that plays streaming radio over the internet and shows how you can add it to the Windows Si...

Rate Podcast: Windows High Performance Computing...checked Windows Compare?

Original at MSDN Blogs external link    Thu, Feb 14

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By Mithund Upcoming Webcast on Windows Compare: High-Performance Computing with Windows (Level 200) Recorded Windows Compare Sessions Monitoring Performance: Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux Visit Windows Compare website for more information.

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Rate Patch: Windows Vista SP1 "slipstream" Guide

Original at Bink.nu external link    Thu, Aug 30

By bink@bink.nu Microsoft has confirmed that there will no way to directly slipstream the Service Pack. Nevertheless, the method outlined below will still work. Microsoft has confirmed that there will no way to directly slipstream the Service Pack. Nevertheless, the method outlined below will still wo...

Rate Podcast: Windows Experience IndexVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at The Chris Pirillo Show external link    Tue, Aug 28

By chris@pirillo.com (Chris Pirillo) Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes Formats Available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4) Flash Video (.flv) MP3 Audio (.mp3) OOBE, Calibri and AERO: A Conversation with Jenny LamWindows Vista NetworkingRobert McLaws on x64 and Longhorn Part 2Blogspot, Windows Media Center and Ed BottI...

Rate Podcast: Recovering Windows PasswordsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at The Chris Pirillo Show external link    Mon, Aug 27

By chris@pirillo.com (Chris Pirillo) Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes Formats Available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4) Flash Video (.flv) MP3 Audio (.mp3) Master Password in FirefoxHappy Birthday!Password StorageErase FilesWindows Vista in Your WordsWindows Vista and Outlook 2007 ThoughtsEd Bott and Windows Vi...

Rate Opinion: How to secure a wireless network

Original at Security Garden external link    Sun, Aug 19

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By Corrine Here's a great tip via Josh at Windows Connected: Join the fun at Windows Connected. I'm connected, are you? Computer security news & information, help, tips and more, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Rate How To: Outbound Rules List for Windows Vista Firewall

Original at Security Garden external link    Sat, Mar 17

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By Corrine Last month I added Donna's tutorial, “Vista’s Windows Firewall with Advanced Security” to Windows Vista Bookmarks. Donna's tutorial includes illustrated instructions on how to create an outbound rule for Windows Vista Firewall.

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