Windows Vista

By Yochay Kiriaty As a WPF application, Fishbowl runs on multiple Windows versions, including Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, and it integrates with the Windows 7 Taskbar and Multitouch. One of the main ideas behind the Taskbar is to provide users with quick and easy access to their content and he...

By Ashley Microsoft Monday Your Week in Review with Sunday’s SummaryCyberNotes: Multiple Tuners in Vista Media Center (MCE)MyFive: Reasons I Love Windows Vista Media CenterCyberNotes: Skip Commercials in Windows Media CenterHow To Stream Internet Music On Your Pocket PC

By the oracle Microsoft pulled the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from the Microsoft Store on November 10 after a report by “Within Windows” blogger Rafael Rivera that he had found what looked to be open-source code in the tool. Inclusion of open-source code isn’t a no-no, but Microsoft’s decision to...

By Ashley Microsoft Monday Your Week in Review with Sunday’s SummaryGoogle Maps Gives Editing Rights to UsersWindows Vista Beta 2 Update AvailableCyberNotes: Your Week in Review with Sunday’s SummaryCyberNotes: iCal vs. Windows Calendar

By Ryan –Disable User Account Control (UAC)–  If you get tired of those User Account Control prompts always popping up wanting to get your permission, just disable them. To do this just go to the Control Panel -> User Accounts and Family Safety -> User Accounts -> Turn User Account Contr...

By Peter Arts I had been waiting for the upgrade release with a combination of excitement and terror: excitement over the possible exorcism of Vista; and, terror over the death and destruction left in the wake of previous Microsoft home upgrades. Silly me!

By Ryan –Overview– I talked about the next version of Windows, codename Vienna, in an article yesterday and offered possible solutions that Microsoft may use to replace the Windows Taskbar. New functionality is quickly getting limited and I think Microsoft has taken the Start Menu as far as the...

By Zardon Here is how you connect it in Windows 7 if you have a Bluetooth supported PC: In the Windows 7 task bar tray (bottom right), you’ll find the Bluetooth icon. Select Add Device. I did not try it with Windows Vista but I am sure it will work exactly the same.

By Lockergnome As to your upgrade question, you can purchase the upgrade version of Windows 7 64-bit, but you will have to do a ‘clean install’ (wipe everything out and start from scratch) as you cannot perform an ‘in-place’ upgrade going from Vista 32-bit to Win 7 64-bit.

By Stephen L Rose Now that Windows 7 is available, are you looking for some security baseline recommendations from the experts? Then here’s another timely release from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team! Today, new security baselines for Windows® 7 and Windows® Internet Explorer® 8 are availa...

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By John Herrman Microsoft says that Windows 7 is the "seventh" major Windows version, which it isn't, but whatever. Adding to the mystery, the Windows 7 version number will actually be 6.1, the same as Windows Server 2008 R2. Microsoft has included the option to use BitLocker Drive Encryption without a com...

By Yochay Kiriaty We introduced Service 0 Isolation a few weeks ago as an application compatibility topic. It is only natural that we continue our conversation about services in the context of Windows 7. But this time, we will talk about some of the benefits to service optimization that are available in Wind...

By the oracle My take: Windows 7 will be a success and restore some lost faith in Microsoft. I also think that Windows XP users should upgrade to something… anything. The Windows XP operating system is a decade old. If you don’t like Windows 7, by all means switch to Mac OS X or load Ubuntu Linux or something, b...

On Thursday, Microsoft will introduce Windows 7 to the general public. While we all will eventually use 64-bit software, the safest bet s to stick with a 32-bit Windows 7 OS for now. Remember to always back up your data before installing any new operating system.

By Scott M. Fulton, III Both of these effects on the market could contribute toward one very important end goal: avoiding the characterization among consumers of Windows Vista -- technically a much more secure operating system than Windows XP -- as relatively insecure. Other than its fortress icon, Security...

By Nicole Berett Are you using your blog to talk about Windows Home Server? Do you want to enhance your personal reputation and get your posts showcased on Microsoft websites? If so, you should join The Clubhouse. The Clubhouse is a place that brings together people using their blogs to help others underst...

By matt buchanan In short, Windows 7 is what Windows should feel like in 2009. Media Player still sucks to use, though "Play To" and internet streaming features are nifty The mess that is Control Panel—after all that UI work, what the eff, guys? Microsoft Windows 7]

By Dwight At this point, I think 64-bit Windows issues are largely a thing of the past. For those still worried, I'd refer you to this entry I wrote last December about whether to buy a computer that had 64-bit Vista pre-installed. Technorati Tags: windows 7,64-bit,microsoft,operating systems

By Lockergnome This means Windows XP users will have two choices on how to get upgraded to Windows 7: Wipe everything out and start from a fresh installation or upgrade to Windows Vista, then do another upgrade to Windows 7 [editor's note: Here's another option].

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...

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):

By edit@zdnet.com.au (Rich Brown) Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 (64-bit); 2.67GHz Intel Core i7 920; 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM; 512MB ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics card; 640GB 7,200rpm Samsung hard drive Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 (64-bit); 3.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E8400; 4GB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM; 256MB Nvidia GeForce 9300M G...

This should avoid any confusion among Microsoft customers and partners as to what new features Windows 7 will have, and also will give Microsoft a chance to stabilize those features as much as possible. However, Hultquist is glad that Microsoft has changed the development process for Wi...

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By Michael Pietroforte Because BitLocker is part of Windows, it is the first option to consider if you want to introduce an encryption solution for portable devices. The fact that BitLocker is tightly integrated into Windows makes its management easier. For example, its software doesn’t have to be installed se...

By Michael Pietroforte All in all, I think that BitLocker to Go is an interesting enhancement in Windows 7 for large organizations. Because of its limited support for Windows Vista and Windows XP, however, I recommend using TrueCrypt instead of BitLocker in small organizations. I wonder if this is the reason Bit...

By edit@zdnet.com.au (Alex Serpo) Like OpenOffice.Org, Lotus Symphony is free, but it's not open source, it's a proprietary fork of the OpenOffice.org code. Available in Linux OS X and Windows versions, Lotus Symphony can be downloaded from the IBM website with a free log-in ID. There are also versions for 64-bit operating s...

By Dwight Vista has the reputation of being buggy, bloated, intrusive. With Windows 7, Microsoft needs to release an operating system that specifically addresses those issues, and then some. And after playing for about a day with what appears to be the first public beta, I can say that Microsoft may...

By Dwight Microsoft noticed the sudden shift as well. According to stats I received yesterday, the installed base of 64-bit Windows Vista machines in the U.S. has more than tripled in the last three months. Using data from its Windows Update servers, Microsoft calculated that 1.45% of all Windows Vist...

By randguth Windows Vista was released almost two years ago, and public acceptance has been very weak.  Partially because of some disruptive advertising by Apple, and some of it because there are a lot of old computers out there that run Windows XP just fine.  In fact, I run my home finance software usin...

By ShaDow If you truly want to speed up vista, you need to approach the issue from a few different angles. Simply installing an anti-virus tool or anti-spyware tool isn't going to cut it. That being said, start considering different methods of speeding up your computer -- examine what techniques can...

By The How-To Geek Windows expert Ed Bott explains it: Windows expert Mark Russinovich agrees: Editor: Readers should note that a recent Windows Vista tweaking guide, offered for download by Microsoft, does suggest disabling unneeded services.

By Ryan Tutorial Thursday Here’s how you can enable ReadyBoost on Vista for any memory card or USB drive: Insert your USB Drive and choose the ReadyBoost option when prompted. If you’re not prompted you can always go into Windows Explorer, right-click on the device, and choose Properties.

By Ryan The Flip-3D task switching in Windows Vista is probably one of its most notorious features. If you’re not familiar with it then the next time you get your hands on Windows Vista (with Aero enabled) make sure you press the Windows Key + Tab. It brings up a nifty application switcher that is su...

By wdkblog Hi, I’m Seth McEvoy and I’m the writer for the Kernel-Mode Driver Architecture section of the Windows Driver Kit (WDK). My section is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa973498.aspx. I’ve only been writing on the kernel for about a year, but I’ve been at Microsoft for 17 year...

By david_leblanc Just picked up this link from Robert Hensing's blog - http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Vista-security-to-be-obliterated-at-Black-Hat/0,339028227,339290040,00.htm. Seems Mark Dowd is going to be doing a presentation on how to bypass some of the defenses used by programs. I wr...

By joshua What is your opinion on this? Am I wrong? Did these things make a difference to the performance of Vista on your computer? Tags: performance, vista, Windows, windows-vista Related posts Zoom It (3)Zip Repair (2)Yuck new Windows Vista Ultimate Extras (9)Youtube Batch Downloader (11)X...

By Michael We‘ve heard some of you say that Windows Vista runs slower than Windows XP on a given PC. So what‘s really happening here? First, we need to avoid comparing apples to oranges—Windows Vista is doing a lot more than Windows XP, and it requires resources to conduct these tasks. That said, it is im...

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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...

By Benny Goldman Anandtech: "Compared to where we were a year ago, our general recommendation for Vista is unchanged. We are however impressed with the progress of the x64 versions of Vista over the past year, after feeling like it was lagging behind Vista x86 from beta up through the release version of Vis...

By matt buchanan Today, Mossberg takes a look at the lukewarmly anticipated Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista. It's an odd little beast of a review, its flat, monotonal surface covering a bed of barbs. (Most of 'em are true.) Here's the sharpest one (bold is mine): SP1 doesn't resolve some of the most annoying f...

By jamesone My machine is definitely running better - how much that is SP1 and how much just cleaning it out I don't know. But the ease with which you can make build disks and give them to every laptop user in the company is just one more reason why I say Vista is superior to anything we've had before. Technora...

By Wilson Rothman Let's cut the blather about new functionality and early-adoption growing pains and all that: New operating systems are supposed to run smoother than older ones. In my own life, three Vista machines proved unable to meet the mobile rigors of blogging in the field. I had used both Macs and PCs...

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.

By rEAL.pRO 1) Open Internet Explorer 7. 1) Open Internet Explorer 7. Option 1: Reset Internet Explorer 7 Internet Explorer 7 settings, use Method 4. 1) Open Internet Explorer 7. 6) Exit and then restart Internet Explorer 7. Method 4: Reset Internet Explorer 7 settings 1) Open Internet Explorer 7.

By bink@bink.nu Here's a little more information on how OEM BIOS based activation works. This form of product activation is also known as OEM Activation or just OA, which is how Microsoft refers to it and how I will refer to it in this post. Back at the launch of Windows XP when Microsoft introduced Windows Pro...

By Corrine Windows Vista RTM FAQ and Quick Start Guide - March 2007 Edition While you are at Windows Vista User Guide, check out the collection of Windows Vista Screenshots, a gallery of all the applications within Windows Vista Windows Vista Customizations Desktop Wallpaper

You've taken the leap into Windows Vista, but once in awhile, your heart yearns for the classic features and functionality of XP. Maybe you've got software that doesn't yet work in Vista, or maybe you just want to see how a web site looks in Internet Explorer 6. You could dual boot XP and Vista,...

Windows Live OneCare Failed VB100 Test In a report by BetaNews, it was indicated that a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that Windows Live OneCare antivirus failed a test conducted by Virus Bulletin. Windows Vista Business Edition was the operating system used in the test. The BetaNews...