Windows Vista

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 ShaDow The registry is in charge of keeping all vital information organized and readily available for your PC. When the computer needs something, the registry is where it turns to. So, this means if the registry becomes corrupted, the computer will have a bit of trouble getting what it needs and wi...

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By Ashley Microsoft Monday Stardock describes this portion of TweakVista as: “Unleash the power of the Desktop Windows Manager, underlying Vista’s user interface.” From here you can do things like enable or disable the Flip 3D window switching.

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By Ashley Vista is more known for all of its visual appeal than it is for the “under the hood” types of features. One such feature is the new file management options in Windows Vista that allow you to sort, group, filter, and stack your files. It’s simply a new approach to organizing all of your files in Wi...

By danwoodman In past versions of Windows, backing up your computer could be a chore.  Deciding which files to backup, then finding a good way to back them up often meant third party applications.  In Windows Vista, however, backing up your PC is a snap!  But before we get too far into the improvements, let...

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 Dan I wanted to add this post because when the APS network was hacked in 2007 and then my home computer was hacked it was really disturbing but now in reflecting back on the experience it was profoundly interesting as well. The hacker(s)? stole all my personnel information and my identity and it...

By Chris So what do you think? Should Microsoft be commended for taking this route to try and dispel the myths, or should they be thumped with a clue-by-four? Is the Windows UI Important?Five Ways Vista is better than OS X?Top Six Tips Before you Install Vista SP1The Microsoft Windows Vista Rant Co...

By danwoodman Windows Meeting Space allows several participants to all work collaboratively on a document.  It is included with all versions of Windows Vista.  (Note:  Windows Home Basic users can only join meetings -- they cannot initiate them.)  Launching the program displays a screen like this:

By Keith Combs An astute observer of Windows Vista will notice the operating system is always doing something.  The most visible activity involves the hard drives of your system.  If you haven’t changed any of the default settings for Windows Vista, you’ll notice those hard drives are constantly readi...

By Doug Aamoth Okay, here’s what happened. Microsoft took a group of 120 individuals who “were either Mac, Linux, or users of versions of Windows that came before Windows Vista” and who rated their perception of Vista at less than a five on a scale of one to ten. These people were shown a demo of what they [...]

By Ryan This article was written on February 15, 2007 by CyberNet.Tutorial Thursday 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 p...

By freitasm And of course the inevitable comparison with Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 - itself fast and quite solid. Microsoft Windows Vista must to go the way of the enterprise. Leave it for the corporate bodies. You can always use Windows Vista Home Basic" I hear you saying...

By Alun Jones But that's not enough. With each new version of Windows, there are better ways of doing things and new features to exploit. With Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, there are also a few deprecated older behaviours that I can see are holding WFTPD and WFTPD Pro down.

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 The How-To Geek Turn Off Windows Explorer Click Sounds in Windows Vista>> Use Compatibility Mode to Make Applications Work Using Windows Vista Compatibility Mode>> Fix File Copying Problems Install Windows XP on Your Pre-Installed Windows Vista Computer>>

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 freitasm As for the software, I ran the original Windows Vista 64 bit for twelve months on this machine, but one day I scheduled a boot time CHKDSK and it never booted. So I decided to install Windows Vista 32 bit in early January 2008 because I was tired of the lack of 64 bit drivers.

By Chris Flores With that in mind, our goal here was to offer a more straight-forward and practical way of looking at things and give them a managed experience. Whether you are a Windows XP user today deciding whether or not to migrate or already on the path to Windows Vista, we offer one destination where yo...

By Donnie Wilemon 3.       Well-managed Desktops (Windows XP, Vista, Windows Server, Windows Live OneCare) 6.       Backup & Restore (Windows Live OneCare) 8.       Desktop Anti-Virus, Malware, Tuning (Windows Live OneCare) Desktop Anti-Virus, Malware, Tuning …

By philipsu Deep in the bowels of Windows, there remains the whiff of a bygone culture of belittlement and aggression.  Windows can be a scary place to tell the truth. Are Vista-scale software projects essentially uncontrollable by nature?  Or has Microsoft been beset by one too many broken windows?...

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...

By Keith Combs For me, it’s Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, then Windows XP.  I mean really.  Windows Server rocks.  2003 is as solid as they come, and 2008 is looking really good as well.  But I’m a server guy so I naturally show more love for the server stuff.  But it’s early for Window...

By Ryan VLC Media Player has had this feature for a long time and it works in more than just Windows Vista Ultimate edition, unlike the DreamScene add-on. The only problem that I have had with it so far is trying to get some videos to play full-size. That can be a little tricky because the full-screen mo...

By Matt-MS Join the Microsoft Windows Vista Deployment team of experts as they provide IT Pros and Partners with the necessary tools and understanding to migrate existing Windows Applications to the Windows Vista Operating System. This webcast series will guide participants through a series of...

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By anthons Title: Application Compatibility in Windows Vista Title: Making Windows Vista Application Compatibility Testing More Predictable with Effective Project Management Session Name:  Application Compatibility Toolkit Title: Application Compatibility in 50 Days

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 sushrukh Something you should know about the Windows Vista Control Panel -> Back up your computer Control Panel [System and Maintenance] Free up disk space Prepare and partition a hard disk. Rate your computer's capability to run Windows Vista.

By Marcos Rodrigues PC Pro InfoWorld InfoWorld InfoWorld Windows Server 2008 Review - Paul Thurrott, 02-24-2008 Windows IT Pro Aprenda no TechNet Experience Windows Server 2008 Leia mais sobre o Windows Server 2008 no TECHCENTER Windows Server 2008

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 300GigLoss registry, settings, drivers, everything that makes WINDOWS run (don't care operating systems when I'm shopping for my next PC. Be it Apple, an open I assume Microsoft has heard all of this before, but Microsoft needs to move This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds...

Why there is so much speculation amongst critics and writers outside the Apple realm about the possibility of Apple loading their machines with either Windows or Linux escapes me; however, I want to put the critics to bed with a few reasons why Apple would never be so foolish as to advocate...

By Gina Trapani But while you're unlikely to run into filetype compatibility issues, Mac newbs should know that applications are not compatible across operating systems. That is, if you buy Microsoft Office for Windows, you've got to buy a whole new package/license for Office for Mac. Same goes for Phot...

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. 2) Click Internet Explorer (No Add-Ons). Internet Explorer 7 opens Option 1: Reset Internet Explorer 7 Internet Explorer 7 settings, use Method 4. 1) Open Internet Explorer 7. 1) Open Internet Explorer 7.

By AnaLoGMunKy Vista Services* Windows Vista Services Tweak Guide v1.0 4) Run 3 or so spyware scans Windows Defender, , Adaware, and Spybot MSFT Windows Defender MSFT "Windows One Care" in Wings (AV and Spyware Scans) you 1. 2. 3. 4. How to perform a clean boot in Windows XP and Vista.

By Martin Heller After a telephone conversation, I think I understand the problem, which seems to be two-fold. First, HP seems to have installed a control panel that nags when Windows Vista Backup and Restore has not made a successful backup. Second, the backup process can't get at all the files on th...

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 Matt Asay But I'm a little tired of the anti-Vista smears that crop up daily. I have it installed on my Mac, and it works fine. I don't prefer it to OS X, so I only use it to watch soccer games from sites that don't support other operating systems/browsers than Windows/IE. But come on - it's actually a big imp...

By Corrine As Sidebar Geek wrote when describing 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

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...

Got any questions, rants or raves about Vista? Bring 'em on in the comments or to tips at lifehacker.com. Previous Windows Vista posts: Early Adopter Download of the Day: Windows Vista Release Candidate 1How to dual boot Windows XP and Windows VistaWindows Vista Beta: A lot like Mac OS XWin...