Windows Vista

By Lockergnome Q: I have a Sony VAIO running Windows Vista and a Mac laptop. I have an iTunes library on both computers but want to transfer all songs from the Sony to the Mac iTunes library. How is this done? – Michael There are a few details of your question that can have an impact on my [...]

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.

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.

By edit@cnet.com.au (Alex Kidman) Performance The Aspire 4810T's benchmark scores came in with a PCMark 05 score of 2005 and 3DMark 06 score of 630. The results didn't surprise us - the Core Solo used is more notable for being a low power part than a high performance one - but there's more to the Aspire 4810T than that. For a start...

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...

A domain if you don't know is a server computer running a Network Operating System such as Windows Server, UNIX or Linux that manages and provides resources such as file sharing, printers and secure authentication to client computers running Windows.

By Ryan Tutorial Thursday More and more people must be using Windows Vista because I am starting to receive emails on a daily basis with questions or regarding cool features. There have been a few different people asking how they can replace the Windows Vista boot screen with something other tha...

A Look at Windows Backup and Windows Update in 7 Improved Recovery Options in Windows 7 A Quick Look: Customizing your Windows 7 Installation Windows Easy Transfer: Lessons Learned Remote Assistance in Windows 7: Lending a helping Hand is even easier

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 Ashley Open up Windows Explorer by pressing the windows key and the letter “e”.(Computer)Select “organize” at the top.Next click on “Folder and Search Options”Click ViewIn the advanced settings, un-check the option that says “Show Drive Letters.”

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By will.craddock All you need to do is to install suitable applications directly in Windows XP Mode which is a virtual Windows XP environment running under Windows Virtual PC. The applications will be published to the Windows 7 desktop and then you can run them directly from Windows 7. Microsoft will be soon...

By Ryan This article was written on May 15, 2007 by CyberNet. Time Saving Tuesday There is no doubt that my favorite feature in Windows Vista is the integrated search. It is everywhere you need it to be, and it can do so much more than you realize. The search operators that I am about to mention also work u...

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...

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...

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 Scot In Beta 1, I continue to be happy with total gag order Microsoft gave User Account Control (UAC) by default. It makes using Windows 7 far less annoying. But taking away a bad idea also isn’t that big a deal. You could turn off UAC in Vista too.

By Brandon LeBlanc I'm actually having fun using Seven, something I haven't said about a Microsoft operating system since Windows 95. Windows 7 seems to be much improved than Windows Vista in lots of areas and the beta clearly shows that Microsoft has indeed taken users feedback on Vista seriously.

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 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 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 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 freitasm And of course the inevitable comparison with Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 - itself fast and quite solid. But for consumers Windows Vista is just not there yet. Microsoft Windows Vista must to go the way of the enterprise. Leave it for the corporate bodies.

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 Four Ways to Make UAC Less Annoying on Windows Vista>> Keep Windows Update from Rebooting Automatically Prevent Windows Update from Forcibly Rebooting Your Computer>> Stop Losing the Sleep Button to Windows Update

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 Ashley If you bought Vista Ultimate, you’re entitled to the “Ultimate Extras.”  Some of the extras are available, with others coming soon.  Two of the Ultimate extras that you’re able to get your hands on right now include BitLocker and Texas Hold ‘Em.  BitLocker allows you to encrypt your hard dri...

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 Ryan Pretty cool, huh? This is something Microsoft should include in a PowerToy for Vista because larger thumbnails make the feature more useful. So the program isn’t quite perfect yet, but it is getting there. If you’re running Vista with the Aero interface, I’m sure you’ll think this is prett...

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 James Senior TechNet Webcast: Windows Compare (Part 4 of 6): TechNet Webcast: Windows Compare (Part 5 of 6): TechNet Webcast: Windows Compare (Part 6 of 6): Security Development Lifecycle The Microsoft Perspective on Windows Server and Linux for Server Operating Systems Windows PowerShell

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...