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Archive for August 2007

August 31st, 2007

This User Should Point the Finger Back to Him

This user complain was published at Tech2: Janak Mehta, Project Manager with, Adweb Tech Trade has been using Vista for the past four months now, as his notebook was bundled with the Windows Vista Professional Edition. He says, “It has been crashing ever since I have been on it and keeps asking silly questions, consuming […]

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August 31st, 2007

Microsoft Scores Big with ATF Hardware upgrade

U.S. government’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also known as ATF has begun upgrade of their hardware PCs managed by Electronic Data System (EDS) via a $68 million two year budget. The upgrade is part of their three year upgrade cycle and the hardware they are bringing in would be capable of running […]

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August 31st, 2007

Hot Fix for Graphics Memory Overflow Problem

An out of memory problem on the virtualized graphics memory arise when applications especially games demand for memory that is no longer available physically.
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August 29th, 2007

Link Reads: 08.29

WGA Meltdown Casts Doubt on Microsoft Reliability (PC World)
Microsoft Windows Vista: How much memory is enough? (I4U)
Microsoft releases two Vista hotfix packs via Windows Update (ZDNet)
Microsoft Vista challenges, pitfalls (Tech Target)
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August 29th, 2007

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on BitTorrent

Microsoft has released a closed beta of their Windows Vista Service Pack 1 which has quickly found its way on BitTorrent. The version number of the package is 6.0.6001.16633 with 684MB in size.
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August 29th, 2007

TechNet Webcast on Windows Vista Reliability Improvements (Level 200)

You might want to check this webcast out from ZDNet on Windows Vista Reliability Improvement.
This is described as follows:
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August 27th, 2007

Link Reads: 08.27

Bamboo for Vista (Technet)
Microsoft Releasing DirectX 10 Only for Windows Vista a Mistake (Filefront)
Windows Genuine Advantage suffers worldwide outage (Net Security)
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August 27th, 2007

A Pathetic Way to Increase Vista Installed Computer

I wasted my time reading the article titled “windows vista extreme speedup” since it recommends the following:
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August 27th, 2007

Vista Codec Package 4.4.9 Final

Finding and downloading codecs can sometimes be painful but fortunately 9down has put up a decent download covering a lot of conflicts:
You can download the file here.
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August 27th, 2007

Vista Virtual Desktop Manager

Your can get your Virtual Desktop on Windows Vista via the free Vista Virtual Manager Beta. Since this is not yet the final version, proceed cautiously.
The features of the Virtual Desktop Tool is as follows:
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August 27th, 2007

Windows Vista Gadget for TV New Zealand

Television New Zealand website has just released their own RSS feeds Windows Vista Gadget.
TVNZ describes their gadget as follows:
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August 27th, 2007

Windows Vista Power Buttons

The Windows Vista Power Buttons puts your entire session in memory and places your computer in the lowest possible power consumption.
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August 24th, 2007

Account Reset Console 4.5 Tool

Lieberman Software has released their Account Reset Console version 4.5 which allows users to reset their own password. This software is said to save cost in technical support which I am skeptical since password resets don’t happen frequently and usually the percentage should be extremely low and insignificant to tech support costings.
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August 24th, 2007

AveNoBreadCrumb to Disable Your Breadcrumb

At first I didn’t like the Windows Vista breadcrumb but as I used it more it became a must in my user experience. Nonetheless, some people might want it disabled.
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August 24th, 2007

Link Reads: 08.24

Kenya: Consumers Still Wary of Microsoft’s Vista (All Africa)
Back At Louderback: Why I’m Sticking With Windows Vista (Information Week)
Tech Shakedown #6: Could Kodak site’s Vista incompatibilities be a sign of something else? (ZDNet)
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August 24th, 2007

BeyondTrust Controls UAC Pop-ups

BeyondTrust recently unveiled their software named Privilege Manager 3.5 which helps control the annoying pop-ups appearing while having User Access Control Activated.
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August 24th, 2007

Get Your Searches in an Instant

Windows Vista has included a Search folder saved under your user name to keep a history of all your searches from Documents, E-mail, Music, Pictures and Video, Changed Items, and those you shared.
The path of the search folder is “C:\Users\YourUserName\Searches”.
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August 24th, 2007

What to do When Vista Installation Halts

What if you’re Vista installation was suddenly halted by a computer shutdown? What to do? Just boot up your computer and Windows Vista should be able to pick up where it left even without the Vista boot disk.
In most cases, this should work; it not then restart everything all over again.
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August 23rd, 2007

Clip Collector Gadget

The clip collector gadget is a very cool tool which keeps up to 120 clipboard information from any application. This works similarly like the Office Clipboard but with more powerful features.

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August 22nd, 2007

Search Gadgets in Windows Vista

This search gadget is a simple Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget which allows you to query results from Google. The gadget allows you to enter text and upon query, the first page of google results appear. The simplicity of the gadget let’s you enjoy the same simplicity on using Google from the browser. All in all, […]

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