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Archive for March 2008

March 31st, 2008

Windows Vista Wallpapers You Should Not Miss

I found this post about different Windows Vista Wallpapers you shouldn’t miss. You have the Vista Curves, Silky Embossed & Corporate Clean.

Go and see all the designs here.
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March 29th, 2008

Link Reads: 03.29.08

Top Read: Apple’s Leopard lasts ‘30 seconds’ in hack contest (ZDNet)
Is it true that not all Vista notebooks can run XP? (Cnet)
Dell’s new approach to the Vista migration problem (BetaNews)
Insufficient memory can put your hard drive on overtime (Seattletimes)
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March 29th, 2008

Shane Macaulay wins Vista hacking contest via Adobe vulnerability

Shane Macaulay won a Fujitsu U810 laptop running Vista Ultimate SP1 during the final day of CanSecWest PWN2OWN 2008 contest. He also won $5,000 from contest sponsor, TippingPoint.
In an excerpt:
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March 29th, 2008

Microsoft Windows Vista in Pink Box

Windows Vista in a Pink box (see image above) is released to Japanese market. It looks cool and people are asking whether the color could spur the sales of Windows Vista. Strategy in pink if you ask me.
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March 29th, 2008

Newly released Vista Fixes Expected to Boost Sales

Microsoft has already issued the first set of bug fixes for the product and they are hoping this would boost their sales.
A lot of consumer and businesses haven’t considered Windows Vista until they feel Microsoft has already released the final fixes to make the operating system stable.
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March 29th, 2008

Tutorial Video: How to make panoramic photo in windows vista

Tutorial video on creating panoramic photo in windows vista.
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March 29th, 2008

Tutorial Video: How to Create and Delete System Restore Points in Windows Vista

Tutorial on creating and deleting system restore points in Windows Vista.
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March 29th, 2008

Tutorial Video: Folder Options and Showing Hidden Files in Windows Vista

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March 29th, 2008

Tutorial Video: Get dreamscene on vista

This is a tutorial video on how to get dreamscene on Windows Vista.

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March 29th, 2008

Video: How to get photoshop cs3 and windows vista free

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March 29th, 2008

NVidia Causes Early Vista Crashes

The Windows Vista Capable lawsuit reveals that early crashes of Windows Vista were attributed to Nvidia during the early release in 2007. It said that Nvidia caused 30 percent of the Vista crashes while Microsoft is only at fault for 18 percent of the total crashes.
According to the PR director of NVidia: “These issues are […]

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March 22nd, 2008

Link Reads: 03.22.08

Sony Offers Bloatware Removal Service — For a Fee [Updated] (Slashdot)
Windows XP vs. Vista: An Explosion of Opinion (ABCNews)
Windows Vista SP1 Flunks Out At Penn (InformationWeek)
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March 22nd, 2008

Turning Services on and Off

Have you ever wondered how come there is an application icon in your taskbar and could not turn it off from the Task Manager?
If you cannot delete the application from the task manager because of its unavailability, you can turn it off from the Services module.
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March 22nd, 2008

Task Scheduler

I like the task scheduler at times especially when I need Vista to perform a task at a specified time.
As described by Windows:
The Task Scheduler MMC snap-in helps you schedule automated tasks that perform actions at a specific time or when a certain event occurs. It maintains a library of all scheduled tasks, providing an […]

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March 22nd, 2008

LAN Wifi Troubleshooting

I cannot understand why I could not connect to the Wifi network when I went to my Uncle’s place. We both have the same ISP and probably my Vista laptop detected the same ISP and gave me the IP address from my home.
After clicking on the diagnose and repair and setting the LAN connections, I […]

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March 22nd, 2008

BitLocker Drive Encryption 101

BitLocker drive encryption helps prevent unauthorized access to your files. This ensure that other users logged in to your system regardless of their access rights should not be able to read or use your protected files.
Bitlocker Overview (from help)
Unlike Encrypting File System (EFS), which enables you to encrypt individual files, BitLocker encrypts the entire system […]

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March 22nd, 2008

Format a Partition Volume

Prerequisite:
1. Logged-in as administrator
Warning (from help)
Formatting a volume will destroy any data on the partition.
If you need to save data on the volume, either temporarily or permanently move the data to another storage device or location before you proceed.
To format an existing partition or newly created volume:
1. Go to Control Panel
2. Click on Administrative Tools
3. […]

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March 22nd, 2008

Creating a Partition Volume

Prerequisite
1. Logged-in as administrator
2. Unallocated empty space on a hard disk,
3. Or free space within an extended partition on the hard disk
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March 16th, 2008

Windows Vista SP1 on March 19

Microsoft is releasing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on March 19 through Windows Update according Amazon.
Amazon lists Vista SP1 retail copies as becoming available next Wednesday, March 19.
This should be good news as a wider audience would be able to install Service Pack 1.
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March 16th, 2008

Link Reads: 03.16.08

How Can Investors Play Both Sides of the Microsoft Vista Debacle? (Market Intelligence Center)
We can be stupider than me (The Globe and Mail)
Creative releases new X-Fi drivers for Vista and XP (Tech Spot)
Win Server 2008 Directory Services, Windows Server 2008 Functional Levels Overview (Server Watch)
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