Angry Listener Attacks Steve Ballmer During Presentation (Techticles)
Has Windows Vista’s UAC feature failed Microsoft? (ZDNet)
Windows Vista Not Popular In Big Corporations, Symantec Says (InformationWeek)
Developers slow to build on Windows Vista (TechRepublic)
More than 200,000 demand Microsoft save XP (InfoWorld)
More Windows Vista Woes (HalfLifeSource)
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The official end-date of Windows XP is June 30, 2008 and from that date onwards, users are expected to buy Windows Vista for their new desktop or laptop.
Fortunately, for ULPCs, Microsoft has extended the end-date of XP to June 30, 2010. Sales of ULPCs are soaring rapidly and majority these low powered computers would not […]
Microsoft Vista Blog reported on an article Microsoft is releasing on enterprises titled: 5 Misunderstood Features in Windows Vista
But after they released the document, it went missing and the site says the link to the document is down. Maybe they need to revise it a little to make it more appealing. The contents of the […]
We have reported about Virtual PC 2007 for Windows Vista more than a year ago. Many Windows Vista users and developers use virtualization to run and test applications in different OS versions.
Recently, Microsoft released Virtual PC 2007 Service Pack 1 and hopefully this fixes some crashing problems I experienced in the last year or so.
You […]
Do you miss the Windows XP sharing method of adding the “$” at the end of the drive name to share it within members of a workgroup? Sharing used to be as simple as “\\mywinxppc\c$”.
That is no longer easily done in Windows Vista because it is blocked in the network and to be able to […]
Below are keyboard shortcuts for use with Microsoft keyboards:
Open or close the Start menu: Windows logo key
Display the System Properties dialog box: Windows logo key +PAUSE
Display the desktop: Windows logo key +D
Minimize all windows: Windows logo key +M
Restore minimized windows to the desktop: Windows logo key +SHIFT+M
Open Computer: Windows logo key +E
Search for a file […]
Below are keyboard shortcuts for use in dialog boxes.
Move forward through tabs: CTRL+TAB
Move back through tabs: CTRL+SHIFT+TAB
Move forward through options: TAB
Move back through options: SHIFT+TAB
Perform the command (or select the option) that goes with that letter: ALT+underlined letter
Replaces clicking the mouse for many selected commands: ENTER
Select or clear the check box if the active option […]
Below are general keyboard shortcuts - Part V
Cycle through screen elements in a window or on the desktop: F6
Display the Address bar list in Windows Explorer: F4
Display the shortcut menu for the selected item: SHIFT+F10
Open the Start menu: CTRL+ESC
Display the corresponding menu: ALT+underlined letter
Perform the menu command (or other underlined command): ALT+underlined letter
Activate the menu […]
Below are general keyboard shortcuts - Part IV
Close the active document (in programs that allow you to have multiple documents open simultaneously): CTRL+F4
Switch between open items: ALT+TAB
Use the arrow keys to switch between open items: CTRL+ALT+TAB
Change the size of icons on the desktop: CTRL+Mouse scroll wheel
Cycle through programs on the “View definition” by using Windows […]
Below are general keyboard shortcuts - Part III
Search for a file or folder: F3
Display properties for the selected item: ALT+ENTER
Close the active item, or exit the active program: ALT+F4
Open the shortcut menu for the active window: ALT+SPACEBAR
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Below are general keyboard shortcuts - Part II
Rename the selected item: F2
Move the cursor to the beginning of the next word: CTRL+RIGHT ARROW
Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous word: CTRL+LEFT ARROW
Move the cursor to the beginning of the next paragraph: CTRL+DOWN ARROW
Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous paragraph: CTRL+UP […]
Below are general keyboard shortcuts - Part I
Display Help: F1
Copy the selected item: CTRL+C
Cut the selected item: CTRL+X
Paste the selected item: CTRL+V
Undo an action: CTRL+Z
Redo an action: CTRL+Y
Delete the selected item and move it to the Recycle Bin: DELETE
Delete the selected item without moving it to the Recycle Bin first: SHIFT+DELETE
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The following are keyboard shortcuts for easy keyboard access:
Turn Filter Keys on and off: Right SHIFT for eight seconds
Turn High Contrast on or off: Left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN (or PRTSCRN)
Turn Mouse Keys on or off: Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK
Turn Sticky Keys on or off: SHIFT five times
Turn Toggle Keys on or off: NUM LOCK for […]
I bought the Pinnacle HD Pro stick and installed the TVCenter Pro that came with it. The image below shows the video display is on a different location as the TVCenter Pro itself. I am still searching how to solve this problem. I am not sure if it is some config, driver or Vista patch […]
Windows Media Player Basics in Windows Vista (Informit)
Gates: Vista is doing just fine (News)
Vista security credentials tarnished in malware survey (TheRegister)
Clamoring for Microsoft to keep XP alive (MarketWatch)
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Microsoft has recently announced that there are over 5000 products that has the Microsoft Certified logo. In their statement:
As of April, we currently have over 5,000 products that are Certified for Windows Vista. Since last July, the amount of Certified for Windows Vista products has almost doubled! As you can see—we’ve seen quite a bit […]
This YouTube Video shows how to open a Vista Package. I never had a chance to see what a Vista package looks like because my laptop came with an opened packaged and the one in the office are volume licenses.
Anyways, I find this cool!
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The latest Gartner statistic as published by Internet News are as follows:
On a global basis, projected use of Windows 2000 fell from 15 percent of the installed base in 2007 to eight percent in 2008, and Gartner predicts it will fall to only four percent in 2009, according to summary data from the report.
At […]
ThreatFire has done a study on Microsoft operating systems namely: Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows Vista. The number of threats allowed per a thousand computers are as follows:
Windows 2000: 586
Windows Server 2003: 478
Windows XP: 1,021
Windows Vista: 639
Clearly, Windows Server 2003 is the most secure and Windows Vista is 37% less vulnerable […]
Do you need to install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 right away? We have all been waiting for its release and now that its available should we install the pack immediately? Honestly, I haven’t done it myself yet because I don’t have immediate concerns that needs to be solved.
My only Vista pains are the […]
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