Happy First Birthday to Windows Vista
Windows Vista, the latest new kid on the block, turns One today, making over a 100 million friends in just a year of its growth that has continuously come under fire from Blogs and Tech Journalists like me and everyone seemed to favor its big brother, but things seem to smoothening now for the Sixth child of its parents, who are already working together for their seventh child, but the doctors don’t really seem to have an idea when the seventh kid will arrive. And do you think the seventh... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Disable UAC for Certain Applications in Vista
If you are a Windows Vista user, there is nothing more bugging than the UAC in Windows Vista. UAC which was supposed to bring improved security in Windows, does it pretty well but at the cost of user friendliness. There are lots of apps and softwares that I run on my Machine, and Vista bugs me everytime I open them. For quite some time I’ve been looking to disable UAC for select applications, rather than disabling it all together, as that could possibly create a security havoc. After some time... Read The Rest →
Microsoft Reveals What Windows Vista SP1 Offers
With the first release candidate of Windows Vista SP1 just a few days away, Microsoft is now finally opening up and revealing what can be expected in the first service pack to Microsoft’s flagship operating system, Windows Vista. Simply put, Windows Vista SP1 will add tons of added hardware compatibility, loads of compatibility, better system reliability, and Ofcourse better performance and better energy saving for laptops etc.. The standalone installer will come in at about 450MB, but if you were to download Service Pack 1 through Windows Update, it would... Read The Rest →
Vista Transformation Pack 8 Will Make Win XP Look Like Vista
If you are a sucker for beautiful and organized desktop, then I’m sure you love the all new UI that Microsoft brought with Windows Vista. But I know a lot of you might not want to install Vista just for its looks, if you are one of those people who love the stability and features that Windows XP offers, but you want to have the Vista look, then Vista Transformation Pack is for you. The Developers of Vista Transformation Pack have just released the latest in the series of the... Read The Rest →
Linux Gets Prettier for all those Windows Fans
Well If you have been itching yourself to switch over to Linux and didn’t like the UI that Linux currently has, then time has finally arrived for you to switch over to Linux in the form of an amazing distro of Linux called Vixta ( I’m pretty much sure Microsoft Lawyers are working on Trademark Infrigement case as I speak). Well the aim of Vixta is pretty much simple, and this is how it reads : Vixta.org is a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed to be user-friendly and eye-catching, similar in... Read The Rest →
Windows Vista to Get Internet TV
Microsoft is up on its heels again and plans to release the Internet TV addon for the Vista Media Center. All the existing users of Windows Vista Premium or Ultimate should get updates early tomorrow that would give them Internet TV on their Vista PC. The Initial Offering would include over 100 Hours of free content, that would include some of the following : Full episodes of TV shows such as the critically acclaimed “Arrested Development” Full-length music concerts by artists such as Chris Cornell, Snoop Dogg, Elton John, Pink,... Read The Rest →
Windows Vista SP1 Beta Officially Launched
Microsoft has finally released an official Version of Windows Vista SP1. True the rumors on the internet there are no new features that have been added in the Service Pack while some components have got enhanced functionality and features. The Beta release is expected to be available in a couple of weeks time. The Standalone version of the service pack is pretty huge and comes in at about 1GB for X86 Architecture. Also you need atleast 7GB of free space to install the Service Pack. Here are some of the... Read The Rest →
Vista Suffers another Setback
The popularity of Windows XP is still making things difficult for Vista. Now Vista has again suffered a major setback, with Lenovo (Olympic 2008′ official sponsor) installing XP on it’s machines to run the Olympic Games’ vital PC-related tasks. Vista will only be used in internet lounges set up for athletes to use during the games. Yang Yuanqing, chairman of Lenovo said, “the Olympic Games require mature, stable technologies and it’s not a place to try new technologies because of the size and importance of the event. Everything must work... Read The Rest →
Use any USB Disk for Readyboost
Windows Vista, has a wonderful feature called ReadyBoost. You can use flash memory devices, such as universal serial bus (USB) flash drives, to improve performance of Vista without having to add additional memory (RAM). The flash memory device serves as an additional memory cache i.e. memory that the OS can access more quickly than it accesses data on the hard disk, simply because USB drives are a tad faster than Hard Disks. However, not all USB flash drives are supported to use ReadyBoost. In order for USB drive to be... Read The Rest →
