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No more wondering about what new features Vista SP1 got. Microsoft just released the Windows Feature Comparison (The White Paper). It is a pdf file which helps you to compare the features of Windows OS. You can check the capabilities of Windows XP with SP3 and Windows Vista with SP1. Capabilities like security, management, deployment, mobility, and productivity.
VistaPerfection 2.0 is a complete Windows Vista skin for the iPhone. This theme is created by Spec Works (MMi forum member ebl4287). It gives you environment feel like using a PC. This theme comes with many elements like -
If you want to change the look of your iPhone, goto ModMyiFone and follow the instructions.
Remember, VistaPerfection is not on Installer just yet, you will need to follow the instruction given HERE.
[via Just Another iPhone Blog via Technabob]
Microsoft just releases the Virtual PC 2007 SP1 and is now available to download for free. Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 lets you run multiple operating systems on a single machine. You can switch between virtual machines with one click. Use virtual machines to run legacy applications, provide support, train users, and enhance quality assurance.
The Virtual PC requires a 400 MHz Pentium-compatible processor (1.0 GHz or faster recommended), and requires approximately 35 MB of disk space.This Virtual PC runs on Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows XP Professional, or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows Vista SP1 (Enterprise, Business, Ultimate), Windows XP SP3.
via: WinBeta
The Windows built-in feature of Grouping Similar Taskbar Buttons is nice, it helps you to remove clutter from your Taskbar. This feature groups your Similar Taskbar buttons in one when your Taskbar starts to get full it will start grouping applications together to conserve space.
For Instance, If you have opened 10 or more Internet Explorer windows at a time, it will show you only one window in the Taskbar, if you have the grouping feature enabled.
The only thing is that it only works when the Taskbar has filled up with the Windows. The CyberNet blog offers a customizable registry tweak that sets this feature to Group Similar Taskbar buttons with two or more windows open.
Not Everyone use this feature, but for those people who use it this hack can be a real helper. You can download a registry fix file from CyberNet Blog, or if you are an Advanced user and know your way around the Registry you can make the change at the following key.
You’ll need to navigate to this location:
HKEY_CURRRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Advanced
Then you’ll need to create a new DWORD (32-bit) value called TaskbarGroupSize there. A value of “0″ will disable the feature, while a larger numerical setting (2 or higher) will initiate the grouping when that number of similar windows is open.
CyberNet via Lifehacker
Uptime is a measure of the time a computer system has been "up" and running.
The system uptime is very important for system administrators. Many times normal users like to keep the track of their PC.
Here I am showing 5 ways (Some Commands and Some Very Small and Free Utilities) to know How long has Your System been Running without Reboot.
The systeminfo command tells us all about a computer system. Here you can get the system uptime as well as the original date and time of the OS installation. This command works on Windows XP Pro. Not tested in XP Home (Some users said it wont work in XP Home).
In the above screenshot, you can see the format of the system uptime is Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds.
DC uptime is a simple and very small utility command line tool designed to view how long your computer has been running, accurate to the second.
This tool support almost all Windows OS.
Easy HR Computer Uptime is a simple tool designed to show you the computer name, and how long your computer has been running (uptime) since it was last rebooted. Easy HR Computer Uptime also tells you the current user name and the current running Operating System.
This tool supports Windows 98, Me, XP
This is a small GUI tool which shows the System Uptime, the System Startup Date and Time. This tool has another feature that you can schedule any task like Shutdown, Logoff, Restart, Hibernate, Alert or any specific task you want to execute based on the System Uptime.
This tool supports Windows 2000, Server 2003, XP, Vista
This small GUI utility will display your current System Uptime in Weeks, Days, Hours and Minutes. There is no install/uninstall. Download XP_SystemUptime.zip and extract the EXE file to your hard drive. Create a shortcut to XP_SystemUptime.exe in your Startup folder, or anywhere you desire. To remove System Uptime, simply delete the EXE file and any shortcut you create. This application is freeware.
Windows XP (may run on Windows 2000). Requires VB6 Runtime Library (installed on XP by default).
If you know more utilities for System Uptime please let us know. You can send it through comments.
A comprehensive feature-by-feature guide to Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. With contributions from people who actually worked on the product, this is the definitive resource to learn about Windows Vista. The Windows Vista Product Guide is available in XPS and PDF formats.
Download the product guide in the file format of your choice. It is available as an XPS (25.0MB) or PDF (18.9MB). If you want to use XPS format you will need to install the XPS reader first (which is included in Windows Vista)
Today, Microsoft has released the Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista. You can download standalone installers for x86 and x64 systems. Both updates will be in 5 languages English, French, Spanish, German, and Japanese.
For those people who happy to wait - The SP1 will start arriving to their PCs automatically in mid-April. The second release of Windows Vista SP1 will be available in the remaining 31 languages. The second release of Windows Vista SP1 is scheduled for later in April.
What Microsoft say about this release -
"Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is an update to Windows Vista that addresses feedback from our customers. In addition to previously released updates, SP1 will contain changes focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues; supporting new types of hardware; and adding support for several emerging standards. SP1 also will continue to make it easier for IT administrators to deploy and manage Windows Vista."
Download: Windows Vista SP1 Five Language Standalone (x86) (x64)
Microsoft has released the public beta of their next-generation browser Internet Explorer 8. On this release Chris Wilson, IE Platform Architect says
This release contains some great advances in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and layout, programming model, performance, reliability, usability and service integration. We are eager to ensure that the transition to Internet Explorer 8 is seamless for you and your audience, and to give you a head start on using many of the new features with your sites and services. We encourage you to test your sites and services, and our platform implementation, and give us feedback!"
The beta is now publicly available for download.
Download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
Click on the above link, choose your operating system and that's it.
IE8 supports Microsoft Windows Vista® Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista, Windows XP® Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Server® 2008 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2).
Here is the screenshot of Digital Passion on IE8 Beta 1
Websites doesn't appear accurate, nearly all websites has some problem with it. In the above Digital Passion screenshot, you can see the search box is not appearing properly and the bottom of this site is also missed its background.
The Internet Explorer Crashes so much when I try to open my blog, but the new feature Automatic crash recovery recovers it immediately. It stops loading my blog. If you face any problems handling Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, If you handled it, share your experience with us.
I will be in touch with you about latest release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1.
If you like Firefox add-ons and wish if you could do these tasks in Internet Explorer then this IE7 Pro add-on is for you. This is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer lovers who just want to work with IE. This add-on includes lots of features to make your IE browser more secure, customizable and useful.
The main problem I don't like in Internet Explorer is, when I open many of tabs or windows it crashes immediately. The Firefox is much better than IE. It gives much better speed, it provides security and is customizable. With themes you can change the way it looks plugins and add-ons extends it's usability.
IE7 Pro offers some features in Internet Explorer so you can make you can make your browsing secure and fast.
Tabbed Browsing Management
Spell Check
IE7Pro Spell Check will check any text you enter and alert you to possible errors by adding a red underline to any potentially misspelled words.
Inline Search
Adds the inline search bar like firefox has, finds as you type, use the F3 and Enter Key to cycle between multiple results, highlight all results.
Super Drag Drop
With Super Drag and Drop enabled, you can open new links by simply dragging and dropping the link on the page. You can also Drag and Drop to search selected words with the default search engine or save the selected photo when Shift is held down.
Crash Recovery
Crash Recovery automatically restores all opened pages after a crash happened.
Proxy Switcher
Different internet connections do often require completely different proxy server settings and it's a real pain to change them manually.
Mouse Gesture
Mouse Gesture allow the user to execute commonly performed tasks (open/close a tab, go back, go forward , print , scrolling page etc.) by drawing a simple symbol on the screen.
AD Blocker
Blocks all forms of advertising, including Flash ads, rich media, fly-ins, slide-ins, pop-ups, pop-unders, spyware and adware ads, and messenger ads.
Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform
IE7Pro Script is to Internet Explorer7 as Greasemonkey is to Firefox. It lets you remix the Web via scripts.
Webpage Capturer
Flexible and easy-to-use tool that converts html page from any URL to image. It captures the whole web page's content into JPG, BMP , GIF , PNG or TIFF on the fly.
Tab History Browser
Web Accelerator
Flash Block
User Agent Switcher
User Plug-ins and many more power packed features.
This add-on is compatible with Windows NT /2000 /XP /2003 /Vista. Supports IE 6 & 7. IE7 Pro is also available in many languages. I think this tool is worth a try, what you think.
ZDNet reports, Yesterday some people got a surprise - Windows Vista SP1 coming down the Windows Update pipes. Turns out someone at Microsoft flipped the wrong switch.
..Today, a build of SP1 was posted to Windows Update and it was inadvertently made available to a broad group. The build was intended only for our more technically advanced testers, and was meant to only be offered to those with a specific registry key set on their PC. For general availability, we are still planning to make SP1 broadly available in the mid-March timeframe.
To get Vista SP1 you have to wait until mid-March. You were lucky if you got it in yesterdays accidental release.
Microsoft has announced today that Windows Vista SP1 has been released to manufacturing. SP1 will be available in only five languages, English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese. It will be available in other languages in April.
It will address the key issues that users have identified in Vista over the last year. As Microsoft said, they have made great progress in performance, reliability and compatibility. It will bring more new improvements that are based on the feedback of customers.
In mid-March Vista SP1 will be available in Download Center on microsoft.com, Users with Automatic Update option enabled will start to receiving it in mid-April.
Microsoft also started to manufacture DVDs of Windows Vista OS including SP1 for their enterprise customers who get their software via Volume Licensing program.
Read more about this Release on Windows Vista Blog.
This Edition is designed for Home users.
This Edition is designed for the use of computer (specially) with Internet."Windows Vista Home Basic is ideal for homes with basic computing needs like e-mail, browsing the Internet, and viewing photos. Easy to set up and maintain, it enables you to quickly find what you're looking for on your PC and the Internet, while providing a more secure environment to help protect you from an unpredictable world."
This Edition is designed specially for Small Scale Industries."Windows Vista Business is the first edition of Windows designed specifically to meet the needs of small businesses. You'll spend less time on technology support-related issues—so you can spend more time making your business successful. Windows Vista Business is the definitive choice for your business today and tomorrow."
Suggested retail price for full package product, $299.00 USD. Suggested upgrade retail price, $199.00 USD.
All features of above three Editions of Windows Vista are included in this Edition.
Engadget reports that Windows Vista(cracked version, rather), is already available in stores in China for as low as $2.50. Windows Vista sells for over $100, even for the Vista Basic.(Read Full Article On Digital Dreams)
