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Archive for the ‘Windows Vista’ Category

Get a Free Online Virus Scan from ESET

Here’s a chance to check your computer for virus’s for free, from the one of the world’s best anti-virus companies. ESET online scan. Even if you already have an anti-virus program installed, you can run this online test to see if yours is up to snuff.

Vista SP1 Released to Manufacturing Today

Vista SP1 was released to manufacturing today 2-4-08 Expect to see a customer release in early March.
From Microsoft:
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released to manufacturing today and will start being available to customers in March, starting with Microsoft Volume Licensing customers. Windows Vista SP1 includes quality improvements that help enhance reliability, security [...]

Electronic Piano 2.5 Software For The Budding Musician

Here’s a free Download that will let you play the Piano + 128 other instruments from your Keyboard.  Get it here.
Electronic Piano 2.5 is a Freeware program that allows the user to play Musical Notes, Chords and Drums using the computer keyboard.
Although this is not a software for professional purposes, Electronic Piano 2.5 doesn’t [...]

Sync Toy From Microsoft Updated To v2.0

The easy to use, customizable application that helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers, has been updated to version 2.0.
Pick it up for free here
There are files from all kinds of sources that we want to store and manage. Files are created by our digital cameras, e-mail, cell phones, [...]

Donate Your Spare CPU Cycles To Folding@Home

Folding@Home (also known as FAH or F@H) is a distributed computing project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics. It was launched on October 1, 2000, and is currently managed by the Pande Group, within Stanford University’s chemistry department, under the supervision of Professor Vijay Pande. Folding@home is the [...]

Turn Off Auto Reboot In XP

When Windows XP crashes with the Blue Screen, notice I said when it crashes. It will automatically reboot, sometimes too fast to read any error message it displays. So if you want to turn it off to see if you can figure out what happened, follow the directions below.

Right click My Computer.
Choose Properties.
Click the [...]

Microsoft Photo Info 1.0

This free program is part of Microsoft’s PowerToys and provides digital photography Information at your fingertips Get it here
Microsoft Photo Info allows photographers to add, change and delete common “metadata” properties for digital photographs from inside Windows Explorer via the right click menu.
When installed, a new “Photo Info” item appears on the context menu for [...]

Belkins Easy Transfer Cable for Windows Vista

Have you purchases a new computer lately and want to transfer your old data to the new computer, This little wonder is worth its price in gold. There available everywhere for around $30. If your buying a new Dell its offered on their site.
Moving files and settings between computers is scary enough, but moving them [...]

Announcing The Launch Of Vista Revisited.

I’d like to announce the launch of my new site Vista Revisited at http://www.vistarevisited.com Stop by and have a look. I’ve copied all the Vista content from here to my new site and from now on I will only post Vista content to Vista Revisited. Thanks for visiting and be sure to check out my [...]

Uninstalling Vista From A Dual Boot Machine

Uninstalling Vista from a dual boot machine is relatively straightforward - most of the time. Nonetheless, I recommend that you back up everything before you start. Then follow these steps:
1. Put your Windows XP installation CD in the CD-ROM drive and reboot the computer (be sure the BIOS is [...]