All Entries Tagged With: "Vista"
Windows 7 To Launch October 22nd
Microsoft confirmed yesterday that Windows 7 will be launched on October 22nd. to aviod a total halt to the PC market, customers buying new PCs this summer will be able to upgrade to Windows 7 via the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program, which will provide a special offer for users wanting to upgrade to Windows [...]
SP1 or KB938194 = a Ferarri PC!
Even before SP1 hit the official launch on March 2008, people were downloading beta editions of the much awaited service pack in a bid to quell their Vista woes such as slow file transfers, intermittent lock-ups and application incapabilities. I was one of those fellas so I moved heaven to snatch a secret [...]
Use Elevator To Disable Vista UAC On Selected Programs
Over the last year or so I’ve come to accept Vista’s UAC (User Account Control) as a necessary evil which provides important security. However I have certain programs I use all the time where I don’t want to have to click ‘Allow’ on the UAC prompt every-time I run them.
I’ve searched a few times in [...]
My Quest For The Apple Part 1
As many of my twitter followers probably are aware of I’m currently working on getting my hands on a MacBook Pro or just a MacBook. I just can’t make up my mind.
I’ve been a happy Windows-user for many years. Way back when you typed Windows in DOS to start Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.
But I haven’t [...]
Show Me Your Desktop Lisa Brewster
If you missed Larissa Meek’s interview last week, make sure you head over there and read it. This week it’s Lisa Brewster’s turn to show me her desktop.
Lisa Brewster aka. Adora calls herself “just some girl on the internet”, but if you ask me, she is on her way to being much more than that.
Lisa [...]
Now My Main PC Has Died As Well!
I’m really not having a good time with my PCs at the moment. Last week my Windows Home Server died, taking with it a lot of my music and photos. Now my main PC has died and won’t boot into Windows. I don’t know why all my bits and bobs are all [...]
MacBook Air- You’re Darned Castrated!
One thing I wondered about MacBooks was that they liked omitting standard fare. The average PC comes with second mouse buttons, 1.44 drives and 28.8 modems. But with a Mac…? You get a single mouse button, no floppy and no modem. You want those, you pay extra.
Now, Steve Jobs releases the latest product in [...]
XBMC Coming On OS X And Linux. Plus, I Need Advice With New PC Spec
I’m a big fan of XMBC, the great open source media center for Xboxs. But, I stopped using it over the last 12 months because my needs had out-stripped the capabilities of the Xbox, which can’t support native HD content. Because of this, I now use PCs running Windows Vista Media Center [...]
Creative Live! Cam Optia AF – Awesome Picture Quality
My girlfriend insisted that I buy a webcam last week. I’ve been camless every since I switched to Vista as my old webcam wasn’t compatible.
I decided I might as well get a good camera rather than a cheap number, and after a bit of research I opted for the Creative Live! Cam Optia AF. [...]
My Movies 2 – Watch DVDs In Windows Media Center
Vista Media Center doesn’t allow you to watch DVDs on your hard drive. There is a way to hack the registry so that a DVD Library is added to Vista Media Center, but only a list of movies is displayed with no thumbnails or data like genres, movie ratings, actor bios etc.
I discovered My [...]
Windows Home Server Review
Over the last 2 years I have amassed a quite substantial media library as I have ripped all my CDs and DVDs. The problem I have in sharing this media collection around my home is that no single machine within my home has enough storage. An even bigger problem I faced was creating [...]
Leaving iTunes Behind – Moving To MediaMonkey And Lossless Music
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I love it when I read a post that makes me decide to do something totally differently. CyberNetNews are doing a series of daily giveaways of useful software, and yesterday they were giving away three copies of MediaMonkey Gold the reknowned music player.
I don’t know [...]
Building a Home Server Part I
I’ve decided to build a proper home server as at the moment my files are scattered between different machines (pics of my home setup as requested below) and I want to centralise them, as well as creating a proper remote access solution. I’m not sure yet if Windows Home Server is the right OS yet, [...]
10 Simple Ways To Speed Up Windows Vista
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Windows Vista is a rather heavy operating system with many neat features, but unfortunately they all come at a price. Right out of the box it requires a pretty hefty system to run (arguably).
Before you run out and buy a new computer just so [...]
Bloggers Cribs: Mikael Svardh!!
Welcome to the Sixth Edition of Bloggers Cribs!!!
Each week on Bloggers Cribs features one blogging ’superstar’, who will let us briefly into their homes to share what gadgets and other electronic delights they have dotted around their home, so you can see if they actually use the products they blog about.
So far we’ve had [...]
PCMark Vantage For Vista Coming Soon
I’m not a PC gamer, but I do like to know how fast my computers are. A good test of how fast a PC is has always been the various PCMark tests, but unfortunately these haven’t worked with Windows Vista.
This will be fixed shortly with the launch of PCMark Vantage, a new set of [...]
What’s Eating Your Computer’s Resources? Don’t Blame MS Quite Yet
Everyone is always looking for ways to make their computer faster. Whether it’s linux, OSX or the ubiquitous Windows, no matter how many times you upgrade, how much more RAM you add, whatever, computing, for all its increases in speed in the past years, is still not fast enough.
It’s all crap. There are bigger [...]
StartUp Delayer: Speed Up Windows By Delaying Apps
I’m a speed freak. That’s why I ditched my Stove top for the microwave and dumped the Corona for the SiR i-Vtec.
Now Windows is one of those critters that seem to hate speeding up, no matter how much RAM I ram down its throat or how beefy the processor I slap on its rump. [...]
Windows Trick: How To Recover Your Windows Serial Number For Free
Sometimes the best solution for a complicated PC performance issue is to reinstall your operating system and other applications you run. Although a radical and time-consuming step, format and reinstall normally speeds up your PC and enhances your productivity at the long run.
Windows Trick: How To Add Items To Your Windows Explorer Right Click Menu
The Windows Explorer is one of the cornerstones of every Windows operating system as it allows you to take action (copy, paste, cut etc’) on files and folders. A few month ago, I installed a new PC and found myself transferring a trillion of files to the new PC using the Windows Explorer. The thing [...]
