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Copy to Path Hidden Vista Feature

Posted by Martin in Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows  TAGS in Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows

25

Mar

Microsoft likes to make things complicated from time to time it seems. When you right-click a file, folder or search result in Windows Vista you get the normal command menu with options to open, edit or print the marked objects. If you happen to press shift while right-clicking you will also notice that a new option has been added to the menu which is called Copy to Path.


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Download Windows Vista SP1 RC1

Posted by Martin in Operating Systems, Windows, software  TAGS in Operating Systems, Windows, software

6

Dec

The registry tweaks to download previous versions Windows Vista Service Pack 1 do not longer have the desired results because Microsoft is already distributing the release candidate 1 of Windows Vista SP1 using Windows Update. The old keys that have been added to the Registry previously have to be removed and new keys have to be added.


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Download Windows Vista SP1 Beta through Windows Update again

Posted by Martin in Operating Systems, Windows  TAGS in Operating Systems, Windows

10

Nov

Microsoft quickly closed the whole that allowed all users with a fully patched English version of Windows Vista to download the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 through Windows Update. What they did however as well was to open another way for their beta testers to download the service pack which is now available for everyone again.


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Change the System Restore Size in Windows Vista

Posted by Martin in Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows  TAGS in Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows

25

Apr

It was possible to define the percentage that the System Restore feature in Windows XP allocated from a hard drive. Windows Vista has System Restore build in as well but no obvious way to define the percentage of the hard drive that System Restore allocated. Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to hide the setting well and allocate 15% of the hard drives capacity to System Restore. On a 300 Gigabyte drive System Restore would allocate 45 Gigabytes of space !

In their drive for a uncomplicated system they restrict user possibilities to create a system the way they like. It is becoming a closed system with the owner of the computer being a user instead of someone who can actively alter his system the way he wants. To change the System Restore size in Microsoft Windows Vista you have to rely on the command line utility vssadmin.


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