Microsoft has released a Windows Vista Performance Tuning Guide as a 14 paged PDF and XPS file that can be downloaded for free. The interesting aspect of this release is that Microsoft has actually put together a guide that many experienced computer users feel quite comfortable with and that could help inexperienced users increase the [...]
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The Mojave Experiment Website Is Up
Microsoft is trying to prove to the world that Windows Vista is not as bad as a large portion of the public and press is seeing it. The Mojave Experiment is just one way by tricking Vista critics into believing that they review a new Windows called Windows Mojave while they are actually seeing Windows [...]
Vista Part 3
Well I don’t think I’ve ever had so many responses as I have to these Posts on Windows Vista =) But obviously it’s a controversial subject. Now I realise that many of the things I said where good about Vista can be backported or substituted into XP. There are freeware alternatives to everything really, and [...]
Vista vs. XP
300 Words into replying to some comments made by Rarst on my post yesterday about Microsoft I decided I may as well publish it like so as a new post… that’s what happens when you have the power of authorship =P No I don’t want to make this too serious and I hope I don’t [...]
Microsoft Back on the Offensive
After a $500 million “Wow Starts Now” campaign completely bombed Microsoft went awfully quiet and let the public, the tech community and Apple noisily tear Vista to pieces. Understandably of course, there where a lot of serious issues with Vista’s release, nothing we hadn’t seen before, but issues nonetheless. It’s safe to say that 2 [...]
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Manage Favorite Links In Windows Vista
Windows Vista users may be surprised to know that they actually have two different versions of the places bar in Windows Explorer. The places bar provides access to several links on the system, for example to the desktop and the My Documents folder. Windows Vista users can either see the old five locations on the [...]
The Windows Start Menu
It took me a little while to adapt, but I soon grew to find the Vista start menu far more useful and productive then XP’s ever was. Granted I’ve read the comments of a lot of people who disagree, but I personally think the integrated search has again made the Windows start menu my main [...]
A Few Useful Tweaks
Since this is a subject we have touched on a couple of times recently I decided to share a a few useful registry tweaks. These apply to Windows Vista. 1) Stop UAC being so annoying Yes, I leave User Account Control on. I find it bearable with time and its just one extra security caution. [...]
Windows Longhorn Blog
It may be a little late to be discussing leaks of Windows Longhorn seeing as the project was reset over 4 years ago and we are now looking at Windows 7 on the horizon. However I just discovered a very interesting blog today called UX.Unleaked which has been providing regular dialogues over the past month [...]