Reports about upgrade problems from Windows Vista to Windows 7 began to appear on Friday on several forums and support websites. Users who experienced these difficulties mentioned an endless reboot cycle after a failed Windows Vista to Windows 7 upgrade. The users received the message ““This version of Windows could not be installed, Your previous [...]

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One of the biggest flaws of the Windows operating system becomes apparent in multi-user systems. Neither Windows XP nor Windows Vista offer individual screen resolutions for their user accounts. This means that a change to the screen resolution has global impact in the operating system. Each user account will experience the same display screen resolution. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Microsoft has released an update to Windows Live Movie Maker, the first application of the popular and free Windows Live Essentials program suite designed for Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 7. Compatibility with older Microsoft operating systems, namely Windows XP and Windows Vista, is still on board although Windows Live Movie Maker is not offered [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Did anyone really think that this would not happen eventually? That was my first though when I read the news that a Windows 7 OEM activation crack – or patch, does not really matter how you call it – was already available in various P2P networks and other sources. The crack turns the Windows 7 [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Windows

Windows Vista introduced a new imaging stack, called Windows Imaging Component (WIC), and uses it in Windows Explorer to create thumbnails for most image file formats. 3rd parties can write their own WIC codec to support proprietary image formats such as Nikon NEF or Canon CR2 raw files and Windows Explorer is able to show [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

It is a well known fact that it is possible to extend the battery life of laptops by turning off features that are not needed. This can for instance be hardware devices like modems, Bluetooth and WiFi. There is not really a benefit of keeping those enabled if they are not used ever on the [...]

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Windows XP is an excellent operating system. The majority of Windows users are still running Windows XP followed by Windows Vista and other variants. XP is leading the field by a ratio of 3:1 according to statistics gathered on w3schools (the operating system gets transmitted usually when a user opens a website). That alone is [...]

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I just got my hands on a new Sony Vaio FW, and I’m really interested to know how you guys use the operating system on your laptop. My old one had XP installed, which I threw away, downloaded a fresh copy, and used my serial on that without any problems, and as long as I [...]

Categories: ask the readers, Windows

Microsoft’s new web browser Internet Explorer 8 has been released about two weeks ago and received more praise than criticism since then. Two non security related fixes were released today by Microsoft for Internet Explorer 8. The first fix deals with a problem encountered when running the web browser in the 64-bit edition of Windows [...]

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