Neowin published details about the upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 2 on their website which was recently released to testers in an early build and quickly leaked to the Internet so that anyone interested could install Windows Vista Service Pack 2. It was an early build with bare to none new feature and came in [...]
Windows Vista SP2 Registry Hack
Joseph was nice enough to send me the required Registry keys for the Windows Vista SP2 update that was distributed to selected testers on October 16. It is a pre-beta update for testers and not suited for anything else but test systems to test the changes of the new service pack for Windows Vista.
There are [...]
Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Pre-Beta Released
Microsoft began distributing a pre-beta release of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 just a few days after announcing a second service pack for Windows Vista which according to Microsoft would come out before the release of the next Microsoft operating system Windows 7.
The pre-beta release is distributed to a select group of testers who have [...]
Microsoft Touchless
Microsoft Office Labs are always good for a surprise. For anyone who does not know what Microsoft Office Labs is about: It basically is used to publish software programs created by Microsoft employees in their spare time that relate to Microsoft products.
Microsoft Touchless (via Shell City) is an interesting application that fits well into [...]
Microsoft Filter Pack
The Microsoft Filter Pack adds additional IFilters to the Windows operating system which are used by Windows Search and depending applications to index the contents of document formats. To be precise, the Microsoft Filter pack will register additional IFilters with the Microsoft Windows Indexing Service.
The document formats that get added by the filter pack are [...]
Norton User Account Control
A few weeks ago I started thinking of who a company like Norton could overcome the image of producing heavyweight system slowing software products and one of the ideas that came to mind was to release something useful speed to the general public. The decision makers at Norton must have felt the same way because [...]
Windows Vista Multi-User Language Interface Hacker
There are several reasons why someone would want to change the language of the Windows Vista installation. Could be that he bought a laptop in another country that came with a different language than his native language or that someone went to a new country for a job or study and that working with the [...]
