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Windows Vista Screen

Some Windows Vista users frequently complained about the sluggish performance of their PC or laptop after installing vista. As a result, often users switch back to the previous Windows XP OS.

However, there are various ways to improve the performance of windows vista. One way is by setting Computer Management to obtain maximum performance.

Improving the performance of Vista can be done briefly by changing the default settings and activating Advanced Performance setting.

The first step you should do is right-click My Computer on the menu, then select ‘Manage’ as in the following

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Next, select the ‘Device Manager’ and point your cursor to the disk drives option. On the menu will appear SATA disk under the Disk Drive.

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Right click > select properties

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To improve the performance of the computer, switch settings’ Enable Advanced Performance ‘and click’ OK ‘to activate your new settings, Restart your PC or laptop. This will help you to improve Vista performance.

Nevertheless there are several ways to further increase the ability of the OS. Vista users who have not had the opportunity to increase the memory capacity can also use the Windows ReadyBoost included in Windows Vista’s package. This is the way to add memory capacity simply by using USB Flash Drive.

In addition, Hardware maintenance will also affect the performance of Windows Vista significantly, with the maintenance schedule, such as hard drives Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter regularly the performance of Vista can be uplifted. And there is a good idea to reduce your programs that are not very important and disable features that can requires huge resource of Vista memory such as eye Candy

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Customers who purchase Windows Vista Business and Ultimate editions will have the chance until July 31 2009, to downgrade to XP Professional if they would like to.

Microsoft will provide hardware partners with the media to enable its customers to downgrade Windows Vista to Windows XP by six more months than originally planned, the company confirmed on Friday.

The move comes even as Microsoft has just released a $ 300 million marketing and advertising campaign in promoting Vista. The company is also preparing windows 7, the next version of the client operating system, for release in the next 12 to 18 months. [click to continue…]

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Windows XP SP3 Copatibility Problems

Installing Windows XP SP 3 might cause your anti-malware applications to detect the presence of Trojans and keyloggers that actually aren’t there.

As In the case of Spyware Doctor, PC tools’ popular antispyware program that detects Trojan-Spy.Pophot.WX in RunDLL32.exe even though in fact the system is uninfected. RunDLL32.exe is a system file that Windows need to run code in dynamic link library (DLL) files.

By default, Spyware Doctor prevents any files it recognizes as infected from running. If an important system file such as RunDLL32.exe is flagged incorrectly, the result can be terrible for your computer. For example, users may be blocked from opening Windows Control Panel or using System Restore, among other operations, an endless loop of scanning to remove the file, rebooting, finding the file again or even misleading users into reinstalling XP . [click to continue…]

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Windows XP SP3 Released

April 16, 2008

There is good news for Windows XP and Vista fans as I wrote earlier in this post, Microsoft Says that Windows XP Service Pack 3 will be published this week. I had the info from neowin who claimed to have internal schedule from Microsoft. Here is the list:

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