Microsoft isn’t waiting for Vista Service Pack 1 to push some important operating system updates to users.Several updates will make their way to users this week through Windows Update, Windows Vista team member Nick White wrote to the official Vista blog on Monday. If users decide to pass on the updates, they will be included in SP1.
Vista, like its predecessors will be fast when you first boot it and for a few weeks after but like every other version of Windows will get slow, here are some tips to help curtail that but you will still have to do the occasional reinstall to get all your performance back.
Data Execution Prevention also known as DEP represents a new security feature in Window Vista. This feature will monitor Windows services and programs and protect harmful code from executing or running in your system. DEP shuts the program or service automatically when an attack is in progress and notifies you.
After reading about the new parental timer on the Xbox 360, user hyperfamilyman asked how to access the timer on Windows Vista to limit PC time. I haven’t worked with Vista yet, though we will get our first chance next week when my daughter’s laptop PC arrives. But a look at the Windows Vista Help site indicates a fairly simple setup for time controls.
If you’ve recently upgraded to Windows Vista, you may find yourself on uncharted ground when it comes to troubleshooting.On the surface, much seems the same as Windows XP, but delving deeper reveals some significant architectural differences between the two operating systems.
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In this tutorial we will explain you how to use another application that has been changed in Windows Vista: the Disk Defragmenter. In the new OS Microsoft offers two options: Defragment now and Modify schedule .
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