When you work with computers, some things are inevitable. You can push them aside, but sooner or later they confront you. I’m talking, of course, about Windows Vista. You still can buy Windows XP, but the majority of off-the-shelf PCs now come with some variation of Vista. Although there’s a list of things about Vista that infuriate me - lack of stability, compatibility and intuitive design, among others - I have to admit that certain aspects of Vista’s interface are quite useful. Call it the computer equivalent of the Stockholm syndrome.
Somehow you’ve managed to overwrite the report you’ve been working on for weeks, and now all your effort has just vanished in a few spins of the hard drive. But wait! Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions include a feature called Shadow Copy that lets you browse backward in time, recovering a specific version of your file, not just the most recent copy. Each system-restore point or backup point that Windows creates initiates a new Shadow Copy. So at least once a day, Vista creates another copy of your precious files, without your having to lift a finger.
After Microsoft released the firs Service Pack 1 (SP1), the theme functionality totally died off. We needed a new version of the UXtheme Patch due to the fact that the old one stopped working. Today all the problems should stop because beside the hig quality themes we deliver to you almost every day, you will have also the new version of the UX theme patch.
Samsung isn’t just pushing the envelope in storage capacity of SSDs (solid-state drives), it is also working with software makers to boost SSD performance on operating systems. The company on Wednesday said it was in talks with Microsoft to improve the performance of SSDs on the Windows OS.
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