Windows Vista

Windows Vista is an operating system developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers. Following an initial roll-out to manufactures and businesses, it was released to the mass market in January of 2007, a record-setting five years after the previous version, Windows XP.

One of the goals of the upgrade was to strengthen security measures against viruses, spyware, and malware. Other changes included graphical interface and DVD creation software, drawing comparisons to their chief rival, Macintosh, who continue to corner the market on advances and high-tech gadgetry.

However, the operating system met with less than favorable reviews in the blogosphere regarding everything from misleading packaging and system specs, to unfriendly user interface. Another common complaint about the Windows Vista operating system was that previous versions of software and hardware were not compatible with this upgrade.

See also: Vista

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• Don’t Pay for Windows Security When You Don’t Have To

  
  the How-To Geek — Authority: 620
  Over at Lifehacker, I’ve written an article of interest to How-To Geek readers, about how well the default Windows security tools work if you just use a little common sense (and install Microsoft Security Essentials). If you’ve got any geek skills at all, you probably don’t need to bother paying for an ...
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• Microsoft Issues 6 Updates, 3 Critical, for Windows and Office

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 547
  Microsoft issued 6 updates to Windows and Office today, fixing 15 vulnerabilities . 3 of the updates are rated Critical. Some are quite serious, especially on Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003. Windows 7 is not affected by any of the vulnerabilities revealed today.The three Critical updates are: MS09-063: ...
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• Paint.NET v3.5 – Photoshop in Disguise?

  
  Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts — Authority: 137
  This latest release of Paint.NET (November 6, 2009), might not be quite Photoshop in disguise, but it’s a pretty serious contender.While it can’t perform some of the more esoteric functions of Photoshop, it can certainly assist even an average photo hobbyist achieve spectacular results – results which are ...
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• Error message

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 162
  Account: pop3.live.com, Server: pop3.live.com, Protocol: POP3, Server Response: -ERR command not implemented, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC18 This is the error message that I keep recieving. It is getting quite frustrating for me, I have read through these posts and ...
  6 hours ago

• Cant send emails with Windows Mail

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 162
  I cannot send emails from my Windows Mails and get the below response. What do I need to do to fix this problem? Additionally, when I travel on the road away from home and office, I can never send emails from my windows mail. An unknown error has occurred. Subject Fw: FESTRAS LOA for approval (REFERENCE NO ...
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• Windows Vista to Win7 Upgrade Hangs, Fix Does Not Work

  
  Technology Questions — Authority: 168
  "Leroy" wrote in message news:4AF99155.30104@earthlink.net...[color=blue] > > Please repost in the appropriate Windows 7 Answers Forum: > [/color] Best idea is to go to: alt.leroy.retard.org
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• What O/S does Michael Dell use? -- http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/corp-comm/michael_dell_computers_update.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=corp&redirect=2

  
  Technology Questions — Authority: 168
  Alias wrote:[color=blue] > Vista Succubus Hunter wrote:[color=green] >> Alias wrote:[color=darkred] >>> Kevin John SmallBone wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> "Vista Succubus Hunter" wrote in message >>>> news:#xgKtwhYKHA.4920@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... ...
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• Re: Cant access slave drive

  
  Technology Questions — Authority: 168
  See Help Disk Management or Computer management Can be accessed via Contol Panel Broadly speaking Disk Management will list your drives / partitions and give an indication if there is a problem D is probably a recovery Partition, particularly if its only a small size; you have created your Recovery cd/dvds havent ...
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• Help Troubleshoot the Blue Screen of Death with BlueScreenView

  
  the How-To Geek — Authority: 620
  For Windows users it’s probably all too familiar seeing the Blue Screen of Death, especially in XP. Today we take a look at BlueScreenView which is a free utility to display and interpret the data located in the mini dump files after the BSOD occurs. Blue Screen of Death The BSOD is actually a protection ...
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• Remote Desktop Services: Announcements

  
  Ask the Performance Team — Authority: 535
  Good morning all – today’s post is a very brief one regarding new announcements concerning Remote Desktop Services.  The original announcements were made on the Remote Desktop ServicesTeam blog . RDS CAL Single Pack now available in Retail channel – Remote Desktop Client Access Licenses (CAL’s) were ...
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• Browsing window resizes

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 162
  I have Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition in my laptop. When I browse the window succesively becomes smaller. Every time I click, the lower border moves upwards a bit and after a while the window is just a narrow stripe. Terribly annoying! This does not happen for all web sites, only for some. Why does this ...
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• COREL VIDEOSTUDIO ULTIMATE X2 V12 FULL

  
  Free Download — Authority: 546
  The Corel Company has released a new version of VideoStudio Ultimate X2, formerly known as Ulead VideoStudio. This program is designed for video processing and positioned as a simple solution for home users. Among the latest innovations can provide support for Blu-ray Disc Movie Video (BDMV)...
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• Detect junk e-mail or phishing content mails more efficiently in Windows mail.

  
  JustBol — Authority: 136
  Junk e-mail or phishing contents are always headache to the users. We are totally unaware of those mails because it looks like a regular mails but contains harmful information as well as some e-mails might cause damage to the operating system as well as files on the computer.Windows Mail has a junk filter but junk ...
  17 hours ago

• Media Center to play DVD folder

  
  Camcorder Answers — Authority: 147
  Any way I can use Media Center to play DVD folder rather than I need to put the DVD in the DVD drive?
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• Windows 7 Website by Rustifer44

  
  Pro Freelance Projects — Authority: 177
  Looking to duplicate a site that contains info for Windows Vista, but I want the content to be for Windows 7. PM me for more details. (Budget: $250-750, Jobs: .NET, Java, PHP)Go to SourcePost similar project
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• How to convert AVI to MP3 with AVI to MP3 Converter?

  
  Camcorder Answers — Authority: 147
  Some AVI movies usually come with wonderful music, which deserves to be recorded down and put to your PMP for time-to-time appreciation. It seems no sense of converting video to only audio. In fact, Leawo AVI to MP3 Converter is able to rip the audio out of the video and save it as MP3 document, namely convert AVI ...
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• OI

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 162
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• Unknown Device In Network Map

  
  Windows Vista Tips — Authority: 162
  Network and Sharing Center/See full map indicates an unknown device between one of my pcs and the router. Device Manager shows only one unknown entry. That is a Acronis True Image Backup Archive Explorer. Acronis True Image 10 is on that pc. Should this show up on the network map? It not, how can I determine what ...
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• Fix Windows 7 Updates Error with Fix WU Utility

  
  Technically Personal! — Authority: 560
  Due to registry clashes or missing DLLs, Automatic Updates feature of Windows 7 and Windows Vista stops working. In such cases, all you have to do is download, install and run Fix WU v1.0 , that re-registers Dlls and additional files, required for the proper functioning of Windows Updates. In case anytime, you find ...
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• Fake Scareware Adviser for Spyware-list.com

  
  Tech-Linkblog.com — Authority: 128
  Support this site by buying from Amazon , Its safe and Secure Tech-Linkblog.com -- Fake Scareware Adviser for Spyware-list.com This is an example of what you might see if you did have it!! This site [ Spyware-list.com ] now matter how real looking is a URL Hijacker and is what we call a scareware ...
  19 hours ago

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