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Windows Vista has many great new features for making backups. Window Vista even saves the previous versions of your documents and the system state points which are part of system restore. These features are genius, useful too but these take up a lot of hard drive space.
Clean up your backups and restore points.
One thing that I hate a lot on Microsoft Vista, is the User Account Control. I like working with Microsoft Vista not as much as I love working with Mac. But I get too much annoyed by “Windows needs your permission to continue”. It happens a lot, please have it disabled by following these steps:
And if you want to speed up your system, it is fairly easy to see improved performance by disabling the Windows Search Service. Follow these simple steps to disable Windows Search Service.
If you are on Windows Vista and your system’s running slow? you must be thinking your would need additional RAM, cause that is the best way to improve a PC’s performance. However, upgrading memory is obviously involved with a cost and some systems have limited memory expansion capabilities, making it impossible to add RAM.
Windows Vista has a new way to improve your performance, speed up. With help of Ready Boost. Now you can use a USB flash drive, to improve performance without having to add additional memory to your system. (more…)
The ISO files are rare breed and they need to be mounted on CD’s or DVD’S to make any use, so it’s almost imperative for you to know how it’s done. There are quite a few softwares which you can use to do this but Virtual Clone Drive is perhaps the best out there. The fact that it’s a freeware makes it a completely irresistible utility to mount .CCD, .DVD, .IMG, .UDF, .BIN files and not just .ISO files.
There is a utility that can be used, called Virtual Clone Drive. This utility will let you mount .ISO, .CCD, .DVD, .IMG, .UDF and .BIN files. Download the utility and start the setup process. You will need to install the software from their website and then complete the installation with all the defaults.
The Virtual Clone Drive only takes 1 MB space on your hard disk so it should not bother a lot to those guys who keep their hard disks full with movies and games. You will be prompted to to restart the computer for the settings to take place. On restarting you will find an entry by the name of Virtual Clone Drive under Removable Disks in explorer. It has worked for me very well and
Microsoft released the Windows Vista SP1 for download. It is supposed to includes various performance improvements which will make the operating system more stable and likable.
Windows Vista SP1 will be made available through Windows Update marked as “optional update” during April. You can currently get standalone installers. The bulk is due to all the language packages that are included within these standalone installers. Vista SP1 will just weigh about 65MB, if downloaded through Windows Update.
Download: Vista SP1 32-bit (434.5MB) |Vista SP1 64-bit (726.5MB) (more…)
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