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Windows 7 vs Windows Vista

Windows 7 is out in the stores this week, many of you have asked me to compare it with Windows Vista on the same PC Hardware installed from scratch. PLEASE RATE OR COMMENT! For more tips , tweaks and tutorials click pcwizkidstechtalk.com

WINDOWS VISTA AERO VS LINUX UBUNTU BERYL

WINDOWS VS LINUX the song:HERE COME THE HOTSTTEPER.

Windows Vista For Dummies, Special DVD Bundle

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Included in this unique Dummies DVD bundle: A specially created FREE video DVD, a $9.98 value, that walks you through the screens and tasks you’ll confront in Vista. With clear narration and step-by-step instructions linked to actions on the screen, you will find it’s like having a computer expert right beside you, making everything clearer and a lot less intimidating. The accompanying book is the popular Windows Vista For Dummies bestseller… More >>

Windows Vista For Dummies, Special DVD Bundle

Windows Vista

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Windows Vista is Microsoft’s most important software release in more than a decade. It offers users an abundance of new and upgraded features that were more than five years in the making: a gorgeous, glass-like visual overhaul; superior searching and organization tools; a multimedia and collaboration suite; and above all, a massive, top-to-bottom security-shield overhaul. There’s scarcely a single feature of the older versions of Windows that hasn’t been tweaked, ov… More >>

Windows Vista

Adolf Hitler – Vista Problems!

Adolf Hitler freaks out, because Windows Vista doesn’t work properly on his personal computer. The clip originates from “The downfall” [English title] and “Der Untergang” [Original German title]. A great movie illustrating the last days of Adolf Hitler’s life. The original footage is not created by me. Its rights are rightfully owned by Constantin Film Produktion GmbH. All rights reserved.

Windows Vista For Dummies

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Create music CDs and photo DVDs or even watch TV Move your files to a new computer, or get your old PC ready for Vista The thing that’s made Windows For Dummies so successful is that it’s packed with the basics you need to make Windows work. This book gets you through all the Windows Vista tasks and tripwires, including starting programs, finding files, navigating the new see-through interface, staying safe while you cruise the Internet, … More >>

Windows Vista For Dummies

Windows Vista Tips That Will Help your Personal Development

On the long path of our lives, we make an idea about who we want to be. The actions we take along the way play a very important role for our personal development. This is why all our steps should be thought through before we make them.

A very important part of our personal development is our career. While everyone states that money doesn?t bring happiness, one thing is for sure: without a good financial situation you would surely be miserable. And for this we must choose our careers wisely.

Every field we choose to activate in is related in some way to computers. Therefore to make our personal development process complete we need to know how to use a computer. Since software programs make a computer work, we need to be familiar with them.

Over 95 percent of the computers in the world are governed by one company: Microsoft. Since the development of the Windows operating system, all the users around the world appeal to it because of its wide range of applicability. The latest version of Windows is Vista, and a lot of pc users try it out because the newer the software, the better the performance.

Over the internet you can find a lot of Windows Vista tips that will help you familiarize with the software. Once you complete your studies, the next thing is a job interview. If knowledge of Windows Vista is required and you know nothing about it, do you think they would be interested in you?

That is why any Windows Vista tips should be welcomed. Apart from the personal development in your career, you must think about yourself. More than half the homes in the US have a computer, and if you want one for personal interests, shouldn?t you be familiar with the features of the operating system?

If you want to know where you will find interesting and at the same time useful Windows Vista tips, you should visit girishk.com. Here you will find out a lot of interesting things and what features you can use regarding different aspects of performance and design.

Apart from Windows Vista tips, this website has a lot more interesting information to offer. For instance, if you want to buy a new computer of laptop, here you will find the most common features you need to look for according to your needs.

However, you may not be aware of what you need. For example, when you want to purchase a new computer, you first need to determine what software you will run on it and then make the purchase, not the other way around. In case you want a laptop, it is a common opinion that smaller is better. But if you purchase a small and light laptop, some features may not be available, whereas for the same amount, you could be able to buy a better one, but slightly heavier.

The maintenance of your equipment also enjoys interesting developments. For instance, what kind of cloth you should use if you want to remove the dust from your computer or laptop monitor, because if you damage it, it may not be repaired.

Automatic Problem Resolution – Part 3 of 5 in Troubleshooting Essentials for Windows Vista

Each time you encounter a significant error using Windows Vista, you’ll be asked whether you want to send the information to Microsoft. You might think this is just a one-way street, where you’re providing information that will help Microsoft write software in the future that will prevent whatever problem you’re having.

If you think about it for a moment, that must be one huge store of information being generated by the planet’s users of Windows computers. So, why should one entity be the only beneficiary? Surely there must be a way for ordinary users to leverage this information as well, right? Surely some other user in another corner of the computing globe is – or has had – the same difficulty as you. Right? The answer is yes, and yes. Users can use the information gathered from other users to try to troubleshoot issues, using a utility called Problem Reports and Solutions. If there’s a known solution to a known problem, you can use Problem Reports and Solutions to easily retrieve the fix. Here’s how to put it all to work:

Open the Control Panel, and then open Problem Reports and Solutions. As always, you can type problem from the Start menu. You’ll see the Problem Reports and Solutions window. In this window are several tasks on the left pane and a status area on the right. To see a list of problems that Vista has detected, click the View Problem History link. You’ll see a dialog box. You can view further details about each problem using the links herein. After visiting the Problem History page, you can run a check for solutions by navigating back to the Problem Reports and Solutions home page and clicking the Check Now button. Vista then checks online for any available solutions. If it finds one, you’ll see a dialog box. From there, simply follow the “Solution found” link for instructions on how to resolve the detected issue. Most times, it will involve a software download and install.

Note that much of this problem-checking behavior is completely automated by default. Administrators can govern this, however, by following the “Change settings” link on the left. After clicking this link, you will be able to toggle automatic reporting either on or off, and you will be able to configure a few other options.

Administrators can set exceptions if they have a program that they want Vista to ignore when it reports a problem. It should also be noted here that one user’s setting doesn’t necessarily have to be the setting for other users. If you’re changing the reporting settings for all users, you will be asked for administrative confirmation if User Account Control is turned on.

If you’d like to get my entire book “Windows Vista Administration: The Definitive Guide” by Brian Culp, Publisher: O’Reilly, ISBN-13: 978-0-59-652959-8 (or any of my 20+ other books and tutorials), you can pick it up at my website, www.TheAnswerHub.com or at most major book chains. In addition, I’m always happy to provide additional assistance for free (within reason, mind you…don’t go thinking this is some sort of a free ride). Visit me at my website and submit your questions to me. I’ll get back to you with an answer as soon as possible.

Up Next: in part 4 of this 5-part series, we’ll be discussing the new Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer in Windows Vista.

How Do I Change the Display Setting for a Windows Vista Computer?

Windows Vista, by default, chooses the best display settings for your computer which includes screen resolution, refresh rate, and color, based on your monitor. The setting for every computer differs depending on the kind of monitor that is used– CRT or LCD. Screen resolution is the setting that determines how much information is displayed on the screen that is measured horizontally and vertically in pixels. Refresh rate is the frequency at which the screen is redrawn. These can be adjusted according to your preference.

The process to follow in changing Windows Vista’s display settings can be done in a few seconds. All you need to do is right-click on a vacant area on the Desktop and select “Personalize” from the menu that pops up. The Personalization box will appear. Click on “Display Settings” which is located at the bottom part (it is the seventh item from the top).The Display Settings dialog box will appear. There you can set the resolution and colors that would best fit your set up. You can drag the resolution slider to the right for higher resolutions and drag left to lower the resolution. You can also click on the “Advanced” button to get to more advanced settings for color management and properties of your adapter and monitor. But I advice not to tamper with what is in the Advanced button because it is for expert technicians. The default settings in the “Advanced” button are usually the best settings and the safest. The display settings of XP and Vista are almost the same so if you are familiar with that of XP you will not be lost in the display settings of Vista.

You can actually fine tune the display and the whole look of Vista by tweaking everything that is in the Personalization box. To adjust window color and appearance simply click on the radio button under the color. Check or uncheck on the “Enable transparency” checkbox if you want the window bar to be transparent. By clicking on the slider and dragging it to the left or to the right as how you want the settings to be, You can adjust the color intensity. By clicking on “Show Color Mixer” and adjusting the scales as desired, you can make adjustments on the hue, brightness, and saturation of the colors.

You can also change desktop background if you click “Desktop Background” and select the image you would like to use. If you want an image that is in one of the folders in your computer, just click on the Browse button and locate the folder that contains it and select the image and click “Open”. The Desktop background will then be changed to that image.

You may also set the Screensaver properties by clicking on “Screensaver”. By clicking on the drop down list you will be able to choose the screen saver to use. You can also see the adjustment box for the time it will take to activate the screensaver when the computer is idle. By clicking on the up or down arrow buttons, you can add or subtract to the number of minutes before screensaver launches.

Windows Vista Feature to Avoid Power Misuse

One of the significant features Microsoft introduced in Vista is new power saving mode. Windows XP has two power saving mode, Standby and Hibernate. Windows Vista replaced them by Sleep mode. Hibernate is still available as an advanced power setting, but the Sleep mode is the default one and has more advanced features.

While in sleep, computer uses very less power for internal use. In notebooks, with the minimum power used during sleep mode, system goes to stand by mode and the state of the system is saved in the memory. If battery power goes down to critically low level, the system wakes for a very short time to save the needed information onto the hard drive, and immediately goes to hibernate state.

In Desktop systems, the process is little different. Here Microsoft Vista uses “hybrid sleep”. In hybrid sleep, the state of the system is stored both in RAM and on disk, so that system can recover it?s state in case the power is lost. After saving the state of the system, it goes to sleep mode from where computer can easily bring back to working state. Top goal of introducing this mode is enabling easy and first ?on? and ?off? of the computer. While making sure computer can save all data when the system is turned off, and brings in same state while you turn back on. In order to ensure that “off” worked effectively with this new model, instead of waiting for green signal from each application in the computer, Windows Vista sending notice to each application, services and devices about the power saving state and wait for maximum 2 seconds for them to finish up their current job and put themselves into a state from where they can continue when the system wakes up. Similarly Windows vista is very fast to come back from the sleep state. When you open the lid of your laptop, you will find your system becomes instantly on, sometime you may wonder if it was on whole time.

Another goal is to reduce the power consumption when the system is idle. Normally we want to avoid long boot process of the computer, so we prefer to keep the system up 24X7. This may be nice to keep your system always ready to work but in this way we are wasting huge amount of power. Windows Vista?s sleep mode made dramatic change to reduce computer?s idle power consumption. While a typical Pentium 4 system uses 102.6 watts of power, same PC while in sleep consumes only 5.6 watts. Vista provides API for the application developers so that application can get notifications about the power scheme being used on the system and then adapt their behavior for the power scheme.

Using Microsoft group policy IT administrator of a Business organization can decide that all machines will go to sleep after specified time of inactivity. Normally in large organization tons of computers sitting idle and because of that huge power gets wasted. This feature must help them to reduce power wastage.