Check PC Performance Details with WinSAT in Windows 7 or Vista
Since Windows Vista, including in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows System Assessment Tool (WinSAT) has been added into the operating system. WinSAT is a free benchmarking tool that measures various computer performance ratings, characteristics and capabilities, and display the ratings as Windows Experience Index or WEI score.
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20.4.2009 Digital File Check
Music fans who want be safe and legal on the internet are today offered a new freely-available software programme that will help them stop their computer being used for illegal file-swapping of copyrighted music and movies.
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What's New in Vista - File Select Check Box
Choosing multiple files and folders has been possible in Windows for as long as I can remember. Hold the CTRL key and choose the files and/or folders. Pretty simple, but there has to be an easier way right?
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1.6.2006 How to check software or hardware for Windows 7 compatibility
Microsoft has put up an extremely useful site that will allow you to check your software and hardware for Windows 7 compatibility.
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27.10.2009 Bypass and Disable Genuine Windows Validation Check
Microsoft has made it harder for illegitimate, or for whatever reason, your copy of Microsoft Windows couldn't be validated, users to retrieve updates via Microsoft Updates or Windows Update, and download programs from Microsoft Download Center.
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19.5.2006 Download everything from Microsoft without Windows Genuine Advantage Check
ghacks.net has found a workaround to bypass the WGA, wonder how long MS will take to fix this.
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8.9.2006 Check Out The New Windows Home Server Demo. But Why Is It In Flash?
Microsoft PR sent out a link to this slick new Windows Home Server Demo this afternoon. Nothing really notable about it (although I do want one)…except the demo is in Flash.
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27.10.2007 Windows 7 Performance Tools - Performance Tools Kit 4.1.1
Internet Explorer 8 will be not only an apex of performance, but also the next major iteration of the Windows client, according to Microsoft.
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1.9.2008 Microsoft pre-paid cards to check software piracy
Check piracy of its software, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it would launch pre-paid cards in India before this year-end.
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17.9.2006 Check Out the Official Release Notes for Windows XP Service Pack 3
Mind blowing! Simply mind blowing! Shocking! And last, but definitely not least, a true revelation. Microsoft has published the official release notes for Windows XP Service Pack 3, and, boy, are you in for a treat! I bet you didn't see this coming in the least.
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4.12.2007 Computer after accident
Usage of second-hand computer
Internet Computer Names
I had a very exciting chat with some beta users today where, for the first time, we talked about a feature I am very excited about that we are calling Internet Computer Names.
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24.8.2006 Super Personal Computer
Tyan Computer has announced its latest TyanPSC T-650 series personal supercomputers powered by Intel’s 50-watt quad-core Xeon processors. Tyan targets the TyanPSC T-650 series towards office environments. The new TyanPSC T-650 is a 5-node cluster with 40 CPU cores per system.
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22.3.2007 Cray Computer Founder Joins Microsoft
Microsoft confirmed on Friday that Burton Smith, formerly the chief scientist for Cray, would be joining the company as a technical fellow. Smith will work to expand Microsoft's efforts in parallel and high-performance computing, and would report to chief technical officier Craig Mundie.
Smith had worked with Cray since its inception as Tera Computer Co. in 1988. He has also published several works on issues regarding parallel computing. "As microprocessor technology continues to evolve over the next decade or so, we're going to see the capabilities of a supercomputer cluster on the desktop which will require a different software architecture," Mundie said. "Burton will be investigating how to develop software to benefit from the opportunities which multi-core multiprocessors will present."
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9.12.2005 10 Biggest Computer Flops of all time
Over the years, computers have changed the way we live today! In order to get us there, many hardware and software companies have pushed the envelope to create what we use today.
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22.10.2006 Vista encryption 'no threat' to computer forensics
Security advances in Windows Vista are unlikely to frustrate cybercrime investigation, according to a leading computer forensics firm.
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2.2.2007 The Ultimate Windows Vista Computer Design
Fest your eyes on the Ultimate Windows Vista computer design concept. The image included on the left, as well as the ones at the bottom of this article are a part of the Carbon Design Group’s portfolio.
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17.9.2007 The Windows 7 11-Second Boot and the Computer That Made It Possible
Windows 7’s evolution compared to Windows Vista is undeniable, and the lucky few that so far have had access to the RTM bits of the latest Windows client can confirm this.
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18.9.2009 Computer Maker Files Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft
Computer maker Tangent has filed a federal antitrust suit against Microsoft, accusing the software maker of anticompetitive behavior that forced it to overpay for the Windows operating system.
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23.2.2006 Microsoft's new OS Vista spurs computer sales
US sales of computers carrying Microsoft's new operating system Vista soared in the week after it was launched, defying the expectations of analysts who gave Vista lackluster reviews.
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10.2.2007 Windows Vista at 1 year: A computer maker's view
I've been working for a while on an upcoming story coinciding with Windows Vista's first year on the market, and I've talked with a variety of people who have been using and working with the Microsoft operating system in different ways.
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30.1.2008 Microsoft: The Windows OEM License Dies with Its Computer
Licenses for Windows come in various flavors from Retail to Volume, but perhaps the most common of all is provided by original equipment manufacturers together with operating systems preloaded on new computers.
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17.6.2008 Fix Windows 7 Does Not Start After Force Shutdown of Computer
No Microsoft operating system is bug free and it starts getting uncovered as more and more users start using it.
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10.10.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 Home Computer Restore CD [Dual Boot] BETA now available
The Windows Home Server team would like to invite you to download a BETA version of the "Windows Home Server - Home Computer Restore CD (Dual Boot)" from Microsoft Connect at http://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer.
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6.4.2008 PC login Now - How To Change a Windows XP Limited User Account Into a Computer Administrator
One of the place that I work at has a few hundreds of computers and it is shared by students.
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12.7.2008 Windows Performance Blog
As I said in yesterday’s introduction, my job as an engineer on the Windows Vista team is to improve performance. I wanted to look at a study that measure a key area that we focused on for Windows Vista – consistent responsiveness during the times that matter most to users (when starting up their machine, after being idle, and when you are under the gun running tons of apps, etc.).
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29.12.2006 Microsoft tweaks IE 7 for performance
Microsoft has quietly released a patch aimed at improving the performance of Internet Explorer 7's phishing filter ahead of the company's regular patching schedule, which occurs on the Tuesday of every month.
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8.2.2007 Microsoft IE 8 - Great Performance
This morning, my editor asked why I hadn't blogged about Internet Explorer 8. My response: "Who cares?" Do you? Maybe we both should.
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27.8.2008Overview Series: Windows Vista Performance and Tuning
Windows Vista and SP1 focus on delivering greater performance and overall system responsiveness. By striking a balance between speed and
responsiveness, Windows Vista and SP1 deliver a level of performance that has the greatest positive impact on the systems usability. This guide looks
at the following areas of performance improvement:
- Making configuration changes that help a computer feel more responsive when you
use it.
- Using hardware to boost the actual physical speed of a computer.
- Making configuration changes that help a computer to start
faster.
- Making the computer more reliable may help increase performance.
- Monitoring performance occasionally so that you can stop
problems before they get too big.
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29.07.2008Antec P182 Performance One Elite Computer Case Review
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21.08.2007Hyper-V performance - feedback wanted
Tony Voellm (Principle Development Lead) is after feedback on Hyper-V performance:
Check his post "
Windows Hyper-V Beta" for more
details and a snippet is below
As the person responsible for performance inside the Hyper-V product team Im confident is saying
youll see the hypervisor investment is really paying off. As you use the product Id love to get your feedback on Hyper-V performance.
If youve got feedback,
get in touch with Tony =)
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07.12.2007Windows Vista Performance, Responsiveness, and Reliability Update Available (KB943899 v2)
This update improves performance, responsiveness, and reliability of Windows Vista in various scenarios. This update resolves the following issues on
a Windows Vista-based computer:
- You receive a "Stop 0x000000A0" error when you try to switch the computer to the hibernate state.
- You receive a "Stop 0x0000009f" error when you switch the computer to the hibernate state or to the standby state. Or, you receive this
Stop error when you resume the computer from the hibernate state or from the standby state. This problem occurs on a computer that has a wireless
network connection.
- The disk does not spin down after a specified time of inactivity.
Additionally, this update can help
improve performance when you perform operations that are related to large disk I/O. After you apply this update, you may notice up to a 15 percent
performance improvement in some copying operations and when moving some large files.
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12.02.2008Corsair Demonstrates Benefits of 4GB Memory for Gaming PCs
Corsair, a worldwide leader in enthusiast computer and
flash memory products, a worldwide leader in high performance computer and flash memory products, announced today lab findings that show significant
increases in performance and efficiency when increasing system memory capacity from 2GB to 4GB. Testing procedures and results can be found in the
application note AN804: Gaming Performance Analysis “ 4GB vs. 2GB, which is now available online
HERE.
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06.05.2008Mac OS X 10.6 Brings Serious Performance Gains
While our focus at Phoronix is on testing hardware under Linux, we remain friendly and interested in other BSD and UNIX operating systems too,
including Mac OS X . With the launch of Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" we have been particularly interested in it considering the technological
advancements that have been made in this update thanks to their large focus on improving the performance of Mac OS X. With that said, we have spent
all week working on a grand Mac OS X benchmarking showdown by comparing the performance of the retail build of Mac OS X 10.6.0 to the earlier Mac OS X
10.5.8 through a number of different quantitative tests. We firmly believe that as of right now these are the most detailed desktop performance
numbers available concerning Snow Leopard, but we already have more figures on the way. We have performance numbers from not just one Mac computer,
but two different setups. Here's to the first 60+ tests we ran!
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29.08.2009Free 24-hour ZoneAlarm Pro 2009 download
Need a firewall freshener? Tuesday marks Check Point Software's 15th anniversary, and to celebrate, it's offering free copies of Check Point
ZoneAlarm Pro 2009 to all comers...
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18.11.2008Thief caught after stopping to check Facebook
A 19 year old Pennsylvanian man has been arrested after stopping to check his account on social networking website Facebook whilst burgling a house,
and then forgetting to log out again. According to The Journal of West Virginia, Jonathan G. Parker, of Fort Loudoun, PA, is alleged to have stolen
two diamond rings from the property, worth more than $3,500. The victim called police after noticing evidence of a break in through a bedroom
window and other signs that there had been an intruder looking around her home.
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19.09.2009Mac user: Don't underestimate the case
A case is a crucial part of a computer. Aside from the obvious fact that without a case, all you have is a pile of chips and cables, the case of a
computer plays an important role in how you interact with it. Microsoft ads, and some of their users, may dismiss Macs as "more about looks" than
anything else, but a Mac user looks at it differently. Fact is, it isn't always about performance; a bad case can make or (literally and
figuratively) break a good computer, particularly on the mobile scene. Let's take a look at the "unibody" MacBook Pros, as an example.
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21.06.2009How to check your Hotmail in Safari (3 or) 4
Like a lot of other issues with Hotmail and non-IE browsers, you just need to change the User Agent string to fool Hotmail into thinking it is dealing
with a browser it knows about. In Safari, this is pretty easy to do. As far as we can tell, however, Safari doesnt remember the User Agent settings
from session to session, so you would need to reset the User Agent for each new session that you want to check your Hotmail account.
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08.03.2009ISPs to blame for new worm affecting MSN users
ISPs could kill a new worm
that is spreading rapidly via
MSN Messenger, according to
security experts.
The worm, called
Backdoor.IRCBot.gen, spreads
by sending file transfer
requests to a victim's
contact list. Once accepted, a
malicious file is executed on
the recipients computer, which
gives criminals control of the
infected computer.
Experts say that in
most cases, IM worms send
files to all the user's
contacts without their
knowledge and the only way to
verify the authenticity of the
file is to check with the
person who is supposed to have
sent it.
James Turner, security
consultant for
Australian-based research firm
IBRS, claims ISPs could stop
the worm if they tried. ..
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02.08.2007Study says bank Web sites leave clients vulnerable to theft
When you hop on the Internet to check your online bank statement or pay some bills, do you ever wonder how secure your bank's computer network is? A
new study claims most bank Web sites are vulnerable to identity theft...
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24.07.2008Amid gloom and doom, US tops list of world's most competitive economies
Outsourcing? Check.
Alarmingly low math and science prowess in education? Check.
Plenty of lobbyist abuse and special
interests? Check.
Really weak telecom infrastructure? Check.
Most competitive economy on Planet Earth? Uh,
check.
According to new research from the World Economic Forum, the US heads the
list of most competitive economies on
the globe. It beats all comers in part through an "excellent university system" and research collaboration between business and academia, and
the report calls it "arguably the country with the most productive and innovative potential in the world."
Stop me if you've
heard this before, but you probably haven't. The last two years have seen an enormous amount of fretting over US economic strength and
competitiveness, but the WEF's research indicates that things may be much better than perceived.
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02.11.2007Nvidia aims at Intel with integrated Graphics Chip
Nvidia Corp is rolling out a graphics microchip that will be embedded in the main collection of components that make up a personal computer, as the
company goes toe to toe with Intel Corp in the integrated graphics chip market.
Nvidia is expected to say on Tuesday that its new
GeForce chips for desktop PCs give the performance of an entry-level separate graphics processor unit, as compared to traditional integrated graphics
chips such as those made by Intel.
Given the proliferation of graphically rich computer programs, Nvidia, Intel, Advanced Micro
Devices Inc and others aim to provide better graphics performance. Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker, has already upgraded its integrated graphics
offering, the G35, aimed at mainstream PCs.
"As for going up against a strong competitor, that's nothing for Nvidia," said Jon
Peddie, head of market research firm Jon Peddie Research, based in Tiburon, California. "They've got great technology and superior marketing
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24.09.2007'Tiny Bubbles' Could Empower IBM's Next-gen Power6 CPU
While IBM today unveiled a new
dual-core Power6 processor for
its new System p570 server,
resulting in what the
Transaction Performance
Processing Council confirmed
to be the best performance
score per core recorded thus
far, a manufacturing advance
still in the works there could
give its next generation
Power6 even higher performance
on account of improved
signaling...
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22.05.2007ReadyBoost no longer a Vista-only feature: eBoostr 1.0
MDO Ltd. announces the release of eBoostr, a complete replacement for Microsoft ReadyBoost technology for Windows XP. Upgrade the performance of your
PC without upgrading its components. Get ReadyBoost-like technology in Windows XP. Overcome ReadyBoost limitations and use up to four inexpensive
flash devices to speed up your system. Add more speed to your PC without upgrading! If you could improve the performance of your computer by upgrading
just one item, that would be memory. Adding more RAM speeds up Windows and applications, allowing the system to access the hard disk less often. This
is especially true for older PCs with 256 or 512 MB of RAM, and laptop computers with slow hard drives.
Upgrading computer components can
be costly, and is not always possible. Buying and plugging a USB flash memory stick, on the other hand, is neither expensive nor complicated. That is
why Microsoft developed a new technology called ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost uses flash memory plugged into a computer to enhance operating system
responsiveness, decrease loading time, and improve computer performance. Unfortunately, Microsoft ReadyBoost is only available in Windows Vista. Since
the day Microsoft announced its ReadyBoost technology for Windows Vista, the company made it clear that no ReadyBoost upgrade will be released to
support Windows XP and older operating systems.
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14.11.2007Blueprints drawn up for quantum computer RAM
In the fundamentally fuzzy world of quantum mechanics, it can be difficult to keep clear memories, and that could be a problem for future quantum
computers.
Now three physicists in Italy and the US have proposed a method for retrieving quantum information from memory that
should make total quantum recall more reliable.
Quantum computers have the potential to do some kinds of calculation with
unprecedented speed, as small-scale demonstrations have confirmed. However, to perform most of these calculations effectively these machines will
eventually need to access something resembling random access memory (RAM) “ a large store of quantum information that can be selectively accessed.
Ordinary RAM contains a large array of memory cells, each holding one bit of information “ a binary 0 or 1. To check the contents of
particular cell, a computer accesses it using its address “ a string of bits that identifies the cell's location.
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22.08.2007Check Point patches Microsoft update error
Check Point has issued a set of updates which correct a compatibility issue with the latest Microsoft update. The security firm has posted new
versions of its ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite, Pro, Antivirus, Anti-Spyware and Basic Firewall offerings.
The updates correct an error
caused by the Microsoft Patch Tuesday update released on 8 July. One of the four bulletins addressed a flaw in the Windows DNS component, but also
resulted in an error which prevented ZoneAlarm users from accessing the internet.
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11.07.2008Hyper-V: How to make sure you are getting the best performance
Anthony F. Voellm: As we have moved from Beta to RC the number of questions I have been getting around Hyper-V performance have grown quite a bit.
Its time to put some tips out on how to avoid some common pitfalls.
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20.04.2008Asustek Develops Manual Overclocking Tool for Graphics Cards
Asustek Computer, one of the
worlds largest producers of
computer components, on
Tuesday unveiled what it calls
"the worlds first hardware
based real-time overclocking
device for graphics cards"
along with its new Nvidia
GeForce 8600 GT-based graphics
board. The tool may be useful
for not very experienced
overclockers.
Asusteks OC Gear real-time
overclocking device should be
installed into a spare 5.25ť
bay and connected to an USB
port. Specially developed
software will allow end-users
to adjust system master
volume, graphics processing
units (GPUs) clock-speed, GPU
fan speed using a simple knob
as well as monitor GPU
temperature and current frames
per second (FPS) information.
The EN8600 GT OC Gear
graphics card from Asus is
equipped with 256MB of
high-speed 1ns GDDR3 memory as
well as high-performance
cooling system, thus, can
provide sufficient
overclocking potential for
those seeking additional
performance...
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