Minimem - Optimizing Windows Memory Usage
Running too many applications can cause computer performance to slow down or even crashed.
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24.8.2009 Microsoft Offers More Ways to Play Games for Windows and Xbox 360 at German Games Convention
LEIPZIG, Germany — Aug. 23, 2006 — Once again proving that its game platforms offer more ways for gamers to have fun, Microsoft Corp. today announced great new games and accessories for Xbox 360™ and Windows® gamers.
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24.8.2006 Game Developer Says Vista Breaks Casual Online Games
The world is still absorbing all the added features and security of Windows Vista, game developers and casual gamers may have something to be unhappy about when it comes to the Microsoft’s operating system.
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31.1.2007 The New Internet Games in Windows 7
If you’re running the Windows 7 Beta and hadn’t already noticed, we are introducing 3 new Windows Games for Windows 7.
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21.2.2009 Crysis coming to 360; 2 other new games too
You’ve all read the heading, so now you have to calm down and read. Crysis has been announced to be coming to the 360 on the 1UP show.
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16.1.2007 Microsoft Warns Games Could Cost More
After Electronic Arts representative Keith Ramsdale warned that a new rating system might lead to delays for game launches in the United Kingdom, it's Microsoft’s turn to rally against the intention of the British government to introduce a reform when it comes to rating videogames.
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1.7.2008 Games and Gamers -- Potential World Changers
Suzanne Seggerman, co-founder and president of Games for Change, and Jeff Bell, Microsoft corporate vice president, discuss the companies' commitment to explore ways that interactive gaming can impact important social issues.
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11.6.2007 Is Microsoft Playing Games With XP SP3?
Call it a Hamlet moment for the PC industry, filled with political intrigue and machinations worthy of the great Shakespeare play: to wait for XP SP3 or move to Vista now that Microsoft has released Vista SP1?
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26.3.2008 Introducing Xbox LIVE Community Games
You’ve played Xbox 360 games with the millions of gamers on Xbox LIVE. You’ve chatted, shared, and dominated in games of all kinds. But what if those millions could be playing your game?
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22.7.2008 SafeDisc Windows XP Fix for Microsoft Games
When running a restricted user account with fast user switching under Windows XP, some games will not start correctly. The game requests that the original disk be placed in the drive, even if it is already present. To remedy this issue, download and run this fix.
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2.3.2006 Windows Live Games Beta Signup Begins
Today Microsoft extended an invitation for individuals to participate in a beta test of its new Windows Live Games online community, which will allow PC gamers to connect with Xbox users over the Live gaming network.
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3.3.2007 Xbox Gets Bigger Live Games, Memory Card
Microsoft plans to allow Xbox Live Arcade games to use more space, announcing it had increased the official size limit from 50 to 150 megabytes. In addition, the company also announced a larger memory card with a capacity of 512MB.
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5.3.2007 Sony promises more games to boost PS3 demand
Sony expects at least 380 new PlayStation 3 games to hit the market this business year and says that should rev up demand for the console that has so far lost out to Nintendo's wildly popular Wii.
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21.6.2007 Microsoft Breathes New Life Into Xbox and Games for Windows
Microsoft made a move designed to breathe new life into the marketing strategies for the Xbox consoles, Games for Windows and Microsoft Game Studios.
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25.6.2008 Microsoft Will Add Video Games to Zune by July 2008
Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, will make video games available on its Zune music player within 18 months, said Peter Moore, a vice president in the company's interactive entertainment unit.
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9.1.2007 Microsoft launches new Xbox360 Elite bundle with 2 gold games
CHOOSE YOUR DESTINY AND FINISH THE FIGHT WITH THE XBOX 360 GAME OF THE YEAR BUNDLE
For a Limited Time, Get “Fable II” and “Halo 3” with Xbox 360 Elite.
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20.4.2009 Download Windows 7 RTM Free Ultimate Extras Games Soon
The Ultimate Extras live to see another day. In all fairness, it will not be the whole of Ultimate Extras that will survive, but just two components, both being games which will be delivered as standalone downloads.
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10.11.2009 More than 160 high-definition Xbox 360 games and a host of new accessories
Three Locust Hordes, Two Race Cars and a Pińata in a Pear Tree. From naughty to nice, Xbox 360 has something for everyone this holiday season: more than 160 high-definition games and a host of new accessories make up the best 12 days ever.
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16.11.2006 Microsoft Japan sees 80 Xbox 360 games by year-end
Microsoft Corp.'s Japan unit said on Thursday Xbox 360 game console users in Japan will have more than three times as many game titles available by December as now, a move seen as preparing itself for an upcoming battle with Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3.
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6.4.2006 Microsoft Unites Xbox and PC Gamers With Debut of Games for Windows — LIVE
Xbox LIVE extends to Windows Vista to create single online gaming service starting with “Halo 2” on May 8.
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15.3.2007 COMPLETE List of Original Xbox Games Playable on Xbox 360
The folks at Xbox are working hard to add more of your favorite games to this list, so check back often for the latest updates.
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How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009IT Showcase: Optimizing Client Security by Using Windows Vista
Learn how Microsoft IT
deployed an early version of
Windows Vista to strengthen
the security of the data
network and data storage, and
to provide improved defenses
against the threats of
unauthorized access and
communications.
System
Requirements
- Supported
Operating Systems: Windows
Vista
IT Showcase Word
documents are best viewed in
Print Layout View (on the Menu
bar, select View|Print Layout)
within all versions of
Microsoft Word.
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25.07.2007Virtual Roundtable discussing Vista configuration, and optimizing performance
On September 24, at 9am PST, Mark Russinovich and a panel of experts will be hosting a virtual roundtable to discuss common isues in configuring Vista
clients, performance issues, and other ways to optimize Vista performance. He will be asking questions as well during this roundtable. You can use the
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28.08.2008Media Center University: Optimizing for Entertainment & Networking “ Part 2
Mike Seamons continues his presentation of Optimizing Media Center for Entertainment in this second video filmed at EHX Spring 2008. In part two, he
discusses the steps he takes to optimize Windows Media Center. He discusses removing all unnecessary software, installing Windows Updates and other
configuration. Additionally, he discusses how to integrate Zune with WMC.
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23.06.2008Vista, wireless kept off core Olympic IT roster
Microsoft's newest OS, Vista,
has been relegated to waterboy
status at the 2008 Olympic
Games, while wireless
networking won't even play a
supporting role in Beijing.
Windows XP
was chosen to run on all PCs
handling chores vital to the
Olympic Games, and has been
installed on most of the PCs
delivered by Lenovo Group.
Vista will only be used on PCs
in Internet lounges set up for
athletes to use during the
games.
The Olympic Games require
mature, stable technologies,
said Yang Yuanqing, chairman
of Lenovo, during a briefing
in Beijing. The Olympic Games
aren't a place to try new
technologies due to the size
and importance of the event,
he said. Everything must work
smoothly...
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09.08.2007Microsoft set to release Vista Ultimate Extra games - free
Remember Vista Ultimate Extras? Well they are back according to Paul Thurrott, but this time they will be released for free in the form of two games,
Microsoft Tinker and Hold 'Em. Microsoft's failed Vista Ultimate Extras were a big promise from the company of "cutting-edge programs,
innovative services and unique publications." At least they were in Vista RTM, by the time Vista SP1 was rolled out nearly all references to Vista
Ultimate Extras were removed (shown below). Blogger Long Zheng called them the "ultimate con" at the time and in hindsight he was right. Microsoft
made several promises of more extras which resulted in the company launching UltimatePC.com which now redirects to the Vista home-page.
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11.11.2009Gaming on Vista 10 to 15 Percent Slower than XP
Microsoft is reportedly
telling it's gaming industry
associates that games will run
10-15% slower on their new
operating system due to the
new GUI implemented.
Vista's new 3D desktop will
constantly be draining the PC
of video memory that games
could make use of, so in
actual fact many of your
favourite games will probably
run faster on Windows XP. Of
course after Vista arrives new
PCs and hardware will be built
especially for Vista which
will increase performance
anyway.
Still,
looks like that pretty desktop
has a price after all.
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07.10.2006Games for Windows LIVE 1.2 Coming Soon
Brandon LeBlanc: This evening, Xbox Live's Major Nelson
revealed some tidbits on an upcoming update to Games for Windows - LIVE for the PC.
As you know, several
games have launched under Games for Windows - LIVE that allow PC Games to tap into Xbox Live. Last May, I talked about
my
experience with Halo 2 for Windows Vista and a few months ago I also picked up Shadowrun. While Halo 2 for Windows Vista let me score achievements
and add to my gamerscore - Shadowrun goes cross-platform by letting me play with gamers who are playing Shadowrun on their Xbox 360 consoles.
Like with Dashboard Updates to the Xbox 360, Microsoft can also update the Games for Windows - LIVE components within PC games such as
Halo 2 for Windows Vista and Shadowrun that add functionality and bug fixes. Major Nelson highlights several changes coming with the 1.2
release:
- Support for offline Achievements (so you can add to your gamerscore when not connected to the internet).
- Ability to see
if your friends are "joinable" in games.
- Additional UI features.
I look forward to seeing these improvements for the 1.2 release
for Games for Windows - LIVE. Major Nelson says we can expect to see this update available sometime next month.
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09.10.2007Good Old Games
Imagine a full library of classic PC games at your fingertips. Now imagine the ability to download these games for five or ten bucks. Thats whats
going on at Good Old Games, a new site whose focus is to bring those often hard to find classic PC titles to the masses. I know what youre thinking.
You use Vista so a lot of these simply would not work for you. Wrong. One of the great features that GOG.com offers is guaranteed compatibility with
both Windows XP and Vista operating systems. Theyve done all the work for you to insure a seamless experience with any game they have available. And
best of all, every game on the site will be DRM free. Thats right. No copy protection or security measures that would hinder your ability to install
games on multiple computers or burn them to a disc. Once youve purchased a game, its yours to do with as you please.
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04.09.2008New Zune HD games released
Last week Microsoft rolled out a v4.3 firmware update for the Zune HD which amongst other improvements added support for 3D games. Today Microsoft has
released 6 new games for the Zune HD according to HelloFromEurope. Amongst the games is the highly anticipated PGR: ferrari edition and 3D bowling
and 3D skate games.
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11.11.2009Vista Breaking Online Games, Says Developer
Even with the operating system
released to the public,
Microsoft cannot seem to catch
a break with Windows Vista.
The latest complaints come
from game developers, who say
the OS' parental controls are
so strict they're disrupting
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31.01.2007"Shadowrun" and "Halo 2" Mark the Launch of Games for Windows “ LIVE
This is a busy month
for Games for Windows “ LIVE!
On May 29, the release of
śShadowrunť connected Windows
Vista gamers with Xbox 360
players in cross-platform
matches through a single
service. Whether in
cooperation or competition, PC
and Xbox 360 gamers can battle
up to 16 players in the
intense first-person shooter
as they vie for supremacy in
an experience that rewards
cleverness, cunning and
split-second improvisation
through a unique combination
of modern weapons, ancient
magic and advanced technology.
This marks the first
of many games to come which
will support the Games for
Windows “ LIVE service,
connecting six million Xbox
LIVE members and hundreds of
millions Windows gamers. Games
for Windows “ LIVE brings the
best of the Xbox LIVE service
to Windows gamers, such as a
single online identity, the
ability to easily find and
connect with friends, and earn
achievements.
Today,
May 31st, Microsoft is
launching śHalo 2ť for Windows
Vista, delivering improved
graphics, a custom map editor
and the chance to earn
achievements “ a first for the
Halo franchise. Using a
combination of dedicated
servers, flexibility of the
Windows platform, and the
online innovation established
in the Xbox® original, śHalo
2ť for Windows Vista provides
a best-in-class PC-to-PC
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01.06.2007Over half of adults play video games
According to a survey released on Sunday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, over half of American adults play video games of some kind. The
survey shows that age is the biggest factor, with young adults most likely to play video games and that as adults get older, game play decreases. Of
adults over the age of 65 who play video games, nearly a third play video games every day. In comparison, the survey found that only 20% of young
adults play video games every day. A persons age is also a factor in whether they play on a computer, games console or other device, such as a mobile
phone.
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08.12.2008New cool feature enabled in Vista SP1: Hotpatching
Windows Vista SP1 enables support for hotpatching, a reboot-reduction servicing technology designed to maximize uptime. It works by allowing Windows
components to be updated (or "patched") while they are still in use by a running process. Hotpatch-enabled update packages are installed via the
same methods as traditional update packages, and will not trigger a system reboot.
Other changes:
- Improves patch deployment
by retrying failed updates in cases where multiple updates are pending and the failure of one update causes other updates to fail as well.
- Enables reliable OS installation by optimizing OS installers so that they are run only when required during patch installation. Fewer
installers operating results in fewer points of potential failure during installation, which leads to more robust and reliable
installation.
- Improves overall install time for updates by optimizing the query for installed OS updates.
- Improves robustness during
the patch installation by being resilient to transient errors such as sharing violations or access violations.
- Improves robustness of
transient failures during the disk cleanup of old OS files after install.
- Improves the uninstallation experience for OS updates by improving
the uninstallation routines in custom OS installation code.
- Improves reliability of OS updates by making them more resilient to unexpected
interruptions, such as power failure
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11.12.2007Neowin at Digital Life 2007: Microsoft's Booth
Microsoft took a three pronged approach to their booth this year. They decided to focus on Vista (again), Games for Windows, and Windows Mobile.
Surprisingly, the Xbox 360 and Halo 3 were not highlighted in the least bit.
It actually surprised me to see Microsoft pushing Vista so
hard, still. Compared to last year, before Vista was released, this year's Vista display was even larger and more in your face. There were more
kiosks, sofas, and lots of Vista logos on anything that could bare one. We know about Vista, though, so let's move on.
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01.10.2007Business software vendors impressed with Chrome's faster JavaScript
SaaS providers NetSuite and NETTime Solutions are already claiming that their applications operate more quickly with Google's Chrome than with any
other browser. Will larger applications vendors start optimizing for Chrome soon, too?..
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08.09.2008Microsofts "Games for Windows" Takes Center Stage at E3 2007
Q&A: Kevin Unangst, global
director of Games for Windows,
discusses Microsofts lineup of
nearly 30 new titles, the
Games for Windows - LIVE
online service, and what the
initiative means for consumers
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11.07.2007Windows Vista Live Event- 5th & 6th
IT Pro Buzz: We have organized a 2 day live meeting session on optimizing & deploying windows Vista. We have had a great response to this event so
far. I do hope that Sys admins & IT support folks find it useful as well. More on this at
http://www.vistalive.timeus.net/
As we plan for FY'09 (Microsoft's financial year starts in July), we are
very keen to do more of these online engagements. There are a few areas that we need to fix, specifically with the audio & user experience. We are
working on that. Should you have any suggestions on improvements, please feel free to leave a comment.
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05.06.2008Hyper-V and slow guest OS installation
Ben Armstrong: I have seen a number of reviews and comments about the fact that while Hyper-V virtual machines appear to be quite fast once they are
up and running - operating system installation seems to take quite a while. The reason for this is relatively easy to explain.
With Virtual Server and Virtual PC we only had emulated devices to use - and as a result we spent a lot of time optimizing and tweaking the
performance of these emulated devices. When we implemented the emulated devices under Hyper-V we had to remove many of these optimizations due to the
entirely different architecture of Hyper-V. We did not, however, spend much time re-optimizing the emulated devices on Hyper-V because we had the new
synthetic device architecture where we have focused our attention for performance tuning.
This means that Hyper-V emulated
devices are slower than Virtual Server / Virtual PC emulated devices - but Hyper-V synthetic devices are much faster than Virtual Server / Virtual PC
emulated devices.
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27.02.2008Amazon launches games site beta with three free downloads
Less than four months after buying games distribution and development specialist Reflexive Entertainment, Amazon rolled into beta with its own casual
games download site on Tuesday, celebrating the occasion with a one-week trial offer...
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04.02.2009Study: Violent Video Games Affect the Brain
A study released Tuesday
indicates that violent video
games cause noticeably
different effects on the
brains of teenagers then
non-violent ones. The findings
are sure to renew the debate
over the safety of such games...
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