Restore/enable the Internent Explorer Icon on Vista Desktop
Restore, Enable and Display the Missing Internet Explorer (IE or IE7) Icon on Windows Vista Desktop.
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12.2.2007 How to Pin Show Desktop Option to Windows 7 Taskbar
Windows 7 has got revamped taskbar also known as superbar. Windows 7 taskbar has number of excellent features like Jumplist, Thumbnail preview, Aero peak, etc.
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7.10.2009 New IE 7 Icon and Logo
Hopefully, by now you?ve seen from our posts that there are a lot of new features and work going into IE 7. As part of this update, we?re refreshing our icon and logotype. We considered more radical departures from our current logo, but blue ?e? with the ring is very recognizable and familiar to users, so we elected instead to make more subtle changes.
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How-To: Remove the Windows BSOD icon in Leopard, make OS X a little less smug
It's pretty clear that Apple left no stone unturned in Leopard, making changes and fixes throughout the new operating system.
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31.10.2007 Vista won't show fancy side to pirates
Windows Vista plans to offer you spiffy new graphics, as long as you're not a pirate.
With the new operating system, Microsoft is offering plenty of new graphics tricks, including translucent windows, animated flips between open programs and "live icons" that show a graphical representation of the file in question.
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17.4.2006 Windows Vista: Betas show potential and problems
Windows Vista shows a lot of promise. With beta 2 of Microsoft's much anticipated operating system nearly ready to be released to the public, users will soon have the ability to judge for themselves how Microsoft's next generation operating system is coming along.
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19.5.2006 Vista Launch: Bill Gates on Daily Show
Thanks to Steve Sinchak of Tweak Vista who uploaded these 2 videos of Bill Gates appearing on the Daily Show to talk with Jon Stewart about the launch of Windows Vista.
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30.1.2007 Microsoft Windows Vista won't show fancy side to pirates
Windows Vista plans to offer you spiffy new graphics, as long as you're not a pirate.
With the new operating system, Microsoft is offering plenty of new graphics tricks, including translucent windows, animated flips between open programs and "live icons" that show a graphical representation of the file in question.
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13.4.2006 Microsoft dismissed enthusiasts in Vista marketing, company e-mails show
Spelling out which features of Windows Vista would work on a given PC might be useful to early adopters, but it would only "confuse the masses," a high-level Microsoft Corp. manager argued more then a year before the operating system shipped, according to internal company e-mails.
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3.3.2008 AeroBar: Show Titlebar Text in Explorer Windows Under Windows Vista
Have you ever wondered why Explorer Windows don't show titles in Windows Vista?
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13.2.2009 Microsoft Does a Windows Live Show-and-Tell
VSLive this week wasn't only about team-development tools. The Softies also provided demonstrations of how they expect developers to piece together Windows-Live-style services, going forward. Microsoft showed off new mashups made from Windows Live beta components. And execs committed to making Microsoft's Live.com aggregator "the front door to Search in the coming months."
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4.2.2006 Yahoo to Microsoft: Show us the money
The Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today sent the following letter to Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation.
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7.4.2008 The Windows 7 Road Show Continues
The Windows 7 road show debuted at the end of October, with the start of the Professional Developers Conference 2008 in Los Angeles.
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25.11.2008 Ballmer To Show Off Microsoft CRM Live
Microsoft CRM Live is slated to make its public debut on Wednesday at the company's Convergence 2007 conference in San Diego.
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14.3.2007 Intel to show 8-core Xeon on February
Intel will give its first public look at an 8-core Xeon processor in less than two weeks at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the show's schedule (PDF) reveals.
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29.1.2009 Gorbachev to Gates: Show software 'pirate' mercy
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday asked Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to intercede on behalf of a Russian teacher accused of using pirated software in his classroom.
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5.2.2007 Windows Vista 3D Desktop
Microsoft indicated early that Vista will feature a three-dimensional interface with transparency, moving objects, anti-aliasing and other effects. Thanks to portos for this download.
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10.7.2007 Vista Desktop Search Annoyance
I thought people might find this fix interesting because it annoyed the hell out of me when I first started using Vista. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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5.9.2007 Microsoft Researchers Show How Advertisers Are Funding Search Spam
In a paper entitled Spam-Double Funnel: Connecting Web Spammers with Advertisers , researchers at Microsoft and the University of California Davis show the path whereby the ads of legitimate web site owners come be shown on spam pages.
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21.3.2007 Gates to show off multitouch wall device at CEO Summit
Gates will demo TouchWall, which could be used by business people to give presentations, and talk about his ideas for the future of user interface technology.
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14.5.2008 Microsoft's own speed tests show IE beating Chrome, Firefox
Microsoft has released its own tests that show IE8 can load many websites faster than two open source browsers: Firefox and Chrome.
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12.3.2009 Turn on Remote Desktop in Windows Vista
Remote Desktop is disabled by default in Windows Vista, but its easy enough to turn it back on. If you need to access your Vista PC from another box, its an essential thing to turn on.
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26.1.2007 Vista Sidebar showcases desktop-Web integration
Long Zheng has published some fantastic Windows Vista screencasts, which display the power of the Vista OS - released as a developer beta last week. The screencast that I was most interested in was the Sidebar. Similar in appearance and functionality to the Dashboard feature of Mac OS X Tiger, the Vista Sidebar allows users to manage their gadgets (Microsoft's term for widgets) and other content such as RSS feeds.
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14.6.2006 Disable Windows Vista Evaluation Watermark from Desktop
If an user install Windows Vista in trial or demo or evaluation mode, by skipping and not keying in any Windows product registration key when asked during installation of Windows Vista.
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24.11.2006 Windows Vista Desktop Optimization Pack Updated
Microsoft has announced that it wrapped up its Desktop Optimization Pack for Windows Vista and that an updated and complete version of the offering will be made available for download on July 1 2007.
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5.6.2007 Microsoft agrees to change Vista desktop search
Microsoft agreed Tuesday to make changes to the desktop search feature in Windows Vista in an effort to assuage Google and head off a further antitrust battle with U.S. regulators.
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20.6.2007 Windows Vista SP1 RTM Optimized Desktop
With the advent of Windows Vista at the end of 2006/the beginning of 2007, Microsoft has started pouring a consistent amount of efforts into enabling optimized desktops.
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30.4.2008 Windows Vista SP1 at the Basis of the Optimized Desktop
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is at the basis of Microsoft's vision for the Optimized Desktop. Of course that the Redmond company is building a comprehensive strategy that involves additional resources and solutions on top of its Windows client.
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4.9.2008 Vista RTM Evaluation Copy Desktop Watermark Patch
Hi there people, here's a little guide on how to get rid of that stupid "evaluation copy" watermark in the bottom right corner of your Windows Vista RTM. Some may not see it yet, but believe me it will show up after a few reboots.
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14.11.2006 Microsoft: Take Advantage of the Vista SP1 Desktop Optimization Pack
The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack is designed to help customers get the most out of their Windows Vista clients, according to Microsoft's official description of the solution.
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16.7.2008Free Vista Sunday, 3D desktop with Real Desktop Light
Jonathan Schlaffer: Vista has been an all-around disappointment and even those with SP1 have reason to complain. Those with problems are probably
more outspoken than those that dont but the issues keep piling up and Microsoft does little about them. This program may brighten up your Vista
experience a tiny bit.
Real Desktop comes it two
forms, Real Desktop Standard and Real Desktop Light; major differences set the two apart. With Real Desktop Standard you get all the features and
with Light, not so much.
The light version gives you a basic, fully 3D desktop environment. You can stack icons, drag them
anywhere on the desk, flip them around, upside down and several other neat things. What you cant do is change the wallpaper or orientation of the
camera. The other thing thats annoying is the light version lacks the ability to reset the icon positions; as you can see below, its very easy to
mess them up.
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02.03.2008Windows 7 tip: Recycle Bin on your Windows 7 Taskbar
I'm not exactly sure when it became cool to abandon the use of your operating system's desktop, but a growing number of people these days
prefer the "clean" look. Recent releases of Microsoft Windows seem to encourage this. By default, Windows Vista and 7 strip the desktop of all icons
but the Recycle Bin. Try as you may, ignoring this lone icon is impossible. Sure, you can hide it in just a few seconds, but at the cost of losing
quick access to deleted files. You could also drag the Recycle Bin icon to the taskbar, but then it will appear pinned under Windows Explorer --
requiring an extra click to open and offering half the functionality.
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15.09.2009Beautiful Windows Vista icons a double-edged sword
I admit it. I'm an iconphile. Back in the Windows 3.0 days, I used to go and change all my Windows icons by hand. I thought this was pretty
impressive. Admittedly, it didn't help me pick up women for some reason.
Since then, icons have come a very long way. A VERY long way.
With Windows Vista, the end-user icon experience out of the box is beautiful. But from an icon creator's point of view, the lack of backward
compatibility and effort to support has gone up tremendously. As a result, we've seen a lot fewer custom icons made for Windows Vista than one might
have expected.
Microsoft made three decisions with Windows Vista that will forever affect the way we look at icon making on Windows.
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24.08.2007Are Vista icons facing the wrong way ?
No doubt you’ve all seen the “Computer” icon in Windows Vista. Some of you might have even clicked on it and few of you probably
have a shortcut on your desktop. But has it ever occurred to you it’s facing the wrong direction, away from you? At least one guy did, and this
is just one of the minor details under scrutiny at the Windows UX Taskforce that is particularly fascinating.
The problem is, by default,
Windows displays icons from left to right. Assuming the user sits in the middle of the monitor, the icons should in fact face right towards you and
not the edge of the monitor. The only icon in Vista off the top of my head which does this correctly are the “folders” icon which open up
towards the right. This actually conflicts with the official user experience guidelines suggesting the perspective of icons face left.
If
this isn’t weird enough, the Windows XP’s icons and even conceptual Vista icons designed by Iconfactory faced the right (pun) way. For
some unknown reason, Microsoft designers decided to flip them. Mac OSX icons face directly at you - probably the best solution.
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23.06.2008Google Upgrades its Desktop to
2.0
Microsoft may be afraid to
show its sidebar, but Google
apparently has no such qualms.
The company on Thursday rolled
out the final version of
Google Desktop 2.0, its
venerable search utility that
has morphed into a
full-fledged desktop
application with scriptable
plug-ins...
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04.11.2005Neowin Review: Fence your desktop with Stardock Fences
Windows Desktop - A place where every installed application likes to place a shortcut and also a place to hold all your shortcuts and favorites.
Things can become very messy when you have lots of desktop icons, like mine below: Well, there's not that many on my desktop, but I still place
them in categories. Microsoft Office Apps all reside together and Windows Live Apps reside together. Each time I bring a new shortcut to my desktop,
Windows places them in a separate order which it thinks to be right and then I move that shortcut icon to its appropriate group.
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05.02.2009Desktop OS, Hold the Vista
Exclusive eWEEK research indicates that Microsoft's desktop Windows operating system is a rousing success.
Vista?
No, XP.
In a survey conducted by Ziff Davis Enterprise Editorial Research for eWEEK of enterprise IT professionals, just
2 percent of respondents said that Vista was the primary desktop operating system at their companies, while 92 percent indicated that XP was their
primary desktop OS.
The majority of respondents also indicated that the move to Vista will not be driven by any improvements the
new OS offers, but rather by new hardware.
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14.03.2008Novell Shows Off New Linux
Desktop
Novell unveiled at the CeBIT
Electronics Show in Germany
Thursday its next-generation
operating system, called SUSE
Linux Enterprise Desktop. The
release is the successor to
Novell Desktop Linux, and the
company has hopes it will lead
to more widespread adoption of
the platform...
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09.03.2006IE7 to Use Firefox's RSS Feed
Icon
Since the announcement that
Internet Explorer 7 would add
built-in support for RSS news
feeds there has been much
discussion over two key
points: what to call them and
what icon to use. Microsoft
developers shared conceptual
designs in October, but have
now settled on a preexisting
icon -- Firefox's...
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15.12.2005GUI Champs '08: Best Usable Icon Packs
In this years GUI Championships, Icon Packages seems to have ruled the day. Over 80 icon packages made it into the competition, and the workmanship
and creativity of each was outstanding. The GUI Champs is winding down this week, and the Most Usable winners in the Icon Pack category have been
announced. Most Usable Icon Package Winners: 1st place - Plastic Fantastic by Tiggz 2nd place - Non-mainstream 2008 by iconboy 3rd place - Junior by
Treetog Congratulations to all the winners, and these, and the other GUIC icon packs can be download for free at www.guichamps.com.
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18.12.2008Windows 7 to add slideshow wallpapers and more!
Don't worry Windows 95 Plus! enthusiasts, Microsoft hasn't forgotten about you and your themes. A recently updated MSDN Library document shows that
Microsoft hasn't just brushed themes under the carpet, but instead dusted it off, added some new polish and is even putting it under the spotlight.
The document "
Creating and Installing Theme
Files" (now edited) has been updated with several "additions to the .theme file format were made for Windows 7". They include: (Click Read
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10.08.2008The Diskless PC and Vista Enterprise Centralised Desktop
James Senior: What's the beef here then? Well in a nutshell Diskless PCs and Vista Enterprise Centralised Desktop open up new methods for IT
departments to roll out and manage their desktop estate. These new methods introduce different benefits so allow me to describe the different
technologies...
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13.02.2008Beta of Palm Desktop for Vista Now Available
Palm has posted on its web
site a
public
beta of an upcoming
version of the Palm Desktop
that supports Windows Vista.
This version of
Palm's software for
synchronizing its Palm
OS-based devices with a
desktop or laptop is the first
to earn Microsoft's "Works
with Windows Vista"
designation, but it has done
so by removing some features
that were in previous
versions.
Specifically, it does not
include Quick Install,
software that allows users to
easily move files and
applications onto the handheld
or smartphone. The Palm
Desktop still allows users to
install Palm OS applications
and databases ( .prc and .pdb
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25.07.2007Internal e-mails show concern over 'Vista capable' program
As the looming court battle over the "Windows Vista capable" program draws nearer, a federal judge unsealed internal e-mails which show that
Microsoft may have been aware of potential problems long before the suit was filed...
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29.02.2008Microsoft integrates Windows
Live into Vista
Microsoft-Watch reports that
newer Windows Vista builds,
5506 and up, include
references to Windows Live
software by default in various
locations throughout the OS.
It is unknown yet if the
concerned products are
installed with Vista or if it
only contains download links
to it.
The
Welcome Center in Vista is the
place where most references
are found. In build 5506, it
contains icons for Windows
Live Messenger, Windows Live
OneCare, Windows Live Toolbar
and Windows Live Desktop Mail.
Additionnally, the Start Menu
apparently contains a Windows
Live Messenger icon.
Though this is only
speculation, this may mean
that Microsoft is finally
removing Windows Messenger
from its Windows products,
using instead Windows Live
Messenger.
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17.08.2006Windows Vista Build 5219
Ultimate Edition - Quick
Review
The
Facts:
Build
String:
5219.winmain_idx02.050830-2010
ISO Size:
2.73 GB (2,937,989,120
bytes)
On Tuesday
at PDC (Professional
Developers Conference)
Microsoft proudly unveiled the
latest incarnation of its new
flagship desktop operating
system. Windows Vista build
5219 is to date the most
complete and stunning look at
this new next-generation OS
we've seen yet.
It
seems that with every major
release so far of Vista we've
had a bit of controversy. This
time it was leaked screenshots
that were from another build
date of 5219. Those shots show
quite a number of things that
you won't see with this build
(or they're just disabled by
default). It will come as a
disappointment to many of you
who were looking forward to
all of those features. Fear
not though, there are many
many changes in this PDC build
that will keep you poking
around for quite some
time.
I've had the
opportunity to play with this
build some and can report a
few changes before we get
started taking a look at
it.
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Story[/b]:
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15.09.2005Microsoft outlines Vista desktop search changes
Microsoft on Wednesday outlined the changes it plans to make to the desktop search feature in Windows Vista to satisfy antitrust concerns.
The software maker agreed in June to make the alterations to the way desktop search operates in response to concerns from rivals,
particularly Google.
The changes are coming with the first service pack to Windows Vista. Microsoft is launching a beta version
of the update in the next couple of weeks, with a final version expected early next year.
The search changes mean that, "in
addition to the numerous ways a user could access a third-party search solution in Windows Vista, they can now get to their preferred search results
from additional entry points in the Start Menu and Explorer Windows in Windows Vista with SP1," a Microsoft representative said in an e-mail to CNET
News.com.
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12.09.2007Google Moves Vista Desktop Search Complaint to New Venue
In what could be the
company's only option for
prolonging its complaint about
Microsoft's deployment of its
Windows Desktop Search
component in Windows Vista,
Google - which many believed
had actually won a concession
from Microsoft last week - has
filed an amicus brief with the
US district court overseeing
Microsoft's compliance in its
antitrust settlement with the
US Justice Dept...
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26.06.2007Free Vista for CES exhibitors
Exhibitors may not want to use
Vista, as the applications
they are showing off in their
booth may not be compatible
with the new OS.
Microsoft is apparently
looking to get some free
advertising for Windows Vista
before the OS's official
consumer release on Jan. 30.
The company is offering
exhibitors at the annual
Consumer Electronics Show
(CES) free copies of Vista to
run on computers they are
using in their booths at the
show.
There will
be 2,700 exhibitors and
140,000 attendees at the CES
show this year, according to
the CES Web site. The show,
which is the technology
industry's largest conference
in the U.S., runs from Jan. 8
to 11 in Las Vegas.
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22.12.2006Microsoft Windows Vista: Clear
The Windows Vista visual
experience improves clarity,
productivity, and focus. For
example, instead of static,
generic icons for files, in
Windows Vista file icons are
live—each file icon
shows you the actual content
of that file, making it easier
for you to locate the
information that you want.
Windows Vista also introduces
a new way to organize your
information, so that you can
store, manage, find, and
organize the data that you
work with every day however
you want to. You'll make the
most of your time—and
have more time for new ideas,
to solve problems, to be
artistic, or just to relax and
be entertained...
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