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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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - let’s see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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11.10.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008 New Vista AutoPatcher - Vista update toolkit Alpha
Vista Update Toolkit Alpha (Windows Vista Updates Downloader) is a FREE program which downloads updates directly from Microsoft. All files are very useful with vLite!
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26.9.2008 Vista SP1 – Microsoft Could Not Have Given Less – Vista SP2 Anyone?
Microsoft had the chance to position the first service pack for Windows Vista as a panacea for the operating system, giving the platform nothing less than a fresh start and another take at the Wow.
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3.10.2007 Vista SP1 Rolling Over for Vista SP2
Vista SP1 did not do the trick for your RTM copy of the operating system? While such a scenario is highly unlikely, Microsoft is getting closer and closer to taking Windows Vista to the next level, again.
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7.12.2008 Vista SP1: Indictment of Vista 1.0?
Microsoft’s announcement that it is preparing a Vista Service Pack 1 beta in two weeks is curious on many levels. Although Microsoft delivers improvements via service packs I can’t help but consider Vista SP1 a do-over.
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30.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP2
We are all well aware of the limping start of Vista on the OS market. Despite the fact that its launch had been highly anticipated for a good while, contrary to all Microsoft expectations, Vista was received with great reluctance and unwillingness on the part of XP fans.
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13.12.2008 Microsoft: Vista! Vista! Vista!
Microsoft has a single generalized answer to all life's problems, but especially end user protection, and that answer is of course Windows Vista.
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14.8.2007 Windows XP SP3 Twice as Fast as Windows Vista – Leaves Vista SP1 in the Dust
Forget about Windows Vista. And forget about Windows Vista SP1. Microsoft's latest Windows client has been quite sluggish to begin with. This in both consumer adoption and in terms of the performance it delivers.
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27.11.2007 Windows Vista Wow! Forget about Vista SP1, XP SP3 and Windows 7!
That's it, forget about Windows XP Service Pack 3, about Windows 7, the next iteration of Windows and even about Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
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1.2.2008 PC buyers: 'Vista Capable' machines weren't Vista capable
How misleading was Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" campaign? Misleading enough for a judge to approve a federal trial.
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9.8.2007 Yes, You Can Turn 32-bit Vista into 64-bit Vista
Yes, you can turn the 32-bit SKUs of Windows Vista into the 64-bit editions of the operating system. But it will cost you...
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29.1.2008 Making 64-bit Vista SP1 Say It's Vista SP1
Making a 64-bit copy of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 confirm that it is actually Vista SP1 might require a minimum amount of effort on behalf of the end user, such as right-clicking My Computer and selecting Properties, but things are a tad different when an application is programmed to identify the operating system versions or the service pack releases.
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25.8.2008Microsoft: Trojans like USA, worms prefer Brazil!
Following the public release of Microsoft Security Essentials a few weeks ago, Microsoft has combed its data and released an interesting set of
results showing how different infections apply across the 19 countries in which the software is available. This is how the breakdown of threats fell
across those countries:- According to the data, trojans come up as the number one detection in the USA, worms affect Brazilians the most, and China
is mainly affected by potentially unwanted software threats. Breaking the results down into particular threat families, the Wimad trojans and
FakeXPA trojan are the top culprits when it comes to infection in the USA.
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17.10.2009Backdoor Trojans are Biggest Windows Threat
Zombies continue to be the
biggest threat to Windows
security, Microsoft said
Monday. During the six months
from January to June 2006,
over 43,000 new variants of
so-called "backdoor
Trojans" were discovered...
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25.10.2006Trojans Get Agile with Web 2.0 Tricks
Security researchers have spotted Trojans that are using RSS feeds to communicate instead of their traditional method of "phoning home" to get
marching orders from command-and-control centers that security researchers have learned to track down and blacklist.
Yuval
Ben-Itzhak, chief technology officer for
Finjan, told eWEEK that the security firm recently
detected three separate Trojans using blogs of limited popularity to receive orders from botnet herders or to feed stolen information back to identity
thieves.
The lure of using legitimate sites such as blogs or social networking sites is that attackers can hide behind the
legitimacy of Web 2.0 brands such as Google or Yahoo, Ben-Itzhak said.
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11.12.2007Microsoft Security Report: Trojan Horses Increase 300%
If your system gets hacked, chances are it will be from a Trojan. A Microsoft Security Intelligence report tabulated a 300 percent increase in the
number of Trojan downloaders and droppers the last half of 2007 -- a trend which security experts say will continue to exponentially grow. Consistent
with malware trends, the biggest security threats are moving to the Web and consequently experts say that they expect to see the number of Trojans
rise exponentially. The reason? Trojans are by far the most "financially interesting" malware, experts say.
"It's the path of least
resistance," said Doug Camplejohn, CEO and cofounder of security company Mi5. "For most enterprises, it's where they're least protected."
These Trojans allow attackers to install a small downloader onto unsuspecting users machines, usually without their consent, in order to record
passwords, credit card, bank account numbers and other personal identifying information.
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24.04.2008NYT: HP Press Spying Included
Tracking
In an investigation supervised
little by Hewlett-Packard,
investigators may have
physically followed directors
and journalists, as well as
attempted to place Trojans on
reporters' computers to track
communications...
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19.09.2006Windows (including Vista and XP) process and DLL library
On your computer, tens of invisible (hidden) processes run silently in the background. Some consumes system resources, radically slowing your PC.
Other useless processes contains spyware and Trojans - at least violating your privacy. This process and DLL library is a free grat resource for
anyone who wants to know the exact purpose of every process and DLL running on the computer.
The very complete listing of Windows
processes and DLLs commonly found on Windows systems, their ratings, descriptions and purpose.
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10.09.2007Symantec: Windows Update Downloader Can Spread Malware
Researchers at Symantec have
published a report
highlighting how the
Background Intelligent
Transfer Service (BITS) -- a
main component of Windows
Update -- is being used by
Trojans to download malware
that bypasses firewalls and
security controls...
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15.05.2007Trend Micro Extends Microsoft
Deal
Tokyo-based Trend Micro on
Monday extended its 2004
agreement with Microsoft to
provide antivirus capabilities
to 230 million Hotmail
accounts. The company will
scan and clean incoming and
outgoing e-mail attachments
for viruses, Trojans, worms,
and other malicious threats...
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10.04.2006Symantec: Out of the Box, Vista Prone to Legacy Threats
Symantec Security Response has
spent months throwing every
hack but the kitchen sink at
Microsoft's Vista operating
system, and on Feb. 28 it
released a series of papers
that showed just how bloodied
or victorious Vista remained.
The result: "There are
existing codes that can
survive Vista without being
modified-
keyloggers, worms, Trojans,
and spyware are able to
survive," said Symantec
Research Scientist Ollie
Whitehouse in an interview
with eWEEK.
The
current threat level of the
Vista security-resistant
malware is "relatively low,"
Whitehouse said, but he said
that out of box, Vista already
has several legacy threats.
"It won't take much for
to evolve," he said.
This is in spite of
Microsoft's years of work and
investments in new security
technologies, which Symantec
predicted will result in
"fewer instances of
widespread worms that target
core Windows operating system
vulnerabilities," researchers
wrote in one report,
"Microsoft Windows Vista and
Security."
neowin.net - 01.03.2007
Microsoft Rushes Patch for VML
Exploit
A group of software engineers
with ZERT has issued what it
characterizes as an interim
patch for the VML exploit,
possibly closing the door to a
new series of Trojans. In so
doing, a new group resurrects
some old questions about
whether third parties should
be trusted to patch Microsoft
products...
betanews.com - 23.09.2006
WGA Update Goes Phishing
The message uses a little Windows Genuine Advantage fear mongering to cajole end users to download a fake update that realy is a backdoor Trojan. The
message warns: "Please update your P.C. in maximum 12 hours otherwise your Windows will be Expired." Windows is going to expire alright, after it
has been eaten by RATs, as in remote-access Trojans.
Microsoft doesn't solicit updates via e-mail. But how many people won't know
this? Now that my teenage daughter is doing MySpace, I've reduced her Vista privileges. She gripes about my having to enter in administrator
passwords, but malware-spiked MySpace pages and phishing e-mails like the aforementioned one have me concerned.
neowin.net - 22.01.2008
MS to omit anti-virus
protection from Vista
Microsoft will omit anti-virus
protection in Vista, the next
version of Windows, which it
plans to ship late this year.
As with previous versions of
Windows dating back to Windows
2000 at least, Redmond is
promoting Vista as a landmark
improvement in Windows
security.
Jim
Allchin, co-president of
Microsoft's platform products
and services division, told
reseller magazineCRN that
safety and security, improved
user experience, and mobility
features will be key additions
in Vista. But there will be no
anti-virus software, the
Windows development supremo
said during a questions and
answers session with CRN. For
unspecified business (not
technical) reasons, Microsoft
will sell anti-virus
protection to consumers
through its OneCare online
backup and security
service.
jcxp.net - 31.01.2006
Buy More Vista Licenses, Save 10%
Microsoft has launched the
appropriately named Windows
Vista Additional License
program, which will enable
customers to save a bit of
money if they want to install
Windows Vista on multiple
computers. Before, users had
to purchase a completely new
copy of Vista...
betanews.com - 28.03.2007
Poisoned MySpace page masquerades as Windows Update
Doom watchers at McAfee have discovered a booby-trapped MySpace page that foists malware on users by spoofing a Microsoft update down the center of
the profile.
The image (below) looks authentic enough to the drunk and uninformed. It is superimposed over the profile of a
MySpace user who goes by the name of Rita. Clicking on the pic, or anywhere near it, initiates a download window that, if accepted, unleashes a
malware cocktail that includes downloaders, Trojans and backdoors from multiple servers.
winbeta.org - 12.01.2008
Vote For The Best Windows Vista Website!
WinVistaClub, in association with 'Windows Vista - The Official Magazine', has organised a contest to recognise some of the Best Windows Vista
Blogs and Websites.
The following 10 websites have been being declared by the Judges, as the Top 10 Vista websites and have been put up
for a public vote.
MintyWhite Windows Guides
Vista Revisited
Windows Vista Update
Windows Vista For Beginners
Tweaking With Vishal
MaximumPCGuides
Windows Vista Forums
The Road To Know Where
Windows Vista Weblog
Vista & XP Media
Center Support Community
Click HERE to cast your vote for your
favourite Windows Vista Website, and in the process also get to know some other real good ones !
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neowin.net - 02.09.2008
Keylogging through the power cable
The BBC's Technology site has published an interesting story regarding computer security. However, what makes this piece of news a little
different is that it does not regard viruses, or trojans, yet instead an electrical footprint which remains on a circuit board every time a key is
typed. Security researchers have been investigating this phenomenon, and have discovered that poor shielding on some keyboard cables, can leak
potentially lucrative information regarding each typed character. This information is not logged via some program upon the computer being snooped,
instead the analysis is drawn to the information appearing onto power circuits, where it can be deciphered into readable material.
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neowin.net - 14.07.2009
AV-Test Deems Windows Security Essentials "Very Good"
Microsoft's new free security software, Windows Security Essentials, passed a preliminary antivirus exam with flying
colors, said independent and trusted firm AV-Test, which tested Essentials, launched yesterday in beta, on Windows XP,
Vista and Windows 7. It put it up against nearly 3,200 common viruses, bot Trojans and worms, said Andreas Marx, one of the firm's managers. The
malware was culled from the most recent WildList, a list of threats actually actively attacking computers. 'All files were properly detected and
treated by the product,' Marx said in an e-mail. 'That's good, as several other scanners are still not able to detect and kill all of
these critters yet.' It also tested well on false positives.
winbeta.org - 25.06.2009
Firefox 2.0 vs. IE7 in Vista: How Close?
Whatever Firefox 2.0 is, it
isn't "sweeping," and
nowhere does that fact become
more evident than in a Windows
Vista test environment. We
started up both IE7 and FF2 in
Vista, and were left
wondering, will Firefox users
be happy using their browser
in Vista without the
degree of changes they'd
experience with IE7?..
betanews.com - 26.10.2006
Update: "Vista Capable" trial
The ongoing "Vista Capable" class-action lawsuit against Microsoft took an interesting turn the other day when an expert witness for the plaintiffs
claimed that the Redmond company made more than $1.5 billion through their "Vista Capable" marketing campaign. The origins of the trial itself
are to be found in the months prior to Vista's release when many computers were sold with Windows XP and the promise that they would be capable of
running Vista. However, many of these PCs, which sold at a premium and bore the "Vista Capable" label, turned out to be only capable of running
Vista Basic. Hence, Microsoft is being sued for what many would call false advertising.
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neowin.net - 06.01.2009
Improved startup repair tool, media throttling among Vista SP1 changes
To reassure customers that it really has been addressing consumers' concerns about Vista, Microsoft has made its change log to Windows Vista SP1
publicly available early...
betanews.com - 11.12.2007
