Vista Codec Package 4.2.2
With Vista Codec Package installed, you won't need to install any other codec or filter. Many user suggested default settings are implemented.
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17.1.2007 Vista Codec Package 4.6.6
With Vista Codec Package installed, you won't need to install any other codec or filter. Many user suggested default settings are implemented. It does not contain a media player.
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21.5.2008 Vista Codec Package 4.7.0
Codecs have been a problem for most users at one time or another. This is because there has never been an 'out of the box' working solution that the average computer user could install and just have everything work properly from the beginning.
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6.7.2008 Vista Codec Package 4.7.3
With Vista Codec Package installed, you won't need to install any other codec or filter.
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18.8.2008 Vista Codec Package 5.0.1
With Vista Codec Package installed, you won't need to install any other codec or filter. Many user suggested default settings are implemented.
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11.11.2008 Advanced Vista Codec Package 4.1.9
With Advanced Vista Codec Package installed, you shouldn't need to install any other codec or filter.
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25.11.2006 Windows Desktop Search 3.01
Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.01 is a minor update to Windows Desktop Search 3.0 that adds: support for indexing UNC files, additional support for enterprise deployment, and stability improvements.
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20.2.2007 Hackman Suite Pro v9.01
Thanks to odeeee for this download. Hackman Suite is a multi-module all purpose debugging tool. It includes a hex editor, a disassembler, a template editor, a hex calculator and other everyday useful tools to assist programmers and code testers with the most common tasks.
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14.6.2007 Codec Pack for Windows XP & Vista
Thanks to marct for the great idea, to have all Codec Pack for XP & Vista on one place.
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1.4.2007 How can I extract the files from a Windows Vista Microsoft Update Standalone Package (MSU)
The new MSU format doesn't support the old /x type switches to extract the content. It also can't be run on a pre-Vista OS.
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3.4.2007 Microsoft VC-1 Codec Now a Standard
The VC-1 video codec proposed and developed by Microsoft was officially released by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers on Monday, paving the way for the technology to be used by next-generation DVDs. Microsoft submitted the Windows Media Video 9-based codec for standardization in September 2003.
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4.4.2006 Microsoft's antivirus package makes a splash
Helped by low pricing, Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare landed the No. 2 spot in sales at American stores in its debut month, according to The NPD Group.
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13.8.2006 Microsoft awards CEO Ballmer pay package valued at $1.3 million
Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer received a pay package valued about $1.3 million for fiscal 2007, a year in which profit at the world's largest software maker topped $14 billion, according to documents filed Friday.
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23.9.2007 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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21.8.2007Microsoft VC-1 Codec Now a
Standard
The VC-1 video codec proposed
and developed by Microsoft was
officially released by the
Society of Motion Picture and
Television Engineers on
Monday, paving the way for the
technology to be used by
next-generation DVDs.
Microsoft submitted the
Windows Media Video 9-based
codec for standardization in
September 2003...
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04.04.2006The DivX codec makes a play for set-top boxes
The little codec that could, DivX, announced a series of partnerships today that will use the protocol in set-top boxes for Internet Protocol
Television (IPTV)...
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08.01.2008Access 2003 SP3 hotfix rollup now available
This article describes the Microsoft Office Access 2003 issues that are fixed in the Access 2003 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package that is dated
December 18, 2007.
This article describes the following items about the hotfix package:
˘ The issues that the hotfix package fixes.
˘ The
prerequisites for installing the hotfix package.
˘ Whether you must restart the computer after you install the hotfix package.
˘ Whether the
hotfix package is replaced by any other hotfix package.
˘ Whether you must make any registry changes.
˘ The files that the hotfix package
contains.
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28.12.2007MPEG-2 Patent Holder, Licensing Agent in High-Def Codec Dispute
The principal licensing agent for MPEG codec technology, MPEG LA, has sued Alcatel-Lucent in Delaware court. Its claim is that Alcatel didn't have
the right to absorb Lucent's IP portfolio - which included patents on MPEG-2 technology - into a new and separate trust, after Lucent had already
made a commitment to provide that technology through MPEG LA...
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07.11.2007.NET Framework 3.0 SP1 & 2.0 SP1 on Vista RTM?
Aaron Ruckman: I've received the following type of question a few times and would like to give the answer with some background:
Q. Where is the .NET Framework 3.0 SP1 & 2.0 SP1 for Vista RTM?
A. .NET Framework 3.0 & 2.0 released with Vista as OS Windows
Components, which means that they are serviced as any other windows Component. Therefore, the .NET Framework 3.0 & 2.0 Service packages will be
officially released as part of the Vista Service packages. When Vista SPX is shipped then .NET Framework 2.0 & 3.0 might also include updates in that
service package.
In this case the .NET Framework 3.0 & 2.0 have a service package that will be shipped with Vista
SP1. Vista SP1 RC is available now (
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/bb738089.aspx)
NOTE: The same logic stated for Vista and .NET Framework will also be true for Windows2008 & .NET Framework 2.0 & 3.0, only Windows
Server2008 will release with .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 & 3.0 SP1 in the OS.
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21.01.2008DivX 6.4
DivX is a package that
includes all the DivX codec,
player, utilities, and
documentation that you need to
play DivX files. DivX codec is
based on the MPEG-4
compression standard. This
codec can reduce an MPEG-2
video (DVD format) to ten
percent of its original size.
DivX is a digital video
compression technology based
on the ISO MPEG-4 standard.
New Features
Include:
- support
for 1080HD
encoding
- faster
multipass
encoding
- better
compression when using the
internal
resize
- adaptive noise
reduction
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04.10.2006Windows Vista SP1 RC Standalone Packages Available
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) RC should be used to update a PC running Windows Vista RTM to Windows Vista SP1. This standalone package will
install SP1 as well as any applicable pre-requisite packages.
The 5-Language standalone package supports installations on all
versions of Windows Vista with one or a combination of the following languages installed: English, German, Japanese, French, Spanish.
The All-Language standalone package supports installations on all versions of Windows Vista with one or a combination of the 36 Windows Vista
languages installed.
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12.12.2007SP2 for Vista, WS2K8 to enter beta Wednesday, will support Blu-ray
With Microsoft picking up the pace in both the development and marketing of Windows 7, it's also finding itself moving ahead with the next amendment
package for Vista not too long after the release of SP1...
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25.10.2008Skype unfurls a royalty-free SILK codec
Well-received wideband tech could turn up anywhere
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05.03.2009Testers get RC-Escrow build of SP2 for Vista and Server 2008
Microsoft has sent out an e-mail to testers announcing that the RC-Escrow build of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is
available for download. The company is letting testers grab it via Windows Update (available this Thursday in available languages of Vista and Server
2008), as a standalone installer package, or as a slipstreamed version in English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese. For those interested, the build
string is "6002.16659.090114-1728" and Microsoft claims the service pack includes 656 individual hotfixes.
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29.01.2009Sony Sweetens PSP Package Deal
Looking to continue the brisk
sales of its portable gaming
unit, Sony said Tuesday that
it would offer a new bundled
package which would include a
1GB memory stick, game, and
UMD movie for $249...
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12.09.2006Stimulus package contains broadband open access provisions
A legislative measure to fund broadband deployment in rural and underserved areas is one of the attachments to the hotly debated economic stimulus
package...
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29.01.2009DivX support, classic Xbox games coming in Fall Dashboard Update
On December 4. Microsoft will unleash the 2007 Fall Dashboard Update on the throngs of waiting Xbox 360 users. While the company has previously
announced many of the features of this new update, a new one has just slipped out: DivX and Xvid support.
In perhaps the biggest
news for tech-minded gamers, codec support for video files will be widened, with Joystiq reporting that this will include MPEG-4 Part 2 video codec
support. "What that basically means is that our users should find that most of their DivX and Xvid files will work because they're under that
umbrella of the MPEG-4 Part 2 codec," Microsoft's Aaron Greenburg
told the site. DivX
and Xvid support has long been a requested feature from people who would like to use their Xbox 360 as a media hub, making this very welcome news.
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30.11.2007ATI Driver Package Opens Vista to Flaw
In case you haven't seen it,
the ATI driver package can
potentially open your Vista
kernel up to a compromise. ATI
and MS are working to rectify
the issue.
In an interview, Ionescu
confirmed his tool was
exploiting a vulnerability in
an ATI driver - atidsmxx.sys,
version 3.0.502.0 - to patch
the kernel to turn off certain
checks for signed drivers.
This meant that a malicious
rootkit author could
essentially piggyback on
ATI's legitimately signed
driver to tamper with the
Vista kernel.
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13.08.2007Hackers Exploit Bhutto Assassination
Within hours of yesterday's assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, malware makers exploited the breaking news to dupe
users into downloading attack code, security researchers said Friday. Searches for news about Bhutto's killing and the ensuing chaos in Pakistan
listed sites pimping a bogus video coder/decoder (codec), said analysts at McAfee Inc., Symantec Corp. and WebSense Inc. For instance, WebSense found
such a site simply by using "benazir" to search on Google. Meanwhile, McAfee quickly located 10 sites hosted on Blogger.com, Google Inc.'s blog
service, that were spreading the fake codec.
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30.12.2007Mac Porn Surfers Subject to QT Flaw
Attackers are going after Macintosh computer users who are visiting pornographic web sites, claiming to offer a plug-in that installs a video codec
necessary to play the movie files within QuickTime...
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01.11.2007Enable Vistas two-way firewall with Vista Firewall Control
Microsoft ships Vista with a better firewall than previous versions of Vista but its configuration isnt so great right out of the box and unless you
want to set up rules manually, yourself, its just better to run a third party firewall. But that can pose entirely new problems.
It seems that many
third
party solutions dont play nice with Vista in one or more ways. Some can prevent Vista from retrieving updates, others can freeze the operating
system seemingly at random and others just plain dont work at all.
That leaves running the Vista firewall itself. Running the
firewall thats built in to the operating system is not something I usually recommend unless you have Mac OSX or Linux which arent very prone to any
kind of attack.
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13.01.2008The history and future of DivX
Davis Freeberg
over at
Zatz Not Funny provides some great analysis on the history and future strategy of DivX. On the company's historical success, Freeberg notes the
importance of creating an eco-system around the DivX codec, both in terms of becoming the preferred format for "grey" content on P2P networks, but
also the way in which the company reached out to consumer electronics manufacturers DVD players, media streamers, PMPs, and more recently
Sony’s PS3 through its DivX certification program. The result is that DivX has become
the consumer facing brand for MPEG4, despite
rival offerings from Apple and Microsoft, for example.
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10.05.2008Update: "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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06.01.2009Free Trojan Removal Tool for OS X Available Now
SecureMac has introduced a free Trojan Detection Tool for Mac OS X. The DNSChanger Removal Tool detects and removes spyware targeting Mac OS X. Called
DNSChanger Trojan and also known as OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse the software attacks users attempting to play a fake video file. Upon attempting to play
the video, the victim receives the following message: "Quicktime Player is unable to play movie file. Please click here to download new version of
codec."
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