Why PCs Should Get More Sleep
Energy and cost savings can really add up with Windows Vista’s innovative power management capabilities. A single incandescent 100-watt light bulb left on around the clock for a year costs more than US$80 to power.
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22.3.2007 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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21.8.2007 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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29.1.2008Vista flexes its power
Companies have long known the
benefits of making sure their
workers get a good night's
sleep--and they would be wise
to let their PCs do the same,
Microsoft says.
With Windows Vista,
Microsoft plans to put
machines to sleep after an
hour of inactivity. While
businesses and consumers can
change that setting, the
software maker said that they
would be smart to let their
computers nod off.
Microsoft estimates that
allowing a PC to go to sleep
during off hours, as compared
with leaving it on all the
time, saves anywhere from
็ a year to ๖
annually, depending on the
type of monitor.
The company has done work in
the upcoming Vista update to
make sure that the PC can rest
more easily. With Windows XP,
programs could veto a user's
request for the PC to go to
sleep. In some cases, that
meant that laptop owners
thought they had put a PC to
sleep, only to discover a few
hours later that the machine
had remained on and their
notebook's battery had been
drained.
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17.10.2006Windows Vista: The Facts
When choosing a new operating system, the first thing many people ask is, "What will it help me do?" In answer, much of this site shows you the
great experiences Windows Vista helps you have. The second thing many people say is, "Prove that it's better." In particular, many of you have
asked about performance and safety improvements. The following information provides specific proof that Windows Vista is faster and safer.
- The
majority of Windows Vista-based PCs boot in less than a minute, which can be an improvement over Windows XP boot times. And the new Windows Vista
sleep and resume features can bring your PC to life in a snapin fact, the vast majority of all Windows Vista-based PCs resume from sleep in less than
6 seconds.
- PCs running Windows Vista that are equipped with 512 MB memory experience a performance boost of up to 40 percent with Windows
ReadyBoost. Just plug a USB flash drive into your computer, and Windows Vista will automatically start using it to speed up memory access to important
data.
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20.01.2008Mobiles linked to disturbed sleep
Using a mobile phone before going to bed could stop you getting a decent night's sleep, research suggests. The study, funded by mobile phone
companies, suggests radiation from the handset can cause insomnia, headaches and confusion. It may also cut our amount of deep sleep - interfering
with the body's ability to refresh itself. The study was carried out by Sweden's Karolinska Institute and Wayne State University in the US.
Funded by the Mobile Manufacturers Forum, the scientists studied 35 men and 36 women aged between 18 and 45. Some were exposed to radiation equivalent
to that received when using a mobile phone, others were placed in the same conditions, but given only "sham" exposure. Those exposed to radiation
took longer to enter the first of the deeper stages of sleep, and spent less time in the deepest one.
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21.01.2008Electronics lead to "junk sleep" in teenagers
The ubiquitous presence of electronics and gadgets in the home is affecting kids' ability to get a good night's sleep, according to a new survey by
The Sleep Council. The UK-based sleep advice organization took an online poll of 1,000 teenagers between 12 and 16 years old and found that many do
not get the recommended amount of sleep on an average night, in part due to TVs, music, or video game consoles.
23 percent of
those surveyed said that they regularly fell asleep while watching TV, listening to music, or with "other machinery" still running. The Council says
that this is not surprising, given that 98.5 percent of the teenagers have phones, music systems, or TVs in their bedrooms (almost two-thirds had all
three).
Even at the younger end of the group, electronics in the bedroom are prevalent58 percent of 12- to 14-year-old boys
reported having a phone, music player, TV, or game console in the bedroom.
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28.08.2007Microsoft uses green tactics to push Vista
Briony Smith: <...> In a pro-Vista move, the company commissioned a report from Info-Tech Research on the power consumption of Windows XP versus
Windows Vista, which was released today, and announced Vistas energy-efficient supremacy over XP when it comes to sleep mode. The default settings of
Vista put the system into sleep mode much faster and automatically than XP triggers its own standby mode.
Jennifer Colasanti, a
research consultant with Info-Tech Research, said that tests were run on two different laptops and two different PCs in several different states. śThe
advanced default settings had a definite impact on power consumption. If your business is running a fleet of Vista PCs, then you can reduce your
carbon emissions by half,ť she said.
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21.02.2008Gadget Overload Keeps Kids Awake at Night
According to a new study by The Sleep Council, teenagers are increasingly sleeping less and experiencing lower quality sleep due to a huge increase in
entertainment gadget ownership. In the study, almost all of the 12 to 16 year-olds reported having either a phone, music system or TV in their
bedrooms, with two-thirds having all three. Additionally, 58% of 12 to 14 year-old boys have a phone, music player, TV and video game console in their
bedroom. According to the research, this plethora of entertainment options is causing teenagers to lose sleep, with 30% saying they get just four to
seven hours sleep, instead of the recommended eight to nine hours for this age group. Almost a quarter admit to falling asleep watching TV and/or
listening to music or with other gadgets still running more than once a week.
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29.08.2007Microsoft: We want your computer to talk in its sleep
Microsoft Research in partnership with USCD are working on a USB device, called the "Somniloquy" (which by definition means to "Talk in one's
sleep") which allows your computer to carry on performing network processes while it is asleep or in a low power state. The Somniloquy allows a
computer to process network traffic, even if the computers CPU, hard disk, display and I/O buses are powered down, without losing network
connectivity. As described in the research paper, the interface could manage many network-related tasks such as maintaining a remote desktop
connection, receiving instant messages, torrenting and managing a VOIP account, while the computer itself is asleep.
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24.08.2009Microsoft Updates Vista Media Center
Microsoft has release an April
2007 Cumulative Update for
Windows Vista's built-in
Media Center application,
which aims to resolve a number
of issues reported by users.
On the list of fixes are DVD
freezes, errors when deleting
a picture, Media Center
rotating the wrong picture,
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25.04.2007PayPal glitch freezes sellers' cash for weeks
A problem with some PayPal payments being held by the company was just a glitch, not a cunning plan to claw more money out of buyers. Earlier this
year PayPal introduced a scheme to flag certain transactions it regarded as suspicious. Payment for items where eBay determined the buyer might be
dissatisfied would be held for 21 days, or until the seller received positive feedback from the buyer. Then the funds would be transferred.
But a problem last month meant payment was not being released even after positive feedback for the seller had been posted. Extending payment terms
to 21 days did go down with some eBay sellers.
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16.10.2008Vista: Whatever happened to fast boot?
Anyone else remember when
Microsoft used to talk about
making Windows Vista (or
Longhorn, as it was then
known) a fast-booting
operating system. Fast, as in
cold boots
that were 50 percent faster
than those possible with
Windows XP?
Something obviously went
awry.
As
Computerworld is reporting, a
number of Vista users are
none too
happy about Vista boot-up
times. Some are
questioning whether Microsoft
is advocating that users just
put Vista into sleep mode, as
opposed to shutting down
systems on a daily basis, to
mask the sluggish boot up.
(And it's not just
boot up speeds that are
troublesome. Vista shutdown is
as slow as molasses, too,
Computerworld is reporting
users as saying. And
app-loading times are nothing
to write home about,
either.)
Microsoft
has been touting the
sleep/hibernate modes as the
preferred ways to "shut off"
Vista systems.
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12.04.2007Microsoft Vista SP2 beta: Nothing new has been added (yet)
If you install the beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) expecting to see visible changes to your version of Vista, you'll be sorely
disappointed. At least in this initial beta, all the changes are under the hood, and even they are far from earth-shaking. Microsoft says that it has
fixed compatibility problems with the third-party Spy Sweeper and ZoneAlarm security applications, enhanced hardware support for Direct X, improved
Wi-Fi connections after a system resumes from sleep, improved Windows Search, added support for the newest Bluetooth specification (2.1) and rolled up
all previous Vista updates.
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09.12.2008Microsoft Studies the Big Sleep
It was a server. The kind of server that would make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.
As the sentences above show,
melding the lingo of novelist Raymond Chandler with data center technology proves awkward. But Microsofts willing to give it a shot...
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25.02.2009Leaked Vista Hotfixes to be broadly available in the near future
Microsoft Corp. confirmed
today that the Vista hot-fix
packs that have leaked to the
Web will be issued to all
users.
"We
plan to make these two updates
broadly available via Windows
Update in the near future," a
company spokeswoman said in an
e-mail.
The
two updates, dubbed "Vista
Performance and Reliability
Pack" and "Vista
Compatibility and Reliability
Pack," were posted over the
weekend to a third-party
download site after being
leaked from a group of Windows
Server 2008 testers. The list
of fixes -- which include
performance improvements to
Vista's sleep mode and speed
increases in copying or moving
large directories -- led some
users yesterday to speculate
that the updates were the
forerunner of Vista Service
Pack 1 (SP1), a major upgrade
that many businesses want to
see before they widely deploy
the new operating system. ..
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01.08.2007Apple Owns Up to iMac Freezing Issues
Apple confirmed Thursday that there was indeed an issue with a recent software update causing a limited number of its iMac desktops to experience user
interface freezes, and that it required a restart to remedy the problem...
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05.10.2007Motorola freezes salaries and benefits, but no layoffs announced
To cut costs, Motorola is reducing the salaries of its co-CEOs and freezing the pension plans of all employees, while avoiding job layoffs at the
moment...
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18.12.2008Make Your PC Wake From Sleep Automatically
A lot of people these days are becoming more aware of the energy savings to be had by shutting down unused equipment when its not in use. And while
its no problem to shut off the TV and the end of the evening a lot of people have trouble doing the same for the PC. This is mainly because its nice
to have all your work on your computer right there where you left it when you return in the morning. Of course, this is what śsleepť mode is for “ you
can save energy without losing your place...
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09.07.2008Windows Vista Power Savings help you save costs
A new report has recently been published demonstrating the hard savings available from Windows Vista's Power Saving functionality. If your company
has hard C02 reduction targets, or you would like to tell your management that you can save them $11 per desktop in direct costs then go ahead and
read this report.
The headlines are:
- Windows Vista can reduce electricity costs. Businesses can save up to
$11 per system, per year by switching to Windows Vista, due to the default power management settings. For a company with 5000 users, this means up
to $47,000 of bottom line dollars can be saved annually.
- The Vista Sleep state is more reliable than XP. Computers resume from Sleep in
two seconds, which is about the same time it takes a screen to resume from Idle mode in Windows XP.
- Power consumption reduction translates
into direct CO2 savings. Carbon dioxide emissions are reduced by up to 67 kg of carbon dioxide per desktop PC, per year. For a company with 5000
users, this is 288 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions reduced.
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17.04.2008PS3 Owners Report Blu-ray Problems After 1.5 Upgrade
An unusually high number of
reports of intermittent
playback freezes during
Blu-ray movies and some games
have been posted to Sony's
PlayStation 3 forum, as well
as to the AVS Forum and other
sources, after PS3 owners
upgraded to version 1.5 of the
system firmware...
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31.01.2007Engineering Windows 7: Boot Performance
Michael Fortin: For Windows 7, we have a dedicated team focused on startup performance, but in reality the effort extends across the entire Windows
division and beyond. Our many hardware and software partners are working closely with us and can rightly be considered an extension to the team.
Startup can be one of three experiences; boot, resume from sleep, or resume from hibernate. Although resume from sleep is the
default, and often 2 to 5 seconds based on common hardware and standard software loads, this post is primarily about boot as that experience has been
commented on frequently. For Windows 7, a top goal is to significantly increase the number of systems that experience very good boot times. In the
lab, a very good system is one that boots in under 15 seconds.
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30.08.2008ICANN freezes over fast flux fury
The non-profit group that oversees the internet's address system is seeking the public's help in deciding what to do about the growing use of a
technology known as fast flux, which is used by cybercriminals to thwart take-down efforts, but which can also be used for legitimate purposes as
well.
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