Restore and Reset File Association in Windows Vista
Windows Vista allows user to change and set default program association for most kind of file extension type via Control Panel’s “Set Associations” or “Set Default Programs” under “Default Programs” link.
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How To Reset, Remove, Clear or Reveal CMOS BIOS Security Password
There are times that we need to reset the computer’s BIOS security password. Yesterday I was at the local government technical school facility and the person who is in charge of the computer told me that they are not able to reinstall Windows because they are not able to get in the BIOS to set the boot order as it is password protected. The lecturers do not know the password as it is not set by them, but by some unknown student.
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6.7.2008 Another Vista Reliability & Performance Update
Vista’s performance is one of those topics that won’t be exhausted until Windows Seven hits RTM. It all comes down to trade-offs.
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12.12.2007 Vista Compatibility, Performance and Reliability Pack
Windows Vista Compatibility, Performance and Reliability Packs – SP1 Preview - Microsoft offers fresh Vista updates to testers.
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31.7.2007 Compatibility, Reliability, and Stability of Vista Update
About 2 months ago Microsoft released a couple of hotfixes that improved the stability and reliability of Windows Vista, these were not made available on Automatic Updates.
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24.10.2007 Analyzing 3 months of Vista reliability data
A Windows Vista feature which I make use of regularly is the Reliability Monitor. While being far from an ideal metric for measuring reliability, it does offer users a simple way to tell if their system is behaving or misbehaving.
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25.3.2008 New Performance and Reliability Updates for Vista SP1
A reliability and performance update is available for download for Windows Vista Service Pack 1. This specific release targets all Windows Vista editions, provided that they have the first service pack integrated.
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25.6.2008 Vista Compatibility and Reliability Update Available, Adjacent to SP1
Even though SP1 for Windows Vista was released to manufacturing in February 2008, and the gold bits of the service pack began being available to the general public in March, Microsoft is still issuing updates for the RTM version of its latest Windows client.
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22.5.2008 Vista SP1 Evolves with New Reliability and Performance Boost
Microsoft is indeed starting to deliver an increasing volume of details related to the upcoming Windows 7 client and Windows 7 Server releases, but the end of 2009/ the debut of 2010 is still not even on the horizon, and neither are the next iterations of the Windows platforms.
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19.8.2008 Microsoft releases the Windows Vista Performance and Reliability fix packages
These are the fixes that leaked last week, now the fix packs are publicly available (Validation Required).
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8.8.2007 Microsoft Is Cooking New Vista Reliability Packages – Another Taste of SP1 in Advance
Microsoft is currently cooking no less than five new update packages for Windows Vista. While being in full throttle with the development of the first service pack for the operating system, the Redmond company is looking to address a number of issues impacting the platform ahead of time.
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25.9.2007 Boost Vista's Performance, Responsiveness, and Reliability ahead of Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RTM is without a doubt in sight. But the fact that the service pack's availability is contouring on the immediate horizon, and is now but a month away, provides little comfort for the users of Windows Vista RTM.
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14.2.2008 Understanding Windows 7 New Levels of Performance and Reliability
For an operating system that required unmatched hardware resources, Windows Vista failed to translate the horsepower available into sheer speed. The same is not the case for Windows 7, as the evolution from Vista brings new levels of performance and reliability.
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11.8.2009 First Windows 7 stability and reliability update arrives
Microsoft has released the first stability and reliability update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. It fixes a few issues some users have been experiencing.
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16.10.2009 IE8 compatibility and reliability update for Windows 7 beta
Microsoft has released an update for Internext Explorer build 8.0.7000.0, fixing many bugs that were fixed with the release of IE8 RC1 for Vista and XP.
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25.2.2009 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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2.4.2008Compatibility, Reliability, and Stability of Vista Update
About 2 months ago Microsoft released a couple of hotfixes that improved the stability and reliability of Windows Vista, these were not made available
on Automatic Updates. That aside, Microsoft has released an update to the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista fix that
further improves the reliability of your system.
The original fix improved annoyances such as file copy calculation & speed from within
windows to other (local or network) drives.
This update improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista. This
update includes the following improvements ->
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24.10.2007Reliability Vs. Security
James Whittaker: At the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 07, Trollhattan Sweden) one would think that the security
versus reliability debate would be very one-sided. After all, reliability is the attendees mainstay and if there is one group of folks on the planet
who would see security as a subset or subsidiary concern, it might be the industry and academic experts that attend this prestigious IEEE
conference.
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07.12.2007Vista Performance and Reliability Pack Unofficial Release
Thanks Nekrosoft for the news
on this major update to
Windows Vista that should for
most of us improve the speed
and reliability of Windows
Vista significantly!
Please note: These fixes
break all current methods of
bypassing driver singing
requirements except the good
old F8 during boot (that you
have to do every single time
you start vista)
IF
you are using Rivatuner,
atitool and or Peerguardian on
64bit vista, you will have to
use F8 every single time to
disable driver signing
requirements to use those two
programs. x86 version is
unaffected.
These
updates should go official on
the next patch Tuesday (in one
weeks time). Please read more
for the download links and
information on these
updates.
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ead full story.....
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30.07.2007Microsoft: Another Vista Reliability & Performance Update
Vista’s performance is one of those topics that won’t be exhausted until Windows Seven hits RTM. It all comes down to trade-offs. Ever
since the features of Vista were finalized, Microsoft tried to tip the scale the other way by focusing on performance, with the obvious limitation of
not disabling any services. Updates regarding performance and stability are numerous, but most have not hit Windows Update as they are not quite ready
(preview releases). The Windows Serviceability Team wants feedback on one such update, available for download at the Microsoft Download Center, before
its expected release on Windows Update in January.
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13.12.2007Leaked 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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01.08.2007Microsoft Windows Vista:
Confident
Windows Vista introduces a new
level of confidence to the
experience of using your
computer. Beyond the design
aesthetic of Windows Vista,
the fundamentals of the
operating system free you from
worrying about security,
reliability, and managing your
computer. You are in control...
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15.09.2005New version of the compatibility, reliability, and stability update for Windows Vista
This update improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista. This update includes the following improvements:
- It extends the battery life for mobile devices.
- It improves the stability of portable computers and of desktop computers that
use an uninterruptable power supply (UPS).
- It improves the reliability of Windows Vista when you open the menu of a startup application.
- It improves the stability of wireless network services.
- It shortens the startup time of Windows Vista by using a better timing
structure.
- It shortens the recovery time after Windows Vista experiences a period of inactivity.
- It shortens the recovery time when
you try to exit the Photos screen saver.
- It improves the stability of Windows PowerShell.
This update also resolves the following issues
in Windows Vista:
- A compatibility issue that affects some third-party antivirus software applications.
- A reliability issue that
occurs when a Windows Vista-based computer uses certain network driver configurations.
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24.10.2007Microsoft Makes Vista Fix Packs Public
In a move that will likely
only further confuse the
situation surrounding Windows
Vista Service Pack 1,
Microsoft has posted for
public download two updates
that were released to beta
testers last month. The
patches improve Vista
performance and reliability,
along with the operating
system's compatibility with
drivers and hardware...
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08.08.2007Vista Fix Packs Now on Windows Update
Following their public availability on Microsoft's Download Center, two hotfix packs for Windows Vista that improve performance and reliability are
now available as optional downloads via Windows Update. They will not, however, be delivered automatically to Vista users...
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29.08.2007Beta Patches Hint at Vista SP1 Features
Microsoft has released to
Windows Server 2008 beta
testers two new hot-fix packs
for Windows Vista, which
improve performance and
reliability, along with the
operating system's
compatibility with drivers and
hardware. The 12MB worth of
fixes are expected to make
their way into Vista Service
Pack 1 later this year...
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30.07.2007Microsoft posts two major Vista fix packs for download
Remember those Windows Vista
reliability and performance
fix packs beta versions of
which temporarily escaped to
the masses last week? On
August 7, Microsoft posted the
final versions of the two
Vista fix packs for
download.
The Vista performance fix
pack, KB 938979, (both 32- and
64-bit versions) is
downloadable
here.
The reliability fix pack, KB
938194, (32- and 64-bit
flavors), can be downloaded
here.
The two fix
packs include a number of the
updates that Microsoft is
expected to deliver in the
first full-fledged Windows
Vista Service Pack (SP) 1
release, a public beta of
which is expected real soon
now. SP1 is expected to
include a number of security,
performance and reliability
fixes that Microsoft has been
delivering since it shipped
Vista, all in one single
package.
Microsoft is promising to
make the two new Vista fix
packs available via Windows
Update at a ślater date.ť The
full statement, provided by a
Microsoft spokeswoman:
śThe two
updates will be available on
Microsofts download center
today, and will be available
through Windows Update at a
later date.ť
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08.08.2007Vista SP1 will be stability and reliability, not performance
The problem is one of the major issues with Vista is performance...
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Will Vista SP1 and how this won’t bring
any relief to those who find Vista a bit slow or sluggish? Not really, but then again service packs aren’t about performance increases;
they’re about reliability and stability.
I’ve seen a lot of service packs in my time. Windows 95 and ME both got one service
pack, NT 4.0 saw six, Windows 2000 had four and XP has so far seen two. But what I don’t remember regarding any of these service packs is
installing it onto a system and then seeing any significant boost in performance. Service packs don’t really work that way. Sure, you’ll
feel specific improvements as a result of some of the tweaks and fixes contained in the service pack, and you might feel the benefit of having your
operating system refreshed by loading the service pack onto it, but a service pack should not be looked upon as a performance upgrade. If your system
can’t run an OS, what it needs is upgrading or replacing, not the application of a service pack.
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27.11.2007Next Patch Tuesday has few security updates, big Vista reliability fix
In its monthly advance notice the weekend before the second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft said it will only be addressing four security issues this
time around, two dealing with Windows. But a surprisingly big Vista bug fix is under way...
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04.07.2008Non-security Vista update rolls out Tuesday including SP1 prerequisite for BitLocker
Nick Whitel: Tomorrow, Tuesday 8 January, we are releasing several non-security update packages via Windows Update. The updates include the regular
monthly Malicious Software Removal Tool and Windows Mail Junk Mail Filter, two updates in our regular series of Windows Vista updates (KB943302 for
application compatibility and KB943899 for reliability and performance), and one update of particular notice: KB935509. Similar to previous updates
that enhanced Windows Vistas performance and reliability, these updates will be distributed automatically through Windows Update.
Tomorrows KB935509 release is a little different than past updates. It is a prerequisite for installing SP1 and is applicable only for Windows
Vista Ultimate and Enterprise users, because it only affects versions of Windows Vista supporting BitLocker Drive Encryption.
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08.01.2008Vista SP1 benefit will be stability and reliability, not performance
The problem is one of the major issues with Vista is performance...
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Will Vista SP1 and how this
wont bring any relief to those who find Vista a bit slow or sluggish? Not really, but then again service packs arent about performance increases;
theyre about reliability and stability.
Ive seen a lot of service packs in my time. Windows 95 and ME both got one service pack,
NT 4.0 saw six, Windows 2000 had four and XP has so far seen two. But what I dont remember regarding any of these service packs is installing it onto
a system and then seeing any significant boost in performance. Service packs dont really work that way. Sure, youll feel specific improvements as a
result of some of the tweaks and fixes contained in the service pack, and you might feel the benefit of having your operating system refreshed by
loading the service pack onto it, but a service pack should not be looked upon as a performance upgrade. If your system cant run an OS, what it needs
is upgrading or replacing, not the application of a service pack.
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26.11.2007Official Way to Use Vista without Activation 120 Days
Official Way to Install and
Use Windows Vista without
Activation for Free for 120
Days
By default,
Windows Vista can be
installed, used and run
without any license, product
key or the need of activation
for 30 days grace period, for
purpose of trial or
evaluation. Although Microsoft
initially stressed that users
should purchase a license with
valid product key before the
trial period expires, or else
Windows Vista will lock into
Reduced Functionality Mode.
However, a "rearm" method
has long since been discovered
to be able to extend, or reset
the remaining time for
activation to another fresh 30
days, for up to 3 times.
Now Microsoft has
confirmed that Windows Vista
can be used and run for 120
days or 4 months ( 3
rearms ), and extending the
activation grace period is not
a violation of the Vista End
User License Agreement (EULA).
All versions of Vista include
Windows Vista Ultimate allow a
30-day free period without
activation, except the
corporate-oriented Vista
Enterprise, which supports
only a three-day trial.
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22.02.2007Asus pulps Apple in hardware reliability survey
Asus has stolen the top spot from Apple in a report that assesses the reliability of top PC manufacturers machines.
Put together
by US PC repair and support firm Rescuecom, the league table was topped by Asus with a whopping 972 reliability points. Apple, now in second place,
scored just 324 points.
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26.03.2009New Performance and Reliability Updates Available for Windows Vista
Microsoft have released a couple updates on the Microsoft Download Center to resolve various issues in Windows Vista:
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KB943899 (x86) (x64):
This is a reliability update. This update resolves some performance and reliability issues in Windows Vista.
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KB943302 (x86) (x64):
Install this update to resolve a set of known application compatibility issues with Windows Vista.
Both updates are marked as
preview releases. At the conclusion of this preview phase, the final version of the updates will be released via Windows Update. These updates are
provided to you and licensed under the Windows Vista License Terms.
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12.12.2007Apple beats all competitors on reliability, support again
For the second year running, Apple Inc.'s computers are the most reliable, and its support is the most dependable of all computer makers selling
in the U.S., according to according to Rescuecom Corp.'s third annual reliability report. Rescuecom comes up with its scores by comparing the
percentage of each vendor's support calls with its U.S. market share, said company CEO David Milman. Apple's Macs beat machines sold and
supported by Panasonic, Lenovo, Toshiba and Hewlett-Packard, according to Rescuecom Corp.'s third annual reliability report. Apple, which took the
top spot last year, more than doubled its score from 2007 and again trounced the competition, this year posting a score 43% higher than next-best
Panasonic Corporation of North America.
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18.12.2008Windows Vista SP1 Application Non-Compatibility List
Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista is an important update for Windows Vista. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) contains many security, reliability, and
feature updates for Windows Vista. A program may experience a loss of functionality after you install Windows Vista SP1. However, most programs will
continue to work as expected after you install Windows Vista SP1.
This article lists programs that have been reported to
experience a loss of functionality when they are installed on a Windows Vista SP1-based computer.
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