How to Install Windows 7 or Windows Vista on Physical Machine Without DVD Media
A lot of Windows Vista and Windows 7 license has been sold media-less nowadays, where buyers only receive a piece of authenticated certificate with a genuine and legitimate product key printed on it.
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23.12.2008 Microsoft Limits Windows Vista Beta2 Downloads
The demand for the Windows Vista Beta2 faced by the US giant has overcome the capabilities of the servers reserved for the online delivery of the recently released operating
system by the sheer amount of the simultaneous downloads.
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13.6.2006 Microsoft Puts Limits on Vista Virtualization
Virtual Windows Vista users will have to pay for the high-end OS. With the release of Windows Vista on Tuesday, the final end-user licensing agreement (EULA) is reaching the eyes of the masses – for those who actually care to read through it instead of blindly clicking “next.”
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2.2.2007 Microsoft limits Longhorn's Itanium job duties
Microsoft's Longhorn Server version of Windows will support Intel's Itanium processor, but only for a limited number of higher-end jobs, the software company said on Friday.
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Mythbusting Windows Vista - Memory Management
Windows Vista is well on it's way and everyday more and more information is released. A lot of this information is misunderstood, regurgitated and out of the ashes many a myth has risen on Vista. I'd like to welcome a special guest author, Ned Gnitchel, who will be presenting a number of articles over the next little while debunking some of these myths. Ned works for a large software company and is a specialist in OS Internals, Directory Services and Collaboration.
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13.3.2006 Resolve Windows Vista Out of Memory Errors
Windows Vista "out of memory" errors are intimately connected with the way the operating system manages virtual address space.
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29.8.2007 Windows Vista Memory Tweak Guide
With every release of a new operating system come new demands and Windows Vista is by large no exception to this rule.
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23.10.2007 Windows 7 Non-Uniform Memory Access Architectures
Windows 7 will be able to take advantage not only of faster CPUs, but of multiple processors on a single chip. The 64-bit edition of the operating system in particular will be able to support over 64 Logical Processors per machine.
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28.12.2008 Minimem - Optimizing Windows Memory Usage
Running too many applications can cause computer performance to slow down or even crashed.
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24.8.2009 eBoostr - Boost Windows XP with Flash Memory
MDO Ltd. announces the release of eBoostr, a complete replacement for Microsoft ReadyBoost technology for Windows XP. Upgrade the performance of your PC without upgrading its components. Get ReadyBoost-like technology in Windows XP.
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14.11.2007 Free Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostic Utility
Windows Memory Diagnostic is a free utility available for download from Microsoft designed to sniff out flaws in a machine's RAM modules.
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28.8.2008 How To Remove and Disable Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool
Windows 7 and Windows Vista comes with a memory diagnostic utility named as Windows Memory Diagnostic. Windows Memory Diagnostic is an utility that capable of scan, check and diagnose computer’s memory subsystem including physical RAM modules or sticks.
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5.10.2009 Windows 7 RTM chkdsk memory issue isn’t a showstopper
Windows 7 RTM contains what appears to be a memory leak bug that occurs when the chkdsk /R command is initiated on a non-system volume.
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8.8.2009 Adapt the Windows 7 Hibernation File to the Memory Contents Loaded
Microsoft informed that in certain scenarios, Windows 7 computers going into hibernation could present a stop error to the end user.
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8.9.2009 How Much Memory Does Vista Need?
With Windows Vista coming soon to a retail channel near you, one of the important questions to ask is, "How much memory does it really need?" There are the official minimum requirements of 512 MB, but we all know that minimum requirements don't translate to a great experience.
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23.1.2007 Windows 7 RTM ReadyBoost 256 GB of Memory Cache Support
Users running the latest iteration of the Windows client will be able to add an extra 256 GM of memory cache in order to handle the overload on the physical RAM installed on their computers.
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12.10.2009 Vista “Out of Memory” errors
You just can’t seem to throw enough memory at Vista. There have been a number of issues that Vista users have reported relating to copying and moving data, especially large numbers of files.
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17.10.2007 Release Unused Memory with VC RamCleaner
One of the main factors that causes computer performance slowness could be due to memory leak whereby memory is not being released properly after it was used.
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13.10.2009 Kernel Memory Space Analyzer Version 8.1 and guide
Microsoft Support Professionals Toolkit for Windows. The Kernel Memory Space Analyzer is a tool to help expert debugging engineers analyze Windows crash dump files.
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31.8.2006 Samsung develops new graphics memory speed limit
Samsung is getting ready to produce extremely fast memory chips to be used on future graphics cards.
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25.2.2007 Xbox Gets Bigger Live Games, Memory Card
Microsoft plans to allow Xbox Live Arcade games to use more space, announcing it had increased the official size limit from 50 to 150 megabytes. In addition, the company also announced a larger memory card with a capacity of 512MB.
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5.3.2007 Intel moves closer to flash memory replacement
Intel has been tinkering with a concept of a phase change memory device chip for nearly 30 years.
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18.4.2007 Vista SP1 Installed System Memory RAM
One of the aspects that Service Pack 1 changes for Windows Vista is the way that the operating system reports the amount of installed system memory.
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13.6.2008 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 Microsoft announces 512MB Xbox 360 Memory Unit
t's about time Microsoft announced that 512MB Memory Unit, which will land at $49 and at the outset come preloaded with Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (huzzah!).
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5.3.2007 Memory Prices Set to Hit the Bottom in the 2H '07
After tumbling for more than four consecutive months, prices on dynamic random access memory (DRAM) may sustain rapid decrease in the coming months, causing memory chip makers to continue losing money.
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26.4.2007 Samsung Announced World’s First 32GB DDR3 Memory for Server Market
Samsung, the famous memory chip maker has just unveiled a next generation DDR3 memory module that packs with high density.
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19.6.2009 Minimem - Automatically Lower, Optimize or Reduce the Memory Usage for Any Running Program at Interval
Nowadays modern computers comes with high memory, from 1GB to 4GB and some even up to 8GB!
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6.8.2008 Memory test - Firefox 2.0.0.9 vs Firefox 3.0 b 1
Does Firefox 3.0 beta 1 do a better job of handling memory than earlier versions? In a test put Firefox 3.0 beta up against Firefox 2.0.0.9 in a series of tests.
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21.11.2007 Activate Windows 7 Pre-Beta 6801 with Vista Beta or RC Product Key without Crack
Already download and install Windows 7 Pre-Beta build 6801? You probably have to leave the product key field blank during installation in order to complete the setup of Windows 7.
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1.11.2008Pushing the Limits of Windows: Physical Memory
Mark Russinovich: This is the first blog post in a series I'll write over the coming months called Pushing the Limits of Windows that describes how
Windows and applications use a particular resource, the licensing and implementation-derived limits of the resource, how to measure the resources
usage, and how to diagnose leaks.
To be able to manage your Windows systems effectively you need to understand how Windows
manages physical resources, such as CPUs and memory, as well as logical resources, such as virtual memory, handles, and window manager objects.
Knowing the limits of those resources and how to track their usage enables you to attribute resource usage to the applications that consume them,
effectively size a system for a particular workload, and identify applications that leak resources.
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22.07.2008Windows 7 RTM contains a rather nasty chkdsk bug
Windows 7 RTM, which will be distributed to MSDN/TechNet and technical beta testers tomorrow, contains a nasty memory leak when the chkdsk command is
initiated. The bug occurs when the CHKDSK /R command is initiated on a non-system volume. Memory usage of the chkdsk.exe process soars until the
system is using over 90% physical memory. In some cases this will cause the system to become unresponsive and unstable. Some are calling the bug a
"show stopper", whilst others (Randall Kennedy) claim it could derail the Windows 7 launch. It's worth noting that Kennedy claimed in November
2008 that Microsoft had delayed the Windows 7 beta to early 2009, even though company officials always stated this was the case.
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05.08.2009Want Windows 7 Beta 1? Here's what you have to do...
PDC attendees got the Windows 7 pre-beta build, and Microsoft told them that a public beta would be available in early 2009. But you don't want to
wait until then, right? You want Beta 1, right now. Well, I can't give you that, but I can tell you how you can get your hands on a physical copy
of the Windows 7 Beta 1 DVD. You'll need $100 and a desire to visit one of the upcoming episodes of the MSDN Developer Conference (MDC).
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04.12.2008Twitter sets 'following' limits to combat spam
Twitter's new limits, which some are discovering just today, seems to have been made effective since the middle of last month, but don't appear to
be fixed in stone...
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13.08.2008Sun VirtualBox may be the only way to test Windows Server 2008 R2
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20.01.2009Office Live Workspace beta enters its international phase
As international languages are added to Microsoft's ongoing Office Live Workspace beta for users of Office 2007 for Windows, the seams are starting
to get ironed out between the online and physical worlds -- most of them, anyway...
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21.05.2008Changes afoot in Vista SP1 RC0/Windows 2008 RC0 kernel memory dumps
With the advent of Windows Vista there are changes made in how the operating system determines if it can take a kernel memory dump or not. Starting
in Vista the amount of memory allocated for kernel mode could vary dynamically. If the pagefile is not big enough, switching to minidump at dump time
cant be done easily. So the dump stack initialization is happening at the time of boot where this check for the pagefile size is done.
What does this mean? It means if you don't have a pagefile as large as physical memory at boot, and your system is configured for a kernel
dump, you'll end up getting a minidump. If you permit me to opine, this makes sense in the client space where a valid dump is more critical than a
corrupted kernel dump, as the results usually would get uploaded to Microsoft via WERCON or another mechanism. If further triage is needed MSFT could
contact you with the ability to setup a kernel capture.
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16.10.2007VMware Server 2 Beta Now Open
VMware has launched a public beta of Server 2, the latest version of the California company's software that allows physical servers to be partitioned
into multiple virtual machines...
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13.11.2007Nanowire researchers discover possible hard drive stand-in: fast, dense, hairy memory
In many ways, hard drives are the bane of our existence. Although they can store plenty of data, data access remain (relatively) slow. Furthermore,
the moving parts make hard drives vulnerable to various types of failure. Nevertheless, in the past 40 years, they've been irreplaceable because it
is very hard to make nonvolatile memory as cheaply as a hard drive. Now, some new research on nanowires may point the way towards a new kind of
high-density, nonvolatile storage.
In the past few years, researchers have begun exploring phase changes as a method for storing
data. Phase changes are currently used for rewritable CDs and DVDs, so this isn't exactly a new idea. In these storage media, discrete points in a
crystalline material are heated and rapidly cooled to make the material amorphous. This change in the physical structure creates a sufficiently large
change in reflectivity that ones and zeros can be distinguished by shining a laser beam onto the disk.
Using a superficially
similar approach, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have constructed a memory device based on a nanowire. The information is stored in the
physical structure of the material, and the physical structure is altered by pulses of current...
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20.09.2007Gordon Moore Predicts 15 More Years for his Law
Moore's Law, one of the most widely known laws in the computing world, may not have much longer to live. According to Gordon Moore, co-founder of
Intel and best known for his theory predicting that transistor sizes would decrease by 50% every 18 to 24 months, fundamental physical limits will
prevent engineers from further chip shrinkages within the next 15 years. He announced this prediction at the Intel Developer Forum.
" In
another decade, decade and half or something, we will hit something that is fundamental, " Moore said when asked if there would be an end to his
'law'. But he also pointed out that there always have been fundamental barriers that prevented chip technologies from further advancing. " There
really are some fundamental limits. It's been amazing to me how the technologies have been able to keep pushing those out ahead of us. As long as I
can remember, the fundamental limits are two, three generations out. So far we have been able to get around them. "
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20.09.2007Mobile browser Skyfire begins its public beta phase
The latest Skyfire beta offers a full Web browsing experience to WM5, WM6, and Symbian S60 devices, enabling the consumption of media that's usually
off limits to users of the "mobile Web." At least that's what it offers...
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26.09.2008Windows 7 Starter Edition details confirmed
As was reported here on Neowin, there was speculation that Microsoft were planning to remove the application limit on Windows 7 Starter Edition.
According to The Windows Blog, Microsoft have confirmed that the "3 applications at a time" limit that hobbled earlier versions of the Starter
Edition has been removed for Windows 7. Now the only effective limit on the number of programs you can run concurrently is set by the amount of your
memory. Windows 7 Starter Edition will have other limits, however, in order to differentiate it from other versions of the OS. "Windows 7 Starter
does not include: * Aero Glass, meaning you can only use the "Windows Basic" or other opaque themes.
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30.05.2009Comparing running processes in Windows Server 2008 in Full and Core installs
Windows Server 2008 Server
Core installation is a minimal
install of the upcoming
Windows Server OS that can run
specific roles (like DNS,
Active Directory or File
Server) with a much smaller
footprint and attack surface.
In a previous blog post I
looked into overall image
sizes for both and also
discussed some of the details
about the differences between
these Full and the Core
installs. I later discussed
which files are on disk for
each one. Now I am looking at
the processes running in the
the two types of install.
This time I
actually installed a couple of
things on the servers before
looking at them. First of all,
I loaded the Virtual PC
virtual machine extensions.
Second, I loaded the DNS
Server roles (which is
available for both). I did not
furter configure the servers,
but used the systeminfo.exe
and tasklist.exe (which also
exists in both install) to
compare the differences in
loaded process, physical
memory and pagefile memory
used.
My
goal here is not to have very
precise lists, but to get a
feeling for how the two
installs compare. Also note
that Windows Server 2008 is in
pre-release format today
(there is a public Beta 3 and
an
MSDN-and-TechNet-subscribers-o
nly release called June CTP or
IDS3). Keep in mind that this
will most likely change before
final release. The information
here is based on an Enterprise
edition, June CTP install.
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02.08.2007How to defeat Cold DRAM attacks using BitLocker, Power Options, and Physical Security
Troy Arwine: Princeton University published a paper this week entitled:
Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys which shows how an
attacker can extract the contents of DRAM from a computer that is powered off and retrieve the encryption keys from memory offline and decrypt disks
that were encrypted by many popular disk encryption software such as Microsoft BitLocker, FileVault, dm-crypt, and TrueCrypt on Linux, Vista and Mac
OS 10 using no special devices or materials.
<...> How do you defeat such an attack practically? - the answer
is simply that you follow Microsoft's recommended best practice security and "Defense in Depth" Here are my recommendations in order to
Defeat
BitUnlocker with BitLocker ,
Power Options , and Physical Security Best Practices...
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24.02.2008Just how fast is fast, anyway?
There's something immensely gratifying about accomplishing the seemingly impossible -- particularly in IT, where pundits regularly proclaim that a
particular technology has hit its physical limits.
Hard drive makers regularly overcome these limits as they shrink magnetic
recording surfaces and heads, while CPU makers are using ever-shrinking wires and recently figured out that multi-core chips were even better.
Consider the Melbourne University PhD student who has patented
a way to squeeze more bits down your phone line than ever. Implemented as a new algorithm in hardware at both the modem and
exchange ends, the technology -- known as SCALE or SCAPE -- promises to boost speeds to the 100Mbps to 250Mbps range by resolving issues of crosstalk,
that is, interference between neighbouring copper wiring.
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08.11.2007Windows 7 Passes 7000 Build Mark
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Intel 'Turbo Memory' tries to speed up Windows
Intel's newest version of Turbo Memory is trying to do what Windows doesn't do: transparently optimize Windows for flash memory storage.
At the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, Calif. Intel will be demonstrating its latest version of Turbo Memory based on flash memory to accelerate
application performance in Windows.
winbeta.org - 14.08.2008
WS-Dev Remote Extensions for Windows 7 Beta Documentation
Compliance documentation for the Windows 7 Beta release of the WS-Dev Remote Extensions for WSDAPI.
Microsofts implementation of
WS-Discovery and Devices Profile for Web Services (DPWS) in Windows, WSDAPI, will support an extension of the WS-Discovery protocol to allow discovery
clients to search for devices and services spanning different physical subnets by sending requests to centralized proxies instead of to the services
themselves. This support includes a mechanism for sending proxy locations to clients and services, extensions to WS-Discovery messages, and
behavioral rules for clients and services...
winbeta.org - 18.12.2008
Inside the Improved Firefox 3 Memory Manager
Mozilla software engineer Stuart Parmenter explains the new and improved inner workings of the Firefox 3 memory manager and what was involved in the
quest of decreasing the browser's memory load. Not simply all about fixing memory leaks, it involved solving memory fragmentation issues as well,
as Windows and most other operating system allocates memory in blocks and may not "see" small enough fragments of memory as usable in practice.
neowin.net - 12.03.2008
Microsoft Windows Dynamic Cache Service v1.0.2
The Microsoft Windows Dynamic Cache Service will manage the working set size of the Windows System File Cache. For 64 bit systems this service helps
to address the problem of excessive cached read I/O that could eventually consume all of physical memory. Sample source code and compiled files are
included in the compressed file.
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