Windows Vista Custom PC Design
Microsoft and Dell recently partnered up to create a super-cool custom PC in celebration of Microsoft releasing Windows Vista to manufacturing earlier this month.
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21.11.2006 How to: Create custom wallpaper collections in Windows 7
Do you love customizing your Windows desktop? If you do, you'll love this trick!
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28.7.2009 Windows Live Custom Domains - Free Email Hosting
A new service was added to the Windows Live Beta family today - Windows Live Custom Domains. The basic idea is that anyone with a domain can now point their MX record to the Live servers. What that means is that users can have Microsoft's servers hosting their own domain's email accounts for free.
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20.11.2005 Custom PC makers finally get Windows 7 preinstallation kit
On October 12, Microsoft provided system builders with the Windows 7 OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK) tools and related documentation they need to preload and customize Windows 7 on multiple new PCs.
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13.10.2009 How To Make a Custom Vista Disc AIO
odeeee report How To
Make a Custom Vista Disc All In One in our forum.
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26.1.2007 Over 10 Million Custom XP Downloads Get Chinese Pirates Jail Sentences
Chinese authorities cracked down on a group of four software pirates for offering a custom-built copy of Windows XP, which was downloaded in excess of 10 million times.
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24.8.2009 Windows 7 Migration Tool to Move From Windows XP to Windows 7
In past we had covered guide on upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7. Unfortunately there is no direct upgrade path from Windows Xp to Windows 7 and you have to use Windows Easy Transfer utility if you want to move your user and program files from XP to Windows 7.
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22.11.2009 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 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 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD – more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can – and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. It’s about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008 Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade
Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
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9.3.2008 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008Microsoft's Domain Service
Goes 'Live'
Microsoft said late Tuesday
that its Custom Domains
service had officially
launched, making it the third
Windows Live project to come
out of beta. The service
allows a customer to use a
custom domain name with
Windows Live Mail and Hotmail...
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28.06.2006Windows Live Custom Domains renamed to Admin Center - New features added
Windows Live Custom Domains has today undergone its Wave 2 update that sees it renamed as
Windows
Live Admin Center, though the old url of
domains.live.com still works. This name change
reflects the wider array of features now offered by the service, which has transitioned from a hosted email service into a more complete Windows Live
package. The update now allows those who manage a domain to redirect a subdomain to a Windows Live Space, a Windows Live Map of a location you
specifiy, a Live Search page complete with custom macros or even a customised live.com page. To see what this means, check out the urls we've
redirected...
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10.11.2007Debugging a Per-User Installation Error on Windows Vista
Chris Jackson: Yesterday, a friend asked for some assistance debugging an issue with Windows Installer. It was one of those situations where you've
looked at the problem so closely, so many times, that you just needed another set of eyes. (They're close to shipping, so they've been doing nothing
but look at bugs, probably for a while.)
Some background:
What they're doing is a rather interesting use of
Windows Installer. They're using it to drop a setup.exe and then run it. So, they have a custom action of type 0xC02, which is a deferred custom
action, promoted to not use impersonation, which runs as an exe. This custom action spawns another version of itself (with different arguments), and
then the process exits so the installer can complete. The second version of this custom action then wants to uninstall the msi, as well as launch the
setup.exe. So, the msi is just a way to package up the setup.exe.
And, with UAC, it was breaking.
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25.10.2007Google Rolls Out Custom Search Engine for Businesses
Google on Tuesday plans to
make its Custom Search Engine
available to business users.
Custom
Search Engine Business
Edition offers the same
Web site search technology
present in Google's free
Custom Search Engine, except
with no ads.
Google's custom search
allows the creator or
administrator to limit queries
to a certain set of documents,
such as those on one (or more)
Web sites. The service, free
and supported by ads for
consumers, costs businesses
anywhere from $100 per year to
$15,000 per year or more at
Web sites that field lots of
queries.
Custom
Search Engine Business Edition
also includes an XML
application programming
interface (API) for
customizing search result
presentation, technical
support, and the ability to
display search results under
the company's own logo rather
than Google's familiar red,
yellow, blue, and green...
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17.07.2007Microsoft Seeks Ultimate Windows Media Center Installation
Calling all custom installers! Microsoft Corp. is searching for the custom installation industrys innovators to submit distinctive installations for
the Windows® Media Center Ultimate Install Contest. The first of its kind, this design contest seeks to recognize the residential custom electronics
systems installation business that best utilizes Windows Media Center in a custom installation solution.
Increasingly, Windows
Media Center is being implemented in solutions for the custom channel, so Microsoft is challenging industry professionals to present their most unique
and creative installations using the technology. The contest was announced at CEDIA EXPO 2007.
śThis is a chance not only to show
the amazing things custom installers can do with the Windows Media Center platform, but also to have some fun,ť said Scott Evans, group manager in the
Entertainment and Devices eHome Division at Microsoft. śOur partners in the custom channel are taking our software and building incredible digital
home solutions, so we decided now was a great time to give them the chance to showcase their best work and compete to be recognized as the ultimate
MCE installer.ť
Official rules and eligibility requirements are available at
http://www.microsoft.com/ceinstaller.
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05.09.2007AOL to Offer Free Custom
E-Mail Domains
Following in the footsteps of
Microsoft and Google, AOL said
Wednesday that it would begin
providing a custom e-mail
domain services for its
customers beginning in
September. Like its
competitors, AOL My eAddress
would be provided at no
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09.08.2006Windows 7 to support logon UI backgrounds
In the latest Windows 7 build (7057), recently leaked to the public, Rafael Rivera over at Within Windows has found that users can customize the UI
logon background images to include custom images. Rafael reports that the functionality was probably designed for OEM manufactures to include
custom images for Windows 7 in pre-configured computers, but users can now include their own images without the need to use a simple third-party
program. After enabling a registry setting, users can use any image of their choice, as long as their are less than 256kb in size.
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16.03.2009Windows Preinstallation Environment (PE) screencast “ Build a Custom Bootdisk
Chris Henley just released a new screencast on his ś
Blueť blog.
This time our master storyteller has created a screencast on Windows PE. In the
screencast Chris shows you how to get up
and running in 17 minutes on a topic thats a bit tricky the first time you do it. Chris has more information in the subject in his blog post at
http://blogs.technet.com/chenley/archive/2008/08/27/custom-win-pe-images.aspx. Theres a direct link there to the video in
case you want to download it and watch it offline.
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28.08.2008How to: Create custom wallpaper collections in Windows 7
Do you love customizing your Windows desktop? If you do, you'll love this trick! By default, Windows 7 includes several locations to choose
pictures and desktop backgrounds from, such as Windows Desktop Backgrounds, Pictures Library, Top Rated Photos, and Solid Colors. In this article, I
will walk you through the process of creating your own wallpaper collection through the registry, and how to customize it to your liking. This process
will help you categorize and sort your wallpapers efficiently, and allow you to use a mix of categorized wallpapers with Windows 7's new automatic
background shuffle without the need to lump everything together. Disclaimer: The steps in this article involve modifying the Windows registry.
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28.07.2009Windows Live Custom Domains Manager 1.4
Windows Live Custom Domains is
perfect for individuals and
groups who want personalized
e-mail addresses for their own
domain name. If you own a
domain name, Windows Live
Custom Domains will host your
mailboxes for that name.
Windows Live Custom
Domains Manager is a
Windows-based Management
Console that helps you setup
and maintain your domain
e-mail settings, you can use
to perform the following
tasks:
- Verify Service
Status
- Verify MX
Configuration
- Add New
Users
- Delete Users
- Import Existing Users
- Evict Existing Users
- Import User List
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Export User List
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Manage Multiple Domains
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Log off (Switch
Users)
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12.12.2006Windows Live Custom Domains
Released
Windows Live Custom Domains,
which had a makeover not more
than a week ago, is now out of
Beta. Not much has changed
since then, except the
appearance of the much awaited
Windows Live Orb Menu, and, of
course, the removal of the
word "Beta".
The Orb menu isn't
particularly useful, offering
links to other Windows Live
sites and to the account
management page
(account.live.com). It also
lets the user report feedback
easily, directly through the
menu. The main concern of this
"feature" is simply to
create some sort of
integration between the
different Windows Live
services, outside from Windows
Live Ideas.
The Windows Live Orb
in its first
appearance:
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29.06.2006AOL to Launch Custom Domain
Service
AOL has plans to offer a
custom domain service,
BetaNews has learned. The
offering, called AOL
MYeAddress, will begin as a
beta test later Thursday, with
an official launch coming this
summer...
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19.05.2006Windows Live Custom Domains
Manager updated!
Frameworkx have just released an
update to their well known
Windows Live Custom Domains
Manager software. Windows Live
Custom Domains Manager is a
desktop application that lets
you manage your Custom
Domains, a Custom Domain being
a special e-mail address which
lets you access any Windows
Live Service.
LiveSide
received the following e-mail
about the update:
"I just wanted to let
you know, that I updated the
Windows Live Custom Domains
Manager tool.
First of all thanks for
published the original article
about WLCD Manager on
LiveSide. Also I have received
nearly 400 emails of people
just sending me feedback on
it, and the vast majority came
back positive.
In fact 40% percent of the
emails I got were from people
that wish I added a new
feature to the tool. They
wanted to ability to "Switch
logged in Users" or "Log
Off" to log in with a
different user account. I
implemented this new feature
and published on the website
as build 1.1, however it seems
that a lot of people
bookmarked the download link
for 1.0, which download
numbers continues to grow by
an average of 200 downloads
everyday.
Can
you help me disseminate the
fact that there's a new build
of the
application?"
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23.05.2006It's Another Vista TCO Study
Microsoft is flaunting a new Windows Vista total cost of ownership study thatno surprisepresents rosy findings.
Wipro
Technologies and GCR Custom Research produced the report, which findings Microsoft presented in a conference call this afternoon. Microsoft's PR
agency dispatched the wrong dial-in number, causing the meeting to start considerably late. My afternoon was packed, so I snatched a PDF of the
LiveMeeting PowerPoint and moved on to other things. A fuller white paper is now available.
The report focuses on Vista TCO
benefits for mobile PCs. GCR concluded that Vista would reduce mobile PC TCO by $605 annually, or 14 percent, compared to Windows XP.
Reports of this type are always suspect, because they are custom commissioned by vendors. When I was an analyst, I worked on several custom
reports used by companies for internal purposes, meaning to improve the business strategy. External custom reports have an inherent bias because the
client is paying for them for a broader marketing objective.. Would Microsoft promote a commissioned report that found Vista TCO to be less than
Windows XP or, gasp, Linux? The answer is obvious.
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06.09.2007Windows Installer 4.5 Redistributable
The Microsoft® Windows® Installer (MSI) is the application installation and configuration service for Windows. Version 4.5 of the Windows Installer
has several new features, including:
Multiple Package Transaction: In a multiple package transaction, you can create a single
transaction from multiple packages. In a multiple package transaction, a chainer is used to dynamically include packages in the transaction. If any of
the packages do not install as expected, you can roll back the installation.
Embedded UI Handler: You can embed a custom user
interface (UI) handler in the Windows Installer package. This makes a custom UI easier to integrate. You can also invoke an embedded UI handler from
the Add or Remove item in Control Panel. Or, you can invoke an embedded UI handler during a Windows Installer repair process.
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03.06.2008Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP SP3
Jane Maliouta: Last week, I blogged about installing Windows XP SP3 and how it affects different versions of Internet Explorer (See my earlier blog
post
here). Today I will be discussing installing branded/custom
versions of IE7 on machines with Windows XP SP3 installed. This post is primarily aimed towards folks who use the
Internet Explorer
Administration Kit 7 (IEAK7) to create custom IE7 packages, like Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and web developers. If you ever installed the
IEAK7, built a custom version of IE7 or distributed a version of IE7 to others, this post is for you.
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13.05.2008Microsoft Extends XP Life Again
Windows XP has risen from the grave so many times, it now has more in common with Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees than it does with other PC
operating systems.
Though its successor Windows Vista has been on the market for over two years and yet another Windows version, Windows
7, will ship in just months, Microsoft has again extended the time frame for consumers who wish to continue using the seven-year-old XP. This time
around, the company is allowing custom PC builders alternatively called "system builders" and "white box PC makers" to continue ordering XP for
their PCs through May 30, 2009.
The previous deadline was January 31, 2009, so the extension gives custom PC builders an extra four
months to get their XP orders in. After that time, they can continue selling PCs with Windows XP only for as long as their XP stock lasts.
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23.12.2008New Google Site Search lets Web sites shape search results
Tuesday, Google launched Site Search, a rebranded overhaul of "Google Custom Search Business Edition" that gives Web site owners tools to
influence the search results that appear on their sites' custom search pages...
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04.06.2008Desktop Security: Create Custom Login Experiences With Credential Providers For Windows Vista
Credential providers in
Windows Vista allow you to
customize the logon experience
and integrate the
authentication methods that
best meet your organization's
needs. With this article,
learn how to write your own...
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27.01.2007Microsoft, Media Center Integrator Alliance Announce 2009 Ultimate Install Contest
Today at the Electronic House Expo in Orlando, Microsoft Corp., in cooperation with co-sponsor Media Center Integrator Alliance, announced the 2009
Windows Media Center Ultimate Install Contest. This industry design contest, now in its third year, seeks to recognize the residential integration
business that best utilizes Windows Media Center in a custom home installation project. With the support of the newly formed Media Center Integrator
Alliance (MCIA), a group dedicated to driving awareness and adoption of Windows Media Center technologies in the custom channel, the Windows Media
Center Ultimate Install Contest will represent the best of the best in the ecosystem.
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