Disable Aero Snap Auto Maximize and Arrange Window in Windows 7
Windows 7 includes a new feature called Aero Snap that intends to improve open windows management on the desktop. Aero Snap allows user to drag a window to the top of the screen to maximize the window automatically, or to the left or right side of the screen to resize the window to fill and take up half of the screen estate on the moved side automatically.
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19.5.2009 Hack to Turn Off and Disable Windows 7 CD or DVD Writer Burning and Auto Tray Ejection Feature
Windows 7 inherits the capability to burn or write to CD and DVD burner or writer, with additional support to directly burn ISO and IMG disc images with Windows 7 Explorer.
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18.8.2009 OEM Logo and Information for Windows Vista - Auto Patch
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this post in forum. You have successfully activate Windows Vista instantly in OEM style by using hardware-level BIOS ACPI-SLIC mod, or one of the two software based OEM BIOS emulator such as softmod SLIC BIOS bootloader and Paradox OEM BIOS Emulation Toolkit.
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20.3.2007 Windows 7 RTM Icons Pack
Here is a complete set of Windows 7 Icons extracted from Windows 7 RTM (Build 7600.16385).
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27.7.2009 Windows Vista Official 133 Icons
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Windows Vista 254 Icons Collection
Thanks to odeeee for this download - collection of high-resolution Icons in Vista-style. The icons are .png files.
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13.6.2007 Are Windows Vista icons facing the wrong way?
I know what you’re thinking, “has it really come down to this”. No doubts you’ve all seen the “Computer” icon in Windows Vista.
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23.6.2008 Download Windows Vista Official 113 Icons
This site will soon offer a large database of free vista icons (.ico) so you can customize your desktop and OS icons. More free Vista Icons coming soon.
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2.1.2006 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part V: Desktop Icons
Once again, it's time to enhance your Windows XP operating system exactly the way you want and without paying a cent on expensive programs that do something so simple that even a kid could handle it.
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26.11.2008 Download Office 2010 Beta Icons Pack
The latest Office 2010 Beta Build 14.0.4417.1000 which was leaked about a week ago features refreshed icons for all Office applications.
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8.9.2009 How to Enable or Disable Windows Task Manager
ask Manager is a versatile task management and system utility in Windows operating system. With Task Manager, user can view detailed information about computer performance (CPU usage, physical memory, kernel memory, handle, thread, commit charge, etc.), running applications, processes, network activity and statistics, logged-on users, and system services.
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18.6.2008 Bypass and Disable Genuine Windows Validation Check
Microsoft has made it harder for illegitimate, or for whatever reason, your copy of Microsoft Windows couldn't be validated, users to retrieve updates via Microsoft Updates or Windows Update, and download programs from Microsoft Download Center.
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19.5.2006 Disable Windows Vista Evaluation Watermark from Desktop
If an user install Windows Vista in trial or demo or evaluation mode, by skipping and not keying in any Windows product registration key when asked during installation of Windows Vista.
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24.11.2006 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 Enable/Disable/Swap the Task Manager in Windows Vista
Task Manager is a system utility that ships by default with Windows Vista. The tool is not new to Microsoft's latest operating system, having survived from older versions of Windows.
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11.10.2007 WinodwsUpdateSilencer - Disable Windows Update Restart Alert Message
Windows Automatic Updates is definitely helpful feature to keep Windows up to date with latest updates and thereby keeping it secure from viruses, worms and hacker.
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9.9.2009 Turn Off or Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista
User Account Control (UAC) is a new security feature in Windows Vista that requires all users to log on and run in standard user privileges mode instead of as administrator with full administrative rights, thus prevent unauthorized or accidental changes that could destabilize the computers or allows virus and malware to exploit the system-level privileges provided to the local administrator to attack the network security, compromise computer safety and privacy, and damage files and settings in the network.
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19.12.2006 Disable and Turn Off Windows Vista Search Indexer and Indexing Service
Windows Vista has greatly enhanced its search algorithm where the search process is now not only faster, but users can also easily search for almost all kind of files, documents, pictures, videos, emails and contacts in Outlook 2007, and even commands or application programs’ executables.
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19.9.2007 Windows 7 RTM Changes Disable DirectX Client-side Rendering over RDP 7
Changes implemented post-RC and ahead of the release to manufacturing deadline of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have stripped away the DirectX client-side rendering over RDP 7 from the operating systems, Microsoft has informed.
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22.6.2009 How To Disable Use the Web service to find the correct program Displayed in Windows Vista
When opening a file with unknown extension, normally you will see an additional window popping up that give you options of whether to use the web service to find the correct program or select a program from a list of installed programs.
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20.3.2009 Disable and Remove URGE Online Store in Windows Media Player 11 (WMP11)
Windows Media Player 11 (WMP11) for Windows XP is the latest Windows Media Player (WMP) for Windows Vista, and available as free standalone program downloadable from Micrsoft for genuine Windows XP SP2 users. WMP 11 features Windows Vista-like feel and touch user interface, plus several other improvements and enhancements.
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20.11.2006 Twelve unnecessary Vista features to disable
Excess code has a way of slowing down an operating system; here are 12 Vista features that you can turn off right now.
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5.9.2008 Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 7
To help our customers become more secure and up-to-date, Microsoft will distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 soon after the final version of the browser is released (planned for fourth quarter 2006).
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27.7.2006 Microsoft: Disable or Remove the Pilot of WGA Notifications
Microsoft is providing end users with the instructions necessary to disable or remove altogether the WGA Notifications anti-piracy mechanism from Windows XP.
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1.9.2008 How to Disable/Turn off Bing Home Page Image
Microsoft new search engine Bing.com is steadily becoming popular and more and more users have started using bing to search.
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3.8.2009 Disable and Remove OGA Office Not Genuine Notifications Uninstall KB949810
After installing Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) Notifications (KB949810) from Windows Update, OGA Validation will perform genuine test on installed Microsoft Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007 and Office 2010 software. If Office product is validated as not genuine, “This copy of Microsoft Office is not genuine” notification message will be displayed on notification area (system tray), at splash screen during Office program (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) startup, and at Office’s toolbar or ribbon with extra “Get Genuine Office” tab or element.
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18.10.2009 Disable and Remove Half-Open TCP Connections Limit (to Unlimited) in Windows 7 and Vista SP2 with EnableConnectionRateLimitin Registry Key
Officially, the incomplete half-open outbound TCP connection attempts allowed at any one time is now unlimited by default in Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP2 (Service Pack 2), and Windows 7. Actually, the ability to limit or restrict number of half-open outgoing TCP connections system can create or establish is built into Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7, however it’s disabled by default.
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8.6.2009 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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3.6.2009Microsoft: Please Don't
Disable UAC
At Windows Vista lab in
Redmond before the release of
Beta 2, Microsoft developers
showed off the new OS to a
room full of MVPs and
enthusiasts. But even the
company's most loyal fan base
turned ugly when User Account
Control took the stage. Now,
Microsoft is begging users not
to disable the controversial
feature...
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28.06.2006Microsoft: Malware can disable UAC in Windows 7 "by design"
A month has barely passed since the public beta debut of Windows 7 and we have our first horror story. UAC (user account control) was the major gripe
with Windows Vista which annoyed most tech savvy users and confused ordinary consumers. Microsoft has changed the behavior in Windows 7, lowering the
requirement for user interaction when changing system settings. The apparent downside to this is, according to reports, the way Microsoft has changed
the behavior makes it extremely easy for malware authors to write code to disable UAC without user intervention.
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30.01.2009Sony laptops disable Windows 7's XP Mode
It's not looking good for Sony Vaio owners who were looking to get their hands on a hot, fresh release of Windows 7 - Sony has disabled hardware
virtualization in their laptop range, thus rendering Windows XP Mode in Windows 7, and many other Virtual Machine Based products, such as VMware and
Virtualbox pretty much useless. Sony claims that they are disabled for "security" reasons - which doesn't really seem to make any sense; Sony
has also said that they will re-enable hardware virtualization on "select" laptops from the Vaio range.
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11.08.2009World-class stealing: Grand Theft Auto IV makes its global premiere
Rockstar Games/Take-Two Interactive have released the fourth installment of the popular Grand Theft Auto series for the Xbox 360 and PS3 --
easily the most important episode thus far for the fate of its publisher...
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30.04.2008AutoRuns for Windows v8.71 Available
Mark Russinovich and Bryce
Cogswell from Sysinternals at
Microsoft released v8.71 of
AutoRuns for Windows a few
days ago. This utility, which
has the most comprehensive
knowledge of auto-starting
locations of any startup
monitor, shows you what
programs are configured to run
during system bootup or login,
and shows you the entries in
the order Windows processes
them. These programs include
ones in your startup folder,
Run, RunOnce, and other
Registry keys.
You can configure Autoruns
to show other locations,
including Explorer shell
extensions, toolbars, browser
helper objects, Winlogon
notifications, auto-start
services, and much more.
Autoruns goes way beyond the
MSConfig utility bundled with
Windows Me and XP.
Autoruns' Hide Signed
Microsoft Entries option helps
you to zoom in on third-party
auto-starting images that have
been added to your system and
it has support for looking at
the auto-starting images
configured for other accounts
configured on a system. Also
included in the download
package is a command-line
equivalent that can output in
CSV format, Autorunsc.
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31.07.2007Microsoft 'Maxes' Out Your
Photos
Microsoft on Tuesday unvelied
Microsoft "Max," an
application that enables a
user to create and manage
slideshows, as well as arrange
their photos into various
layouts. Max is one of the
first publicly available
applications to use WinFX and
takes advantage of the
enhanced graphics capabilities
in Windows Vista...
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14.09.2005Lenovo lets you disable your laptop with a text message
In the next couple months Lenovo will be rolling out a BIOS update for its Montevina laptop users which enables remote shutdown and subsequent
encryption via text message. The tech relies on the laptop having a WWAN connection and activates when a custom string, defined by the user and sent
from a single, paired phone, is received. In other words, you can choose whatever you want as the shutdown signal, from a cool "Kill" or
"Self-Destruct" to a long, patronizing multi-part message about the thieving youth of today. Constant Secure Remote Disable, as it's called,
isn't being touted as a first line of defense.
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25.11.2008Grand Theft Auto blamed after taxi driver murdered in Thailand
The controversial Grand Theft Auto is once again the focus of worldwide attention, after being pulled from store shelves in Thailand following
the stabbing death of a taxi driver by a student who said he was acting out a scene...
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05.08.2008Engineering Windows 7: Managing Windows windows Follow-up
Steven Sinofsky: Theres a lot of great discussion from the window arranging post. This really shows how important these details are to people. Being
able to arrange how apps are shown on screen is key for productivity because it impacts almost every task. Its also very personal “ people want to be
in control of their work environment and have it set up the way that feels right.
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06.10.2008Nintendo Talks GTA & Wii
In an interview with an
American television station,
Reggie Fils-Aime, the
president of Nintendo of
America, said that Nintendo
has done all it can to
persuade Take-Two Interactive
Software to bring the Grand
Theft Auto franchise to
Nintendo consoles, and it is
now up to the third party
publisher to decide whether
Rockstar Games' immensely
popular series will appear on
Wii. We should know more later
in 2007 regarding this issue.
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17.12.2006Windows Live Messenger Beta
Build 8.1.0068
A mandatory update of the
Windows Live Messenger 8.1
Beta is being sent out to
testers via auto-update.
Version 8.1.0068 is
identical to 0066 so expect
the same features and the same
bugs. Is this a move to shake
off all unauthorized users?
NOTE : In
order to auto-update using
Vista, make sure Messenger is
running admin mode by
right-clicking the msnmsgr.exe
file and select 'Run as
administrator'. There's also
still a conflict between
Messenger and Shockwave on
Vista which makes the software
crash.
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21.09.2006iPhone 3.0: Evidence of video, auto-focus camera and more
What's this? More Apple rumors? Well, that doesn't come as a surprise, at least not to me. Alas, this one comes with a twist; there's
screenshots. That's right, we've finally got screenshot evidence of video recording coming to an upcoming revision of Apple's iPhone, so
that hopefully makes things a bit more feasible. Ours friends over at MacRumors have discovered all these juicy details, deep within the
configuration files of Apple's latest iPhone 3.0 beta. As mentioned, this should remove any previous uncertainty about video recording being
featured in the next iPhone. There has been a few configuration files, such as: "Auto-Focus Camera", which is fairly self explanatory.
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08.04.2009Windows 2003 KB: Slow network communication from Vista RTM (6000) to Windows 2003 SP2
Brad Rutkowski: This was one issue I worked on for quite some time a few months ago. We found that Vista clients were taking forever to download
group policies from domain controllers in the regions while Vista SP1 and XP clients did not see the issue. If the local DC was running LH or Windows
2003 SP1, we didn't see any issue. If the server was running Windows 2003 SP2 though and had a certain type of hardware we would see the latency.
Based on customer reports, Windows Dev learned of more widespread devices in the network that dont understand greater window
scale factors. So, they improved the heuristics in SP1 for when to limit or disable auto-tuning, which is why we only saw in in Vista RTM and not
SP1.
The bug is in Windows 2003 SP2 and the details can be found here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947773 So if you find that you have vista clients experiencing network
latency when hitting a Windows 2003 SP2 server (File server, DC, Exchange, etc) then you should look into this hotfix.
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31.01.2008New iPhone 3GS announced, pricing and release dates
Apple showed off their newest model of the iPhone today called the iPhone 3GS (the 's' stands for speed). The new model looks almost
identical to the current 3G iPhone, with a rear facing camera and same basic trim and finish. Some highlights of the new iPhone include a 3
mega-pixel camera, with auto focus, auto white balance and auto exposure - allowing you to change white balance and focus on the fly by a tap of the
screen. The camera also doubles as a VGA video recorder at 30fps with audio. The video recorder also allows trimming of videos recorded on the
iPhone or iPod touch, with simple taps of the screen.
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09.06.2009New Features Hit Windows Live SkyDrive Today
The Windows Live SkyDrive Team
just announced several
updates to Windows Live SkyDrive which begin happening today.
Using Silverlight, you can now arrange your photos within a
SkyDrive Folder just the way you want them. All you need to do is choose śSortť in a folder with photos and select śArrange photosť...
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15.04.2009Twelve unnecessary Vista features to disable
Vista, thy name is bloat! The latest Windows packs a lot of code -- more than any version of Windows ever -- and some of it is just plain unnecessary.
All of that excess code has a way of slowing down an operating system. You can regain some PC performance by removing unneeded features.
InfoWorld have identified a dozen Vista features that you can turn off right now. Some are shiny baubles that slow down graphics performance, while
others are optional utilities that hog memory when they shouldn't. A few can actually be quite useful, though they play a major role in bogging
down your PC.
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05.09.2008Thoughts from the field on Windows Server 2008 “ Setup
Dave Northey: Larry Doyle, a local IT Pro, works for Netforce in Dublin (one of our local Certified Partners). Larry has been attending my Longhorn
Academy (deep-dive technical training on Windows Server 2008) for the last six months or so and has been actively testing and evaluating Windows
Server 2008. He has this to share with you:
śI have been testing Windows Server 2008 for a while now and I do actually like it -
it's fast & quick to setup. I particularly like the roles element as I would normally spend a considerable amount of time "trimming" un-required
services from a production server that are auto installed or auto started in Windows 2003 Server installs (saying that I don't usually use the manage
server wizards in 2003 which might save a bit of effort). I havent timed it, but it seems like 2008 will save me hours for each install I perform
(and Ill be happy that the end result is what I actually wanted).
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04.12.2007Microsoft on Auto-Rotation, the Accelerometer, and Tablet PCs
This morning, I
posted up a
video demonstrating
auto-rotation on the OQO.
Ken
Hinckley, who works in
Microsoft Research, noticed it
and posted some really
insightful thoughts, and links
to video demos, on the use of
accelerometers and
auto-rotation, and how they
have experimented with it over
the years.
One interesting use of the
accelerometer Microsoft came
up with, is the ability to use
the accelerometer to sense
when two or more tablets were
bumped up against each other.
This enabled the the displays
to join together to make one
big display. Fascinating
stuff. Watch the videos below
- they are hyperlinked...
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18.08.2007Lenovo creates SMS "kill pill'
If BIOS-level passwords, fingerprint recognition and encrypted hard drives aren't enough for the most paranoid portable PC user, get set for the
latest in security. A new service will allow users to disable a lost or stolen 3G notebook by sending it an SMS message! From early next year,
Lenovo's new Constant Secure Remote Disable service will allow owners of the latest ThinkPads to shut down their system by sending it a special
SMS message from your mobile phone. Once the laptop shuts down, the self-encrypting hard drive will scramble the data.
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26.11.2008Take-Two delays "Grand Theft Auto IV"
Take-Two Interactive Software
Inc. on Thursday cut its 2007
sales forecast and said it
would post a full-year loss,
before one-time items, because
it needs more time to complete
its highly anticipated "Grand
Theft Auto IV" video game.
The
company's shares slid 8
percent in extended trade
following the announcement.
The game,
which had been scheduled for
release in October, is now
planned for release in the
fiscal second quarter of 2008,
Take-Two said.
In a statement,
Take-Two Chairman Strauss
Zelnick said "certain
elements of development proved
to be more time-intensive than
expected."..
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