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 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 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 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 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 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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3.6.2009 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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18.7.2008Microsoft: 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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30.01.2009BREIN Forces Leaseweb to Close BitTorrent Site
In a setback for Leaseweb, a
Dutch web hosting company, a
court ruled the provider must
shut down the private
BitTorrent site
Everlasting.nu. Additionally,
according to the BREIN press
release, the identity of the
websites owner must also be
divulged.
BREINs
(Dutch for Brain) function is
similar to that of the RIAA or
MPAA when it comes to
enforcing copyrights. Although
initially unsuccessful in
obtaining personal information
in the past, more recently
they have proven effective
against many BitTorrent and
eDonkey2000 indexing sites.
BREIN succeeded in eliminating
ShareConnector, Releases4u,
and claims to have shut down
over 150 other indexing sites.
Typically, BREIN
sends a cease and desist
letter to the alleged
infringer. If the alleged
infringer doesnt cooperate,
BREIN elevates the situation
by asking the web host to
disable the site and provide
the owners personal
information. In this
circumstance, neither party
(Leaseweb and Everlasting)
cooperated, which led to BREIN
initiating legal action.
Unfortunately for Leaseweb and
Everlasting, the judge
presiding over the case was
unsympathetic to their pleas...
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24.06.2007Xerox Reignites Interest in Semantic Networking as a Search Tool
The Associated Press this
morning hailed a new Xerox
innovation that aims to take
search engine indexing
capabilities "to the next
level," with a public
unveiling of a semantic
networking tool it plans to
integrate into its FactSpotter
legal document search system.
It's being described as the
next stage in textual indexing
development, and the
culmination of a four-year
project at Xerox's European
research center in Grenoble,
France...
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21.06.2007Sony 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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11.08.2009Details on proposed search controls
Under the formal rules for "robots.txt," a Web site may refuse indexing of the entire site, specific directories or specific pages.
However, some search engines have interpreted "disallow" to mean that the site cannot be added to the index but could be fetched for use in
various algorithms employed to determine how high a site appears in search results, said Francis Cave, technical project manager for proposed
revisions known as Automated Content Access Protocol.
ACAP proposes to clarify that "disallow" refers to indexing. A separate
"crawl" command would be added to bar the indexing software, or crawler, entirely.
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29.11.2007Google dips toes into 'deep Web' search
Google's ever-active search bots, which scour the Web constantly for new pages, have begun a new, more active phase of their indexing jobs.
In a
blog post
Friday, Jayant Madhavan and Alon Halevy of Google's crawling and indexing team said the company has begun an experiment in which its indexing
software experimentally enters text in Web site forms to see what previously undiscovered pages may appear.
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15.04.2008Lenovo 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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25.11.20082007 Office System Converter: Microsoft Filter Pack
This download will install and register IFilters with the Windows Indexing Service. These IFilters are used by Microsoft Search products to index the
contents of specific document formats. This Filter Pack includes IFilters for the following formats: .docx, .docm, .pptx, .pptm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb,
.zip, .one, .vdx, .vsd, .vss, .vst, .vdx, .vsx, and .vtx.
Because Windows Desktop Search (WDS) consumes IFilters from Windows
Indexing Service, the IFilters will be automatically registered and available for use by WDS.
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19.12.2007Google Desktop 2 Emerges From
Beta
Revamped indexing and search
tool offers features (and
versions) for work and home...
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04.11.2005Two Libraries Join Windows
Live Book Search
Microsoft said Friday that two
new academic libraries have
joined its Windows Live Book
Search program, the University
of California and the
University of Toronto.
Additionally, an indexing
service for in-print book
publishers was announced...
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09.06.2006Preview of new Windows Search adds cross-PC indexing
A typical lexical search engine creates a single, indexed repository of addressable content, which can get pretty cumbersome to search through unless
your name is "Google." Now, Microsoft is shedding a little more light on an alternative...
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29.03.2008YouTorrent relaunches with focus on legal downloads
One of the fastest-growing new BitTorrent sites said late Wednesday that it had relaunched its search engine, indexing nearly six terabytes of legal
content...
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18.07.2008Twelve 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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05.09.2008Lenovo 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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26.11.2008Google adds 'on demand' indexing to Site Search
Google will enhance its
hosted Site Search service for businesses on Thursday by letting Web publishers trigger a re-indexing of their site whenever
they want.
The new feature gives control to Web publishers over the frequency with which Google refreshes its index of the
site's content, something that until now had been automatically scheduled by Google's system based on internal algorithms.
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13.11.2008Technorati Looks to Expand
Audience
Blog aggregator Technorati
relaunched its popular site on
Monday, redesigning the site
to make it easier to use while
making changes to the backend
to improve indexing time of
new posts, and improving its
link-counting mechanism...
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25.07.2006Google Wants More Vista Changes
Google Inc. said today that it
wants federal and state
regulators to press Microsoft
Corp. to make more changes to
Windows Vista's desktop
search and indexing tool.
Although
Microsoft struck an agreement
yesterday with the Department
of Justice (DOJ) and 17 state
attorneys general to modify
some aspects of Vista's
built-in search, Google said
antitrust officials should do
more.
"Microsoft's current
approach to Vista desktop
search clearly violates the
consent decree and limits
consumer choice," David
Drummond, Google's chief
legal officer, said in an
e-mail today. "We are pleased
that as a result of Google's
request that the consent
decree be enforced, the
Department of Justice and
state attorneys general have
required Microsoft to make
changes to Vista.
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rest of this article.
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21.06.2007BREIN claims victory over Demonoid, Demonoid claims downtime was coincidental
There's a bit of a public
relations tug of war currently
going on between BREIN and
Demonoid. BREIN is a Dutch
copyright protection firm
who's made a name for itself
by attempting to rid the
Netherlands of "illegal"
BitTorrent sites. Demonoid is
a private BitTorrent tracker
who has gained a significant
following over the last
several years. Caught in
between is LeaseWeb, a hosting
company that serves many
BitTorrent websites.
BREIN's latest victory
came last week when a Dutch
court ruled that LeaseWeb must
disable the BitTorrent site
Everlasting.nu and provide the
owner's personal details to
BREIN. Everlasting.nu wasn't
the only site BREIN wanted to
see disabled. As part of the
same complaint against
Everlasting.nut, three weeks
ago BREIN also demanded that
LeaseWeb disable Demonoid as
well.
Yesterday, it
appeared that BREIN had gotten
its way. Demonoid was off
line, and BREIN claimed
victory over another
BitTorrent website...
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28.06.2007Hide "TV + Movies" in Windows Media Center
Don't have a TV tuner installed in your computer but still enjoy using Windows Media Center?
If so, there is a simple registry modification that
you can make to disable the "TV + Movies" item in Media Center.
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