Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 Vista Loader 2.2.0 OEM BIOS Crack Emulator
This is New version of Vista Loader 2.2.0 from Chinese hackers. With this you can force a bios emulation and let Vista think it's installed on a OEM machine.
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20.5.2007 Windows 7 (15-Seconds-Boot) No Match for Windows “Instant On” (8-Seconds-Boot)
Microsoft revealed that it is targeting a 15 seconds boot time for Windows 7 in laboratory conditions, but the fact is that the Redmond company is cooking even something better.
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16.10.2008 Windows XP Running on PS3 - video
That’s right, a programmer has managed to get Windows XP running on a PlayStation 3 via Linux/QEMU.
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26.11.2006 PS3 and Xbox 360 about the same
MICROSOFT'S Xbox 360 and Sony's soon to be seen PS3 are much of a muchness according to games developer, Denis Dyack.
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1.11.2006 How to install another OS on your PS3
Who'll get the last laugh now? They said the PS3 sucks, is late, is too expensive, isn't worth it, isn't a bargain. Well, look at it now! It's shaping up to be something worth its weight in news.
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13.11.2006 Will the new firmware update save the PS3?
The latest firmware update transforms the PS3’s media capabilities by adding great features – but will it be enough to spur sales without a price cut?
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26.5.2007 PS3 Europe Launch Details Revealed
Details of the European PS3 launch have been officially unveiled by Sony. The console will only be available in the premium 60GB model at launch, and will retail for 599EUR and 425GBP.
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25.1.2007 Xbox 360 In Japan Selling Almost As Well As PS3
Another sign of Sony’s sinking fortunes came out last week, when the Japanese hardware sales chart showed that the Xbox 360 was gaining on it.
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29.6.2007 PS3 launch in Japan Spring 2006 under US$400?
So we got a tip from some guy who kind of knows somebody who is friends with a dude at Joystiq who posted about a 1UP story linking to a Japanese blog called CoolGamer that 1UP says has been pretty spot on with gaming news in the past.
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Pinned: Unconfirmed: Sony may work with Microsoft over PS3
Sony expects to ship over 100 million PlayStation 3 (PS3) game consoles, according to Tetsuhiko Yasuda, Sony Computer Entertainment Asia's corporate executive managing director and senior vice president of Asia. He also said Sony may work with Microsoft in the future.
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18.2.2006 Microsoft: Sony's 1080p Support on PS3 is all Hype
It's not uncommon for companies to downplay features that its products don't have in comparison to its competitors. Companies will usually talk about how customers won't likely use the feature or how it's not cost-effective to implement such features at a certain price point.
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19.8.2006 Wii Continues to Shine as PS3 Sales Slide Further
For the fourth month in a row, the Nintendo Wii outsold its competitors, even showing impressive strength at a time that is traditionally one of the slower periods for video game sales.
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21.5.2007 Sony promises more games to boost PS3 demand
Sony expects at least 380 new PlayStation 3 games to hit the market this business year and says that should rev up demand for the console that has so far lost out to Nintendo's wildly popular Wii.
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21.6.2007 Microsoft Xbox 360 outsells PS3 in Japan
Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 in Japan in September, beating the rival machine in monthly unit sales for the first time in Sony's home market, a game magazine publisher said.
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5.10.2008 Nintendo Retracts One Million Wiis Promise, Outsells PS3 Anyway
In a press release this morning, Nintendo issued a correction to a statement made the day before, asking readers to disregard just one sentence.
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9.12.2006 MS preps black Xbox 360 as PS3 spoiler?
Is Microsoft preparing a spoiler for Sony's PAL-region PlayStation 3 launch on 23 March?
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9.2.2007 Wii to outship and outsell Xbox 360 and PS3, says IDC
None of the three new game consoles – Nintendo's Wii, Sony's PlayStation 3, and Microsoft's Xbox 360 – will dominate the market in the next five years like the PS2 dominated the last cycle, but the Wii will outship and outsell the 360 and PS3 in 2007 and 2008, according to International Data Corporation (IDC).
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2.3.2007 Windows 7 10-Second Boot
Over a year ago, Microsoft revealed that it considered 15 seconds the ideal startup time for Windows 7 under laboratory conditions.
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7.10.2009 How to Change Windows Vista Boot Screen
Some of you remember how it was possible to change the boot logo screen of Windows 95/98. I'm not sure why anyone would go into the trouble of actually doing it, but it seems that it is possible to do the same for Windows Vista.
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19.11.2007 Dual Boot Windows and Linux on Supercomputers
As far as Microsoft is concerned, Windows and Linux dual boot scenarios go beyond the desktop, well beyond. The Redmond company's proprietary operating system and the open source platform can also dual boot on supercomputers.
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19.6.2008 Windows 7: Boot time under 15 seconds?
When Microsoft was developing Vista, or Longhorn, as it was known way back when, company officials were fond of making promises about ways that Microsoft would improve on Windows XP with its next-generation Windows release.
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3.9.2008 Windows 7 695x boot screen revealed
Chris Holmes, Windows Enthusiast and blogger, has posted a short and somewhat blurry video of the new Windows 7 boot screen in action.
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4.12.2008 The Windows 7 11-Second Boot and the Computer That Made It Possible
Windows 7’s evolution compared to Windows Vista is undeniable, and the lucky few that so far have had access to the RTM bits of the latest Windows client can confirm this.
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18.9.2009 Windows Vista Boot Logo Generator Beta
I know a lot of people were disappointed by the lack of a decent boot logo in Vista, so I’ve thrown together a tool that should simplify the process of creating the new high resolution boot logos!
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16.1.2007 Enable New Boot screen in Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2
Tired of the pathetic boot screen in current Vista builds? There is a new trick that will allow you to see what may be the new boot screen for Windows Vista.
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12.5.2006 No Boot Clean Installs Using Windows Vista Upgrade Discs
Although it has been discussed to death here, some official coverage on the front page is needed. Thanks to Ambiance for posting a direct response from Microsoft about the issue.
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28.1.2007 Remove Unnecessary Startup Entries To Boot Windows Faster
Sometimes it's very frustrating when your computer is booting up Windows very slowly especially when someone calls you up to check something on your computer, and you need to call back because your computer takes ages to boot.
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5.5.2007 Boot Camp: the day after
Now that Apple's Boot Camp is in the wild, there's very little to be said about booting into alternate operating systems on the Mac, right? Wrong! Because, not surprisingly, no sooner did Apple take the wraps off its little 30th birthday suprise, than Mac owners (or non-Mac owners who could cajole friends into lending them their Macs for a spell) began to put the Apple boot manager through its paces.
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6.4.2006 Vista Boot Screens
Thanks to desperados who report Vista bootscreens download in our forum and to Rick van Dijck (iemanduitnederland) author of the Boot Screens. Some nice boot screens for Windows Vista.
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12.3.2007How Vista screws dual-booting
nirvana
Declan Kennedy at APC Magazine
has written an interesting
analysis looking at
Microsoft's suspicious
lack of advancement in OS boot
technique.
Put
simply, Vista will still
overwrite the master boot
record with no regard for any
other boot loader that may be
present.
But
Kennedy also describes how,
with the right boot loader
configuration, you can setup a
dual-boot system that allows
you to switch between Windows
and Linux without having to
reboot either OS, using
hibernation.
His
observations open up
interesting possibilities for
Mac users too. Boot Camp would
be considerably more useful if
it didn't involve closing
all applications and fully
restarting the system each
time. If it were just a case
of sleeping one OS to switch
to the other, it'd be the
next best thing to perfect
virtualisation. Will Apple
implement this in time for
Panther?..
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03.09.2006Could Mac OSX run Windows apps natively?
Once Intel chips landed inside Macs and Boot Camp made its debut, it got a lot harder to blame rumor mongers for making a certain leap: Mac OS X could
one day run Windows apps sans-Windows. Indeed, projects like the open source Wine have facilitated some of this functionality, albeit in a limited
fashion, for some time now. But a new discussion on a Wine mailing list could refresh hope for those looking to get their Frankenstein on with Mac OS
X and Windows computing.
The discussion begins with a mailing list message called Interesting Behavior of OS X, in which Steven Edwards
describes the discovery that Leopard apparently contains an undocumented loader for Portable Executables, a type of file used in 32-bit and 64-bit
versions of Windows. More poking around revealed that Leopard's own loader tries to find Windows DLL files when attempting to load a Windows
binary.
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03.12.2007Windows 7 695x boot screen revealed
Chris Holmes, Windows Enthusiast and blogger, has posted a short and somewhat blurry video of the new Windows 7 boot screen in action. The latest
sign of changes for Windows 7 signals a departure from the Vista boot up screen. Microsoft kept the boot screen simple with Vista after asking BIOS
makers, PC makers, and video card makers to remove product advertisement screens at system boot. Microsoft created a simple boot method which it
claimed took 6 seconds off initial boot compared to the more graphical boot that it had originally planned with the Longhorn betas.
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04.12.2008Ubuntu targets 10 second boot time for 2010 release
In an email to developers of the Linux distribution Ubuntu, Canonical's Scott James Remnant explained how they hope to achieve a 10 second boot
time with Ubuntu 10.04, the version to be released in 2010, after 9.10 is released this fall. The projected speed improvements come with changes to
the kernel, such as making the X.org server, which controls the display elements in Linux, load up quicker. The boot process will divided into
sections with time budgets: two seconds for Kernal and initramfs, Plumbing (drive loader), and X.org server; and four seconds for the desktop session
and other services. "This benchmark time is to a fully logged in desktop (auto-login) with an idle CPU and Disk.
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11.06.2009Enable New Boot screen in
Vista Beta 2
Tired of the pathetic boot
screen in current Vista
builds? There is a new trick
that will allow you to see
what may be the new boot
screen for Windows Vista.
This new boot screen
is still not what we have been
expecting but is a move in the
right direction compared to
the white progress bar screen
currently used.
Enable New Boot Screen:
1. Click on the
start orb and type in
"MSCONFIG" in the textbox.
2. Once the
System Configuration tool
loads, click on the Boot tab.
3. Under Boot
Options check "No GUI
Boot".
4. Hit
OK and reboot to see the new
screen
More
tweaks at source!
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12.05.2006Windows 7 695x Boot Screen Video
Chris Holmes: So last week, winfuture posted about Windows 7 build 6954 having a new boot screen. Ever since then, people have been wanting to see
exactly what this new boot screen looks like. I can tell you it looks pretty nifty. It is basically 4 animating balls that come together and form a
glowing windows flag, making for a pretty cool effect.
I recently had a chance to film this boot screen in action, so without
further ado, watch the video of the new Windows 7 boot screen...
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04.12.2008Uncovered: Evidence that Mac OS X could run Windows apps soon
Once Intel chips landed inside Macs and Boot Camp made its debut, it got a lot harder to blame rumor mongers for making a certain leap: Mac OS X could
one day run Windows apps sans-Windows. Indeed, projects like the open source
Wine have
facilitated some of this functionality, albeit in a limited fashion, for some time now. But a new discussion on a Wine mailing list could refresh hope
for those looking to get their Frankenstein on with Mac OS X and Windows computing.
The discussion begins with a mailing list
message called
Interesting Behavior of OS X, in
which Steven Edwards describes the discovery that Leopard apparently contains an undocumented loader for
Portable Executables, a type of file used in 32-bit and 64-bit
versions of Windows. More poking around revealed that Leopard's own loader tries to find Windows DLL files when attempting to load a Windows binary.
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02.12.2007ASRock "4 second" Instant Boot for Windows
Want a way to boot up your Windows Vista PC from a full shut down in a matter of seconds? ASRock have the answer!
The solution is
technology that ASRock call Instant Boot. This is interesting technology because it leverages the S3 and S4 ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface) features which normally enable the Sleep/Standby and Hibernation modes in Windows to cut boot times down to something like 4 seconds. By
calling S3 and S4 at specific times during the startup and shutdown process, Instant Boot enables you to boot up to your Windows desktop in a few
seconds seconds, even after a total shut down.
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13.11.2008How To Warm Boot Windows XP/Vista
Unless you have to, it is many
times advantageous to śwarm
bootť, or rather warm reboot,
Windows. In a warm reboot,
Windows restarts, but the
computer doesnt, skipping the
whole pre-Windows boot
screen/BIOS/startup sequence.
You an
easily specify a warm boot
in both Windows XP and Windows
Vista. Just hold down SHIFT on
your keyboard before clicking
śRestartť in Vista, or before
clicking OK in the restart
dialog in XP. Enjoy the extra
20 seconds!
Technically, the use of
the term śwarm bootť is a bit
misused here, but the small
amount of time saved by not
re-running the BIOS can be
worth it.
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17.08.2007Engineering the Windows 7 Boot Animation
Steven Sinofsky: As we connect through this blog and through all of those talking about Windows 7 it is clear that folks have a lot of passion around
many topics. We learned early on about the passion around the boot/startup sequence and how important it was for that to go by quickly! At the same
time, we know that it is really dull to watch a HDD light blink when resuming a machine from hibernate or powering up a machine. To improve this first
connection with people, we set out to improve the boot sequencejazz it up if you will. It sounds pretty easy, but as we looked into solving this we
found it is a pretty significant engineering challenge. Our goal was to have fun while having no impact on the boot performance of the system. To
explain this engineering and describe the boot sequence, Karen Wong, a program manager on our Core User Experience feature team, authored this
post.
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19.02.2009Demonstration: Windows 7 VHD Boot
This command line demonstration explains how to build a bootable Windows 7 VHD image from a Windows 7 śinstall.wimť file using diskpart.exe and
imagex.exe. The demonstration continues with an explanation of how to configure the boot entry using bcdedit.exe and explains the limitations of VHD
Boot. Note: This screencast discusses a release candidate of a Microsoft product. The information in this screencast is provided as-is and is subject
to change without notice.
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01.05.2009Apple Software Adds Windows to
Mac
In a stunning move, Apple on
Wednesday officially
sanctioned the running of the
Windows XP operating system on
Intel-based Macs through the
release of a software package.
Called Boot Camp, the 86MB
beta product provides a
dual-boot sequence and the
drivers necessary to run
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05.04.2006Engineering Windows 7: Boot Performance
Michael Fortin: For Windows 7, we have a dedicated team focused on startup performance, but in reality the effort extends across the entire Windows
division and beyond. Our many hardware and software partners are working closely with us and can rightly be considered an extension to the team.
Startup can be one of three experiences; boot, resume from sleep, or resume from hibernate. Although resume from sleep is the
default, and often 2 to 5 seconds based on common hardware and standard software loads, this post is primarily about boot as that experience has been
commented on frequently. For Windows 7, a top goal is to significantly increase the number of systems that experience very good boot times. In the
lab, a very good system is one that boots in under 15 seconds.
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30.08.2008Upgrading a Laptop to Dual
Boot with Windows XP x64
Edition
Columnist Barb Bowman explains
how she upgraded a AMD64
laptop to a dual boot system...
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04.01.2006VistaBootPRO Released!
NeoSmart Technologies and
PROnetworks recently worked
together on a much wanted
application for Vista. This
program is mainly a User
Interface to modify Vista's
bootloader behaviour and
settings. The main
modifications it can operate
are adding an entry, modify
it, or remove one of them
easily. The biggest features
of it are for sure Bootloader
removing and backups
support.
Particularly useful as
Microsoft bloated the bcdedit
Boot loader editor with
crypted and misleading
commands. Another nice touch
about it is that it can be
used to recover a broken
Windows installation if the
problem is related to boot
sector.
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17.05.2006Leopard's Boot Camp brings 'fast switching' between Mac OS X and Windows
Thanks to TUAW readers, tips
are rolling in on all the tiny
and not-so-tiny features that
Mac OS X Leopard will be
bringing in October. One
feature that is definitely
not-so-tiny is something I'll
dub 'fast switching' between
Mac OS X and your Boot Camp
Windows installation.
While this isn't quite
the built-in virtualization
that some users were hoping
for, it will minimize the
startup, shutdown and boot
times when switching between
the two OSes. Detailed on
http://www.apple.com/macosx/le
opard/features/bootcamp.html>B
oot Camp's new features page,
Apple has hooked their safe
sleep feature into Boot Camp
to allow Mac OS X to save all
your open applications and
windows, and then boot over
into Windows. Once you're
done in Windows, you can boot
back over to Mac OS X and pick
up where you left off - with
all your open applications and
documents put right back where
you left them.
This
is a great idea and an
interesting compromise between
making it a little too easy to
run Windows on your Mac, and
it also keeps Apple from
stepping on the toes of
virtualization products from
companies like Parallels and
VMware.
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12.06.2007Phoenix Instant Boot BIOS starts loading Windows in under a second
Phoenix is showing off a few interesting things at IDF, but the real standout is their new Instant Boot BIOS, a highly optimized UEFI implementation
that can start loading an OS in just under a second. Combined with Windows 7's optimized startup procedure, that means you're looking at incredibly
short boot times -- we saw a retrofitted Dell Adamo hit the Windows desktop in 20 seconds, while a Lenovo T400s with a fast SSD got there in under 10.
It's pretty slick stuff, and it should be out soon -- check a video after the break...
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25.09.2009Apple Releases Boot Camp 2.1 Update
Apple released Boot Camp 2.1 for
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Service Pack 3,
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ws Vista 64.
This update addresses issues and improves compatibility with Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Vista running
on a Mac computer using Boot Camp. It is highly recommended for all Boot Camp users.
Important: Installation of Boot Camp 2.1 is
required before installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3)
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to allow Intel Mac owners to boot dual boot Windows alongside Mac OS X. Running Windows under Boot Camp provides you with a fully compatible Windows
environment.
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25.04.2008PS3 Slim shows up on major retailer sites, coming 8/24/09?
The PS3 slim has been rumored for quite some time. But now more than ever it's almost guaranteed that Sony will announce the new PS3 tonight at
its three hour long press conference. Sears and Kmart both have live web pages that allow you to pre order the upcoming PS3 Slim. While it is not
known if the PS3 Slim name will stay, it is certain that a new, thinner, cheaper, PS3 is on the way. Kmart and Sears both list the console at
$299.99 which is a $100 price drop over the current price for the console; both sites list availability on 8/24/2009. Unknown at this point
is what all the PS3 Slim will include.
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18.08.2009Vista tips and tricks: changing boot options on the fly
There are a number of boot options that can be used in Vista and Windows Server 2008 that can be a pain to modify (or not possible if you are in a
bugcheck loop), that can be done on the fly at boot time. These options are invaluable for diagnosing some problems you may experience on the system,
and modifying them in the OS may involve figuring out the bcdedit syntax, the right BCD store to modify, or rebuilding and burning a new install DVD
(if the problem is happening during install from media).
Some example boot switches you might want to use are...
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