Showing posts with label vista. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vista. Show all posts

Windows Vista Blue Screen of Death

How to Disable Vista Aero Effects While Playing Game

One of the most appealing feature of Vista is of course Aero Effect. But like all other visual niceties Aero uses part of your performance, and if your machine is not state of art performance monster you are better off turning this effect while you are performing off the desktop jobs like playing games.

And here is how to do it:

Right-click on the shortcut of the game and choose Properties, and then the Compatibility tab ... Now on the Settings block check the box for "Disable desktop composition" in order to disable Aero the next time you use the shortcut.

Don't expect a performance boost after, you may not even recognize the difference. But still any increase is an increase :)

source:
HowToGeek

Facts from Microsoft about Vista

Windows Vista wallpaper (by Microsoft)

People like complaining, and one of the most popular complaint in tech world is about Vista. Like all other OSs and softwares Vista has its share of faults. But before complaining you should know some vital facts about Vista:

  • Majority of Windows Vista-based PCs boot in less than a minute.
  • Majority of all Windows Vista-based PCs resume from sleep in less than 6 seconds.
  • Windows ReadyBoost is a terrific new innovation in Windows Vista that lets you speed up your system in seconds, and PCs running Windows Vista that are equipped with 512 MB memory experience a performance boost of up to 40 percent.
  • Windows Vista users generally experience 20 percent fewer application "hangs" than those running Windows XP.
  • Based on their first 180 days of availability, Windows Vista has been shown to have fewer vulnerabilities than Windows XP or Mac OS X 10.4.
  • Windows Vista security has improved so much that PCs running it are 60 percent less likely to be infected with viruses, worms, and rootkits than PCs running Windows XP SP2.
  • And Windows Vista-based PCs are over 90 percent less likely to be infected than systems running Windows XP without a Service Pack.
  • Windows Vista-based PCs are almost three times less likely to be infected with potentially unwanted software than Windows XP-based PCs because of Vista shipping with Windows Defender.
  • Internet Explorer 7 is now blocking nearly 1 million attempts to access these fake sites per week. New phishing attacks are more than 25 times as common as new viruses. That's right, over 20,000 of these fake websites are created every month.

source: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/facts.mspx

Vista drive icons for Windows XP


There are lots of improvement in Vista over XP but for a lot people the best change is Vista’s look. And luckily there are all kinds of transformation tools for your Windows XP to make it look like Vista. Here is one for just changing the drive icons: Vista Drive Icon. With this little tool you can have Vista like drive icons with storage indicator in XP. You can download the open source program from SourceForge site.

Vista Drive Icon, changes the drive icons shown in Windows "My Computer", to a nearly Vista drive icon, showing the drive's free space with a smooth colored horizontal bar.

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