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Windows Vista User Account Control

One of the latest additions to Windows is the User Account Control system or so called UAC. Even though we have already experienced similar feature (Limited Account, User Account Protection etc) in earlier versions of Windows, this time it is slightly different. This security feature prevents ‘standard user‘ from running programs that may harm the [...]

How to Enable Windows Vista ReadyBoost

Windows Vista comes with a new performance feature called Vista ReadyBoost. This feature allows you to use your USB flash drives as temporary memory instead of the regular HDD pagefile. As USB drives are faster than hard disk drives, using readyboost can improve your system performance when you are low on installed RAM.
To Enable ReadyBoost [...]

Windows XP Superfetch

Eventhough this is not exactly related to Vista, I thought I would post it for current XP users.
Microsoft has already implemented SuperFetch in Windows XP SP2. This means Superfetch is not new to Windows vista as ealier described. You can enable Superfetch in Windows XP SP2.
Enable Superfetch In Windowx XP SP2
Start Regedit ( Click Run [...]

Windows Vista SuperFetch

MS Windows Vista’s SuperFetch is a memory management program that actively monitors the user behavior and pre-loads frequently used programs to un-used memory. Thus when you need a program, it will be loaded very quickly than in XP based based systems.
Another specialty is that this allows other routine programs such as defragmenter and Windows defender [...]

Windows Vista Sleep Function

Microsoft Windows Vista’s new  feature is the sleep function. This function has the benefits of earlier Windows’ hibernation & standby modes. By sleep function you can easily resume you PC faster than in the state of hibernation or standby.
Before going to the sleep function details, let me quickly explain you how standby and hibernation works. [...]

Adobe Fans Have to Wait for Newer Vista Compatible Software

Adobe just issued a statement regarding current Adobe products and their incompatibility with Windows Vista Editions. Adobe says, they have no plan on creating Vista ready update packages of popular programs like Photoshop CS2, In Design & Dreamweaver 8. These programs were found to work erroneously on some editions of Windows Vista.
However, they plan to [...]