Microsoft has announced the release of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2008 for IT managers. This release is for those companies who have already purchased the Desktop Optimization pack along with Windows Software Assurance agreements with Microsoft.
The current release updated two products of the optimization pack - Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 6.0 (DaRT) and [...]
Windows XP, since its debut in 2001, has been considered to be the most successful operating system from Microsoft will not be available for purchase after 31st January 2008. That will mark the end of life of one of the most successful products from Microsoft. This is perceived to be of a strategy from [...]
It’s a tool that we must have before we will ever need it for our disaster recover operations. Both as End users and Corporate users, we often run into issues with our Windows systems where we need to either perform System Restore or restoring a copy of registry from backup would fix the issue. But [...]
Vista is already here and some of us have even started planning an upgrade to Vista. Below is a list of 6 factors that you must consider before you decide to upgrade from your existing operating system to Vista, either for your personal system or your organization.
I don’t intend to draw upon any conclusions in [...]
Here is a list of 20 Windows Services that your Home and Standalone system can live without. Turning them off increases performance and minimizes security risks as well.
Alerter - You don’t need this service unless you want to see your Windows alerting you for un-necessary things.
Automatic Updates - Turn off unless you want to automatically [...]
As per the update on Microsoft’s Windows Vista Capable and Premium Ready PCs page, the minimum hardware requirement to happily run Vista is as follows:
Processor - At least a 800MHz processor. I recommend 1GHz processor.
Memory/RAM - At least 512 MB of memory. If your GPU uses shared memory, you should look at increasing it to [...]
UniveRSS is a RSS reader for Vista, leveraging the “WPF” [Windows Presentation Foundation], visualizes the RSS feeds and their contents.
It introduces a full-screen 3D universe where galaxies represent the folders of your RSS feed directory, and the stars are represented by the spinning cubes that hold the feed information. Size and position of the feed [...]