fudzilla.com Updated:
2013-09-16 01:24:47
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Review: Works with 512 MB of memoryWe managed to install and run Windows Vista Business edition on a PC with a bit older hardware components. PC we used has AMD Athlon 2500, Barton core and Geforce 5200FX graphics card with 512 RAM. Geforce 5200FX is...
Surprisingly or not, Vista Business edition works on Athlon XP 2500+, Nvidia 5200FX and only 512MB RAM. Of course that it works a lot better on better PCs but the mere fact that it can work on this old bucket is very encouraging. Vista Aero glass wa...
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In helping my Dad switch over from AOL to Cox for Internet service, I was forcibly reminded about what messes certain Windows applications can be. Some are infamous for leaving countless traces of themselves behind on Windows PCs, even after you run t...
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dragonsteelmods.com Updated:
2015-12-18 09:11:24
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Since I ran the comparisons on the service pack updates for Windows Vista and Windows XP I thought it might be interesting to combine those results into one brief article comparing the two and see how they stand up against each other. I had a few comm...
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The story of Windows Vista is one fraught with tragedy (at least, as tragic as software can get). The operating system had a difficult birth, with Microsoft scrapping its work and starting over again about half-way through the development cycle, sheddi...
Somewhat fittingly, Service Pack 1 very much mirrors Windows Vista itself in the way it delivers (or fails to deliver) on users expectations. If you were looking for across-the-board system performance improvements or major new features, prepare to be...
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Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista couldn’t have arrived soon enough; this is only exacerbated after I realised that the document was 77 pages long. Microsoft generalises these improvements in its document which details several sections under the br...
Overall, there are the occasional epic performance improvements and some epic losses, but for the most part the performance is very consistent. Considering all the additional fixes – the compatibility improvements, the security fixes and other tweak...
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Just a week ago, Microsoft released the long-awaited and, as a result of its release, we felt it was right to move all of our test systems to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as soon as possible. There will be a few reviews published during the transit...
On the whole then, the benefits of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 from a gamers’ perspective are quite small at the moment – you should see similar performance to what you’re getting with an up-to-date vanilla Vista installation with all of the latest ho...
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It’s hard to say the last year has been anything but rough for Microsoft’s Windows division. Although we found Windows Vista favorable upon its launch last year after watching it go through an usually drawn-out development process, such a sent...
As far as the Vista user experience is concerned, users shouldn’t expect any significant changes with SP1. In this respect Vista SP1 is much like any other Windows service pack, rather than being another XP SP2. To that extent if you threw a pre-SP1...
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crn.com
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2015-12-18 09:11:24
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After more than a year of grumbling from VARs, continued "downgrade-to-XP" offers from OEMs and decidedly mixed reviews for Windows Vista, Microsoft is finally gearing up to make its first service pack for Vista available en masse. The CMP Channel Test...
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For a few months now any mention of Vista would spark some conversation about its failings, with an addendum asking "where the hell is SP1?" This week then represented a small step forward, with Microsoft finally making the Release Candidate 1 version of...
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Introduction to Part IIOther forms of protectionNetworkingDisks and storageEncryption and searchCriticism and conclusion Windows Vista: Under the Hood By Peter Bright | Published: June 07, 2007 - 01:10AM CT Introduction to Part II Editors Note: In "W...
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As part of the upload process Windows Photo Gallery creates thumbnails and displays the thumbnails in chronological order. A column on the left of the screen allows you to tag and rate each file. And then, if you want to use your own storage and filing...
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Think of it as legal steroids for your HTPC. Plenty of people dont give operating systems a second thought. But they determine what we see and hear and ultimately how we interact with our computer—and everything stored on it. Such software is Micros...
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Microsoft Windows Vista is the successor of the successful and aged Windows XP. Microsoft intents to optically catch up with the competitors MacOS X by Apple and Linux distributions, which are both getting more potent. Furthermore, Microsoft states tha...
Colorful - more colorful – Vista. Vista places emphasis on current graphical trends, which seem to please the eyes of most users. Even the new features like the central search, the mobility center and improvements of the Windows explorer have clear advant...
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It's been five years in the making. Hundreds of thousands of man hours have gone into its development. Millions of words have already been written about it. Some have already written it off, others can't wait to get their hands on a copy. Finally it's he...
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v3.co.uk Updated:
2015-12-18 09:11:24
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The build-up is over and XPs successor hits the shelves...
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elitebastards.com Updated:
2015-12-18 09:11:24
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It seems like the names Longhorn and Vista have been floating around longer than I care to remember, so long has the gestation period for Microsofts latest Operating System been. As talk turned towards this product as work on it began after the r...
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Windows Vista is here at last. One of the largest software projects ever undertaken, Vista is indisputably a milestone—despite Microsofts having abandoned many of its most ambitious goals for the OS—and not just for Microsoft but for the entir...
Improved security. Slick Aero interface. Pervasive search. New APIs and hardware support. Better built-in apps.
Hefty hardware requirements. Minor bugs and rough edges in UI. Lack of a killer app to compel adoption. Many features also available for Windows XP users.
Vista offers a lot of improvements over Windows XP, but most of them are conveniences rather than essentials...
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firingsquad.com Updated:
2015-12-18 09:11:24
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After over five years in development, Microsoft’s next-generation operating system Windows Vista is merely hours away from its retail debut. As we outlined in our Windows Vista Preview, Microsoft has integrated quite a few new features into Windows...
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gcn.com
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2015-12-18 09:11:24
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Running Vista with an extra gigabyte of system memory supplied by a USB key drive actually improved the GCN/Alterion benchmark score by 200 points over the same system running XP without the memory boost. Most people won’t want to run their PCs or...
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Microsoft Windows Vista RTM Windows Vista has finally gone RTM! Thats short for Release To Manufacturing, tech parlance for the final or gold version of the product. Although end-users will not be able to buy it off the shelves until January 30th, 200...
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