Thumbs.db is a file existed and used in Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Mac OS X to store thumbnails cache of various graphics, pictures, photos or some documents and files such as those with JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIF, PDF and HTM extension when these files are viewed in Windows Explorer’s Thumbnail or Filmstrip view. Thumbnail preview of video files are also supported in Windows […]
Windows Vista creates and generates a preview thumbnail for almost every file which the file format is supported when the file is been viewed in Windows Explorer, regardless view type selected, including photos, pictures, videos, documents, etc. The Extra Large Icons, Large Icons, Medium Icons and Tiles view will show the thumbnails of the files, while Small Icons, List and Details view does not. However, […]
On laptop or notebook computers that use Intel PRO Wireless 3945ABG built-in Wi-Fi network adapter in Windows Vista, the WiFi radio signal may just suddenly turns off, shuts off or disable randomly, with the Internet or network cuts off. The wireless network connection may still appear as active and connected with Excellent signal strength in Network Center, but the network status will change to Limited […]
AVG Anti Virus is a range of well-know antivirus protection tool for the Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms. This protection tool is available free-of-charge to home users for life. This application has all features that you require in an antivirus program. For instance, the AVG Email scanner will do email scanning to include email attachments; the AVG Resident Shield will provide real-time protection when files […]
Now IEPlus 1.1.1 is available. It is an add-on for Microsoft Internet Explorer which will bring you some special feature to make your web browsing and surfing become more convenience, more fun and more comfortable. It comes with features such as close tab when double clicked, super drag and drop, browse history, ads blocker, mouse gesture, extensible plugin system, URL shortcuts, etc.
Teredo is a transition technology that allows a computer or node located behind a IPv6-unaware network address translation (NAT) device to use IPv6 connectivity to communicate with other computers that use IPv6. Teredo tunneling technology defines a way of encapsulating IPv6 packets within IPv4 UDP datagrams that can be routed through NAT devices and on the IPv4 internet. IPv6 and Teredo is installed and enabled […]
IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the successor for IPv4, the current version of most popular network layer protocol for packet-switched internetworks used on the Internet. In Windows Vista, IPv6 is fully implemented and supported, is also installed and enabled by default, with full Internet Protocol security (IPsec) support for IPv6 traffic and Teredo tunneling support for non-IPv6 aware devices.
Windows Vista comes included with built-in Internet Information Services (IIS) Server 7.0, which is not installed and not enabled by default. For administrators need a web server for a small workgroup, ASP.NET developers that need a testing environment for ASP websites, or bloggers want a simple web host to publish their opinions, the free IIS Server in Vista provides instant and basic web server functionalities […]
Whenever user copy, move, transfer, delete, unzip files, folders, shortcuts and anything else in Windows Vista, there will be a prominent pop up dialog window that indicates that progress of the files and folders operation. The window title with progress bar will start with something like “Calculating time remaining”, and then change to “About x hour and x minutes (or x seconds) remaining” while the […]
For those who has tried out various fixes for slowness problem while copying, moving or deleting files and folders but failed to see any improvement or got problem solved, Microsoft may have also run out of options. However, Microsoft does publish a few more workarounds to improve the speed of large file transfers for Vista system facing the following symptoms.
Vista also has a built-in zip free and unzip compression and decompression utility as similar to Windows XP, except that the extraction or uncompress functionality in Vista appears to be very slow, buggy and broken, in other word, simply sucks. When unzip and extract the contents of a zip archive in Vista by clicking on “Extract All” or “Extract Files” in right click contextual menu, […]
Another problem that is caused by new Vista feature – TCP Windows Scaling. The symptom for Outlook 2007 slow problem is that when you download email messages from a POP3 mail server, the Microsoft Office Outllok 2007 may take a very long time to download the e-mail message. For example, for a relativly small 1-megabyte (MB) in size email message, the download process may take […]
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