One of the side effect of installing KB938979 Vista Performance and Compatibility Pack in order to improve the performance and stability of Windows Vista is that it breaks the ability to bypass, skip or disable driver signature signing permanently using “bcdedit -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS” command in 64-bit Windows Vista (32-bit Vista seems not affected yet). Lack of disable driver signing feature caused the uncertified device […]
The famous social networking website, Facebook, has finally acknowledged the rumour that a section of its code was leaked out on Monday. The leaked code had been copied and posted on a blog, Facebook Secrets. Having announced that, Facebook denied that the personal details of its 52million users had been compromised.
Microsoft rolls out two important updates that trying to make Windows Vista looks more like high quality consumer product instead of half-finished testing codes rushed to production to beat deadline. KB938194 Vista Reliability Update and KB938979 Performance Update fixes and patches various bugs, hardware drivers incompatibility, instability, unreliability, various low performance issues and speed benchmarks in Windows Vista.
Other than KB93897 Vista Performance Update, Microsoft also releases another hotfix Vista Reliability and Compatibility Update KB 938194. KB938194 Vista update aims to resolves several hardware compatibility issues and improves reliability issues in Windows Vista. Again KB938194 Vista update is not delivered via Automatic Updates, and is not selected in Windows Update. The fixes may included in future Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) released, but […]
If you feel that Windows Vista is buggy, Microsoft knows this too. Hence the release of Windows Vista Performance Update (KB 938979) which intends to improve the the performance of Vista system in certain scenarios. KB938979 hotfixes is not released via Windows Update or Automatic Updates yet, and may include as part of upcoming Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), but you can download the update […]
Real Player 11 beta has been released by RealNetworks and available for free download. The main new feature is that RealPlayer 11 is the first media player to floating a “Download this video” button next to video embedded on websites, making it one-click simple to download and record online videos from thousands of web sites. Another improvement supposedly to be increase compatibility and support for […]
When you try to download any suite, application or edition release Microsoft Office 2007 retail products or Office 2K7 Enterprise edition installer setup file online, you will need to login with your Windows Live ID or Microsoft Passport account, and/or have to fill up profile information such as name, contact address, email address, phone number, company name and other personal details. However, all this order […]
Other than free download of Microsoft Office 2007 products and suites that targets OEM (Original Equipment Manufacture) and retail market, Microsoft also releases Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 for free 60-days trial download for evaluation by IT professionals and developers. Office 2007 Enterprise edition is the most complete suite of Office 2007 with various toolset for teams to collect, organize, collaborate, and share critical information across […]
Enterprise, corporate and business customers who purchase volume licensing type of license such as Open License (OPL), Select License, or customized subscription agreemnt for Microsoft Office 2007 products can now download Office 2007 software online directly via Internet from Microsoft, eliminating the need to order volume licensing media CD or DVD.
Aapplication software that is written and built with Visual C++ (VC++) Express SP1 or Visual Studio 2005 SP1 will need to have VC++ 8.0 runtime libraries installed on the computer that does not have Visual Studio or Visual C++ 5.0 installed. Else when users attempt to run and execute the program, the errors such as failed to load DLL, component is missing a required dependency, […]
In Windows operating system, system locale is the language that is used to display the text in menus and dialog boxes for programs that do not use Unicode. By changing system language locale which is normally set to same language as Windows itself to application’s native language, the garbled and gibberish text displayed can be shown properly if the correct locale code page is selected.
foobar2000 or foobar2k is a freeware advanced audio player for Windows which available for free download. foobar2000 features include full Unicode (UTF8) support, ReplayGain support, native support for several popular audio formats such as MP3, MP4, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA and WMA, metadata (IDv1, IDv3 and APEv2) support, and a very minimalist and basic user interface, so minimal that you […]
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