Another legacy feature that has been reduced support in Windows Vista is EMS or Expanded Memory Specification, which is not normally available to DOS applications under Vista. Thus, to use or run an old and legacy DOS programs that requires the used of expanded memory (EMS) in Vista, EMS memory needed to simulate or emulate.
System Restore in Windows Vista and Windows XP will create restore point at specific interval periodically, typically once a day, where critical Windows system files are backed up and stored to preserve a static state at that particular point of time. Restore point is also created when System Restore detects there is going to be a change to your computer, especially on important system files. […]
If you have already using Microsoft Office 2007 and save the documents in Office Open XML file format (with the file extensions such as .docx, .xlsx and .pptx), you probably will face incompatibility issue and non-support of OpenXML format in other applications including of Microsoft own Office software for Mac platform, i.e. Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac and Microsoft Office v. X for Mac.
Windows Photo Gallery is a photo management, image tagging and editing tool that comes free with Windows Vista. Windows Photo Gallery is the default association program in Vista that is configured to handle and associated with a few picture file formats and extensions, such as .bmp Bitmap Image, ico Icon, .jfif, .jpe, .jpeg, .jpg, JPEG Image, .PNG PNG Image, .tif, .tiff TIFF Image, and .wdp […]
We have discussed in a previous article “Parents Can Say No to Porn Site via OpenDNS” on using OpenDNS to help parents prevent their kids from accessing porn sites or adult sites. Undoubtedly in some cases smart kids can still reset and switch back to the DNS and continue enjoying free access. Every program somehow or rather has its advantages, disadvantages, strengths and weaknesses. If […]
Macecraft Software released its updated version of its popular toolkit, jv 16 PowerTools 2007 lately. The jv16 PowerTools is a Windows optimization suite and registry cleaning toolkits which contain 21 different tools that can help users to optimize their computer in many aspects and to keep their computer running smoothly without error.
Microsoft Corporation filed two lawsuits against alleged unknown spammers who had been sending many spam advertising debt relief and adult websites to Window Live Hotmail accounts. The company who is sued by Microsoft, Consumer Solutions Network, operates several Internet domains including myfinancialsolutions.org, consumersolution.org, and financialsolutionsonline.org. Microsoft claimed that this company keeps sending “misleading, deceptive, and unsolicited commercial e-mails advertising debt relief help to Windows Live […]
Windows Vista is running normally and properly, no blue screen, no error, no problem and it seems that everything is fine. However, the free disk space that is available kept reducing and shrinking to less and less amount. The free space can decreases by up to a few GBs a day, even if you do not download any big files, receive any big attachments or […]
Other than change the limit of System Restore disk usage allocation to reduce allocation amount and free up the space, you can also immediately delete and reclaim almost all space used by System Restore and Shadow Copies (including Previous Versions) by using Disk Cleanup Manager to eliminate all but the most recent System Restore point.
Whenever users install software program, drivers, updates, hotfixes and other system changing files, Windows Vista will create Restore Point by using System Restore, part of System Protection feature, where a snapshot and stored state of important system files are backed up and copied using Shadow Copy service. It anything goes wrong such as driver not working or program causes instability to the system, users can […]
If you own Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate edition, you may notice there is a Previous Versions tab for each files and folders. Previous Versions is a new system protection feature added to Windows Vista operating system. Previous Versions is based on Volume Shadow Copy service (also known as Volume Snapshot Service or VSS) which allows Windows to take manual or automatic backup copies […]
TimerLock is an automated installer for the popular TimerStop.sys Vista crack, which used to bypass or skip Windows Vista activation requirement. TimerStop.sys crack works in such a way that it will terminate the countdown timer service in Vista and hence stop the the remaining time left to activate Vista from counting down. Taking advantage of the free 30 days use of Vista without product key […]
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