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 […]
Startup Delayer version 2.3.127 beta has been released. This program grants you the power to speed up your computer’s startup process. It allows you to choose and specify which program to start first and which program to start later. Every time your Windows loads its Startup file, it loads every program in there. As many programs tend to be loaded at one time, it will […]
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 […]
Wanna measure your smile? Omron has recently released its new Smile Measurement Software, an interesting and innovative software that able to automatically detect and identify faces of 1 or more people in digital images and then assign each smile factor on a scale of 0 to 100%, as what you see in the photo. With 3D face mapping technology, this software can ensure accurate smile […]
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 […]
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 latest build 6001.16633 limited pre-beta release was available for download in .EXE standalone executable format. Microsoft does not provide any guide on how users can apply SP1 update to offline extracted Windows Vista DVD setup files, or slipstream SP1 into Vista RTM DVD ISO image so that the subsequently installed Vista will directly have the service pack. In fact, the […]
Want to impress your friend with an Internet Explorer browser that crafted with your own name on it? Microsoft Internet Explorer has a feature that allows third party publishers, service providers, manufacturers, distributors and other interested parties to put their own brand or descriptive name to be associated with the popular browser. The hack is actually the same with the trick to change the description […]
Not familiar with the new Office 2007 menu system named Office Fluent Ribbon? Fluent Ribbon replaces the familiar and commonly used menus, toolbars, and task panes in a effort by Microsoft to consolidate all the related functionality in one place and hence improve usability. Fluent Ribbon is a pane with several tabs or contextual tabs consist of relevant buttons or icons of controls or commands, […]
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