Software

If you are using a computer to watch DVD, you might wonder which program is the best to do so. If you are using Windows operating system, surely you will try Microsoft’s Windows Media Player. It is absolutely free and it allows you to play audio and video files. But besides Window Media Player, what else you can try?

In Windows Vista, Microsoft incorporates new TCP/IP stack which features Auto Tuning capability. The Auto Tuning function able to adjust and optimize TCP/IP connection based on network utilization in order to increase the transfer rate throughput. In theory the new stack suppose to do so, however, in practical, Auto Tuning feature may not work correctly to bring better performance for network downloading and web surfing.

We first got a glimpse and preview of floating 3D user account picture which can swing or rotate sideway in Windows “Longhorn” Server build 4xxx (now officially named Windows Server 2008). The feature allows the static user photo on top of the Start Menu to become a 3D rotating image as demonstrated in the in Windows Server 2008 build 4xxx instead of simple fading effect […]

Tired of changing your laptop IP address while moving from office to home or when traveling around? Or even more frequent when you are setting up in the lab that required to change the laptop network configuration. Here is a simple solution for you. You can pre-configure 6 different sets of IP address, DNS server, domain, workgroup and etc and apply it to your laptop […]

TVAnts users who frequently watch television channels online know that the viewing experience may not be always smooth. TVAnts a P2PTV application which utilizes P2P to transmit streaming TV signal may have slow transfer rate sometimes. For this reason, in TVAnts, at Channels tab and Progress Details, viewers can actually monitor the streaming quality of the channel video by monitoring the Buffer progress bar.

First we have Bill Gates leaked edition of Windows Vista, then Microsoft released MSDN version of Vista setup files, and by end of January we also have official RTM and retail release of Windows Vista DVD image. Not to mention there are still OEM edition, upgrade version and web download version of Vista, plus ‘hacker’ or ‘amateur’ created version such as those fit into one […]

When you try to install Windows PowerShell 1.0 in Windows Vista which has EFS (Encrypting File System) disabled or turned off, you may encounter an error message prompted in “Windows Update Standalone Installer” dialog box: Installer encountered an error: 0x8007177f . This machine is disabled for file encryption.

Windows XP has reserved 10% of total hard disk capacity for the Recycle Bin by default. Ten percent might be considered very huge if based on today’s huge hard disks. For instance, on a 100GB hard disk, 10% works out to be 10GB. A total of 10GB reserved space for Recycle Bin might be too huge.

Windows PowerShell 1.0, which will be included as part of Windows Server 2008, is a new task-based command-line shell and scripting language to help system administrator, power users or IT professionals to manage, control and automate system administration of Windows operating system and its applications so that the process is done effectively and productively. Windows PowerShell features a new admin-focused scripting language, more than 130 […]

The latest advanced operating system from Microsoft, Windows Vista, not only feature a very much beautified graphical user interface and improved security, there are also plenty of under-the-hood enhancements and new utilities. Here’s a list of new executables that has been added to Windows Vista that you may find useful. Of course, the list may not be comprehensive, and the executables can be functions, programs, […]