With the Windows 7 Local Group Policy Editor (LGPE), we have seen just how much you can alter your operating system (OS) in some interesting ways. In Part V there are even more changes to look into. The policies which are covered in this section apply to changes in areas of your system which can [...]
Leave a Comment January 1, 2010
In Windows Vista, Microsoft gave us the first taste of User Account Control. It was designed to protect the operating system (OS) from malware by locking the Desktop and then confronts you with a warning dialog asking you – the user – to confirm or deny the operation in question. A good idea but, in [...]
Leave a Comment November 1, 2009
If you have ever found it necessary to investigate a memory issue in a Windows operating system (OS), you will be quite familiar with the Windows Task Manager, the Performance tab, and the Resource Monitor. From its introduction in Windows 95, the Task Manager has been upgraded bit by bit to include more data and [...]
Leave a Comment October 28, 2009
Now to the important parts, feature in Win 7. A few reasons why Windows Vista are hated, compatibility issues & bad sources utilized. Even with the Netbook I’m using, Vista runs slow with Aero effects turned on. Of course you can try to turn off the Aero effects, but that’d totally destroy the purpose of [...]
1 Comment September 27, 2009
Many might have wondered how does the new Microsoft Windows 7 look like? Well if you have seen a Windows vista before, it pretty much look the same in a nutshell. But don’t get confused, the new Windows 7 is not just a Service Pack for Vista. There is a lot of new features in [...]
Leave a Comment August 21, 2009
Even more fun
As the release date for the final version of the newest operating system is drawing near, more and more users are downloading the pre-released version and are familiarizing with the abundance of new functions and applications. Just for the fun of it, some of these applications are here to let you compete with [...]
Leave a Comment August 18, 2009
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