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Windows XP era ends? Will Vista step up?

The Windows XP era ends June 30 and soon hardware vendors will be shipping you all Vista all the time (in most cases).
The save XP effort failed. The whining should cease. And now it’s time for Vista to sink or swim.
Ina Fried has a good overview of where Windows XP will stand with PC manufacturers. [...]

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Make your Windows XP look like MAC OS X

Most of the Windows XP users are not satisfied by the design of the windows and are struggling to find the good software to make it look cool and attractive. I will give you a way to make your Windows XP look like Mac OS X.
Mac OS X lacks behind Windows XP in performance and [...]

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Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy

Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista underperforms in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception. In this demo I show how Vista outperforms Windows XP and I show the under the covers process traces of just how it achieves it.
Demo environment consists of two images. One Vista SP1 [...]

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XP-AntiSpy 3.97 Beta - Download and Try!

XP-AntiSpy is an utility that let’s you disable some built-in update and authetication features in Windows XP.
For example, there’s a service running in the background wich is called ‘Automatic Updates’. I don`t know what this service transfers from my machine to other machines on the internet, especially the MS ones. So I play it safe [...]

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XP SP3 Professional vs. Vista SP1 - Tested

Call it a sign of desperation, a new attempt to blow some wind in the sails of its latest platform, or a reaction to the proverbial last drop, but Microsoft is delivering its own perspective in terms of the comparison between its two Windows clients sharing the vast majority of the operating system market. Just [...]

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Windows XP SP3 Aches, Pains, and User Complaints

Installing Microsoft’s XP Service Pack wasn’t smooth sailing for everyone–here’s how to work around the glitches.
Even though my SP3 update went well, maybe yours didn’t. So far, I’ve heard from about a dozen readers experiencing problem installations. This week, I share a few complaints and show you a fix for one of the most common [...]

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No XP to Vista upgrade (Even after the release of SP1)

Over a year after the general availability of Windows Vista (January 30, 2007), and a year and a half after the business launch of the latest Windows client (November 30, 2006), the product has yet to receive the love forecasted by Microsoft.
While predicting nothing short of Wow experiences, it is waking up following the availability [...]

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NVIDIA GeForce Release 175.16 WHQL (Vista32 Vista64 XP32 XP64)

# WHQL Certified for Windows Vista 32Bit, 64Bit
# WHQL Certified for Windows XP 32Bit, 64Bit
# Supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, and 9 series GPUs including these newly released GPUs:
* GeForce 9800 GX2
* GeForce 9800 GTX
* GeForce 9600 GT
* GeForce 9600 GSO
* GeForce 8300
* GeForce 8200/ nForce 730a
* GeForce 8100/nForce 720a
# Supports single GPU and NVIDIA [...]

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Wrapping up Windows XP3 SP3 Build 5512 - Download Information

Technically, Microsoft has yet to wrap things up with the distribution of Windows XP Service Pack 3, and is now gearing up for the final stage designed to serve the operating system through Automatic Updates. But, other than pushing the service pack to all XP users with AU enabled, the Redmond company has wrapped up [...]

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Windows XP Now Available on OLPC XO Notebook

XO Windows XP trials to start in June
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation has been pushing its XO notebooks in developing nations for a while now at a price of $188 per notebook. The XO has had some stiff competition in the market from competitors like the Classmate from Intel. Many have seen one [...]

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