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Windows Vista : Customization Guide. |
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The GUI interface of Windows Vista is one of the most popular interface in the Operating System market today.
But what if you wish to customize your Windows Vista according to your own wish? In this article, you can learn how to edit the Vista Visual Style according to your specifications !
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| OpenXML : Microsoft gets it right this time ! |
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| OpenXML is the "opening" up of Microsoft Office. the earlier binary format of MS Office is now available for viewing & working upon by anyone. This has been a long way for Microsoft when in 2004 EU recommended that MS opens it Office formats. there may have been licenses granted to 3rd party developers for building products but OpenXML makes it available to all the developers of the Microsoft Technology ecosystem. |
| Microsoft does get things wrong but with OpenXML it is bang on target ! |
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How to Enable Vista Aero GUI in Windows Vista Home Basic. |
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| Windows Vista Home Basic Edition does not have the Aero GUI which is awesome. Here is a tutorial on how you can give your Home basic Edition the Aero feature ! |
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How to make a Visual Style for Windows Vista. |
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| With this easy-to understand tutorial, you will be able to create styles for your Vista. First you will need to download / install the following ... |
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| Using Windows Vista : The MVP Way ! |
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| That’s it, I can’t see the slogan “Intel Inside, Idiot outside” coming true & then users blaming Windows just because they don’t know how to work on Windows. No operating system in this world is good enough out of the box, you always need to make it good by installing or removing things you need & don’t need. This is a process which will sure take some time but the process is easy & you can save the files & settings so that you don’t need to do it again & simply use the old settings. |
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| How to customize colors in Vista's Copying dialog box. |
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| With the release of Vista, Microsoft has developed a new method of animation in explorer instead of AVIs (Video Clip). Here I am sharing a short method, to change the color of the 'Copying, Moving, Deleting, and Applying' attributes process... |
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| GigaSmilies |
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| I take pleasure in launching my new software : GigaSmilies v1.0. GigaSmilies is very simple to use. Just Click on the smiley you want to add in the forum... |
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| Add Custom 'Windows Color & Appearance' in Windows Vista. |
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| When you rt-click on your Vista Desktop, and select Personalize; in the Windows Color & Appearance, you are presented with a set of 8 colors to choose from. However, you can add a custom color scheme to it, or you can also create your own color set using color mixer, should you wish to. |
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| KNOW your Internet Explorer 7 ! A Power Review By an End-User. |
Reviewed By : Ravi |
| A nice and detailed End user's Review, highlighting all the features of Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista. |
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| Vista "Aero One" Theme for Windows Vista. |
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| Check out this smart Vista "Aero One" Theme for Windows Vista. Its crystal blue Microsoft logo on the task bar will probably take your breath away. |
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| Review : Budget Notebook For Vista - The Acer 4710z. |
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| The author considers the Acer 4710 laptop to be one of the finest value-for-money, budget notebook available in the market, for Windows Vista. He has reviewed it from all angles and here are his findings. |
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| Vista Blue Theme For Windows Vista. |
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| This author has created some good themes & skins for Windows Vista and also for those who are unable to use Aero, as also for Yahoo, XP, etc. Do check out his Vista Blue Theme here. |
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| Impact of Installing the Performance & Reliability Packs. |
 Jon Bennett has raised a pertinent point. No one has thought of 'how' the 2 packages from Microsoft "The Performance and Reliability Updates" have actually impacted Vista ! Here are his submitted observations : |
| "Since I installed the performance and reliability updates on August 10th, I did some experiments yesterday, to see if anything had changed; and have noticed the following: |
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| Microsofts Windows LIVE Services & Software. |
Reviewed By : Manan "iMav" , who enjoys technology, as a way of life. |
Web 2.0 is considered to be one of the best things to happen to the internet. Hotmail was Hot; and then GMail happened! This was a wake up call for MS as far as their online business was concerned and wake up, they sure did !
Microsoft has seen to it that you need to create only one account, to be able to sign in, and to use any of these services. With Live, they have brought everything together and that is what makes this experience really special ! |
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Windows Live Writer is a rather handy tool for Bloggers.
Live Hotmail is faster and better now !
Try Skydrive to store your files online.
My Spaces for blogging, is cool !
Live Search : Features other search engines don't have ! |
| The Recovery Console in Windows XP. |
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| Most of us, myself not excluded, immediately think of a fresh installation if something fails and the thought of the Recovery Console doesnt even cross our minds! Please keep in mind its one of the most useful tool to recover from the error without any data loss ... |
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| Concept UI: Yahoo Messenger for Mobile Phones. |
Submitted By : Saurav Srivastava, Microsoft MVP. |
| I was looking at the state of Mobile IM clients out there today, & it's not that good. None of the official companies such as Yahoo or Google or Microsoft are releasing mobile version of their IM Client based on JAVA which can be used on all phones. Yahoo has released Yahoo Go but it is not JAVA based which restricts it to only a few phones out there. Microsoft has Windows Live Messenger for Windows Mobile 6 but not for any other phone out there such as my K750i. Google isn't any different...The possibility of JAVA for Mobile is endless... |
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| Y! Vista Skin for Yahoo! Messenger along with Tutorial. |
Contributed By : Vishal Gupta, MVP. |
"I'm pleased to release this Y! Vista skin for Yahoo! Messenger. This skin will make your Yahoo! Messenger more Vista-ish..."
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| A lovely skin for your Y! Messenger along with an easy Tutorial on How To Create Skins For The Yahoo Messenger. |
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| Gaming on Vista : Pro’s & Con’s |
Submitted By: Nikhil Dandeker, Microsoft Student Partner. |
| Gaming has reached a level of sophistication, never seen before! It has now become a form of entertainment for one all! Be it Solitaire or Minesweeper for the occasional gamer or Games like Half Life 2 or Age of Empires for those who need their daily shot of adrenaline. Gaming has indeed very much become an integral part of everyday life on the PC; and Vista promises to be a great OS for the job ! |
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"MacOSX's Finder may look more polished...But Vista's Explorer is Kick Ass !"
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In Windows Vista, by default the Pictures, Music, Movies, Contact etc are stored in the users own folder. However one can simply change the location of these folders to somewhere else like some other partition & still refer to them at the original location. Suppose one has "my music" on my E:\Drive. All one has to do is to go my user’s folder, right click on the “Music” Folder & change its location to that of E:\ drive. Now all Windows application whether 3rd party or Windows integrated will refer to the new location of E:\Drive. You are not forced to use Windows the default way, you can use it the way you want. You can change the location of Movies Folder, documents & pictures just like this. This comes in handy if you save your data on another hard disk or partition.
 
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| WMP 11 vs iTunes. |
Authored By : Saurav Srivastava, Microsoft MVP. |
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The Windows Media Player 11, in Windows Vista is a complete overhaul of the previous versions. The WMP is based on the DirectShow engine of Microsoft, which means all video and audio it plays is hardware accelerated & decoded as long as the graphics card is compatible, such as nVidia GeForce 6 & up series using PureVideo or ATI X1xxx series using AVIVO Engine. |
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| Vista Trivia : Known & Unknown facts about Vista. |
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My MVP collegue Vishal Gupta, better known as Mr Vista, is known to live in the Windows Registry. During his tinkerings he has come up with several lesser known but interesting facts and tidbits about Vista. Vishal is active at the MeraWindows Forum amongst several others that he loves to frequent. Here is his collection of Vista Trivia. |
| 1. If you press <SHIFT> key and right-click on a folder, you'll get "Open Command Window here" and "Copy as Path" options. |
| 2. You can enable "Checkboxes" to select items using "Folder Options". It helps in selecting multiple items. |
3. Windows DreamScene doesn't work, if "Show Translucent selection rectangle" option is disabled from System Properties (Performance Settings). |
| 4. DreamScene stops running, when we maximize the active window. |
| 5. When you change something from Performance Settings in System Properties, the Aero theme is automatically changed to Vista Basic theme. |
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