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19. April 2007 @ 18:28 |
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So if people are installing bogus Vi$ta OS, how are they getting around all the new copywrite protections? Validation tools etc.??
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The_Fiend
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19. April 2007 @ 19:06 |
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There's more cracks for Vista now, then there have ever been for XP.
But, no talk of taking out DRM or that moronic Kernel protection mode cr@p yet.
Guess the crackers decided that if you're gonna use a cracked Vista, you must still suffer the consequences.
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19. April 2007 @ 19:45 |
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Dell once again offers Windows XP
By JESSICA MINTZ, AP Business Writer Thu Apr 19, 7:26 PM ET
SEATTLE - Back by popular demand:
Windows XP. PC maker Dell Inc. said on its Web site Thursday it will once again let home PC buyers choose between Microsoft Corp.'s older operating system and Windows Vista when they purchase certain new machines.
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Dell, like many computer makers, stopped offering XP on most home desktops and laptops soon after Vista launched at the end of January. By late March, the company said only two models aimed at home users could be configured with XP (the option still existed on many models for business users).
But on Dell's IdeaStorm Web site, where visitors can post suggestions for the company and vote on the ones they think are important, a plea titled "Don't eliminate XP just yet" racked up more than 10,700 votes.
"We heard you loud and clear on bringing the Windows XP option back to our Dell consumer PC offerings," Dell responded in a Web posting Thursday.
The company said it will immediately offer XP again an option for four models of its Inspiron notebooks and two models of its Dimension desktop PCs.
This comes just weeks after Dell said it is also planning to offer PCs with
Linux, a free operating system that competes with Windows.
"This is really odd," said Michael Silver, research vice president at Gartner. "On new PCs, consumers usually do want the latest and greatest."
Microsoft countered that Dell's move was in response to a "small minority of customers" with a "specific request." Michael Burk, a product manager for Microsoft's Windows Client group, said in an e-mailed statement, "The vast majority of consumers want the latest and greatest technology, and that includes Windows Vista."
Michael Gartenberg, vice president and research director of JupiterResearch, said many consumers continue to buy XP because it's familiar, it works with their existing hardware and programs, and is overall "good enough," even though Vista boasts a prettier user interface and stronger security.
"Microsoft is going to have to work hard to make sure that even if companies like Dell are offering XP, their customers don't want it," Gartenberg said. Now is time for the company to crank up Vista marketing, but that may be harder than it sounds.
"Operating systems inherently by nature are kind of boring," he said.
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Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
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19. April 2007 @ 19:51 |
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Originally posted by Michael Silver:
On new PCs, consumers usually do want the latest and greatest.
No sh*t, maybe that's why folks DON'T want Vista...
Because let's face it, it's hardly the greatest...
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19. April 2007 @ 20:14 |
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Last visit to circuitcity the guy says we get so many calls about new comp with xp, another kid from bestbuy told me he was tired of people bugging him about new models with xp, I told him dont complain to me, call all your computer providers and tell them so, maybe they will get the message, dell certainlly did.
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19. April 2007 @ 21:06 |
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19. April 2007 @ 23:15 |
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Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
"Opinions are immunities to being told were wrong." - Relient K
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22. April 2007 @ 02:37 |
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Is DirectX 10 really worth the hassle? Does that constitute as an actual question? :D
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22. April 2007 @ 03:02 |
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Originally posted by Rikoshay:
Is DirectX 10 really worth the hassle? Does that constitute as an actual question? :D
yes and no
pro
MS is further advancing it for vista
Looks and preforms better(on the right settings)
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only on vister
DX10 cards are slow on DX9
much like the change of OSs the change to DX 10 is going to be rocky at best.
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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22. April 2007 @ 09:14 |
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Hey guys, my friend bought a new laptop and is now locked out of it because he forgot his Vista password. Is there any way for him to recover it/bypass it or will he have to do a system restore? I have zero experience with Vista so I wasn't able to help him. Any help you give me will be much appreciated by both of us.
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22. April 2007 @ 13:40 |
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Hey guys, my friend bought a new laptop and is now locked out of it because he forgot his Vista password. Is there any way for him to recover it/bypass it or will he have to do a system restore? I have zero experience with Vista so I wasn't able to help him. Any help you give me will be much appreciated by both of us.
Thanks.
He can try to get into safe mode by pressing F8 and going into safe mode and that is an Admin Account and he can configure the password that way.
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22. April 2007 @ 14:52 |
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Thank you Borhan, we'll give that a shot.
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22. April 2007 @ 18:34 |
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safe mode didn't work. Thank you for the suggestion though. Are there any other possible solutions?
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22. April 2007 @ 18:48 |
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22. April 2007 @ 23:21 |
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Originally posted by The_Fiend:
WHAT?! Not Mac OS X, Linux. Open source :)
Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
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24. April 2007 @ 05:20 |
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24. April 2007 @ 11:27 |
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@The_Fiend
I love that comic it gave me a laugh so early in the morning. thank you.
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24. April 2007 @ 11:59 |
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Originally posted by Joshewah:
safe mode didn't work. Thank you for the suggestion though. Are there any other possible solutions?
Safe Mode no longer accesses the Admin acct because it's turned off by default in the security settings.
Check your PMs.
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24. April 2007 @ 14:51 |
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The Pit BLOG April 2007 The Illusions of Vista
I was talking to an old friend the other day and he confided that he was once a magician. Wow! And of course, I asked him to share some of the cool secrets of the trade. Although we've known each other for over a decade, he was not forthcoming. In fact quite the opposite. Apparently, there is a secret code among magicians that they can only share with each other. That said, we all know that there really is no magic, just slights of hand that make things seem different than they might appear. Which brings us to Microsoft's latest operating system - Vista.
During the development of our latest product, Disk MD, we did considerable analysis of Windows Restore Points. These are files that store important system information that enables us to restore critical system information to an earlier point in time. In Windows XP, we learned that these hidden files are usually between 20-50MB big, and frequently the source of disk fragmentation. Enter Windows Vista. Presto! These same restore points now average around 2GB--100 times bigger. Now that's some magic. In fact, our lab tests have seen Vista restore points exceeding 8GB! That's like turning a mouse into an elephant.
The problem is that although Harry Houdini might need an elephant to hone his craft, I'm not sure that I want one in my garage. Who needs an elephant anyhow? Can it mow the lawn? Or at least do the dishes? Shouldn't there be some benefit to having our hard drives clogged up with multi gigabyte archival files?
Our research shows that Vista Restore Points can reach 8GB in size. More than 400 times the size of XP Restore Points.
The answer is Yes, No, and Maybe. All versions of Vista (Home, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate) have a new feature called Volume Shadow Copy. Now instead of tracking changes to your system files, Vista is now tracking EVERY change to every file. Big and small, important and irrelevant, every bit and byte is now being tracked by Vista. This is starting to feel more like Big Brother than David Copperfield. The primary reason given by Microsoft is that it enables us to look at previous versions of our files. If I had an Excel spreadsheet that I had made modified to the point that it was unintelligible, sometimes it is best to start over. Previous Versions make this possible. (Dave has some more thoughts on the implications of Vista's Previous Versions.)
Sorry to say, Houdini, but it's all a bit of a letdown. Plus this elephant is starting to stink. I usually archive frequently changed files by date, and when I err, I usually can find an old copy of a spreadsheet in my sent messages in Thunderbird. But it gets much better. Vista Home and Home Premium do not support Previous Versions. Although the data for Previous Versions is on your hard drive, Home users have no access. This is not magic, it's the Sorcerer's apprentice gone wrong and using magic he has not yet fully perfected. If you are storing my data on my hard drive, shouldn't I be able to look at it and access it?
This is where the real sorcery comes into play. If one upgrades to Vista Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate, you can get access to all of your data. Bill Gates dons the pointy hat with moons and stars and magically gains the status of Wizard. He has now turned my data into money for him. Seriously. We have gone back and tested on multiple machines that only through upgrading can you access Previous Versions of your precious data.
Sorry Wizard Gates, I think that your magic spell may be a curse. What if we want to permanently delete a file? There is now a hidden copy of that file, that we are now unable to erase. Worse yet, if someone wanted to see my hidden file, they could upgrade my computer and see what I want deleted. Ouch!
Is there some magic spell that can undo this wicked curse? On the surface no. The only option is to deactivate Volume Shadow Copy, and you will get 15% of your hard drive back. The downside is that you will also lose your ability to do a normal XP style restore. The good news is that there is still a way for home users to permanently delete a file.
Turn off System Restore before deleting a file, and then run Disk Cleanup.
Here's our tip and there's no magic involved:
Turn off System Restore
Delete the File
Empty the Recycle Bin
Run Disk Cleanup
Turn on System Restore
Abracadabra! You now have a little more control over your new Vista computer...just remember the secret spell.
Keeping it real,
Rob
Editors Note: Although the tone of this article is light, there was a lot of serious research that went into this article. Many of the conclusions are very serious, and we had to check and double check our test results before making our claims. I want to thank D2 Worldwide for their help and assistance.
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24. April 2007 @ 21:11 |
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Mark Russinovich (microsoft) has seen the light
Mark is probably wondering why he sold out to Microsoft at this point, but then again who could blame him. He was doing it for free with Sysinternals.
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25. April 2007 @ 03:35 |
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Chuck
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7. May 2007 @ 10:40 |
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is it possable to force windows aero on a laptop that does not offer the theme?
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7. May 2007 @ 11:02 |
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i may be wrong, but i think aero it's not available in vista basic, just in home premium and up.
Chuck
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7. May 2007 @ 14:05 |
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Areo isn't available in basic. The only plausible reason for vista basic is that Microsoft can say that they offer vista for "as little as $100".
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7. May 2007 @ 15:17 |
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hey all!
i just found a new crack i think but what it does is uses legal commands that microsoft left in vista. according to microsoft using these commands isnt ilegal because there left in vista for Engineers to use.
this crack resets the activation back to 30 days every time you open it and as i said before uses cmd commands and a simple registry change on one of the keys from 0 to one.
link is http://www.gardenshed.co.nr/ enjoy a legally cracked version of vista... plus it works on any type of vista.
http://www.gardenshed.co.nr/
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