Since Windows 95, the Windows Run command has been one of the common components in the Start menu.
Windows Vista Run command can be disable or turn off from the Vista Start menu

It exist to allows user executing a Windows program without open up the Command Prompt window or browse through the Start menu or Windows Explorer, as long as the program specified can be found in the common paths or paths in the %PATH% environment variable!

However, the Run command is gradually becomes less important in Windows Vista with the introduction of Instant Search feature! In fact, it’s an optional command that user can explicitly turn it on or off.

If you’ve accidentally turned off or disabled the Run command in Windows Vista and miss it so much later, following are the steps to turn it on again. Likewise, you may purposely turn off or disable the Run command in Windows Vista start menu too:

1. Right-click the Vista Orb (the new Vista Start button) and select Properties to bring up the Taskbar And Start Menu Properties dialog box,

2. In the Start Menu tab, either the Start…

Just six months following the general availability of Windows Vista, Microsoft is getting ready to deliver the first beta build for the operating system in mid July 2007. Vista users should expect SP1 anytime between Monday July 16 and Sunday July 22, according to a report from Mary Jo Foley. In this context, the Redmond company outdid itself and indeed has chances to deliver the final version of Vista’s first service pack by the end
of the year.

Vista SP1 was initially planned for the end of 2007. Various sources within Microsoft but also from outside the company – such as Intel CEO Paul Otellini – pointed to a potential November 2007 release date for Vista SP1. The Redmond company then changed its tune, and muted all details related to Vista SP1, even providing the perspective that the service pack was going to be nothing more than a standard refresh for the operating system, and that Windows Update would come into focus instead.

However, the first beta for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will drop as early as next week. Microsoft did confirm officially that Vista SP1 beta…

What should have been just a routine installation of Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows Vista, ended up with a bang… literally. Microsoft applauded Windows Vista as an evolution in all aspects of the operating system compared to Windows XP. One of “anodyne” details designed to deliver an improved user experience is the installation process. However, a deployment model applauded for simplicity and ease of
use proved to be the death of a Windows Vista copy and the machine it was running on.

“What’s a “wow moment”? It’s that instant when you recognize that your life has changed—the moment you transform an idea that you once only dreamed of pursuing into something you have actually achieved,” revealed Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, before the operating system hit the shelves in January 2007, explaining “the Wow starts now” marketing campaign slogan.

Well, ex-police officer Ray Jackson from Columbia South Carolina, saw his life change for the worse after he struggled to get the computer to work following the installation of Windows Vista, reported FunTechTalk. Frustrated by the lack of responsiveness from the computer running Windows Vista, Jackson imagined pulling his…

It’s official: We are now in the under-promise and over-deliver era at Microsoft.

Just when Microsoft had customers, partners and competitors all believing that it was going to delay the first service pack for Vista — not releasing a first beta of it until just before year-end — the company is set to deliver Beta 1 of Vista SP1 in mid-July.

Word (from various sources who asked not to be named) is Microsoft is gearing up to drop Vista SP1 some time the week of July 16. And despite what Microsoft seemingly led Google, the U.S. Department of Justice and other company watchers to believe, the final version of Vista SP1 is sounding like November 2007.

(November 2007 is also the release-to-manufacturing target for Windows Server 2008, sources say. Microsoft won’t provide an RTM date for Windows Server 2008, other than to say it is still on track to RTM before the end of 2007.)

If Vista SP1 is released in November, the Windows client team will be sticking to a schedule company officials outlined a year ago, when the official plan of record was to release Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn Server) simultaneously.

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An 18-year-old teenager has been sentenced to 4 months in prison after he filmed himself driving with approximately 120 miles per hour and posted the clips on the popular online video
sharing service YouTube. The recordings were made with a cellphone and were created on a quite busy motorway from Fenwick Street, Burnley. According to The Daily Mail, the teenager was driving a Toyota MR 2 sports car that was actually belonging to his father. It seems like the boy was identified by an off duty police officer who managed to note his registration number and confirmed that the YouTube speedster is actually the boy he saw on the motorway.

“The fact that you filmed this indicated your actions were deliberate and calculated. Then you respectively bragged about what you had done by showing film material to others and it ended up on the Internet. The distribution of such clips is thoroughly irresponsible for it encourages others to do likewise. I am afraid I regard this aspect of the case to be a seriously aggravating feature,” Judge Anthony Russell said according to the Daily Mail.

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