This tutorial will show you how to schedule your PC to reboot at a given time and date, using the utility provided. This tutorial will work with Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows 98. For this tutorial I will be using windows XP.

First Schedule Windows to Automatically Restart Download. Save it to disk and extract shutdown.exe to your C:\ drive.

Now open the Control Panel by clicking Start > Control Panel (more…)

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There are rumours about yet another internal release of Vista SP1 that was made available to testers on 18th august.

Build: 6.0.6001.16642 (longhorn.070818-16xx)
Version: Service Pack 1 v.258

The rumours says that this release is 3MB bigger than the 16633 version, and that would be 687MB.

No screens has surfaced yet, but I’ll make an update as soon as I know more.

In addition to being an OS with share in the branch of the NT, Windows Vista is an intermediate version with Windows Vienna, its “revolutionary” successor.
Thus in addition to comprising many news very interesting functionalities Vista prepares the ground of its successor.

Vienna Windows

Windows Vienna is in fact the name of the next operating system of Microsoft. Final version will replace XP and Vista completely. In Vienna, all will be different; it will be an entirely reorganized system. None the software turning under Windows XP or Vista will be able to function (note of jb there: that was to be the case with Vista, but Microsoft with fact half-turn in way history not of not disturbing its users too much).

The interface

What one says Microsoft will strike this point extremely! All the reference marks of Windows should disappear. Thus this succession should finally announce the end of the bar of the tasks, present since Windows 95, more toolbars, more menus traditional.

It was evoked the appearance of “magpie-menus”, of the circular menus (similar to those used in Sims 2 to interact with its character), with functionalities equivalent to the “Dock” of MacOS.

The filing system

In the place of WINFS which will appear with Fiji (next the patch for Windows Vista), Vienna will propose a new version of NTFS, itself based on WINFS, but more powerful. The NTFS of Vienna will not have any more sites of files and files with the direction where hear we it since always under Windows. It will be with the software themselves to classify and index the files necessary to their correct operation. What explains why the old software will not go under Vienna?

Vienna Safety compared with Windows Vista and XP

Important question at Microsoft. To increase the safety of Vienna, Microsoft decided (finally) to re-examine the management of the rights administrators in an original way. The operating system should be completely separated from the applications installed, which, normally, will raise stability and safety. The applications will have to function separately of the system (without being able to reach the system files) what would make impossible the damage of the system by a malevolent program.

Microsoft wants applied the principle of Sandbox. That will make it possible to isolate the system files from the user (not as under XP or the user is directly a “root”: a user having all the capacities), and thus increases considerably safety and stability.

Finally the applications not certified by Microsoft will function in a separated memory capacity, so that the application cannot damage the machine. Already, in Vista, Internet Explorer 7 functions with little thing close to this way.

Note jb: the majority of these functionalities were to be integrated into Vista, but Microsoft in to decide differently. See on this subject this treating page of the five solutions which would have made of Vista the system that everyone waited.

But still more to come?

Others “surprises” are also with the program, but they are obviously less important than those stated previously.

Among them there is already: A system of striking improved, “Supplements Ace You Type”. With the manner of Google Suggest, it suggests you words while you type, to save time.

The explorer of Windows also will undergo a small face lift to him. A new bar of the tasks will make its appearance, based on new concepts invented during these 10 last years.

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A top notch Windows Vista screensaver is coming to your desktop, not from Microsoft’s Ultimate Extras website, but courtesy of the design firm Jackson Fish Market.

You have been able to read recently of a new Microsoft search project and experiment dubbed Tafiti. Essentially, Tafiti is a marriage between Live Search and Silverlight and an interesting approach all the way. In terms of an alternative perspective over search, Tafiti offers users the Tree View. A fully animated tree environment with orbiting search results. And believe it or not, this is the best that Microsoft has to offer in terms of screensavers for Windows Vista since the launch of the operating system. Because the Live Search/Silverlight Tree View is designed to act as a dynamic desktop screensaver.

“In the simplest terms, the Tafiti tree view is a screensaver. We haven’t done the work (yet?) to wire it into the machines actual screensaver mechanism, but we think about it as a passive way to browse more deeply into search results. (…) As the tree spins, the leaves start to turn fall-like. And as each leaf turns from orange to red it finally reaches an end point, turns green again, and the next web result shows up. In this fashion you can leave the tree running for some time as it browses very deep into the search query specified. The longer you let the tree run, the deeper you are browsing into the result set,” revealed Hillel Cooperman, one of the founders of Jackson Fish Market.

You might have noticed that I keep referring to Microsoft although the tree view is in fact the work of the Jackson Fish Market. Well, first off, Tafiti is a Live Search and Silverlight combination, and in this context its connection to Microsoft cannot be denied. And second, the Jackson Fish Market reeks of Microsoft. Hillel Cooperman for example is a former Microsoft design director. And the design firm also features Tjeerd Hoek, former Design Director of Windows User Experience (UX) at Microsoft and Jenny Lam User Experience Designer both of them heavyweights during the Windows Vista development.

“If you have two monitors you could set up the Tafiti tree to run on the second monitor while you do your main work on your first. After several minutes you’ll be deeper into the result set than 99.99% of users ever go. And of course, when you get to something interesting you can check it out. I know this is kind of an esoteric feature, but we think there’s something interesting there in terms of browsing the Live Search index in a deeper way than most users ever do. It was also cool that Microsoft was willing to let us experiment with a feature that’s a little different than what people might expect. Anyway, that’s the intention of the Tafiti tree view,” Hillel concluded.

When you delete a file, it is not gone forever, and any file removed from the Recycle Bin can be easily recovered! The Windows delete function does not clear the space where the deleted file has been located but only marks an entry in the directory (folder) as deleted. All data and information about the file still remains on the disk and can be restored! Old data will be available until another file overwrites it (uses the same space on the disk). The only way to prevent data from being recovered is to overwrite it.

I’ve seen tools that is able to wipe out hard drives entirely to prevent people from recovering any files and also tools that can delete a particular file and that file can’t be recovered anymore. For the first time I am seeing an innovative FREE tool which is able to scan your hard drive and only make the recoverable files UNRECOVERABLE. Meaning it won’t touch any of your existing files.

Disk Redactor is a COMPLETE WIPE utility that lets you securely erase any old ( deleted ) files and prevent them from being recovered. All your private sensitive insecurely erased information will be wiped from free unused space on your drives to ensure complete data destruction.


The functions that Disk Redactor performs are wiping all free unused space on your disks, and writing a big file with zeros to overwrite all old (deleted) files on your drive. After using Disk Redactor, all old data will be erased completely without any chances for its recovery.

Only takes 3 steps to prevent your confidential data from being recovered.

1. Run Disk Redactor
2. Use the Wipe Disk button to select the disk you wish to wipe (erase deleted files) and answer Yes to confirm.
3. Wait until the progress bar reaches 100%

It’s free, easy to use and useful. I’ve checked that Disk Redactor is portable. You can simply copy DiskRedactor.exe to your USB flash drive from the program’s folder which is located at C:\Program Files\CEZEO software\Disk Redactor by default.

Note:Disk Redactor does not delete an old filenames. You will be able to see the deleted filenames but content of the files will be wiped out and can’t be recovered.

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