October 20th, 2007

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TOP 10 Vista Free Downloads to Tweak & Improve Your System

Improve your experience in Windows Vista with my FREE TOP 10 recommended downloads.

1. MZ Vista Force is a system tweaker. Use it to accelerate performance, juice your browsing speed, clean up your hard disk, clear out bandwidth-wasting startup programs, and even fine-tune Windows Media Player and Explorer. Many of the settings here are exceedingly fine-grained. Want to change the speed at which the Start menu search displays? With Mz Vista Force, you can. Download Mz Vista Force.

2. Vista Boot Logo Generator allows you to change it easily your boot screen with one that you created yourself or with a graphic that you find online. You’ll have to create or find the image in two sizes: 1024 by 768 pixels, and 800 by 600 pixels. Both must be in .bmp format, at 24-bit color depth. Once you have them this utility replaces your boot screen with them. Download Vista Boot Logo Generator.

3. EasyBCD is a bootloader modification tool for Windows Vista with many advanced options for beginners and power users alike. It gives the user full control over everything that happens during Vista startup and can boot into Ubuntu (Linux),

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Written by PCWizKid on October 20th, 2007 with no comments.
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Get Serial Number of Main Board from command line

Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 contain the WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) Wmic.exe command-line utility. By using Wmic.exe we can get a lot of information about computer (server).

To display the local computer name and serial number of Main Board I’ve created a very simple script, SerNum.bat. SerNum.bat contains:

@echo off
Setlocal
For /F %%a in ('wmic baseboard GET SerialNumber /value^|find "SerialNumber"') do Set %%a
@echo %Computername% - %SerialNumber%
endlocal

On my desktop, the above script displays:

PELEKAN-XP1 - VF0SA75A0SK

Written by magakos on October 20th, 2007 with no comments.
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Windows XP SP3 rumors to have Vista Features

The soon to be released in 2008 Windows XP SP3 is rumored to have Vista Features. According to NeoSmart Technologies, Windows XP SP3 build 3205, which was released to beta testers on last week,…

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Written by pcwizkid.tech.talk@gmail.com (PCWizKid) on October 20th, 2007 with no comments.
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Introducing the EasyBCD Debug Toolkit (and the EasyBCD 1.7.1 Beta)

Just a quick heads-up: EasyBCD 1.7.1 has entered the beta stage and can be grabbed at the usual beta builds thread.

EasyBCD 1.7.1 is a bugfix build that addresses two issues that have come up since our (most stable release ever!) 1.7 final a couple of months back. Perhaps you’ll find our new EasyBCD 1.7.1 Debug Toolkit to be of greater interest, though.

The all-new EasyBCD Debug Toolkit is a way to “trick” EasyBCD into seeing a system configuration that’s not really there. You just run EasyBCD with a command-line switch (/debugbcd and /debugbp) and you can then have it use fake info (in the form of a text file containing the stdout dump you’d like EasyBCD to see) instead of actually checking your current system configuration and going by those settings instead.

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Written by Computer Guru on October 20th, 2007 with no comments.
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Windows Vista - Take A Snapshot

The sixth tip video by PCWizKid. Windows Vista includes a screen capture tool. If you are looking to take screen shots and snippets of your desktop screen follow these easy steps to access the snipping tool.

Written by Joe on October 20th, 2007 with no comments.
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Windows Vista - You Have The Right!

The fifth tip video by PCWizKid. Are you getting User Account Control popups asking you always for permission to proceed to do simple tasks? Lets Disable it with these easy steps.