Η Microsoft ταχυδρόμησε μόλις ένα Blocker εργαλείο της μεταφορτώνει την περιοχή (τον Δεκέμβριος του 6.07) που θα εμποδίσει τις αυτόματες εγκαταστάσεις διάφορων επερχόμενων πακέτων υπηρεσιών, συμπεριλαμβανομένου Vista του πακέτου 1 υπηρεσιών και SP3 παραθύρων XP. …

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Η Microsoft θα προωθήσει την τελική έκδοση του κεντρικού υπολογιστή OS σε ένα γεγονός 27η Φεβρουαρίου στο Λος Άντζελες που η επιχείρηση καλεί ήρωες `συμβαίνει εδώ,». Επίσης για να παρουσιαστεί είναι κεντρικός υπολογιστής το 2008 της Microsoft SQL…

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Ξέρατε ότι DirectX 10 είναι μόνο για Vista παραθύρων; Έτσι εκτός αν είστε ευχαριστημένοι από τα παράθυρα XP που χρησιμοποιούν DirectX 9, πιθανώς η μετάβασή σας να θελήσετε να πάρει μια κόσμιη προσιτή τηλεοπτική κάρτα.

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Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate build is live. Microsoft is hammering away at the third and final service pack for Windows XP, and is making consistent headway in the matter. Truth be told, since the 2004 availability of XP SP2, and after the numerous delays of SP3 across 2006 and 2007, Service Pack 3 is long overdue. But at the same time, the refresh is getting closer and closer at a fast pace. Microsoft has in fact synchronized the development milestones of Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP SP3.

The third service pack for XP was initially introduced as a Beta preview version concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1 pre-Beta in mid July 2007. Ever since that point, Vista SP1 and XP SP3 have been joined at the hip. In this regard, Vista SP1 moved into Beta stage at the end of September 2007, with XP SP3 Beta following closely behind in early October. Last week, Microsoft opened up the test driving process of Vista SP1 with a preview of the first Release Candidate to the service pack shipping to approximately 15,000 testers. (more…)

Windows XP stores a couple of values in its registry which are responsible for determining how long to wait before shutting down (killing) open applications and services once the shutdown command has been given.

By editing these two settings and changing them to lower values, you can considerably decrease the amount of time that Windows XP needs to successfully shut itself down. The first part of this tweak deals with setting the amount of time Windows will take to kill open applications on shutdown. (more…)

Windows XP contains several tweakable memory settings in the registry, one of which is the DisablePagingExecutive registry key. This controls whether the operating system will transfer its essential driver and kernel files to the ‘virtual memory’ (the page file on the hard disk). It defaults to allowing this.

Obviously, transferring portions of the system to hard drive memory can considerably slow things down, and it appears that Windows XP does this periodically, whether or not the system is actually low on physical memory (RAM).

If you have 256MB of system memory or more, try this registry tweak to force Windows to keep its operating data in main memory: (more…)