How to Speed up your Windows XP? - Getting Rid of the Fluff!

By Khoj Badami

Does your Windows XP take ages to load? Does it do EACH AND EVERY little thing slowly? Are you absolutely sick of the slow speed? Then you have come to the right article! Congratulations!

In this article we will show you how you can get rid of all the “fluff” in Windows XP, and really speed it up! You see, Windows XP is made to look very pretty. All the buttons are stylish, and everything slides out smoothly etc. But, because of all this style, the computer can start to run very slowly. In this article we will show you how you can get rid of all the style and have a really fast Windows XP.

I know, that the system will not be “pretty” anymore. But wait till you see how fast it goes! You will never look back again…

To get rid of all the “fluff” and style, you will have to use the “Performance Options” dialog box in XP. It’s tricky to find it if you do not know exactly where to look!

To display the "Performance Options" dialog box, click Start > right-click My Computer, and choose Properties.

If your system is configured to have a My Computer icon on the desktop, you could right-click it, if you prefer. Either way, the System Properties dialog box comes up!

In the "Advanced" tab click the "Settings" button under the "Performance" section and the "Performance Options" window will open.

There are tabs in the Performance Options dialog box, each covering distinct areas of performance. We are interested in the “Visual Effects” tab. This is the tab the will let you control the “style”.

I bet you never gave much thought to the “visual effects” used in Windows XP. Most people don’t; the effects are very subtle. Just little things, like shadows in key places or screen objects that slide smoothly or fade as they’re no longer needed. Visual effects can rob a system of its performance.

Some people might like the windows visual effects and want to keep them. But if you are a serious user, you probably don’t care about visual effects. You want speed. You can use the Visual Effects tab to remove all the unnecessary visual effects and speed up your system.

The Visual Effects tab on the Performance Options dialog box is where you control what effects you want Windows to display. Do so by selecting or deselecting the check boxes.

Some of the visual effects options art explained here:

Let Windows Choose What’s Best for My Computer: By default, this is selected. If you would rather dictate what Windows does, select one of the other radio buttons.

Adjust for Best Appearance: This options selects all the visual effects.

Adjust for Best Performance: This option turns off all visual effects.

Custom: To turn individual effects on and off at your will, select this option. Then you can select or de-select the individual checkboxes to have or remove particular visual effects.

We recommend that you do not use any visual effects if you really want speed. This speeds up the system a lot.

After you have made the changes to the settings, take your comp for a test drive! How is it? It’s a whole lot faster isn’t it?

Note: There are some other "Performance Options" under the "Advanced" tab that I recommend that you do not touch unless you know exactly what you are doing!

This article is a part of the "How to speed up your Windows XP?" article that you can find if you visit http://www.indiahowto.com a website that provides in-depth "How to.." articles on many different subjects.

The complete article can be found here.

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How To Remove Adware And Spyware

By Mike Budra

Getting rid of the pesky spyware and adware from your Pc can be frustrating.But, there are easy steps you can take to make the job more effective. The first thing you will want to do is make sure you have the newest, most up-to-date anti-spyware scanning program on the market. But before you run a scan, shut down all windows and applications (including any open email apps) and then disconnect your computer from the internet. The easiest way to do this is to disconnect the phone line or cable that connects your computer to the modem.Now, step 2….

The second thing you will want to do is scan the computer system. You do this by running your anti-spyware scanning program and allow it to remove any adware or spyware that it finds. Then you reboot the computer, regardless of weather you were prompted to do so by the spyware program. After its done scanning, scan it again.But, do not reconnect to the internet just yet. If it still shows any signs of bugs, allow it to remove all the bugs and then reboot again.

A lot of times adware and spyware vendors will use files that work to keep the infection active no matter how hard you try and remove it. Sometimes even your adware/spyware scanner programs can’t even remove them. Another way to help with the removal is to run in Safe Mode. When booting up in Safe Mode, this allows only the most essential processes to be activated. And while doing this it will ensure that the vast majority of adware/spyware files will be killed, but it doesn’t guarantee it. Once you are up and running in safe mode, open your anti-spyware program and allow it to run a complete scan, thus allowing it to remove any last traces of infections found.

After you have removed all active infections, you will have to make sure it doesn’t reinfest when you are connecting back to the internet. After the scan is finished, reset any and all home pages and browsers. Go to the add/remove programs and check and see if there are any applications that are associated with the adware/spyware and if so, uninstall it /them. Make sure that no HOSTS files have been hijacked and that no unwanted websites have been added to your Trusted Sites.

After completing all of the above steps, reconnect your DSL or phone line to your computer, reboot as you normally would and access the Internet.

To find out more on removing harmful adware and spyware and other PC problems visit pcsolutionsonline.blogspot.com


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Firewall Software

By Rob Pirozzi

Beginning in the Zhou Dynasty, which was in the 11th century BC, construction was begun on what was to become the Great Wall of China. For 2,700 years, culminating in the mid-1600s, construction continued on the wall until it stretched 4,163 miles from east to west China. The wall was constructed to prevent invasion by other states of China and outer tribes. An interesting fact is that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object that can be seen from space.

When you connect your PC to the Internet either through cable, dial-up, or DSL, it is like China prior to the Great Wall. Anyone can invade your PC, and plunder, pillage, and destroy content on your PC. A firewall acts just like the Great Wall of China. When installed, it acts as a barrier between your PC and the outside world. It prevents unwanted and unauthorized access to your PC over your Internet connection.

Firewalls come in two basic forms:


Hardware firewalls - hardware firewalls are a piece of hardware, like a PC, that gets installed between your PC and your Internet connection. Literally, a cable from your cable or DSL modem gets connected to the hardware firewall. Another cable is connected from the hardware firewall to your PC. When done, the hardware firewall acts as a barrier between your PC and the Internet. It lets you get out to the Internet, but it does not allow unauthorized access from the Internet to your PC. Many cable, DSL, and wireless routers/switches have firewalls built into them.
Software firewalls - A software firewall serves the same purpose as a hardware firewall. It, however, is software that gets installed directly onto your PC. The software monitors all inbound and outbound Internet traffic, and creates a software barrier between the Internet port into your PC and everything else on your PC. Once installed, it lets you get out to the Internet, but it does not allow unauthorized access from the Internet to your PC. Software firewalls have an advantage in that they can implement rigid controls over what software installed on your PC will be allowed to access the Internet.

Many people use both a hardware firewall and a software firewall. It is similar to having a fence to protect access to your yard, and then a front door to protect access to your house. Everyone should use at least one firewall, hardware or software. If you have a laptop, you should use a software firewall. That way the firewall goes with you, wherever you go, protecting your PC.

Rob Pirozzi is a freelance writer who provides timely, quality professional writing of all types. He is also the publisher of the web site NuttyAboutSports.com, a web site dedicated to fans of popular North American Sports, including baseball, basketball, football, hockey, lacrosse, motor sports, softball, soccer, and tennis!

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Playing QuickTime Movies on PC PowerPoint
By Andrew Williamson

Not as easy as it sounds, and to be honest, not having QuickTime readily available on the PC side is very frustrating. Since there is no support for QuickTime in PC PowerPoint, you are seriously limited in the role and use of content available to the general user. Limited, that is, in the narrow sense that if you're bringing content over from the Mac and also in the wider sense, if you have a slide show to present numerous times and find performance variable.

What do I mean by ‘variable performance?’ Well, imagine that you've got a series of nice high quality slides and you want a rolling slideshow with specific timing and you also want to play it along to some music. Then imagine that you want the slides to start for a specific duration and then change the duration to match the music right on the beat. You want your slide changes to be accurate and what's more, you want the show to run accurately every time.

Now suppose you have a Celeron running XP and Office 2003, do you get it to run accurately every time? Not if you do something differently in your workflow over a couple of sessions, such as, for example, run a few programmes and documents before your presentation. Now your RAM may be used up - if you have a Celeron, it is a good chance you may have less than a Gig of RAM and you have to think about what you do.

Also if you want to get the images and the slides to match your timing exactly, and do so repeatedly, you are relying on PowerPoint's tracking and the PC's ability to deliver the tracking and one or both of these could be subject to conditions and circumstances.

What's a good way round this? Put your slideshow and music in a pre-fixed arrangement that is already tagged and held in check one track to another - like a video format that has a soundtrack and a video track. If you can play the movie, you get the full experience every time.

Video is a very demanding proposition even for the best computers today, whether they be Mac or PC, video, that is, when you are creating or editing or capturing or applying special effects.
Video, when you are just playing back doesn't demand too much though, particularly if you are reading from the hard disc and not from a CD.

So you could really do with movie formats in PowerPoint – it has to be mentioned here that you can use other formats like Windows Media and AVI but – and this is arguable - they’re not so good as QuickTime and also, if you have the full range of content creation tools that are available to generate QuickTime movies such as Final Cut Pro, Motion and After Effects, you want to take advantage of what they have to offer.

At this point a ‘PC-only’ user will object that Windows Media is just as good as QuickTime and say something like: why don't you get 'Flip for Mac' which plugs into FCP etc an allows you to generate Windows media directly from the Export dialogue?

The answer to that is, 'Yes you can do that, but you'd have to pay for and download 'Flip for Mac' and there’s a free way to use QuickTime which is still, in my opinion more flexible.

By the way, you can do all the necessary chicanery on a PC; you don't even have to have a Mac if you're that bothered about these things. Personally, I wouldn't want to go down that road but its there for those that want it.

What you need to do on either platform is open up QuickTime Pro. Pro is the unlocked version of the standard QuickTime player and you can buy a key to unlock it from Apple for around £20 or so! You can get ‘Pro’ for both Mac and PC as I said before.

Now open your movie in QuickTime Pro and go File>Save As and save a reference version of your movie. A reference version is (a) 'not self contained' version, and is just a header or pointer for the main version. Ideally these will be in the same folder and should stay together in there. When you, or someone else, clicks on the reference version, QuickTime is directed to look for the move resource in the main movie. If those resources (i.e. the main movie) are present, the whole thing plays through. If, however, someone has moved the main movie, you will get an error message in the way that a referenced picture in a web page will produce a missing file warning on screen if it is moved from its expected location.

A reference movie will be many times smaller that the original movie so there is no real worries about disc space.

Now, this step of playing from a reference movie is an advantage in itself for the PC platform, as many PCs will ‘choke’ on a high quality QuickTime movie but will play well from a referenced movie file.

You can take advantage of the same trick to get PowerPoint to play QuickTime:
You will need QuickTime installed on your PC – not the Pro version just the freebie that comes with iTunes etc and is available from the Apple web site.

Make a folder with your main movie it, and then go ‘File>Save As…’ as above to make a referenced version. If your first movie is ’01.mov’ call the reference one ‘01a.mov’. You should do this or something similar as a common rule so that when in PowerPoint, you immediately know which one to import into your presentation.

Now open the dreaded MS PowerPoint and create a new blank slide.

The first thing to do is to go to the ‘View>Tool bars. Control’ toolbox and then click on the little icon of a hammer in the bottom right of this palette.

Clicking the hammer button described above produces a second dialogue box, all you want with this one is the ‘Custom’ settings button which is defined by three dots (…)

This button shows a drop down menu with a number of different objects which you can insert into the presentation, from this list select the ‘Apple 2.0 controller’.

Once you do this, your cursor changes to ‘cross hairs’ and you can draw a box – which will be invisible apart from white circular handles. Now right-click on this and choose ‘Properties’ from the pop up menu.

Now you are faced with a new dialogue box in which you can actually pick the specific QuickTime file you want to insert – I never said it would be short and snappy.

Choose the reference file and click ‘O.K’

Leave the controller setting and you will return to your presentation. The only things to bear in mind from here are that:

Every time you open up this presentation, it will probably warn you about running an Active X plug-in – just click ‘O.K’, its not going to kill you after all. Also, you will find that the first time, performance is sluggish when you open the presentation, give it a second and then it will run fine for this session.

Don’t forget that, as ever, the movie is hard-coded tot eh presentation, that is to say, it has an absolute path rather than a relative one. What this means is that it will read the path for including the movie as being from ‘C:Documents and SettingsUsernameDesktopFoldernamemovie.mov’ or ‘Macintosh HD: Users: Username: Desktop: Foldername: Moviename.mov’ rather than ‘/foldername/moviename.mov’ for example.

If you plan to use your presentation on another computer, make sure you re-insert the movie as above, or place the presentation in exactly the same position relative to the system so that, for example, you have an account named in exactly the same way on the new computer as the one in which you made the presentation, otherwise it won’t work.

Finally, when you play the movie in the presentation, you have to click on it once on screen to put focus on it, then you can use the spacebar to play and pause but if you then want to go on to the next slide, you will have to double click the surrounding background space of the presentation.

Enjoy….

Andrew Williamson is a web site manager and lecturer in multimedia in the South of England.
His blog is at: http://brown-sauce.blogspot.com
Andrew has a fine art background and is currently interested in all areas of multimedia work.

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Where to Find Free Spyware Removal

By Christopher W Smith

The bad news is that spyware is everywhere on the internet and you could have it on your computer right now. The good news is there are free spy ware removal tools for your computer that are easy to find.

There are several programs available online that you can download that will assist in detecting and eradicating spyware from your computer. My personal favorite is download.com, which is a great and trusted source for software downloads. Simply choose from an array of free programs, download and install and you're on your way. Be sure to read the comments from previous users to help you decide which one to use.

What if you don't want to download an actual program to your computer to scan for spyware files? Well, you are in luck because there are sites out there that will help you out but those are much harder to find.

Free spyware removal sites generally are fronts. Many of these sites will scan your computer but you won't be able to remove them unless you download the program that they are promoting, usually at a cost. Some of these sites will even put spyware onto your computer to increase the numbers on your computer and make you think that you need the program much more desperately than you did a few moments earlier.

It is for this reason that you are much better off trying to find a program of your own to download and use at your own leisure. Most of these programs are small, easy to download and take up very little memory on your computer.

According to download.com, the best programs available are Spybot and Bazooka Adware. Both of these programs boast strong user reviews and features which will help knock out your spyware. Other great programs that I can recommend to readers out there would be Ad-Aware and Spyware Doctor.

Both of these programs are very well programmed to update automatically to protect you against the latest forms of spyware that have found their ways online. I have Spyware Doctor installed on my computer at this moment and I have yet to find a single complaint about it.

Naturally not all programs out there are going to be useful or even helpful to you. You should always do some checking on each program to find out what its pros and cons are. If you are still in doubt, check the publisher's site and really take a close look at the details of each program to find out if it's right for you.

If all else fails, ask around. Chances are you already know someone who can help you with your search for a good scanner and then you'll be on your way to safe surfing.

Find out how to detect spyware before it infects your computer. Find out more at http://www.removespywaretoday.com

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What is Spyware And Protect Your Computer Always

By Carmen Paden

It can be any software that can gather information through a user's internet connection without his or her knowledge. Once the software is installed, the spyware software usually monitors a user's activity on the internet and transmits that information in the background to someone else. Spyware can also pick up information on a user's email address, credit card numbers or even a user's passwords.

Sometimes when a user unwittingly installs some kind of product, a trojan horse can be added because spyware is similar to a trojan horse.

Spyware can steal from a user by using the computer's memory resources and can also eat up one's bandwidth. Since spyware is using one's computer memory and system resources, the spyware software application that is running in the background can lead your system to cash.

Spyware has the ability to scan files on one's hard-drive, read cookies or even change your default home page. It is a malicious software that can just literally take over one's computer. This software watches what you do from your computer and then can send this information over the internet. Spyware can collect many different types of information about you, the user.

Do you get any of those annoying pop-ups? That would be consider as advertising spyware.

Spyware can collect your personal information easily and can even change the configuration of your computer without your consent. There are so many resources available to help you protect your computer. Start now if you have not done anything about this.

Now that you know what is spyware You get the idea. Protect your computer always and you really should start to get to work on this today. Solutions are available.

http://what-is-spyware-and-what-to-do.blogspot.com

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Sitemap generator

Copyright Š 2006 Darren Dunner



Sitemaps are an important and the most difficult file to create to meet the search engines requirements. Sitemaps are used by website owners to get their content recognized on the search engines. One of the distinctive feature of having sitemaps for website is that it can be read by human as well as the search engines.



Sitemap generators have been popping up on the web every now and then. Some sitemap generators are easy to use while others are complex. Google too has come up with Google sitemap generators. However the Google sitemap is strictly for google and other search engines will not understand it.



If you are creating a sitemap for your website make sure you do not include folders or files you don't want the search engines to see. Similarly make sure that there is no missing file or folder that you do not want the search engine to see. It is very important to be updated with your sitemap files especially if you have deleted or added any pages in your website. Similarly you also need to be updated about any changes you made in a particular web page.



Every website needs to have three Sitemaps updated.



ˇ Sitemap in html

ˇ Sitemap in xml

ˇ Sitemap in txt



Apart from creating the above three sitemaps it is to be made sure that they are regularly updated



ˇ Never include folders you do not want the search engines to see

ˇ Never include files you do not want the search engines to se

ˇ Make sure that there is no missing file or folder you do not want the search engines to see.



So as you can see that there is a constant need to keep your three sitemaps updated. The sitemap generators out there will help you with these things however the problem we saw was there is still much work involved in keeping these updated.



If you are looking for an effective tool to help you with your problems, we at Sitemap Builder are here to help you with all your problems. Sitemap builder has developed a tool that meets the requirements from the search engines and generates the three sitemaps automatically. It also helps you update each page on daily basis or as needed. Sitemap builder gives you an opportunity to include or exclude files as needed. It loads to your root site directory folder and automatically installs the sitemaps.

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Are You Ready For Vista?

Are You Ready For Vista? What You Need To Know About The Next Microsoft Windows

Copyright Š 2006 Titus Hoskins



Vista is coming soon to a computer near you, are you ready? Unlike past editions of Microsoft Windows this new version seems to be generating a lot more pre-launch buzz. Maybe it has to do with all the new improved browsing and computer features that the Vista will supposedly deliver.



What is Vista?



Vista is the new version of Microsoft Windows, which will offer users a greatly improved browsing and computer experience mainly through more dynamic 'live' windows and faster presentation. It will offer a more robust security (direly needed!) and more business features in its corporate OS with encryption, Unix services, and virtual machine capabilities.



You will be able to use different graphical tools to more efficiently manage your information and applications on your desktop. If you read the information on the official Vista site, you may come away believing your desktop will never look or feel the same again. Vista Homepage: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/



There is one underlying reason why this may just be the case. According to the Longhorn Statement of last year, RSS will play a major role in these applications and in the OS itself. Longhorn is the name for the Microsoft Windows Server code. RSS stands for 'Really Simple Syndication' and Microsoft should be applauded for bringing RSS to the forefront. Many believe RSS will change the very nature of how we use the Internet and our computers.



Regardless of what it may contain, the new Windows Vista has many consumers delaying the purchase of their next PC or laptop until the new Windows arrives. Many were hoping for a pre-Christmas release but...



When Will Vista Arrive?



According to Microsoft's own official site on Vista, Windows Vista will be available in early 2007. However, Vista (as of Sept.22, 2006) is already in Beta testing with over 30,000 testers from around the globe. Read more about this at the Windows Vista Team Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/default.aspx



Vista will have TWO Interfaces



Vista Windows will have two interfaces, Basic and Aero. The Basic Interface will be similar to Windows XP and will run on most current PCs and Laptops. The Aero Interface is more advanced and you will need higher system requirements to take advantage of all the new features. (See Below)



Actually, Vista will have six versions in all. According to the Vista web site these versions will range for the very basic up to the highest performance level.



* Windows Vista Starter which runs only on 32-bit systems and will be so on new machines in India, Thailand and other emerging markets.



* Windows Vista Home Basic which is very comparable to XP Home which will not offer the high-end graphics and media features.



* Windows Vista Home Premium which will offer these graphics and media.



* Windows Vista Business which is similar to the current XP Professional.



* Windows Vista Enterprise will be only available to those customers with volume licenses - will offer Unix service, encryption and virtual machine capabilities.



* Windows Vista Ultimate will combine Vista Enterprise and Vista Home Premium which will give customers the highest version of Windows.



There will also be "N" versions of Vista Business and Vista Home Basic for the European market that will have Window Media Player removed. Microsoft is catering to all levels of the marketplace and its a prudent business move because many current PCs and laptops don't have the system requirements to take advantage of the highest version of Vista Aero.



Your System Requirements for Vista?



Your system requirements for the new Windows Vista will depend on which version of Vista you're buying. For the basic Vista you will need a modern processor (800MHz or more) with at least 512 MB of system memory. Your graphics processor should be DirectX 9 capable.



For the fully loaded Vista you will need a little more robust system with at least 1 GHz processor with 1 GB of system memory. This should be supported with DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB of graphics memory. A premium graphics card like ATI or NVIDIA is recommended and you will need a 40 GB hard drive with 15 GB free space. In order to watch and record live TV you may have to add additional hardware.



Still not sure your current system will support Vista, just run the free Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor RC found here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx



This program will tell you if your system can currently run Vista or if you will need to upgrade your computer.



What Noteworthy Features Will Vista Give You?



If we get over the improved features like better organizing of information, better security, and more reliability - what new features will the Vista deliver?



One that really jumps out - INSTANT SEARCH



Instead of using the slow cascading "All Programs", you can just type in a file name or task and you will find what you're looking for. The new instant start menu will be a lot quicker, saving you time.



This also jumps out - DYNAMIC WINDOWS



Perhaps, one of the major improvement will be in the appearance and use of the new desktop with transparent "glass-like" windows and animated windows on the taskbar. It will have live thumbnails on the taskbar, place your mouse over these and you will see the live contents without having to bring it up on your screen. You will also be able to create a three-dimensional stack of open windows on your desktop and you will have smoother performance in dynamic content or windows such as video.



And this one - SPEECH RECOGNITION



Speech Recognition will play a major role in the new Windows Vista which promises to feature all the latest Microsoft speech technologies with 'unparalleled voice recognition accuracy' supported with multiple languages and a more human-sounding synthesizer - step aside Stephen Hawkins!



Plus, you will be able to control your computer by using your voice. It will provide you with a list of smart choices, whether it's selecting a word or choosing an application. Mouseless and hands-free computing tasks - might be worth seeing.



And this - WATCH AND RECORD LIVE TV



You will be able to watch and record live TV with Vista. You may have to use additional hardware to access this feature. It is only a matter of time before the union of the Internet and full TV broadcasting services. Windows Vista may help in furthering this rather slow process. Integration, Integration Integration.



Also this - BETTER SECURITY AND ENCRYPTION



The new Window Vista offers improved security and has a few new encryption programs. There is something called the Windows BitLocker� Drive Encryption which help protect the sensitive data on your hard drive - especially important in our ever increasing mobile lifestyles and workforces. This program will encrypt your entire Windows system and protect your information in the case of a stolen or lost PC or laptop.



Then there is the Encrypting File System (EFS) which will protect user-level files and folders. This is important when two or more people share the same computer as in a company network. Companies will be able to use smart cards with EFS keys to allow employees or workers to access only the content that's appropriate for them to access. In addition, companies or users will be able to restrict use of USB keys and other removable storage devices, thus hampering the quick removal of data from your computer.



Wildcard - What role will RSS Play?



For interested techies and web watchers, the role RSS will play in the new Vista is an intriguing question. What about all those new RSS applications? The list extensions? What will it bring? Read more here http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/



Will RSS (via Vista) be given the means to finally turn the Internet into a Billion Channel Universe? Turning every web site into its own mini-broadcasting system sending out its content to all interested parties. Don't come to us, we will deliver. Changing static content into dynamic content. Furthermore, will speech recognition turn this dynamic content into a fully interactive hands-free browsing experience. Might give a whole new meaning to the expression 'Look Ma - no hands!'



All kidding aside, Windows Vista does offer some unique features that will change how we use our computers. It offers greater security and more integrated networking and applications. It does promise to make our desktop interaction more responsive and smoother with 'live' social bookmarks and windows. One can only hope Vista lives up to its name and gives us a whole new viewing experience.

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The author is a full-time online marketer who runs numerous web sites, including two sites on Internet Marketing. For the latest web marketing tools try: Internet Marketing Tools He also runs an online Laptop Guide and has a keen interest in RSS and Computers. Go here for the latest Gaming Laptops. 2006 Titus Hoskins. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.

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Windows Vista Coming Soon

Remember back when windows 95 was first released how people waited overnight online to get a copy? Well... maybe you don't but Windows 95 was a huge step forward in personal computing. It was the interface that made it possible for the average person to own and interact with a computer. People might not line up to get the new Vista but never the less it will be the operating system to bring us into the next generation on PC's.



Originally labeled "Longhorn" Vista is scheduled to be released in December so production computers (Dell, Compaq etc.) will have it on the shelves by Christmas. The retail version is scheduled for January. Vista had it's release date moved back several times because MS was having trouble building in all the new features they wanted to introduce. In fact this release will be missing some of these features but they will follow later as extensions.



What is new in Vista? Some of the features are new and very cool while others were badly needed. Obviously the most needed was security, and Vista now includes built in spyware tools and a phishing filter. Many of the network and browser security issues Vista has corrected. A new Internet Explorer browser, with very cool tabbing and search features. It will also allow multiple home pages. There are massive performance and stability improvements. New calendar, Media Player, DVD authoring and burning tools, a movie maker and a couple of versions will have Media Center built in.



Now I mentioned versions, there will be six all together, so there is bound to be one that will suite your needs. For the business versions there are new search and productivity tools and the new integration with the new MS Office and business tools will make it even more productive.



There is a price to pay for this, the new Vista is not a small program and though it is the first scalable OS, which means it will read your system and install only what your system will support you will need a fairly strong machine They say it will run on 512 Megs of RAM but you better figure on at least a Gig. You will also need fairly decent graphic capabilities. If you have an older machine don't think about running Vista. We will go into more detail about the different features in future articles but I can tell you that after training on Vista, I like it.

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Chris Kaminski has been working in computer repair and web development for the last 20 years. Kaminski is CEO and head technician for Computerguyslive.com, an online computer repair company based in Asheville, NC. Visit Computer Guys Live online for computer repair and check out the invaluable Wireless Connection Guide

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