One of the major change when Vista was launched was the security feature of User Account Control which was called an annoyance by many. But with Windows 7, UAC has gone in for lot of changes. UAC basically controls the way in which applications are executed by different users and it runs as standard user, [...]

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Windows Vista Ultimate RED Edition Coming on Dec 15th

Microsoft will be releasing the (PRODUCT)RED version of Windows Vista Ultimate on December 15th. Initially this product was exclusive to Dell computers, but now you will be able to purchase the standalone version. Amazon has already began listing a product titled Windows Vista Ultimate with SP1 Upgrade (Project Red Edition) to be released on December [...]

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Get Ribbon Features for Wordpad in XP and Vista

Previously we had covered Notepad 2008 which brought the ribbon features to the notepad in Vista and XP. This was developed by Devianart user Solo-Dev. The same developer has updated his previous application with more features and released it as WordPad 2008. WordPad 2008 has ribbon like features which are by default available in the [...]

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Ultimate Windows Vista Tweaker

Published on 19 November 2008 by Nirmal in Windows Tips

Ultimate Windows Vista Tweaker

Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a Tweak UI Utility for tweaking and optimizing 32-bit & 64-bit Windows Vista. This freeware application is released by WinVistaClub and written by Ramesh Kumar, a fellow MVP. The application release was done by Howard Lo, Microsoft’s Regional Team Manager (APAC) at MVP South Asia Open Day at Goa. The utility [...]

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Get Windows 7 Aero Snap in Vista

Published on 13 November 2008 by Nirmal in Windows Tips

Aero Snap is a new feature which was added to Windows 7, where in you can drag any window to the top of your screen to maximize it or take it to the left or right to snap it to the side and re-size by 50 per cent and when you drag it back to [...]

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