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Bringing Back “Search…” Menu Item After Vista SP1
Because of fears on appearing anti-competitive Microsoft chose to introduce a few visual access points to Vista’s built in search in Service Pack 1. Companies such as Google felt that Microsoft’s built in search was too prominently pushed on the unaware users, who would want to use applications like Google Desktop for their local search. [...]
Maintain Network Speed When Playing Audio in Vista
Seems computers these days just aren’t fast enough to play music and copy large files across the network at the same time - at least that must be what Microsoft is thinking. You see, Vista restricts network traffic to 10 packets a millisecond while playing audio in order to prevent skipping. This is not what [...]
Prevent the Automatic Installation of Windows Service Packs
Later this year Microsoft is set to release both XP Service Pack 3 and Vista Service Pack 1 to Windows Update as an Automatic Update. While both service packs are already available at Windows Update, neither are Automatic, merely Recommended. What does this mean? Those of you that have Windows set to automatically download and [...]
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