Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta is officially out now for public downloading, the latest release features major Hotfixes and security Updates for the operating system, Vista SP2 adds support for new hardware devices, improves certain administration tasks and addresses reliability and performance issues.The following download will work on only English, French, German, Japanese or Spanish language Windows Vista installations, the download is valid for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.Windows Vista SP2 BETA Direct Download Links : Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 32-Bit (X86) – 434 MB Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 64-Bit (x64) – 726 MB DVD ISO For Windows Vista &
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TuneUp Utilities 2007 Download with Free License
Configuring Windows can be problem for many of you when the options / configuration isnt so obvious.For many of you its quite complicated even though windows is much more user friendly than Linux.Still some may require some special software to do this so that they neednot go deep into configurations/ registry settings and all.Finding the setting you need can be frustrating.
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Vista Transformation Pack 9.0
Changes in Version 9.0-Added Gavatx’s Vista Rainbar 4.3 (Slim) in place of Thoosje’s Vista Sidebar-Added large icon resizing option for high resolution monitors-Added Personalization setup screen for configuring current user account before installation-Added running ViStart, ViOrb and ViSplore to WindowBlinds and TrueTransparency’s exclusion list (prevent stability issues)-Added ViSplore project (Vista Glass Explorer for Windows XP/2003)-Added Vista Drive Icon in place of Vista Windows Drive Icon-Added Windows XP Service Pack 3 uxtheme patching compatibilities-Fixed automate 3rd-party applications optimization requirements-Fixed graphic driver detection issues in transformation package for cases that doesn’t use the first slot of driver-Fixed OS detection incompatibilities with Windows Vista-Fixed possible errors when auto-configuring user account during installation without “Express Mode”-Fixed Thoosje Sidebar’s auto-configuration bug on some resolutions.-Fixed uninstallation script to terminate newly added applications such as WinFlip, TrueTransparency, etc.-Fixed Vista orb positioning in “System Properties” dialog-Fixed WindowBlinds’ installation detection bug in configure user account dialog-Updated Aero Style’s glass border for more visibility and less distortion for both WindowBlinds and TrueTransparency-Updated AeroStyle’s glass border in TrueTransparency to simulate “little-blurring-like” WindowBlinds-Updated boot screen to traditional ones without Vista flag-Updated configure user account’s installed components and applications UI-Updated “Glass” sounds scheme from Windows Vista’s Ultimate Extras-Updated installation branding bar image-Updated TrueTransparency to version 0.9.4-Updated ViOrb to version 1 (C++ re-written)|-Added start orb’s right click menu|-Fixed hook recovery when explorer shell is reloaded|-Fixed always on top visibility issues with some applications including ViStart|-Updated start orb graphic to for all sides compatibilities-Updated ViStart to version 2.0 build 3467|-Added font customization feature in settings.xml|-Added indexing file search support like Vista (you can search for extension with .ext)|-Added “Reset Shell” in menu option to reload explorer along with ViStart|-Added multi-DPI Support|-Fixed Chinese characters issue with Recent Documents|-Fixed hook recovery when explorer shell is reloaded|-Fixed start menu’s hooking reliability with full screen and resolution changes|-Fixed strange ActiveX errors-Updated Visual style’s top taskbar background to have the same image as bottom’s like Vista-Updated WinFlip to version 0.50-Updated wording in some areas for easier understanding-Updated x64 operating systems compatibilities Download and Discuss: Vista Transformation Pack 9.0
Yahoo! Messenger for Vista no longer available
It seems yahoo has discontinued its Vista Project for messenger.As per latest yahoo blog , its stopped.IT was inevitable perhaps after release of final version of yaho messenger 9.0 which is still a bit unstable and having bugs apart from many improvents compared to version 8………………………………………………..Reproduced from yahoo blog :-“As of today, Yahoo!