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Standby For Vista Service Pack 1

Posted by Jason in Windows Vista on September 2nd, 2007

vista sp1It looks like the beta version of Service Pack 1 for Vista will be released in the next few weeks to obliging volunteers and manufacturers. It’s not going to be on the same scale as the infamous Service Pack 2 for XP, which included some major security upgrades and replaced large chunks of the operating system, but it is still fairly large, at a little over 45Mb, it covers quite a lot of ground and we are assured, will fix a few niggling problems.

What we know so far is that it will include support for a new file format called ExFAT, which is designed for use with flash memory devices. There will also be support for SD Advanced , for faster file transfer and reduced CPU workload. (more…)

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Device Manager to pc Performance

Posted by Jason in Hardware on February 1st, 2007
  • Keyboard shortcuts: There may have been times when your mouse was not detected and you had a hard time getting around the device manager. Here are the navigation keys with Device Manager. If you are in the desktop, press the key until My Computer is selected. Then press the CONTEXT MENU key, which is between the left Ctrl key and the Key. This opens up the context menu for the My Computer. Now select Properties from this menu. Now you see the System Properties window. This has several tabs, one of which is the Device Manager. Press Ctrl+ to move to Device Manager. Now you see all the devices listed. Press to move to them. To open up any particular device, press the RIGHT and to shrink it up press LEFT . To open up the properties of any particular device, press ALT+ENTER or the CONTEXT MENU key.

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