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Apple Embraces Vista With Boot Camp Update

Apple updated its Boot Camp software, which enables Intel-based Macs to reboot into a Windows operating system partition, to support Vista, Microsoft’s latest version of Windows. To use the new Boot Camp, Mac owners will have to buy “a bona fide full version of Microsoft Windows: XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2, Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business or Ultimate,” Apple said.

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Boot Camp Version 1.2, available for download from Apple’s Web site as a public beta, includes support for 32-bit version of Microsoft’s new OS. “Boot Camp lets you install Windows without moving your Mac data, though you will need to bring your own copy to the table, as Apple does not sell or support Microsoft Windows,” Apple explained on its Web site.

Just Like a PC, Boot Camp will burn a CD with all the necessary Windows drivers “so you don’t have to scrounge around the Internet looking for them,” Apple said, adding that Boot Camp users can choose between running their Mac on Windows or Mac OS X by holding down the option key when starting the computer. “After starting up, your Mac runs Windows natively just like a PC,” the company said. “Simply restart to come back to Mac.”

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Windows Photo Gallery

Microsoft Windows XP doesn’t offer much in the way of built-in tools for organizing your collection of digital and scanned photographs. Sure, you can launch the anemic Windows Picture and Fax Viewer and page through your images—but if you want to edit one of them, you’re dropped unceremoni­ously into Windows Paint. There’s no way to tag or caption your images so you can easily find them later, and watching a slide show in Win XP isn’t much more engaging than turning the pages in a photo album.
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Boot Defragment

very important new feature in Microsoft Windows XP is the ability to do a boot defragment. This basically means that all boot files are placed next to each other on the disk drive to allow for faster booting. By default this option is enabled but some upgrade users have reported that it isn’t on their setup.

1. Start Regedit.
2. Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\
Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction
3. Select Enable from the list on the right.
4. Right on it and select Modify.
5. Change the value to Y to enable and N to disable.
6. Reboot your computer.

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