Archive: ‘Windows Vista’ Category

Windows Vista SP2 RC now publicly available

Windows Vista March 4th, 2009

Service Pack 2 Release Candidate is now available for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. There is a 32-bit standalone installer (388 MB), as well as a 64-bit installer (614 MB). Contained languages are English, German, French, Japanese and Spanish. The additional ISO image contains all versions of Service Pack 2 RC.
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How-to: Exit Explorer safely in Vista and XP

Windows Vista January 3rd, 2009

Your desktop hangs, or you want to apply a trick which requires Explorer to be restarted? No, you don’t need to log off and back on, neither to reboot. Exiting Windows Explorer and restarting it will be sufficient. Here is how you do it safely, without killing the process.
Vista-rians go here:

Right-click your taskbar, and choose [...]

How-to: Shrinking Aero window frame borders

Windows Vista October 12th, 2008

Maybe you are one of those people who like the Windows Vista Aero theme. I admit, I am also one of them… However, what I found annoying is that the frames of the windows are rather wide. Let’s have a look at an example. Click Start, and type “calc” into the search bar. Then press [...]