Service Pack 1 to is now available for Windows Vista
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Windows Vista is now improved with its Service Pack 1 Release. For more stability and reliability, you may download and install Microsoft’s Service Pack 1 for Vista. This service pack contains numerous patchs to resolve current bugs and issues.
Mainly, it is focused on resolving computer performance and reliability issues as well as
supporting new types of hardware. Without Service Pack 1, there was a problem with recognizing many types of printers, scanners, and usb devices. Without being able to have Vista support, such peripherals forced Windows users to have paperweights instead of useful equipment. The Service Pack 1 is supposed to support more of these devices.
Further, IT administration for rolling out Vista is supposed to be easier. No specific mention of how IT administration would be easier, but we imagine this deals with being able to easily migrate a Vista computer into a current Windows environment. Also, we will be beta testing this Service Pack 1 to see if Windows VPN / remote support will be
more reliable.
Additional features and add-ons will be coming out separately in future releases. For now, hopefully this SP1 will make Vista more of a reliable stable Windows operating system.
settings. So, if you are working within
This is a good way to conserve your computer’s power, and allows you quicker access to your last session. Further, this can help those with short-term memories to not worry about what they were last doing on their computers. Please note that computers sometimes freeze during this mode if there are
many people know this hidden secret. You can find it by going to:
has icons, now called gadgets, on it. It displays everything from the current time, notepad, pictures, and games. The cool part about the sidebar is that you can add dynamic gadgets (icons) to it, such as news/sports updates, weather, announcements, stocks, and more.
These are not just the static icons that you have to click for updates. These gadgets will update on their own. How does this work? Well, if you want constant news updates from NBC, you set up a gadget for this and then the gadget continually links the gadget to the NBC website for ongoing news. As news stories unfold, the gadget displays the latest news. It’s almost like a stock ticker, but it does stream so you have to follow it. The image stays in place and just shows you the updates almost like a TV.
Surely, you’ve surfed on a lot of websites. And maybe you don’t want anyone to see where you’ve been going to. It is actually good practice to clean your website history to create space and to protect your privacy from other others. For privacy reasons, if you share a computer or bring your computer to public places, you should remove your browsing history so that others may not find personal information, such as credit card information or saved website log-in information. Typically, when you enter your username and password into a website, such as your e-mail, it saves your log-in credentials, making it easy for someone to view your
Has enough time for Microsoft to get all of the kinks and gliches out of Windows Vista? Well, not really.
network is possible, but sometimes needs third-party software and configurations for remote access, software sharing, and printer sharing. It’s doable and we’ve seen enough network combinations to make it work, but it takes more time to set up, compliments of Windows Vista.
system shuts down, it clears your temporary files and data to ensure that unencrypted passwords are not in your computer’s paging file. This is an extra layer of security from Windows to ensure the utmost security.
Internet Explorer 7 is the newest release of Microsoft’s Internet browser to view websites. When first released, this new version had stability problems, sometimes crashing systems or preventing site surfing. However, IE 7 has been refined to resolve any initial glitches so that it is now recommended.



