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Here's a new created installer for Nero 7 based on Inno. Nero 7 Lite Micro is a special build of Nero 7 Lite, including just Nero Burning Rom with basic Audio/VideoCD support (English). Nero 7 Lite is a full functional Burning Software Suite including: Nero Burning Rom Nero Express Nero CoverDesigner Nero WaveEditor Nero Toolkit also included in Nero 7 Lite: MauSau Audio Plugins Complete Nero Help However this is still a lite pack, so this is left out: Nero Home nero Scout Nero StartSmart Nero SoundTrax Nero Vision Nero Recode Nero Showtime Nero MediaHome Nero PhotoSnap Nero BackItUp Nero InCD Nero SoundBox Nero ImageDrive You can enter license data during Setup, or use the default key to evaluate Nero for 30 days. Download it here.

This excellent guide, recently updated for RC1 of Windows Vista, tells you everything to know about the changes that might break your application, from basic, simple-to-fix things (e.g. GetVersion() reports a major version number of 6) to more esoteric yet complex changes (the GINA extensible logon model has been replaced with a new credential provider model). If you write Windows applications, I'd encourage you to download and read it - it's as simple as that! The Cookbook is a comprehensive guide of Windows Vista changes that can affect XP application Compatibility. This is a MUST read for all application vendors seeking information on upgrading XP applications to Windows Vista. P.S. Ideal for Kels who's our coder :thumbsup: ISV_Windows_Vista_Compatibility_cookbook.doc

If you're doing a fresh install of Windows Vista, you'll probably use a bootable DVD so that you're able to reformat the system partition. But sometimes you might find yourself in a situation where you could really use a command prompt as you go through those initial configuration stages (for example, when I installed Windows Vista on my home media center machine I needed to run the diskpart command line utility to convert a dynamic disk back to a basic disk structure). Here's the magic key sequence: simply press Shift+F10, and you'll be presented with a command prompt. This also works after Windows Vista has rebooted for the first time on an upgrade, although be very careful what you do here - there's almost no good reasons to be interacting with the system at this point in time, and you shouldn't expect us to get you out of any holes you dig yourself into if you start making invasive changes at this point in time. Tim Sneath Blog

Go ahead, forums are created :thumbsup:

Sure will use it for Vista.. :w00t:

Also you should try Windows ReadyBoost feature. Stickin' usb drive and selecting superboost option from autoplay screen you'll improve performance..... More on Windows ReadyBoost: Adding system memory (RAM) is often the best way to improve your PC's performance. More memory means applications can run without needing to access the hard drive. However, upgrading memory is not always easy. You need to know what type of memory you need, purchase the memory, and open your computer to install the memory

Welcome mate, hope you'll share your knowledge and found some useful information here..

Using PartitionMagic, I created a "primary" partition on drive C: made up of 20 gigabytes of free space. I assigned the drive letter V: for Vista. When you apply your partition changes, PM will make you reboot. Then you hold your breath and pray while PartitionMagic rejigs things on your hard drive. If the gods are smiling upon you, you'll boot up into XP with a shiny new disk parition all set up. Now, once Windows XP is fully booted up and you can see your new 20GB drive, pop in the Vista DVD and run the install from there. Choose your newly created V: drive as the installation location, and let 'er rip. Vista will spend lots of time copying files and restarting your machine. All goes well in installation-ville, and you'll set up your first administrative Vista user and go from there. Note: Vista didn't have the drivers for a whole bunch of the devices on my machine, like the sound card, video card, USB Wifi adaptor, dialup modem or Ethernet card, so be prepared to have all the driver disks that came with your computer (you did save your driver disks, didn't you?) to get your machine fully functioning with Vista. Now, once you restart your computer, you'll get a choice to boot into XP or Vista. "Microsoft Windows" refers to Vista, and "Earlier version of Windows" refers to XP. The default choice is Vista, and you have 25 seconds to make another choice. Otherwise it boots into Vista automatically. (I'm sure one can change this behavior; something to research.) There's much to be discussed regarding Vista, so this is the first of a series of posts that will do so over the next few weeks.

You forgot to mention that it'll only work with Windows Aero style enabled

Saw this posted on one of the internal forums today, and I thought this was something that was worth sharing. If you're a keyboard junkie, you'll love this. Do you have a few applications that you're always firing up? Would you like a system-wide keyboard shortcut to run them? Here's what you do. Simply add shortcuts to the Quick Launch toolbar, as shown in the screenshot below. Now you can simply use Win+1, Win+2, Win+3 and so on to launch each application. For example, on my machine, Win+3 launches Notepad and Win+6 launches the VS command prompt. This works no matter what application has the focus. More coolness coming your way soon, courtesy of Windows Vista! Tim Sneath Blog

The issue The Automatic Updates service uses 100% CPU when it checks for updates when Microsoft Update is enabled. The reasons What triggers that behaviour is actually unknown. I think that it's related to the SFC being disabled. The symptoms Enormous slow-down when using the computer: applications take ages to load. This happens often even a few minutes after windows has booted. When you open the task manager you can see svchost.exe using 100% cpu. When it doesn't happen It doesn't happen to users using dual-core or dual-cpu machines because only 100% cpu of one core is used. The Solution There are various solutions on the web however they're just temporary fixes: the problem always comes back after a while. Fortunately MS released a KB: you'll find the download link inside this post. The Microsoft KB Article For the patch look below, you can't obtain it from MS website http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914810 The patch WindowsXP_KB914810_v2_x86_ENU.zip Please check it out with an antivirus before installing I take no responsabilities for that file: I scanned it with Kaspersky 6 and it didn't detect anything harmful however better be safe than sorry. P.S. if somebody here can send me that patch for other languages (they must be requested to MS support) i'll include them in this post too.

Recently few of our new members haven't received validation e-mail from WinCert, or were unable to register because GD library wasn't working, so I had to manually approve these accounts. If you have problems with Registering or Validating, please post here so the problem could be fixed as quick as possible. If you still can't post for some reason, please send a mail to admin@wincert.net Thank you, WinCert.net Team.

Thx buddy :thumbsup:

You pride yourself in the responsibility of having full and absolute control over your machine environment and anything that comes between that perfect human-machine symbiosis is to be spurned. If only there were a way to turn User Account Control off on a Windows Vista machine, you'd upgrade immediately. Well, dear reader, I'm here to help. Firstly, it's worth a brief digression into the benefits of this feature. Running as admin is a bad thing, as most of us know. Aaron Margosis has blogged extensively on this issue, and I won't rehash it here. But for reasons of compatibility, running as a standard user can still be a somewhat painful proposition. Windows Vista attempts to give you the benefits of both worlds by allowing administrators to execute most processes in the context of a standard user and only elevating the privileges on their user token by consent, in addition to allowing standard user accounts to perform administrative tasks by selectively elevating a process to use administrator-level credentials. In general, UAC has turned out pretty well. It was pretty intrusive in early builds, prompting often and sometimes capturing focus at the wrong time. For the vast majority of users, UAC will offer a valuable level of security protection that will protect against malware: it simply won't have the rights to perform invasive actions like installing device drivers or services. Once a system is configured, you'll rarely see UAC prompts unless you're an inveterate settings tweaker. Incidentally, you can find out a great deal more about how UAC works, what you need to do to your own applications so that they co-operate well with UAC, and the rationale for its design at the official UAC blog. It is possible to switch UAC off. I really don't recommend it - if you like full control over your machine, surely you want to know when something is attempting to perform an administrative-level action? Nevertheless, I'd prefer to have you run Windows Vista without UAC than having you run a different operating system. There are two ways to disable UAC. The easy solution is through Control Panel. Type "UAC" into the search bar at the top of the screen and you'll see this task presented This approach is pretty brute-force, though. It just switches the whole thing off. There's a more subtle configuration choice that gives you some of the benefits of UAC without any of the prompting. You'll need to edit the local security policy to control this, as follows: From the Start search bar, type "Local Security Policy" Accept the elevation prompt From the snap-in, select Security Settings -> Local Policy -> Security Options Scroll down to the bottom, where you'll find nine different group policy settings for granular configuration of UAC. Perhaps the best choice to select is to change the setting: User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode from Prompt for consent to Elevate without prompting. What does this do? Despite the warning from the Windows Security Center, UAC isn't actually switched off. It's still there, and all your processes will still run as a standard user. To prove this, open a command prompt and try to save a file to the c:\ directory. You'll get an access denied error message. However, when a process is marked for elevation, instead of getting the secure desktop elevation prompt, the request will be silently approved. To show this in action, right click on a command prompt shortcut and choose "Run as Administrator". You'll see the command prompt open without elevation, but the window title will show that you're running with full administrative privileges. Using this approach is better than nothing, but it's a bit like relying on everyone else having a vaccination against measles to protect yourself from infection. Read the explanations on the second page of the property sheet for each policy setting before tinkering, and be careful!

Any one who is running Vista RC1 should check out this site, Vista Scenario Voting has list of scenerios for vista and trails to see if people feel it is ready for RTM, run through as many as you can and give input back, this can help get the OS ready for RTM or get MS to fix things before RTM.

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I would like to see it since I'm planing to get myself a pocket PC in the near future.. :thumbsup: So, show them Cygnus

you should behave for your age you dirty boy :lol:

Ooooo, do I know you from somewhere Welcome mate!

Prove it dirtwarrior :naughty: Although I know you did it :clap:

Preety much in the same way.. Open your registry and find or create the key below. System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ SpecialAccounts\UserList] Value Name: Administrator Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) Value Data: (1 = show Administrator) Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called "Administrator" and set it according to the value data above. Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect. Note: This tweak will not work if you have renamed the Administrator account.

Go to: Start > Run = " control userpasswords2 " select administrator account, click reset password (input new pass) / Click Ok Open Registry editor and create this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList Create "DWORD (32bit) Value" Value Name: Administrator Value Data: 1 or -Right Click Computer Icon Select Manage -Expand The Local User And Groups -Rename the administartor account to match the name in the reg file, you can also just leave the name the same for the admin, but the name must match the reg file. This is a easier a way, change the "PLACE_NEW_NAME_OR_ADMINISTARTOR_NAME_HERE" to the name you want. Save As AddAdmin.Reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList] "HelpAssistant"=dword:00000000 "TsInternetUser"=dword:00000000 "SQLAgentCmdExec"=dword:00000000 "NetShowServices"=dword:00000000 "IWAM_"=dword:00010000 "IUSR_"=dword:00010000 "VUSR_"=dword:00010000 "PLACE_NEW_NAME_OR_ADMINISTARTOR_NAME_HERE"=dword:00000001

Hold down CTRL button and use your mouse scroll wheel to adjust the size.

Open new text document and enter this lines: Save it with .reg extension, run it and reboot..