Complaints are pouring in on the latest Vista Service Pack 1, which is said to fix 551 bugs in the Windows Vista. People are complaining about slow shutdown times, the infamous “blue screen of death”, sidebar loading problems, remote assistance problems and several others related to drivers and performance on windowsvistablog. Even the tech guys at the University of Pennsylvania advised the staff and students to stay off the Vista SP1 update.
Are you getting lots of “Out of Memory” Errors in Windows Vista. That’s because the way the operating system manages virtual memory. In Vista applications have their own private address space. On 32 bit platforms, applications are generally limited to 2GB as their maximum size of virtual memory. Theses out of memory errors are caused when all the virtual space allocated to applications are used up.
Microsoft issued patches to address this problem. These patches doesn’t solve the problem entirely, but they change the way the allocations are made.
Last week it was Nokia batteries overheating, this week its Xbox 360 wheel’s. Microsoft will replace parts of its wireless racing wheel. Microsoft received over 50 reports that the wheel’s overheated and released smoke. Microsoft said, the problem is caused only when the unit is plugged into AC or DC outlet, otherwise its safe to use with battery.
Gamers can register online to receive a “retrofit”. More info Here
Microsoft launches online storage service. For each folder you create, you choose who has access to it. Add new folders, rename them, or change who has access at any time.
Features:
File Protection:
Its still in beta, hope they increase the storage.
Microsoft to increase Windows Live Hotmail storage to 5GB from 2GB soon. The software giant acknowledged this in blog post.
“Just when you were wondering how you’d ever fill up 2 or 4 GB of mail, we’ve given you more storage,” wrote Ellie Powers-Boyle, a program manager for Windows Live Hotmail.
Microsoft’s new limit will leap frog all the other E-mail service provider with a whopping 3GB, except AOL which is already providing unlimited storage.
Microsoft said hotmail will also get faster in the coming weeks. E-mail users will also see a new report phishing button and a way to combine duplicate contacts in the address book.
When hotmail users log in, they see a page filled with news headlines from MSN sites. After the upgrade microsoft lets users to go straight into inbox.
You can read the blog entry Here
ReadyBoost allows us to use a flash memory device as memory and thus it improves system memory and boosts performance. The flash memory device serves as an additional memory cache that is, memory that the computer can access much more quickly than it can access data on the hard drive. ReadyBoost uses an intelligent memory management technique called Windows SuperFetch for this purpose.
STEP 1: Plug in your USB flash drive and choose “Speed up my system”. Vista OS then checks for its performance.
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Microsoft release a super bundle of security patches for nine security flaws, including four that keep hackers from breaking into computers through web pages.
Microsoft gave four web browsing related patches most “critical” rating. The updates affect many versions of windows, server, office, including Windows XP and Windows Vista. The other two updates target holes in Excel spreadsheet program.
Although vista is supposed to be most secure Operating System ever (as microsoft claims), these patches fixes a hole in “gadgets”, small software applications that deliver simple syndication, or RSS feeds to desktop. MORE »
