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Clean Windows Vista Install - No Activation needed { for OEM versions only } I am just googling for some one and I have found a nice tutorial for Windows Vista User. So I have decided to share with you. What you need! Activation Backup & Restore Program Windows Upgrade Anytime DVD or retail vista DVD Recovery DVD(s) for your computer USB Flash drive, external hard drive, or second internal hard drive Device Drivers for your computer The best place to find the most up to date drivers is the support or download area of your computer manufacturer's website. You will need drivers for your display, network card, wireless card, touchpad or mouse, chipset, modem, card reader, etc. ** Do NOT proceed unless you have recovery disk(s) and any data you want to keep backed up! ** Instructions Download the Activation Backup and Restore program above. Open the file and copy the ABR folder to your USB flash drive, external drive, or second internal hard drive. Double click activation_backup.exe. This will open a cmd window and extract the OEM Vista key. If all goes OK you will see two new files in the ABR folder. backup-cert.xrm-ms: Backed up activation backup-key.txt: Backed-up product key [*]Insert the Vista Anytime Upgrade DVD. [*]Reboot your computer. Your computer should boot to CD/DVD. If not change the option in your BIOS [*]Choose your language, Time/Currency, and country. Click Next. [*]Click on Install Now [*]The next screen is for your Vista key. DO NOT enter anything in this box. Be sure to UNCHECK the activate box. Click Next. The installation program won't believe you, so it will ask you again if you want to enter your key. Choose NO. [*]You will be asked which version of Vista you have purchased. Highlight the version that came with your computer. Check the box that says "I have selected the edition of Windows that I purchased". Click Next. [*]Accept Microsoft's license terms. Click Next. [*]Choose Custom (Advanced) Installation. [*]Choose where you want to install Vista. Disk 0 is your primary drive and where you should install. If your manufacturer has included a recovery partition you will see Disk 0 Partition 1 and Disk 0 Partition 2. Choose Partition 1. Highlight Disk 0 Partition 1 (should be the first choice. Click on Drive Options (Advanced). Choose Format. This will completely erase your old installation, including all bloatware! The default settings for formatting will be fine. This will take some time depending on the size of your drive. More experienced users my delete the recovery partition and gain back the 10GB of space. If your computer did not come with recovery disks DO NOT remove the recovery partition unless you have burnt the disks yourself! [*]The installation program will now begin copying files. [*]The installation program will reboot the computer. You can remove the DVD from the drive now. [*]Choose a username and password. [*]Choose a computer name and desktop background. [*]Choose an automatic updates option. Choose a time zone, set date and time. [*]The gears of Vista will whirl for a few moments and Vista will start! Go to Control Panel>System and Maintenance>System. You will see that Vista is NOT activated. Close this window. [*]Insert your USB flash drive and navigate to activation_restore.exe. Double click the file to start. [*]A cmd window will open and you will see it doing it's thing. It should say "Successful". Close the cmd window. [*]Go to Control Panel>System and Maintenance>System again. Notice the difference? [*]Install the device drivers you downloaded before. You will probably be asked to reboot and it is OK to do so. Be careful not to install any bloatware, or unnecessary helper applications. [*]Open Control Panel>System and Maintenance>System again. Click on Windows Experience Index half way down the window. [*]This will open the Windows Experience Index window. Click Update My Score. Vista uses this score to determine if it will be able to handle the Aero interface. There you have it! A fresh, clean Vista installation with NO extra crap. Guaranteed to make for a faster and more enjoyable computing experience! I know the instructions are lengthy, but it really on takes a fraction of the time you would spend removing the extra crap manufacturers add to a new computer. You can find complete tutorial with images. Source: Dave's Computer

http://www.tech-hints.com/unatt.html I think; this will help you.

Try to update your INF drivers..............

You should go for Vista Mizer (try Google) and Vista Inspirat 2 Ultiamte (http://www.crystalxp.net) That are awesome shell packs to change UI of Windows XP to Vista.

If you have plugged USB device on Quick Removable setting. You don't need to right click or follow the step to remove any USB device. You can unplug directly.

Are you using genuine Windows or not ? Some Royalty OEM based cracked having problems.

I have checked that its working regsvr32 wmpshell.dll (Works with Windows Vista and Windows XP) OR Run Windows Media Player and goto Tools ----> Options Now select File Types tab and Select ALL and apply. (For Windows Media Player 11 | Windows XP Only)

these are registry entries saved by theme. According to last saving state before theme.

Internet Download Manager !

VC++, VB, VBS, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS and Command Script.

Windows Server Enterprise Code Name Longhorn

Microsoft® is staying fairly tight-lipped about what the next iteration of its Windows OS will feature, but the company's recent moves in other areas provide some clues everyone has heard how Microsoft plans to release the next Windows client OS, Windows 7, in 2010. But what the company is not making clear is what new features the OS will have, a topic that has become fodder for educated Windows 7 speculation. Analysts said Microsoft probably is keeping tight-lipped about what Windows 7 will look like because at this point, company engineers and executives don't even know. "They don't want to commit because they don't have a good idea what's in it," said Michael Silver, an analyst with Gartner. "We're three years out, so you can't really expect that much detail." Michael Cherry, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, said that with so many people still in the midst of upgrading to the latest client OS, Windows Vista, he's hesitant to speculate on what might be in the next OS. "We barely know the features of the one we just got," he said with a laugh. That said, Cherry is expecting less "earth-shattering" new features than improvements on some of the new ones found in Windows Vista, such as the Bitlocker encryption feature, which is currently hard for the average PC user to navigate. "You have to partition your hard drive and do a bunch of things, and you can only really today protect one drive, whereas many machines have more than one," he said. Cherry also pointed to a common hardware performance problem many users face because of Vista's "very large footprint." "It's one of the things they might want to address -- hardware utilization and performance," he said. "It's hard to put a big wrapper around that; it just needs to be better." One Microsoft executive gave a slight hint about what might turn up in Windows 7 earlier this year at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development with Microsoft's Windows Core Operating System Division, said in an interview that a "fundamental piece of enabling technology," such as a hypervisor or a drastic change in the user interface, would likely turn up in Windows 7. Fathi also said at RSA in February that Microsoft was in the middle of the planning process for Windows 7's features and would know more over the next few months, which suggests the company now has a good idea what the OS will look like but is declining to disclose that information. While both a hypervisor and a new user interface are possibilities for Windows 7, the former is almost a given, Gartner's Silver said. "It almost has to go" in the OS, he said, describing the technology as "a really thin OS" that manages virtual machines running on the system. It would behoove Microsoft to put a hypervisor in Windows 7 because it would give them more control over the hardware the OS runs on, something the company would prefer to have, Silver said. "The hypervisor really owns the hardware, and Microsoft likes owning the hardware, and they want to be one of the people to standardize [hypervisor technology]," he said. Vista includes such new features as desktop search and a new user interface, which also are two areas that leave room for expansion in Windows 7, analysts said. Microsoft has shown the direction it's going with the latter with its Surface computer, introduced in late May. That form factor looks like a coffee table with a touchscreen interface that lets users move photos around by hand and synchronize devices by placing them on the table. With products like the Apple iPhone making the touchscreen popular with consumers, a touchscreen UI in Windows 7 is a possibility, Silver said. "They don't want to look bad next to Apple," he said. Desktop search, a new feature built into Vista, also has room for improvement. Microsoft has said it will link desktop search to Windows Server 2008 so desktop users can search not only for local files but also for files on the server. This is a feature that potentially could be built into the desktop OS. InfoWord.Com

The second beta of Visual Studio 2008 is slated to drop sometime this week, according to a blog. Scott Guthrie, a general manager within the Microsoft Developer Division, mentioned in response to a reader post that "You'll see Beta2 ship later this week -- so only a few more days now." Guthrie further confirmed that beta 2 is nearly feature complete. "We'll do some small features additions/changes based on new feedback on Beta2, but 99% of the features are all there," he wrote. VS 2008, formerly code-named "Orcas", is scheduled to be officially launched Feb. 27, 2008, along with Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. The first beta came out April 19. VS 2008, a development environment for numerous Microsoft products including Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Office 2007 and SQL Server, includes as many as 200 new features. Source: RedDevNews

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\Reg] @="Register DLL" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\Reg\Command] @="regsvr32 %1" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\UnReg] @="UnRegister DLL " [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\UnReg\Command] @="regsvr32 /u %1" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\shell\Reg] @="Register OCX" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\shell\Reg\Command] @="regsvr32 %1" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\shell\UnReg] @="UnRegister OCX" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\shell\UnReg\Command] @="regsvr32 /u %1" Copy this code and Save As with .reg extension Patch It ! Now You will get Register and Unregister contect menu for registeration of DLL and OCX on Windows Vista and XP also.

I think Acronis OS Selector caused the problem... When installing Vista using DVD. When Windows loading files... process completed and Install now dialog box appeared .... wait for a minute and the click on install now. Sometimes VistaDVD takes time to load HDD drivers.

Mod only two files. you can find these in XPCD under i386 folder named as

Use ResHacker to modify Shutdown and Logoff screen resources. Shell32.dll -----> Shutdown Dialog BITMAP 14351 14353 14354 14355 14356 DIALOG 1089 msgina.dll ------> Logoff Dialog BITMAP 20140 20141 20142 20143 20150 DIALOG 20100

Thanks for update release Feedback 2 submitted !

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July 22 has arrived and Core 2 Quad Q6600s for under $300 Intel last week released a new lineup of 1333 MHz front-side bus processors at low price points, but held off price cuts for existing processors until July 22. The day has arrived and Intel price cuts for existing Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad processors are going into effect at various retailers. Intel’s star for this round of price cuts is the quad-core Core 2 Quad Q6600. The price cut cuts the Core 2 Quad Q6600 price in half to $266 per processor, in 1,000-unit quantities, from the existing $530 price. The Core 2 Quad Q6600 is the only sub-$300 quad-core processor available on the market. Intel has positioned the Core 2 Quad Q6700, which launched last week, at the $530 price point. Retailers have adjusted prices of the Core 2 Quad Q6600 accordingly. A quick search for the processor at online retailers shows prices starting at $275. ClubIT, Mwave, Newegg and ZipZoomFly have the processors listed below $300. However, Newegg has already sold out of Core 2 Quad Q6600 processors. The price cuts also affect Core 2 Duo E4000-sequence processors. Intel’s Core 2 Duo E4400 drops $20 to $113 to make way for a new Core 2 Duo E4500. The new Core 2 Duo E4500 debuts at a $133 price point with a 200 MHz clock speed advantage. If the $266 price tag is still a bit too steep, Intel plans to cut prices of its Xeon processor lineup in August. The Xeon price cuts affect quad-core Xeon UP and MP processors. The Intel quad-core Xeon processor lineup includes a 2.13 GHz X3210. Intel plans to drop the price on the Xeon X3210 to $224 come August. More Info : Dailytech

Thanks for First Beta Release Let me check the taste of Tweaker utility for Vista

Check you have plugged any USB device, printer etc. or not; if yes then unplug and try. Clean dust from CPU cabinet, clean RAM slots and insert RAM into diffrent slot. Are you using SATA HDD or trying to install Windows XP into D:, E: etc drive, I mean logical partition without dual boot OS. During the installation Delete the partition and Re-create partition and perform Normal formating. (Don't perform QUICK FORMAT)

I hope so ! If Microsoft realize thier promises.

Backup OEM activation Good !dea I hope it will be available in next release of vlite. nuhi Please.........!