Try and Test Drive Windows Vista Business Virtually Online » My Digital Life

Try and Test Drive Windows Vista Business Virtually Online » My Digital Life

Microsoft has prepared a Windows Vista Business Test Drive website that allows users to try or test drive Windows Vista, the latest operating system from Microsoft without having to actually install it on your PC. This is especially useful if you want to evaluate Windows Vista

The Road to Know Where: How to Make Windows XP Look & Behave like Windows Vista

The Road to Know Where: How to Make Windows XP Look & Behave like Windows Vista: "
Many people are downloading the free 3rd party program Vista Transformation Pack along with the $20 Windows Blinds to make their computer's look & feel like Windows Vista. But this method has potential problems -- it's easier, cheaper and 'safer' to use existing Microsoft tools.

To accomplish turning Windows XP “into” Windows Vista we’ll need to do SIX things:
Install Additional Microsoft Components
Increase All Visual Effects Options
Change the Desktop Theme
Change the Color Theme
Drop the 'My' Prefixes
Additional Goodies"

20 Tools To Make your Ipod Better » MakeUseOf.com

20 Tools To Make your Ipod Better

20 Tools To Make your Ipod Better » MakeUseOf.com

Vista Tips and Tweaks - MSFN Forums

Vista Tips and Tweaks - MSFN Forums

ReadyBoost Compatibility Chart

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Windows ReadyBoost is a great technology, caching things on USB drives to improve system performance, but Windows Vista insists on checking the drives for certain speed requirements before enabling the feature. If you have a USB drive that is just a hair to slow to beat the test, or you want to use an external hard drive (slower speed, loads of cache space), how you can force Vista to let you use ReadyBoost on an unsupported device, whether it wants to or not:
• 1. Plug in the device.
• 2. Open the Readyboost tab on the device properties.
• 3. Select “Do not retest this device”
• 4. Unplug the device
• 5. Open regedit (start->run->regedit)
• 6. Expand - HKLM (Local Machine)SOFTWARE-Microsoft-Windows CurrentVersion-EMDgmt
• 7. Find your device.
• 8. Change Device Status to 2
• 9. Change ReadSpeedKBs to 1000
• 10. Change WriteSpeedKBs to 1000
• 11. Plug in the device.
• 12. Enable Readyboost!!!!
Try to see if it improves performance, especially when dedicated 30 gigabytes of an external drive to ReadyBoost, or if Microsoft’s speed test knows what it’s talking about.