With Cairo you can transform your desktop from the dated Windows user interface to a brand new system that will change the way you use your computer forever. Taking advantage of proven functionality, and with stability and performance in mind, the Cairo Desktop system aims to give users a productive and easy to use shell that advances current technology standards. Never get lost in a sea of windows again.

VGEE allows you to add your own information and box-art into the Games Explorer of Windows Vista. You can edit or delete existing games as well add new games.

Windows® XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system.

This is the go-to fix with anything Indesign, especially on the Mac. Plus it’s easy. Instead of deleting the preference files, just rename them. That way, if it doesn’t turn out to be the cause of the problem you can restore them by deleting the newly created preference file and re-rename them back to the original name.

• Понять мне это помогла новая сборка Турков - iAtkos v5i, которая по своей сути является очень кастрированым ретейл дистрибутивом, над которым извратились, как говорится по-полной. Главная её цель - установить нетронутую (как большинство других дистрибутивов насовывают в свои сборки биллион патчей, не зависимо от того нужны они или нет) ОС версии 10.5.5.

I did this to my system just yesterday and it worked perfectly. Follow these instructions and you'll have it running in no time!

The idea of this thread is to list current third party applications and plug-ins for Media Center. I have a list of most of the current ones mostly from this forum right here.

There are two ways of working with the registry; software based and direct access. The software based method is generally considered to be safe, although a badly behaved piece of software that mangles the registry can make you doubt the wisdom of this statement. Anyone who has used a computer is familiar with the software based method of making changes. Control Panel is an excellent example. Make a change to one of the Control Panel settings and almost assuredly you have initiated a change within the registry. It's just that you are insulated by Control Panel from seeing what went on behind the scenes in the registry.

Watches the cache and gives you an idea of how well it is working
A small application that monitors readyBoost, peaks, cache size, graph, read and write speed.

I've found a way to disable the Thumbnail Cache in Vista, but still have the ability to view Thumbnails in Windows Explorer. This effectively gives you the same capability as in XP.

Did you buy a Vista laptop from abroad and want it to talk to you in your mother language?
Try Vistalizator - this tool allows you to change display language in Vista editions other than (officially supported) Ultimate, like Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium and Business.
Vistalizator overrides the limit of one language on non-Ultimate Vista editions.

Troubleshooting Information, Tips and Fixes for Microsoft Windows

Vista iconWindows Vista introduces the Preview pane in Explorer, which shows the contents of the currently chosen file. You can also play multimedia files from the Preview pane, without opening Windows Media Player. This article explains how to use the PreviewConfig utility to register a custom file type for the Preview pane in Windows Vista Explorer.

SQLiteSpy is a fast and compact GUI database manager for SQLite. It reads SQLite3 files and executes SQL against them. Its graphical user interface makes it very easy to explore, analyze, and manipulate SQLite3 databases.

MatroskaSplitter is a simple installer that supports both Win9x and real systems.

This project is based on the original "Media Player Classic" and was created after Gabest, the original author, stopped working on it. Several new features have been integrated in this player.

I have heard that different devices are better for RB: can anyone recommend one that has worked well on their system, or the criteria for what makes a memory drive good on Vista for Ready Boost.

Windows Media Audio and Video 9 Series is a breakthrough set of codecs that enables multichannel audio and high definition (HD) video at resolutions up to 1080p. See high definition in action for yourself with these downloads. To deliver ultra-high quality, these clips were encoded at 24 frames per second (fps), and at the resolutions noted of either 1280 x 720 (720p) or 1920 x 1080 (1080p). (Resolutions vary per clip.)

SubDownloader is an Open Source tool written in Python for automatic download/upload subtitles for videofiles (DIVX,MPEG,AVI,VOB,etc) and DVD's using fast hashing.