Hackstacks » Vista http://www.hackstacks.com My Digital Life Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:42:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to determine if your Hardware/Software is compatible with Windows 7 http://www.hackstacks.com/how-to-determine-if-your-hardwaresoftware-is-compatible-with-windows-7/2858 http://www.hackstacks.com/how-to-determine-if-your-hardwaresoftware-is-compatible-with-windows-7/2858#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:51:15 +0000 Renjith http://www.hackstacks.com/?p=2858 more »]]>

OK! so you are planning to upgrade your Windows operating system to the latest Windows 7. You will have bunch of tools and utilities running in that Windows XP or Vista operating Cpu (I am concerned about the paid software’s you have). Sometimes you will have additional hardware attached to it as an enhancement (Something like an additional Sound card or Graphics Card) Alright everything works great in your Old operating system. But how about Windows 7? How do you know if your existing hardware and software is compatible with it?

So it is important that you should know the compatibility beforehand to avoid a catastrophic situation. So how do understand and know that it all the existing hardware/software will work on your windows 7? Windows has an upgrade advisor tool and that will scan and tell you the compatibility. But I have something better than that and it’s called Windows 7 Compatibility Center. Compatibility center is a database of complete Hardware and Software and when you enter information about a particular product name or model it will search and show you if it is compatible with the Windows 7 operating system. (It will display the compatibility for both 32 and 64 bit operating systems.

If you are going to buy hardware such as a printer, graphics card, camera, media players etc this site is very useful to know the Windows 7 Compatibility in advance.

Hope you will find it helpful!

]]> http://www.hackstacks.com/how-to-determine-if-your-hardwaresoftware-is-compatible-with-windows-7/2858/feed 0 Windows Vista Tweaking Utility http://www.hackstacks.com/windows-vista-tweaking-utility/44 http://www.hackstacks.com/windows-vista-tweaking-utility/44#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:21:01 +0000 Renjith http://www.hackstacks.com/?p=44 more »]]> vistatweaker
Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a freeware Tweak UI Utility for tweaking and optimizing Windows Vista, 32-bit & 64-bit. It can simply be downloaded and used as a portable application to customize your Windows Vista to meet your requirements. With judicious tweaking, It can make your system faster, more stable, and more secure with just a few mouse clicks. The tweaker detects whether you have IE 7 or IE 8 installed and accordingly offers you the relevant tweaks only. The best things of this utility that its only 380KB in size.

Windows Vista has lots of bells and whistles. With these come even more switches and handles. The good thing about it is that everyone can tweak the desktop to her or his liking. The downside for administrators is that the number of service desk calls by users who have configured their desktops so well that they are hardly usable anymore, is increasing with every newly deployed Vista machine. One way to solve this problem is disallow end-users to change their configuration. The other, friendlier, option is to be prepared when a desperate user who has messed up his desktop calls you.

The tweaks are classified under seven categories and can be accessed through a common interface, just like your Windows Vista Control Panel.
1) Personalization,
2) User Accounts & UAC,
3) System & Performance,
4) Security,
5) Internet Explorer (IE7 / IE8)
6) Network Optimization
7) Additional Options

Get it from here

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