Last year Microsoft announced that they would be pulling the plug on Windows XP, users frustrated many who were not big fans of the Windows Vista operating system. However, since this story to many people still using Windows XP on PCs and laptops allowing downgrade rights to Windows Vista surely you want Microsoft windows upgrade to windows 7
With the release of Windows 7 scheduled Oct. 22, perhaps this is the end for Windows XP, unlike Windows Vista requirements 7 is not particularly good hardware necessary to install and run the operating system as well , microsoft has provided windows vista help for windows vista users
From the July 21 order OEM downgrade rights, it seems that ending the life of Windows XP, the only way you can get a license of XP will be the purchase from a supplier who still has a balance of it, demand XP license retailers will probably have to sell.
Microsoft is said to still offer XP for Netbooks, this is because some Netbooks hardware will not run any more advanced operating systems sufficiently.
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Users keep Microsoft Windows XP alive
Monday, September 7, 2009
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Change Windows XP Product Key
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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You can change the XP Product Key if your key is pirated or illegal! How to change the key without reinstalling Windows?
To do that, you need to edit the registry! Type ‘regedit’ in the Run command.
In the registry editor program, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current Version\WPAEvents
Click WPAEvents folder and locate OOBETimer on the right pane.
Right click OOBETimer and choose Modify.
Change any one digit to deactivate Windows and click OK.
Once again click Start – Run. Type the following command in the Run box – %systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a.
When the Windows Product Activation appears choose to activate by telephone. Click Next and choose Change Product Key. Type your new key and click Update.
If you’re taken back to the previous screen, you can call microsoft windows xp support.
Lastly restart your PC.
Firefox 3.5 slows down in Windows 7
Friday, May 15, 2009
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In preliminary Betanews tests Tuesday comparing the relative speeds of major Web browsers in Windows Vista- and Windows 7-based virtual machines, not only did the general performance of Microsoft Internet Explorer improve by about 23.0%, but the latest production build of Firefox 3.0.10 appears to improve its performance by 17.50%. This despite running in a Windows 7-based virtual machine that we estimate to be 12.10% slower overall than a Vista-based VM hosted by the same environment.
As we discovered, Windows 7 RC Build 71OO runs perceptibly slower on a Virtual PC 2007 platform on XP SP3, than Vista SP2. This does not mean Windows 7 is a slower operating system, but rather that it behaves more slowly in this particular virtualized environment, which after all was designed for Vista. So to make our test fair, we needed to estimate just how much slower our Win7 environment was from Vista, and factor out that difference.
Up to now, we've been comparing relative browser performance in Vista using a relatively slow browser to judge against: IE7. We've used IE7 as our gauge of how much more readily other browsers blow right past it in the performance department, including IE8. But we don't want to install IE7 on Win7 -- although it's technically feasible, doing so would pollute the operating system for running Win8 and other applications. So we needed a new, slow browser that we could rely upon to stand still for us, relatively speaking.
Our first choice was Firefox 1.5, but we learned it had difficulty running in Win7 at all. We ended up using Firefox 2.0.13, not quite the final build of that series of Mozilla's browser. Our aim was to use this browser as a fair gauge of how much slower our Win7 environment was than Vista. This way, we could equalize our indexes, which are based on IE7 -- we can't run IE7 on Win7, but we can estimate how much slower IE7 would be if we could, by measuring how much slower Firefox 2.0.13 is. Though the average speed difference is 12.1% in favor of the Vista VM, for our browser benchmarks, we created differentials for each heat in the competition, to more accurately account for environmental factors between the two environments.
In the Vista VM alone, Firefox 2.0.13 puts in a performance index of 2.490, meaning it performs 249% as well as IE7 in the same environment. Compare that to Firefox 3.0.10's index score of 5.190 in recent Betanews tests in the Vista VM.
Factoring out the speed differentials, we can reliably say that IE8 gives us a performance index of 2.69 in the Win7 VM versus 2.19 in the Vista VM. Meanwhile, Firefox 3.0.10 scores a 6.10 normalized index score in the Win7 VM versus 5.190 in the Vista VM.
The news is not all good for Mozilla, however. Under the same test conditions, Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 slows down in Win7, but only by about 2.5%, scoring a 10.180 normalized index score in the Win7 VM versus 10.440 in the Vista VM. So from this angle, it appears that Windows 7 helps close the gap between Mozilla's production browser and its experimental browser. We're interested to find out whether similar discoveries await us with regard to Google Chrome, and whether Win7 will play nicely with Apple's Safari for Windows. Those results are still forthcoming.
As we discovered, Windows 7 RC Build 71OO runs perceptibly slower on a Virtual PC 2007 platform on XP SP3, than Vista SP2. This does not mean Windows 7 is a slower operating system, but rather that it behaves more slowly in this particular virtualized environment, which after all was designed for Vista. So to make our test fair, we needed to estimate just how much slower our Win7 environment was from Vista, and factor out that difference.
Up to now, we've been comparing relative browser performance in Vista using a relatively slow browser to judge against: IE7. We've used IE7 as our gauge of how much more readily other browsers blow right past it in the performance department, including IE8. But we don't want to install IE7 on Win7 -- although it's technically feasible, doing so would pollute the operating system for running Win8 and other applications. So we needed a new, slow browser that we could rely upon to stand still for us, relatively speaking.
Our first choice was Firefox 1.5, but we learned it had difficulty running in Win7 at all. We ended up using Firefox 2.0.13, not quite the final build of that series of Mozilla's browser. Our aim was to use this browser as a fair gauge of how much slower our Win7 environment was than Vista. This way, we could equalize our indexes, which are based on IE7 -- we can't run IE7 on Win7, but we can estimate how much slower IE7 would be if we could, by measuring how much slower Firefox 2.0.13 is. Though the average speed difference is 12.1% in favor of the Vista VM, for our browser benchmarks, we created differentials for each heat in the competition, to more accurately account for environmental factors between the two environments.
In the Vista VM alone, Firefox 2.0.13 puts in a performance index of 2.490, meaning it performs 249% as well as IE7 in the same environment. Compare that to Firefox 3.0.10's index score of 5.190 in recent Betanews tests in the Vista VM.
Factoring out the speed differentials, we can reliably say that IE8 gives us a performance index of 2.69 in the Win7 VM versus 2.19 in the Vista VM. Meanwhile, Firefox 3.0.10 scores a 6.10 normalized index score in the Win7 VM versus 5.190 in the Vista VM.
The news is not all good for Mozilla, however. Under the same test conditions, Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 slows down in Win7, but only by about 2.5%, scoring a 10.180 normalized index score in the Win7 VM versus 10.440 in the Vista VM. So from this angle, it appears that Windows 7 helps close the gap between Mozilla's production browser and its experimental browser. We're interested to find out whether similar discoveries await us with regard to Google Chrome, and whether Win7 will play nicely with Apple's Safari for Windows. Those results are still forthcoming.
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