After upgrading to either Windows Vista or 7 you might have seen a strange Windows.Old folder getting created in your C drive and I’m sure many average guys won’t even touch but the fact that its eats up loads of disk space is pretty annoying. Thing is that when you upgrade from your previous Windows, the installation it makes sure you have have a backup in case you need it thus renaming the old windows folder as Windows.Old.
What Is Included In Windows.old ?
Documents and Settings
Windows
Program Files
How to Remove ?
Pranjal
Ever encounter the error above while trying to open a system folder! Looks familiar ain’t it! Windows 7 and Vista systems files or folders can be really stubborn to remove or edit if you haven’t take ownership. Evening using the GUI or command line is painfully long. Here’s how you can make it a lot easier by installing this registry hack. After installing this hack you’ll get a menu item for”Take Ownership” which will let you take control of those system folders and files.
Here’s how to install the hack.
Pranjal
If you are using Windows 7, already familiar with the Aero Glass interface which requires a decent video card and probably your aged computer won’t be able to handle it. Well you need not worry if you disable it you can save enough horsepower to run the operating system.
Disabling Aero on Windows Vista
Just right-click on the desktop and choose Personalize. Click the “Window Color and Appearance” link.
Now head over to the next screen, and click the link near the bottom for “Open classic appearance properties for more color options”
Pranjal
Microsoft might have actually read the average user’s mind this time. It is now offering DirectX 11 for both Windows 7 and Windows Vista platforms. Last time most of the people didn’t even bothered downloading DirectX 10 cause it was only available with Windows Vista.
The easiest way to download this baby is from the regular Windows Update. The update not only guarantees the DirectX upgrade but also many other improvements.
- Windows Graphics, Imaging, and XPS Library – The Windows Graphics, Imaging, and XPS Library enables developers to take advantage of the advancements in modern graphics technologies for gaming, multimedia, imaging, and printing applications
Pushkar
Windows Vista hasn’t been received quite well among the tech communities all over the world and even OEM partners for Microsoft have raised there hands against pre-loading Vista instead of the reliable Windows XP. Addressing all these concerns Microsoft have launched the much waited Vista Service Pack 1 few months back. As a service pack should do it changes lot of internal stuffs and thus making the OS more stable.
Technet and MSDN subscribers are the only ones that are able to download the newly integrated Windows Vista With Service Pack 1 which really saves time if you are stuck with installing Service Pack 1 manually.
Pranjal
It’s simply weired that in Windows Vista won’t let you uninstall Windows Defender which is kinda ultimate useless application of all time. :D Strangely it does allow uninstalling in Windows XP.
Now that Windows Vista installs Windows Defender by default, many people are looking for ways to disable, uninstall or remove it from system so that they could install any other anti-spyware programs. Besides using some precious cpu and memory resources Windows Defender as I already told you is a lameware, also because if you use something like Kaspersky Internet Security its almost impossible for spywares to get inside.
Pranjal
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