Finally, Microsoft gives Vista SP1 RC green flag for public consumption. Yesterday they officially posted the Release Candidate of Vista SP1.

According to Microsoft the installation may take around an hour to completely, so make sure you have plenty non computer related work before jumping for the installation. But many websites and blogs have reported the installation doesn’t takes more then 10 to 20 mins. I’m not able to comment as i haven’t personally tested it, but friends I’ll give my opinion as soon as i download and install it in coming days.

Microsoft latest operating system Windows Vista comes with many bells and whistles. But mostly aren’t that necessary or total useless features. But you can always turn off some of them just to speed it up. Here is a brief walkthrough that guide you through the process.

1. Lets first get started by opening your Control Panel. Now select Uninstall a program from the Programs section.
2. In the left down column, select Turn Windows features on or off.

 Microsoft has officially confirmed that a Release Candidate of Vista SP1 (build 6001.17052.071129-2315) will be available for download next week, but they haven’t mentioned the exact date maybe for some curiosity.

Sources say it should be on Tuesday , December 11th which is likely to happen as it coincides with Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. Today MSDN and TechNet subscribers will be able to download Vista SP1 RC , yesterday Microsoft Connect had the chance to grab it.

If you haven’t forgotten way back in January, Yahoo announced they were developing Yahoo Messenger for Vista but since then no signs of either any beta or atleast something. The introduction of Yahoo Messenger 9 made it more obvious that YM for Vista might become a vaporware. Fortunately Yahoo has responded with a download preview after nearly a year of silence.

At first sight you would love the round edges. The Yahoo! Messenger for Vista utilizes new Aero features in Windows Vista. When you first login into it you’ll see the slick new look…. you can customize the color of the screen alongside the size of your friends icon on the buddy list.

If you download Abode Acrobat Reader 8 and try to install it on your Vista machine it could be that you’ll encounter the following message:

If you do get the error message you can fix it with the workaround below.

First, download the Adobe Reader installer from the Adobe website. When you are prompted to run or save the file, choose save. Save the file to your desktop.

On the Desktop, right-click the AdbeRdr80_en_US file and then choose Properties.

Click the Compatibility tab.

Wonder why Microsoft is so evil… DreamScene is a pretty useless feature apart form the eye candy that comes with a motion desktop or video animated desktop wallpaper nothing extravagant. Now why should i dish out $40o odd for Windows Vista Ultimate just some eye candy.

No need to buy Windows Vista Ultimate here is a cool alternative to adding video to your desktop background without hogging system resources and memory. It will work in any Windows Vista version and Windows Xp. Here’s how it goes.

Have you ever encountered with a problem of Music folder icon turning from the default shiny icon into the generic yellow folder icon. Sometimes this occurs due to some softwares or malwares screwing up with a hidden file named desktop.ini thus corrupting it. But here is a workaround that fixes this issue up.

Check the screenshot below… looks familiar I guess!

The visibility of the icons on the folders are controlled by desktop.ini file which is hidden inside each folder. All you need to do is modify the settings and save the file. What I’ll do here is just reset the desktop.ini to the default values that I’ve listed here.