Window Vista has built in support for SATA and external drives, but they seem to be slow because the advanced write cache features aren’t automatically activated. With just few steps you can enable them and get a much faster response.
First you need to go to the Device Manager which you can go directly by just typing device in the start menu search box or just type in devmgmt.msc in command line.
Now open the Disk drives section and right click on your hard drive. Now click on the Policies tab and you’ll find this dialog box:
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 You’d probably have noticed that file transfers from Windows XP to Vista are very slow. As most of you who still using their Windows Xp boxes, sometimes you would like to transfer few files to Vista and you would be mad at the slow transfer between.
This slowness can be attributed to a feature in Vista ” Remote Differential Compression” which measures the changes in files over a network to transfer them with minimal bandwidth rather than transferring an entire file that has previously been moved. This constant checking for file changes drastically reduce the transfer speeds. Here how to solve this issue!
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Kevin Unangst, global director of Games for Windows told that Games for Windows – LIVE is also coming for Windows XP, as it is only present for Vista right now.
Unangst said “There is no charge for Games for Windows – LIVE membership, and it offers a multiplayer experience PC gamers expect while introducing completely new functionality to online gaming on Windows. A no-charge Silver membership offers PC to PC multiplayer play, in-game voice chat, cross-game chat, single-player achievements and a unique identity across multiple games.
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This is a nice way to fix your corrupted XP files, all you need to have is a Windows XP cd.
Just put the XP cd in the drive & go to Start->Run-> type ’sfc /scannow’. This should fix your corrupted files in XP. What this procedure does is a simple copy paste of the original file from cd to its respective location in your PC.
If important file gets corrupted which is useful while booting here is what you gotta do.
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Microsoft announced that it will discontinue the Windows XP OEM by the end of 2007, so they probably encouraging/forcing the users for Vista in 2008. There are still lot of people still using XP due to compatibility issues of software they are using or just for comfort & user interface. Microsoft will issue notice to all the manufacturers who are selling PCs loading XP OEM version.
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One of the most anticipated games of this year Crysis follows up from Crytek's Farcry success, with the blend of FPS and science fiction along with stunning graphical achievement with the implementation of DirectX 10 framework for Vista(not Vista exclusive game).Crysis set to be the next revolution in the gaming arena.Lets check out this jaw drooping video thats running on both Vista and Windows XP.
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Microsoft won’t let you a easy upgrade on Vista this time, but this might be the factor for people who want to upgrade or not. If you buy a Vista upgrade CD’s for you Xp machine, Vista will invalidate your Xp license key(so no dual-boot nor you will be able to use that use that Xp on a different PC.
Your woes won’t end their if you ever think Vista isn’t for you and decide to uninstall Vista, you won’t be able to revert back with your Xp Cd anymore. If Microsoft doesn’t change this upgradation policy soon enough, sooner or later they might get sued by a unhappy customer.
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