Aurora’s in Windows Vista
Windows Vista seems to have a fascination with aurora’s! There are two hidden aurora’s that you can enable in Windows Vista. [via UnlockForUs]
There is a 3D benchmarks program that can be started by typing winsat aurora.
There is a boot screen that uses aurora (shown below).
Launch msconfig and check the “No GUI boot” option from the [...]
Windows Vista: The requested operation requires elevation
If you are using Windows Vista as your operating system and tried out certain commands using the Command Prompt (cmd), you might have encountered the error “The requested operation requires elevation“.
As an example, if you open cmd and try to flush your DNS cache using “ipconfig flushdns”, you’ll get the error.
To avoid this issue, you [...]
Microsoft releases Web Application Installer
Microsoft has released a Web Application Installer aimed at simplifying the installation of open source applications like Drupal, WordPress, DotNetNuke, Graffiti and a few others.
This is for the Windows Vista and Windows 2008 Server platforms.
This is a wonderful way by Microsoft to support open source applications and simplify their installation on the Windows platform.
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