Firefox Ultimate Optimizer
by Haris on May 10, 2008
in Firefox, Freewares, Softwares, Tips and Tricks
Firefox is everyone’s favourite browser! I love the tabbing feature. I can open as many tabs as I want. The only thing I don’t like about Firefox is its memory hogging habit. My Firefox eats about 70MB of RAM with only two or three tabs opened. Sick, isn’t it?
Would you like it, if your Firefox memory usage becomes to only 100-200K? No, I’m certainly not joking! It’s seems like a miracle, but I have no idea how Firefox Ultimate Optimizer drastically reduces the browser’s craving for memory and CPU. This little app doesn’t have any configuration options and sits in your system tray all the time.
Microsoft Office 2007 SP1 Releasing On June 16
The leading software giant, Microsoft, released Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2007 about 5 months ago in December. At that time, the company officials said that they’d give customers a minimum 30-day advance notice before pushing out the service pack via its Automatic Update. SP1 has already been downloaded millions of times through Microsoft Download center.
Download Windows XP SP3 Standalone (25 Languages)
by Haris on May 8, 2008
in Computers, Internet, Softwares, Windows XP
Okay friends, the last post I did on Windows XP SP3 just had the standalone version of SP3 English version. But in this post, I’m going to post the download links of SP3 in 25 different languages! I have made it easier for you guys. Actually, I prefer downloading such big updates manually, not by automatic update.
Download Windows XP Service Pack 3
A week after announcing that there won’t be any Windows XP SP3 available for download through Windows Update and Microsoft Download Center, Microsoft has finally released the long-awaited service pack.
The distribution of SP3 was halted just before the official release date because of some compatibility glitches that Microsoft found. But now, as Microsoft says, SP3 is all ready for everyone to download. This service pack fixes about 1,174 bugs and includes some security updates. The full list of changes and fixes can be found here.
Find All The Installed Windows Updates
by Haris on May 4, 2008
in Computers, Softwares, Tips and Tricks, Windows XP
While surfing the web, I found a very interesting utility that can list all the Windows updates installed on your system. I’m always interested in such small applications as they could come in handy anytime!
Moving on back to the application, WinUpdatesList can run from any location on your drive. It neatly displays all the Windows updates (hotfixes, service packs, individual updates) in a table and shows information about the name of the update, its description, and the date that update has been installed. You can also find out that which user installed the updates.
Microsoft Delays Service Pack Downloads
Microsoft has discontinued downloading of Vista SP1 via Automatic Update and delayed the release of XP SP3 through Automatic Update to as well. Want the reason? Well, today they uncovered a compatibility issue between Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) and both Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). The same compatibility issue was found in XP SP3 before the general distribution, but it wasn’t in Vista SP1. Microsoft released Vista SP1 to manufacturing on February 4.
Due to the newly encountered incompatibility issues with the Service Packs, Microsoft is forced to halt the release. Their release was planned before the end of August, but this is not the case anymore and Microsoft fails to announce the exact date.
Office 2007 SP1 Coming Out Next Week
by Haris on December 8, 2007
in Microsoft, Softwares, Tips and Tricks
Recently, Microsoft rolled out the first release candidate version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to some beta testers, and is now planning to roll out Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista next week.
And with all these, guess what? Microsoft is also going to release the first service pack for Office 2007. Amazing, isn’t it? Microsoft didn’t left out its remaining flagship product. Initially, it was slated for an early 2008 release with Vista SP1, but now it will be available to public for download on December 11 through Microsoft Download Center!
Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta Leaked
by Haris on December 2, 2007
in Freewares, Softwares, Tips and Tricks, Windows
The news about Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (WLM 9.0), also known as MSN Messenger 9.0, has been around since many days now and I was very eager to give it a try. I even signed up for Microsoft Connect, hoping to get an invitation. But, didn’t got any! LOL! They only gave out invitations to their old members, which included some 5000 beta testers.But guess what? I just found a way to try it out, thanks to Tech Today. And my readers too grab it and try the next version of the world’s most popular instant messenger :)
Download Windows XP Service Pack 3 RC1
by Haris on November 25, 2007
in Softwares, Tips and Tricks, Windows XP
Yes.. Yes.. It’s true! Microsoft has finally finished working on the most awaited Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) for Windows XP. And now, it’s even available to some beta testers. Microsoft has promised to fix a good set of bugs in SP3 RC1, and has some new features borrowed from Vista.
Want to try? Desperate? :D High five to Karthik from Daily Apps for sharing a method to download Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 1 directly from Microsoft’s website.
DO NOT install SP3 RC1 if you don’t know what release Candidate versions are!
