Although I'm late to the party in reviewing Windows Vista SP1, it's becoming widely available as I write this, so now is as good a time as any for my review. Rather than try to cover every improvement in SP1, I'm going to cover my particular experiences. Read my review.
Windows keeps track of recently used programs and lists them prominently on the Start menu. This is a nice feature because it puts the programs you use most within easy reach. However, the problem is that the program entries tend to move up and down in the list depending on how often they're used. This article shows how to replace the automatically generated list of recent programs with a custom list.
Print servers are something almost every company uses, but not everyone sets up in the optimum way. Over a long time working with printers and servers, I've come up with a set of best practices that work well for setting up and supporting Windows printers and print servers.
Microsoft's Windows Sysinternals group writes a bunch of great utilities for finding out what's going on with Windows systems. This article covers five useful functions of one the Sysinternals utilities, Task Manager-like application Process Explorer.
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If you've tweaked your PC, overclocked your CPU or added a faster hard drive and want to know how much difference it makes, you need a benchmark utility. Although there are large, complex benchmark suites available, I cover a few free, easy to use utilities that generate a score for your PC and its various components.
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Windows Vista SP1 review 
Windows keeps track of recently used programs and lists them prominently on the Start menu. This is a nice feature because it puts the programs you use most within easy reach. However, the problem is that the program entries tend to move up and down in the list depending on how often they're used. This article shows how to replace the automatically generated list of recent programs with a custom list.
Print servers are something almost every company uses, but not everyone sets up in the optimum way. Over a long time working with printers and servers, I've come up with a set of best practices that work well for setting up and supporting Windows printers and print servers.
Microsoft's Windows Sysinternals group writes a bunch of 
If you've tweaked your PC, overclocked your CPU or added a faster hard drive and want to know how much difference it makes, you need a benchmark utility. Although there are large, complex benchmark suites available, I cover a few free, easy to use utilities that generate a score for your PC and its various components.