Microsoft Offers OEM XP Downgrade Disks 6 Months Extention
Customers who purchase Windows Vista Business and Ultimate editions will have the chance until July 31 2009, to downgrade to XP Professional if they would like to.
Microsoft will provide hardware partners with the media to enable its customers to downgrade Windows Vista to Windows XP by six more months than originally planned, the company confirmed on Friday.
The move comes even as Microsoft has just released a $ 300 million marketing and advertising campaign in promoting Vista. The company is also preparing windows 7, the next version of the client operating system, for release in the next 12 to 18 months. Read the rest of this entry
Windows XP SP3 Compatibility Issues
Installing Windows XP SP 3 might cause your anti-malware applications to detect the presence of Trojans and keyloggers that actually aren’t there.
As In the case of Spyware Doctor, PC tools’ popular antispyware program that detects Trojan-Spy.Pophot.WX in RunDLL32.exe even though in fact the system is uninfected. RunDLL32.exe is a system file that Windows need to run code in dynamic link library (DLL) files.
By default, Spyware Doctor prevents any files it recognizes as infected from running. If an important system file such as RunDLL32.exe is flagged incorrectly, the result can be terrible for your computer. For example, users may be blocked from opening Windows Control Panel or using System Restore, among other operations, an endless loop of scanning to remove the file, rebooting, finding the file again or even misleading users into reinstalling XP . Read the rest of this entry
