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My Dell XPS1330 laptop had been turned on and running since 8 days. Yes, It is running Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit , it is definitely stable then XP. I use a Vista Enterprise desktop at work and it has been up since a month. Use below simple steps to know the uptime.

• Right-click on the Taskbar, and click Task Manager. You can also click CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to get to the Task Manager.
• In Task Manager, select the Performance tab.
• The current system uptime is shown under System.

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The Microsoft updates ( called Microsoft’s Patch Tuesdays - second Tuesday of every month) are an important part of every Windows user’s and system administrator’s regular system maintenance. In fact, regularly applying fixes, patches, and updates should be part of your routine, no matter which operating system you use.

Windows XP update process sometimes gets stuck and shows a flashing yellow shield in the System Tray, indicating to download and install important security patches.

Fix for most common issue ‘Updates fail to install.’

In most cases a corrupted CatRoot2 folder causes this. You can fix this by renaming the \Windows\System32\CatRoot2 folder to CatRoot2OLD.

Note that you do not want to rename the \Windows\System32\CatRoot folder!

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Ever wanted to access the personal bookmarks saved on your local machine or wished to add a new link to your favorites , when accessing Internet from work place or any other location - Google bookmarks is a very good option for this.

There are Bookmark Sync add-on’s for Firefox like Foxmarks,  Google Browser Sync ( supported till Firefox 2 ), Mozilla Weave which support bookmark sharing across firefox installations at multiple locations.

Google Bookmarks is free, secure and can be accessed from any location and any browser.

On Web - www.google.com/bookmarks/

On IE – Install Google toolbar and Sign in to view add / save Bookmarks. I aligned it beside my Roboform toolbar to not waste much viewable space.

On Firefox – Install GMarks Add-on and sign in to Google account to manage Google Bookmarks from within Firefox. It also lets you see Google reader starred items.

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Windows Vista features Shadow Copy ( Previous Version), a useful innovation to help protect your data.This feature automatically creates point-in-time copies of files as you work, so you can quickly and easily retrieve versions of a document you may have accidentally deleted. Shadow copy is automatically turned on in Windows Vista and creates copies on a scheduled basis of files that have changed. Since only incremental changes are saved, minimal disk space is used for shadow copies.

Restore Previous Version feature is only available in the Ultimate, Business, and Enterprise editions of Windows Vista. This can be easily accessed by right-clicking a file or folder and selecting "Restore previous versions." The problem is that the home versions of Vista don’t give you an interface to access them, even though it’s enabled by default!

Shadow Explorer is a software for Windows Vista that makes it possible to restore files using the Volume Shadow Copy Service on all versions of Windows Vista including Home and Premium editions.

* Show available point-in-time copies
* Browse through Shadow Copies
* Retrieve versions of files and folders

Download ShadowExplorer 0.4

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MSFeedSync.exe is Microsoft Feeds Synchronization task executable used by the Windows Internet Explorer 7 and 8 web browser to periodically update in-browser RSS feeds which have automatic RSS Feeds synchronization turned ON. It only appears in the Windows Task Manager if IE is running.

Well, most of us use feed reader such as Google Reader, Bloglines, RSS Bandit, FeedDemon, Thunderbird, etc. In this case, this IE feature can be turned OFF. As this continusouly running in the background to update the default RSS feeds.

How to distable msfeedsync in IE7 / IE8

1. Go to Control Panel.
2. Double-click Internet Options.
3. Click Content tab.
4. Click the Settings button under Feeds.

5. Uncheck Automatically check feeds for updates and Click OK

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