Not thrilled about spending a bundle on Vista–and dealing with potential bugs and hardware upgrades? Stick with XP, and use these tools to emulate the Vista experience.
The Hassle: I’m trying to resist moving to Vista. How can I make XP perform like the new Windows OS?
The Fix(es): You can be a holdout (like me) and use a few XP-based freebies that do a surprisingly good job of emulating some of Vista’s fancy graphical features. The first three apps listed below are my favorites. You can find all of the free tools and more online at “Add Vista Features to XP.”
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Not thrilled about spending a bundle on Vista–and dealing with potential bugs and hardware upgrades? Stick with XP, and use these tools to emulate the Vista experience.
The Hassle: I’m trying to resist moving to Vista. How can I make XP perform like the new Windows OS?
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Not thrilled about spending a bundle on Vista–and dealing with potential bugs and hardware upgrades? Stick with XP, and use these tools to emulate the Vista experience.
The Hassle: I’m trying to resist moving to Vista. How can I make XP perform like the new Windows OS?
Read the more »
Tags: Soft, apps, copernic desktop search, copernic-desktop-search, desktop sidebar, desktop-sidebar, folder icons, folder-icons, google, horizon software, horizon-software, jetstart, lacks, mail checker, mail-checker, miniature image, miniature-image, my favorites, my-favorites, start menu, start-menu, summary news, summary-news, surprisingly, switch users, switch-users, weather summary, weather-summary, wildcard searches, wildcard-searches, windows functions, windows sidebar, windows-functions, windows-sidebar, zillions | No Comments »
