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First Windows 8 Build Screenshots

Windows 8 ScreenshotsComrades at WZor, as promised, have publicized a number of screenshots from a Windows 7 post RTM build as well as the technical data from build 7700.0.100122-190.

MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.7.POST-RTM.7700.X64.RETAIL.ENGLISH.DVD-WZT

FILE: 7700.0.100122-1900_x64fre_client_en-us-GRMCXFRE_EN_DVD.iso

SIZE: 3,231,166,464 byte

SHA1: C0CB719B781D49B39D8CC93A27F990A366B8E4C7

MD5: EBEB8AEC73339536564D26DB584A9474

CRC: B3F323D6

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Saboteur ATI Freeze Fix

Saboteur game is suffering a freezing issue which affects most ATI users when opening menus and the quest journal, and transitioning between areas. Some ATI gamers are able to play using Windows XP, but even then there are often problems. Pandemic is investigating the problems in conjunction with ATI. Here’s a intermittently-working workaround:

UPDATE:

  • 12/18/09): Patch Released:

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Modern Warfare 2 vulnerable to Virus and Trojan attacks

Modern Warfare VirusModern Warfare’s silly practice of opening ports and connecting directly to hosts leaves an easy path for a hacker to launch an attack against your PC. This can become a keylogger, or place your computer under a botnet.

Check the original post for further information:

http://www.modernwarfare2.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=181646

GPU video acceleration with Flash

Flash GPU acceleration Yesterday news spread of Adobe Flash 10.1 adding GPU acceleration support. Today, ATi has released drivers supporting GPU acceleration.

This update is beneficial to ATi users as it will allow fully smooth playback of high resolution, high definition, videos; Hulu, YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook Video, and others… As browser and flash playback has been CPU dependent in the past the long overdue inclusion of GPU acceleration will be a huge blow against video playback stuttering and choppiness through consistent and high framerate.

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Office 2010 Beta is Live!

Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft has just unlocked the download links on their Beta Office 2010 suite. It is available for both Windows and Windows Mobile platforms.

Theyre up for grabs at Microsoft’s site now!

A new, interesting to watch, feature of Office 2010 is the Outlook Social Connector “OSC”. It features an activity stream (think facebook wall) with support for LinkedIn, facebook and twitter integration will be out at RC or commercial release. [Read more...]

Bypass Reduce Functionality Hack

brokenwin

Temporarily bypass Reduced Functionality to rescue your files and operating system capabilities and pave the way for a clean, genuine, windows install.

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PeerGuardian PG alternative, ipfilter + utorrent, ipfilter.dat

utorrent ipfilter

Whether you are looking for an alternative to PG2 because it fails to function properly, or simply looking to cut down the number of processes you are running – the information here is for you.

It is possible to block ip-ranges with utorrent’s built in ipfiltering system.

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Slow torrents with Windows 7

torrent windows 7After getting windows 7 I noticed that my downloads of the Linux kernel through utorrent were running at incredibly slow speeds.

Though the reasons behind this may be complicated, the solution turned out to be rather simple.

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Overclocking laptop, Mobility Radeon

Studio 15 laptopNot only unsupported, Mobility Radeons are further crippled by their drivers. Laptop distributors (HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc) limit the clocks on the bundled video cards and restrict access to the GPU BIOS. There are a number of logical reasons behind this, namely warranty overheating issues.

There are a number of ways to work around these restrictions, the best likely being a BIOS mod, as it would allow fluent clock changing through ATT, or other programs. However, some GPUs have their BIOS read and write protected, making the process rather futile.

Another, simpler, method is using a specific driver version. 8.9 and 8.10 Catalysts allow you to overclock when used in conjunction with AMD GPU Clock Tool.

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Ati Tray Tools with Win7 64bit

Mobility Radeon As stated earlier, Windows 7 requires digitally signed drivers. This is a bummer if you want to run an awesome application like ATT rather than crappy CCC. The fix, as you may have guessed, relies on DSEO. Download it, run it, agree to prompts, enable TEST MODE, and reboot.

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