Curved Vista Visual Style

Simple and elegant silver visual style with a Mac influence. Quite stunning for a minimalist design really.

Credit Card Crusher 113.208a

Create an optimized repayment schedule.

Product Description

Credit-Card-Crusher is a simple learning tool which illustrates the real cost of carrying high-interest debt. Simply fill in your current credit card debt. Crusher will then analyze your debt and show you the real carrying cost -- in terms that are concrete and meaningful.

Specifically, Crusher will show you just how much house, how much car and how much retirement you are forsaking for the privilege of enriching your bank. Fun, simple and pointed, Credit-Card-Crusher is meant as a motivational tool to help young consumers appreciate that carrying high-interest debt represents a significant opportunity cost.

Microsoft Windows Vista 1.2

Windows Vista is now available for IT professionals and developers with MSDN and TechNet subscriptions. In the coming weeks, Microsoft will start the Windows Vista Customer Preview Program (CPP) for developers and IT professionals who are not members of the subscription services. Windows Vista comes with a breakthrough user experience and is designed to help you feel confident in your ability to view, find, and organize information and to control your computing experience.

The visual sophistication of Windows Vista helps streamline your computing experience by refining common window elements so you can better focus on the content on the screen rather than on how to access it. The desktop experience is more informative, intuitive, and helpful. And new tools bring better clarity to the information on your computer, so you can see what your files contain without opening them, find applications and files instantly, navigate efficiently among open windows, and use wizards and dialog boxes more confidently. Windows Vista is engineered to be the most secure version of Windows yet. The new features in Windows Vista help to give you the control and confidence you need to get the most out of your PC.

Windows Vista includes built-in accessibility settings and programs that make it easier for you to see, hear, and use your computer. The accessibility settings and programs in Windows Vista are particularly helpful to people with visual difficulties, hearing loss, pain in their hands or arms, or reasoning and cognitive issues.

Here are some key features of "Windows Vista":

· User Experience
· Security
· Search & Organization
· Internet Explorer 7
· Sidebar & Gadgets
· Performance
· Windows Backup
· Networking
· Windows SideShow
· Speech Recognition
· Help and Feedback
· Windows Update

Requirements:

· Microsoft Virtual PC
· Virtual Server
· In addition to the System Requirements for the virtualization product, you will need additional disk and memory resources for running the virtual machine. This VHD is pre-configured to use approximately 10GB of hard disk space and approximately 1024MB of

Limitations:

· 30 days trial

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Adobe Kuler Desktop

Adobe Kuler Desktop
Get an RSS feed of color themes from kuler.

Product Description

Use Adobe Kuler Desktop to get your daily color fix and a constant source of color inspiration. The Adobe Kuler Desktop displays RSS feeds of color themes from kuler, an online application to explore, create, and share color harmonies. Search thousands of themes by tag, title, or creator ID. Browse the newest, highest rated, and most popular color themes. Easily copy hex values from any theme to your clipboard.


Requirements

Adobe AIR

DriveInfo Gadget

The DriveInfo Windows Vista Sidebar gadget monitors the free space available on one or more of your PC's hard drives. It displays the free space in both GB and percentage. The DriveInfo gadget is very easy to configure and is an especially attractive addition to your other Vista Sidebar gadgets.

The DriveInfo gadget is available as a free download from the Windows Live Gallery. Just click Download to Sidebar and follow the instructions to add the gadget to your Windows Sidebar.

If you frequently check the free space available on your hard drives, the DriveInfo gadget will definitely save you some time.

CPU Meter Gadget

Windows Vista gadgets can do more than show the weather and news. The Windows Vista Sidebar can also be used to install gadgets that are useful as system utilities that keep track of the resources Windows Vista is using.

The CPU Meter Windows Vista Sidebar gadget displays two dials - one that tracks your system's CPU usage and another that tracks physical memory usage, both in percentage format. This is a pretty basic Windows Vista gadget in that there are no fancy options, but it does what it does well.

The CPU Meter gadget is included with Windows Vista. Just open the Gadgets window from your Windows Sidebar and double-click on CPU Meter. It will instantly be added to your Windows Sidebar.

If you like to keep track of how much memory and CPU is being used at any given time; give the CPU Meter gadget a try.

How to Automatically Log On To a User Account in Windows Vista

As long as security isn't a big concern, configuring Windows Vista to log on to your user account automatically can save you some serious time and effort when your computer is starting up. Just follow the easy steps outlined below to make Windows Vista automatically log on to your user account. After completing these steps, Windows Vista will stop prompting you for a user name and password on startup!

Difficulty: Easy

Time Required: Configuring Windows Vista to log on to a user account automatically takes less than 5 minutes

Here's How:

1. Click on Start, type the following command in the search box, and then hit the Enter key.

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This command will load the Advanced User Accounts control panel.

2. In the Users tab, uncheck the box next to Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.

3. Click on the Apply button at the bottom of the User Accounts window.

4. When the Automatically Log On dialog box appears, enter your password in the two fields where it's asked and then click OK.

5.

Click OK on the User Accounts window to complete the process.

From now on, when your PC starts up, Windows Vista will log on automatically.