Microsoft Origami Experience Pack for Windows Vista

Microsoft has released a Origami Experience Pack for Windows Vista. People who already carry UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) can install this after they upgrade their UMPC to Windows Vista. It's suppose to improve the experience of UMPC .

Windows Vista has heaps of improvement on Tablet scenarios. UMPC user will benefit from Windows Vista more than they did with Windows XP.

Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creater 1.4

You can download the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator from Microsoft download center.

It allows to create your own keyboard layout, use full when you using other languages.

Download it from here

Good IIS Server Utitlity Tool

This are some handy IIS Server Utility tool available for download.

1. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) troubleshooting tool for IIS

Available for download here

This tool allows users to review configuration information in a easy to read view mode or to run the tool silently with only the creation of a log file. During use, administrators can simulate the SSL handshake to find errors. They can also quickly "hot swap" certificates for testing purposes.

2. WFetch

Available for download here


WFetch is a graphical user-interface aimed at helping customers resolve problems related to the browser interaction with Microsoft's IIS webserver. WFetch allows a client to reproduce a problem with a light-weigth, very HTTP friendly test environment. It allows for very granuluar testing down to the authentication, authorization, custom headers, and much more.

3. Trace Diagnostics

Available for download here

Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003 has very detailed diagnostics information built in. With Trace Diagnostics, you can effectively use these diagnostics built-in by monitoring the requests to an IIS web server in real-time, or, follow a request throughout the IIS processing pipeline to find failures.

Cool Shortcut Key Poster for C# in Visual Studio 2005

Download this cool poster for all the short cut keys to Visual C# 2005 .It is avialable in PDF format.

Download the colour poster from here

The GreyScale Version poster for Short cut keys to Visual Studio C# 2005 is available here



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Upgrading Windows XP to Windows Vista

Hey if you are planning to upgrade your windows XP machine to windows vista, you may be better off downloading the windows vista upgrade advisor for Windows xp to help you identify how your windows vista will perform on your current machine with windows xp.

Follow this link to Download the windows vista upgrade advisor.

It will help you to identify what you may need to change or add to your current machine hardware to make it perform good with Windows Vista.

One suggestion, if you are upgrading your machine get atleast 1GB of RAM minimum for either running windows XP or Windows Vista, this will make your machine heaps faster and also if your upgrading to Windows Vista may be you may even upgrade your graphic card too. Run the advisor to get more info

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