{"id":1435,"date":"2008-09-19T12:43:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T12:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2008-09-19T12:45:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T12:45:01","slug":"test-windows-vista-online-win-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/test-windows-vista-online-win-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Test Drive Windows Vista Online Win 200$ Gift Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

You are planning to buy a new laptop which would come with a Pre-Installed Windows Vista and you are confused how the interface would be? Dont worry Microsoft Virtual Labs are offering you a online windows test drive service<\/a> – a service which is something similar to auto sellers who offer a test drive of their vehicles to the new car buyers. Microsoft Virtual Labs offers you to try out all the microsoft’s new products for free on a virtual environment.<\/p>\n

Along with the Windows Vista Test Drive you can also win a 200$ Visa gift Card in return of answering a short survey after you review the website.<\/p>\n

\"Microsoft<\/p>\n

The Test Drive allows you to get a preview of windows vista service pack 1 with a console where you can get a experience as if you are really working on a windows vista operating system based computer and check out vista’s performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Windows<\/a><\/p>\n

I Selected the desktop interface and tried out the desktop icons and was wondering if they really worked and it did work out as if i was having a remote pc access<\/a> and everything did work out easily. But as usual windows vista even on a test drive did show up their errors and options which were showing that either the windows operating system based programs were looking for updates or the 3rd party applications were looking for updates.<\/p>\n

\"Windows<\/p>\n

Then i tried to check out the configuration of the test server and here were some of the stats –
\nAMD Opteron ™ Processor 848 8Mhz
\nWindows Vista Ultimate Service Pack 1
\nMemory RAM – 1.17GB<\/p>\n

Every setting\/ change i try to check out like System Properties, Device Manager, System Protection & Remote Settings i was asked to confirm using a dialogue box which is really a bad feature in windows vista because it fades off the whole screen and then asks for confirmation.<\/p>\n

\"Windows<\/p>\n

Overall vista does not really have any special features based on which we can really upgrade from the older versions of windows operating systems. You can also do a test drive of the windows vista and win a VISA gift card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You are planning to buy a new laptop which would come with a Pre-Installed Windows Vista and you are confused how the interface would be? Dont worry Microsoft Virtual Labs are offering you a online windows test drive service – a service which is something similar to auto sellers who offer a test drive of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-microsoft","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Ultimate-Test-Survey-Microsoft.png?fit=416%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5874,"url":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/tips-to-speed-up-windows-vista\/","url_meta":{"origin":1435,"position":0},"title":"8 Tips To Speed Up your Windows Vista","author":"Guest Writers","date":"September 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Whether your PC runs very slow while running Window Vista then I am going to discuss few tips and tricks which will help you to make your vista faster : Improve your SATA Disk Performance - This tweak will help you in improving the performance of your hard disk by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Windows Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Windows Blog","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/category\/windows-blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Increase Windows Vista Speed","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Increase-Windows-Vista-Speed-300x219.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4053,"url":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/hard-drive-speed-optimization\/","url_meta":{"origin":1435,"position":1},"title":"Hard Drive Optimization Increase Windows Speed in 5 Mins","author":"Amit Bhawani","date":"May 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are few tips for Hard Drive Optimization which can help you to increase your Windows Speed in 5 Minutes using TuneUp Utilities Software Did you know that the biggest bottleneck of your PC or laptop is the built-in hard drive? 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