Transform Vista to Win7 for free

[bruiser69]

One of the improvements that Win7 introduced is taming of User Account Control (UAC). This got me thinking that someone might have already done this with Vista.
I found this site Technology News, Internet, Tips-n-Tricks, Tutorials, Software Reviews, Themes, Skins, Wallpapers (http://www.askvg.com/) which has loads of free Vista tweaks including how to transform Vista to Win7 (after all Win7 is based on Vista core code). There is also a neat utility called TweakUAC Disable annoying Vista UAC popups with TweakUAC (FREE) (http://www.tweak-uac.com/home/) that allows you to control UAC.

Cheers..B

[miky]

It may make Vista (or XP) look like 7, but that's all. You don't end up with a 7 core machine!

[bruiser69]

It may make Vista (or XP) look like 7, but that's all. You don't end up with a 7 core machine!
From what I have read Windows7 core code is based on Vista.
Windows7 is what Vista should have been if MS Marketing hadn't rushed product to market. Vista Ultimate with SP2 is a very stable OS. I've not had a "Blue Screen Of Death" or other lockup since installing SP1 & SP2.
I agree that using these tweaks won't give you all the functionality of Win7 (such as better memory management), but after purchasing Vista Ultimate only 12 months ago I am not prepared to fork out over $350 for upgrade to Win7 with it's probable bugs that will be fixed with future service packs.

Cheers..B