{"id":117,"date":"2006-09-26T09:45:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T07:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softonic-en-dev.albert.redtonic\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2025-07-02T03:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:01:33","slug":"hasta-la-vista-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/hasta-la-vista-xp\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasta la Vista, XP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image121\" class=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/softonic-en-dev.albert.redtonic\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/kb_bov_flip3d3.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>After a couple of setbacks, Microsoft&#8217;s new operating system, Vista, should be available, if we&#8217;re lucky, in January. Testers of the latest Release Candidate have been giving back <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20060919-7778.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">promising feedback<\/a>, especially with regard to stability and speed. But what if you can&#8217;t wait a couple more months for it?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve selected a few programs that you can mix and match to create your very own hybrid Vista. Freshen up the appearance of your desktop with the <a href=\"http:\/\/vista-customization-pack.en.softonic.com\/ie\/42812\/origin\/nl\/20060922\">Vista Customization Pack<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/vista-transformation-pack.en.softonic.com\/ie\/55084\/origin\/nl\/20060922\">Vista Transformation Pack<\/a>. If you&#8217;re not ready to go for a full makeover give the Vista touch to your icons via <a href=\"http:\/\/software-icons-vista.en.softonic.com\/ie\/55374\/origin\/nl\/20060922\">Software Icons Vista 2.0<\/a>. A cool feature of Microsoft&#8217;s new operating system will be the <a href=\"http:\/\/vista-sidebar-xp.en.softonic.com\/ie\/52421\/origin\/nl\/20060922\">Vista Sidebar<\/a>, which provides you with all sorts of handy tools, more commonly known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Widget_engine#Desktop_widgets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">widgets<\/a>. A relatively unknown, yet clever application is the Windows <a href=\"http:\/\/windows-vista-upgrade-advisor.en.softonic.com\/ie\/52309\">Vista Upgrade Advisor<\/a>, a quick way of scanning your PC to verify that it is compatible with Vista.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the keenest of you out there will be looking for the real deal. The closest you&#8217;ll get to it is <a href=\"http:\/\/windows-vista.en.softonic.com\/ie\/52869\/origin\/nl\/20060922\">Windows Vista Beta 2<\/a>, yet you&#8217;ll have to be prepared to suffer the occasional bug or crash that comes with a development version. Whether you choose to go for a cosmetic change or the full Beta tryout, it&#8217;s a good idea to get acquainted, for free, to the operating system that Microsoft will ambitiously launch in a few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of setbacks, Microsoft&#8217;s new operating system, Vista, should be available, if we&#8217;re lucky, in January. Testers of the latest Release Candidate have been giving back promising feedback, especially with regard to stability and speed. But what if you can&#8217;t wait a couple more months for it? We&#8217;ve selected a few programs that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/hasta-la-vista-xp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hasta la Vista, XP!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338055,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/338055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}