Non Glass Theme@Vista

Microsoft has confirmed non glass themes for windows vista.It was first discussed in hive[http://www.hive.net],then Nick White of MSFT wrote in detail in his blog:-http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/07/06/440510.aspx

Thus if you don’t have a display driver capable of running WDDM you’ll get the Windows Vista Basic theme,which is standard for Vista Home Basic Edition.

Favorites-A Unique Feature In Vista Media Center

In Windows XP Media Center 2005,there was no scope to add own 'Favorite' channels.But in Vista Media Center this great feature has been added.As a result most viewed channels will be under the Favorites.

How To:-
Launch Vista Media Center > Click Guide > Press [CTRL+D] keys together > Scroll down to Filter Guide and click on it > Click Favorites.

This will will narrow the guide down to your favorite channels.

Cabinet File

What is a Cabinet File?

-A cabinet is a single file created to hold a number of compressed files.

What will you do if a .CAB file got corrupted?

- You have to extract individual files from the cabinet files to replace missing or corrupted files.

How can you extract ?

1] Press Win+R keys to launch Run menu.

2]Now type in:msconfig and click OK.

3]Click Expand Fille...

4]Name the file you want to extract in the File to restore box

5]Click Browse From tab to restore the file in the Restore from box.For example, the Windows XP .cab files are stored in the I386 folder present in XP CD.

6]Locate the folder where you want to Save file in.

7]Click Expand tab In the System Configuration Utility dialog box, click OK>Restart.

Ref:-

Description and Explanation of a Cabinet File
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q310435/