Finished Installing Windows Vista SP1 ? Now Remove All The Junk Files

When you install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on your computer, the SP1 installer will not remove the older versions of Vista files from the hard drive. This is because the older files may be required in case you decide to uninstall SP1 later from the system.

Naturally, these files occupy important disk space. If you are satisfied with the performance of Windows Vista SP1 and unlikely to remove it later, why not reclaim some disk space by removing all the older Vista files.

There are no manual steps involved. Just open your Windows command prompt and type vsp1cln.exe (short for Vista SP1 Cleaner). It takes less than a minute to execute.

*vsp1cln.exe is added to your Windows Vista System folder after you install Vista SP1.

This will make Windows Vista Service Pack 1 permanent on this computer. All the older files are deleted now and your hard disk has tons of extra space for other important files like videos and photos.

You computer need not be connected to the Internet for running the Vista SP1 cleaner tool. And you won’t be able to remove Windows Vista Service Pack 1 later.
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Google loses Gmail trademark appeal in Europe

A European body has again told Google that it cannot have trademark protection to use the Gmail mark throughout the European Union.

The European Union’s trademark regulation agency denied Google’s appeal in late February. The ruling concluded that the mark is too similar to the G-mail trademark owned by German businessman Daniel Giersch. Giersch runs an electronic postal delivery business that goes by the name G-mail, which is short for “Giersch mail.”

“There is a likelihood of confusion,” the agency wrote.

Google representatives in the U.S. did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment. Bloomberg reported that Kay Oberbeck, a spokeswoman in Europe, said in an e-mailed statement that the company was disappointed with the ruling. She did not say whether Google would appeal.

The trademark regulatory agency’s lower board denied Google’s request in January 2007.

Google changed the name of its free Web-based e-mail service to “GoogleMail” in Germany after losing to Giersch in court there and in Switzerland. Google also uses the “GoogleMail” name in the U.K. as a result of a separate lawsuit.