The Windows Vista Explorer view can be customized further to your needs similar to XP. Change how files and folders are displayed and the details about them easily with these steps.
Watch my video tutorial for details
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Written by PCWizKid on February 8th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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A simple tool to display the product key and OEM information on a Vista system.
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Nokia’s PC Suite is compatible with Vista, kinda. Not all features actually work.
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Apples file system is complete and utter crap says Torvalds. Still, he also says Leapard is a much better system than Vista.
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This article describes the resolutions that are supported to view or to record content in Microsoft Xbox 360 or in Windows Vista Media Center.
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The final version has been released:
Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP1 - download here.
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Overview
Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (WSUS 3.0 SP1) delivers important customer-requested management, stability, and performance improvements, while incorporating further enhancements to local publishing of drivers and the Client Servicing API addition.
WSUS 3.0 SP1 delivers new features that enable administrators to more easily manage and deploy updates across the organization. This package installs both the WSUS 3.0 Server and WSUS 3.0 Administration Console components, for all Windows Server 2003 SP1 supported languages. Additionally, the WSUS 3.0 SP1 client is included in all supported client platform languages. You must install the server components on a computer running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later. You may install the Administration Console on a remote computer running Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 SP1, or Windows XP SP2.
Supported Operating Systems:
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Server 2008
- Note: there’s a special guide for SBS 2003 environments…
Additional information:
Release Notes for Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP1
Microsoft Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP1 Overview
Deploying Microsoft Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP1
Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP1
Microsoft Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP1 Operations Guide
Installing Windows Server Update Services 3.0 on Windows Small Business Server 2003
Enjoy!
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Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on February 8th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Webcry Descriptions:
Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility.
Webcry is a search engine hijacker that takes over Internet search results such as Google or Yahoo. If your Internet homepage has been hijacked to “Webcry”, it is also very likely that your computer has been infected with this hijacker. System Alert messages might appears on the bottom right of the screen. The “Webcry” website displays popups or advertisements without your permission. If you click OK, it will redirect you a website, and trick you to purchase one of the products.
Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility.
Manual Removal Instructions:
Stop VirusProtect Processes:
(Learn how to do this)
WebCry.exe
wupeng.exe
Remove VirusProtect Registry Values:
(Learn how to do this)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Webcry
F10587E9-0E47-4CBE-ABCD-7DD20B862223
E48B3E0C-2D23-4249-BE65-23A8719284E3
747e1fbe-b70f-441d-bbca-6e536c04924a
To Restore the Browser’s Homepage:
- Open Internet Explorer -> go to Tools -> Internet Option
- Enter the intended URL. (Example: htt://www.yahoo.com/ or http://www.google.com/
- Then click OK
Please keep in mind that the products above are fake anti-spywares. It is extremely important to remove them from your computer if it’s infected. You can try our recommended SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility, which is very intuitive and highly efficient. Spywares can be removed automatically. However, if you are familiar with registry edit and dll files in Windows, we strongly recommend you to try the manual removal instructions. It might take time and patience, but it is equally effective if you get it right.
Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility.
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Control remotely over a network connection your Windows Vista or XP computer or the other way around. Get access to your Vista applications or data stored on a remote computer from your XP PC connected on your local network for example. Below is a quick video tutorial I created explaining how.
The steps are easy to follow, however if you prefer written instructions
1. On the Vista computer you want to connect to for example, click Start, right-click
Computer, and then click
Properties.
2. Make note of the Computer name if you do not know the IP address, then, under tasks, click Remote settings.
3. If all your computers are running Vista, click Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication. If you have Windows XP that you want to use to connect to this computer, click Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop.
4. Click Select Users.
5. In the Select Users dialog, click the
Add button. Type the name of the user you want to grant access to, and then click
OK. Repeat this step to add more users.
6. Click OK twice.
Windows Vista will automatically open the necessary exception in Windows Firewall. Now, you are ready to use Remote Desktop to connect to the computer from another computer.
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Sorry for the backup! My posting software was giving me problems, I think I’ve got it worked out now.
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There’s plenty of blame to go around.
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Lots of users, like me, questioning why SP1 can’t be released to technical users, even if it is held back from Windows Update.
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I think many businesses would like to get there hands on the code, but apparently many aren’t in much of a hurry.
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Vista is the first OS to include the functionality to backup and restore the print servers in MMC.
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If you need to get hard-core with NAT-T, these registry entries may be useful.
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How to uninstall SP1. Of course this would only ever be useful in troubleshooting an issue you might have, no one would ever want to uninstall it simply because they were dissatisfied.
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If you really want SP1, you can grab it off the web with BitTorrent.
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Mary Jo’s thoughts on the Vista SP1 release/delay.
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The official Microsoft announcement of the Vista SP1 release/delay.
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Long Zheng asks why we can’t download SP1 today.
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Dwight’s input on the SP1 release/delay.
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Problems with Vista’s Backup and Restore technology? There’s a group waiting to help you!
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Details on how this feature could make your web traffic more efficient, but has potential risks.
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A bit more detail on the reason for the delay of SP1.
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This could make comparing the number of security patches between OSs an apples and oranges scenareo.
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Oh so easy to poke fun at Vista SP1…
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As the perception of Vista in the marketplace is quite low, this probably isn’t a bad move.
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Sound thinking about the recent SP1 announcement. Wait another 45 days? Crazy!
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Recall that the HINSTANCE identified a set of variables.
This causes a bit of a problem if your program has multiple data
segments; in other words, multiple sets of variables.
In such a program,
the code would load the data segment of whatever variable Read More......(
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This is just to prove my point - a single AV engine is not enough if you want to be secure.
I had this problem today at a customer - a user had received a link in her Messenger… And she clicked it and probably accepted to execute the thing => Pooof (all her MSN Messenger contacts were spammed with links to the worm)!
We tried to use some different online scanners - as the local AV engines (no names mentioned) didn’t find anything - even after updating the signatures. The online scanners I tried first didn’t show anything. So, this particular online scanner turned out to be VERY cool and effective:
I can recommend this scanning link whenever you have a suspicious file you want to scan: http://virusscan.jotti.org/
As you can see it uses several engines to determine if the file is infected or not - so nice, thanx!
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The ability to run decade-old applications on the newest releases of Windows has almost become a rite of passage. Most people would agree that software (and hardware) backwards (and forward) compatibility on Windows is easily one of the important factors for its success. However with each release, Microsoft digs itself deeper and deeper into this pit of support as the breadth and depth of software grows exponentially. So much so some predict it will eventually ruin Windows if it hasn’t already.
A recently released patent application, “Environment For Executing Legacy Applications On A Native Operating System” for those of you playing at home, filed in April of 2007 by Microsoft’s Hoi Vo and Samer Arafeh (who works on the Windows kernel) reveals some details of how they might (and emphasis on might because patents are just words on a piece of paper) accommodate and dramatically improve software compatibility in future releases of Windows.
As described in the patent, the problem of legacy applications support lies in binaries (DLLs and EXEs). As operating systems are updated, system binaries change. Older system calls, callbacks and exceptions may not exist at all in the new operating system, may exist to some degree or may generate alternate responses. Any of which is likely to wreck havok on legacy applications which depend on these binaries.
Currently there are two conventional solutions to the problem. Each with their respective advantages and disadvantages.
The first employs the use of “shims”. Metaphorically speaking, it’s basically sticky tape around the edges to make sure things don’t fall out. Technically, it’s a custom-written patch that is applied on-the-fly when legacy applications are loaded and will sit in between the legacy application and the native system binaries. Reportedly Microsoft has written thousands of shims for Windows Vista, and are still writing. The upside is that shims are relatively easy to implement, but having to generate shims on a per application-by-application basis means it doesn’t scale well at all.
The second solution takes advantage virtualization technology. By hosting a legacy OS virtual machine, legacy applications won’t any know any better. Virtualization offers full application support but at a hefty performance cost. Hardware support is also primitive, making it difficult to share resources like 3D graphics for example. It also requires users to be able to install each version of the legacy operating systems.
The proposed solution in some ways takes the best bits of both. It works first by detecting if the application was written for the native operating system. If not, it will load the application with its respective legacy system binaries. The accommodate the difference in system calls between the legacy binaries and native kernel, an Application Compatibility Module is placed in between to act as a translator for these calls. In certain cases where a comparative native system calls may not exist at all, the ACM could also be smart enough to provide the same functionality as the missing system call.
The benefit of this solution is it offers much broader application compatibility with relatively low investment on Microsoft’s behalf on the scale of per-application.
Notable Windows on Windows - the compatibility system used to provide 16-bit on 32-bit systems support and 32-bit on 64-bit systems support uses a similar concept.
One of the biggest gripes from most Windows enthusiasts has been the bloat legacy compatibility forces into Windows. Whilst this patent doesn’t specifically mention so, I presume such ACMs are modular and can be installed and removed on demand. For example, if you need to run Windows Vista applications in future versions of Windows, you will only download and install the Vista ACM Pack (with Vista binaries) for that operating system. Those who do not require legacy support will then be not required to install any ACMs.
Thinking about it, it could become a business model to sell ACMs separately to Windows - reducing the overall cost of Windows and charging a tiered price for legacy support. A cheaper and less bloated Windows, wouldn’t that be nice.
Written by Long Zheng on February 8th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Windows Media Player in Vista has Automatic Updates enabled. This means that even if you never use Windows Media Player it still downloads the updates that come available for it, as soon as you have connection with the internet.
- You can disable this by going by changing the following registry key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayer]
- Create a registry DWORD key named DisableAutoUpdate and give it a value of 1
Alternative method is to use the built in policy editor:
1. Click on 'Start' and in the 'Start Search' box type (without the quotes) "gpedit.msc". When it shows up hit 'Enter'
2. Now the group policy editor should be on screen, under 'Computer Configuration' expand 'Administrative Templates' - then expand 'Windows Components - then scroll down to the 'Windows media Player' item and click on it to highlight it.
3. On the right side you should see a policy item named 'Prevent Automatic Updates' - right click on it and choose 'Properties'.
4. Click the 'Setting' tab, then click the 'Enabled' radio button - then click 'Apply'
5. There ya go, no more auto updates for Media Player.
Both of the above do the same thing, they both add the registry entry
Written by ShaDow on February 8th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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