Demo: Previous Versions of files in Windows Vista

Today, Esther is going to show off the Previous Versions. This feature is part of the Shadow Copy feature in Windows Vista. This is a really helpful feature that has saved me numerous times!   It essentially makes incremental back-ups of your work - so if you accidentally delete content, you can find it again and recover it with a single click.  Anyone who has modified a document and clicked "save" instead of "save as" will appreciate Previous Versions!


Video: Windows Vista Demo: Previous Versions

Let me know what you think of this and the other features we've discussed this week (Search and Live Icons) - we'd love your feedback!

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Holiday Gift Guide 2008


PCWizKid provides tips, tweaks and reviews PC hardware all year, but when the holiday season is near PCWizKid likes to gather up the highlights in a gift guide to make it easy to figure out which items to get your friends and loved ones.
Click on any of the category icons below for the "gifts to consider" recommended for this year.

Gadgets

Laptops

Video Games

PC's and LCD's

Written by PCWizKid on November 19th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Advanced Vista Firewall settings: 2 way filtering possible!

 

Advanced configuration

Many people think that the windows firewall is bad, however not many know that the new vista firewall has advanced features!

see here:

Vista firewall's advanced configuration settings. To view or change them, you must create a custom MMC. Here's how:

  1. Click Start | Programs | Accessories and select Run.
  2. Type mmc.exe in the Run box. You may be required to enter administrative credentials or click to authorize running the program.
  3. In the blank MMC, click File | Add/Remove Snap-in.
  4. In the Available Snap-ins list, scroll down and select Windows Firewall With Advanced Security. Double-click on it or highlight it and click the Add button.
  5. In the Select Computer dialog box, accept the default (Local Computer) and click Finish.
  6. Click OK in the Add/Remove Snap-ins Box.

Now you can expand the items in the left console tree, as shown in Figure E, to see the advanced configuration options.

Figure E

Use the Vista Firewall With Advanced Security MMC to configure inbound and outbound rules and more.

Multiple firewall profiles

Your computer can have multiple profiles, depending on whether it's connected to its corporate domain (such as when your laptop is connected at work and logged onto the domain), connected to a private network (such as your home peer-to-peer network), or connected to a public network (such as a wi-fi network at the airport or hotel). Firewall behavior can be different for each profile. Thus, the Windows firewall might be off when connected to the domain, which is protected by a sophisticated perimeter firewall, but on when connected to a private or public network.

To change these settings, click Windows Firewall Properties. On the Domain, Private, and Public Profile tabs, you can turn the firewall on or off and specify whether to block or allow inbound and outbound connections. By default, outbound connections are allowed and inbound are blocked (with exceptions allowed). You can also select to block all connections, including those with exceptions. The Private Profile tab is shown in Figure F. (Options are the same on each profile tab.)

Figure F

You can set firewall behavior separately for each profile.

You can customize settings for each profile by clicking the Customize button. This allows you to control whether to notify the user when inbound connections are blocked and whether to allow unicast response to multicast or broadcast requests. You can also set the logging options on a per-profile basis. (This is the same simple logging of dropped packets and/or successful connections.)

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