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Microsoft Watch - Vista - Whats Vistas One-Year Grade Point Average?

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2008-01-30 09:09:00 by computerboom in MS Windows Vista Compatible Software
...Vistas one-year anniversary is Wednesday. Microsoft released the software to everybody on Jan. 30, 2007. A day earlier, Microsoft held a launch gala for Vista and Office 2007 in New York In this post, I score how well Vista has done in 12 areas since its real launch 12 months ago. Microsoft also launched Vista on Nov. 30, 2006. But the...
 
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Hacking Windows Vistas User Account Control

2008-07-15 14:02:59 by magakos in MS Windows Vista Compatible Software
 
Vistas User Account Control is one of Vistas new security toolsand is without a doubt, Vistas most annoying feature as well. Heres how to bend it to your will Quick, answer this: Whats the most maddening feature of Windows Vista? If youre like 99% of the world, youll probably answer User Account Control (UAC). When you try to make any one of a...
 
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Microsoft admits Vistas UAC was designed to annoy users

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2008-04-11 16:48:03 by Jonathan Schlaffer in VISTA.BLORGE.com
...Vistas development name) to the beta and RC (release candidate) versions of Vista, there was one nagging problem that many reviews cited; Vistas UAC function. UAC (User Account Controls) is a feature in Vista designed to limit programs access to the rest of the system and by default, software will not have administrator level access to the...
 
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Is it Game Over for Windows Vistas Security?

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2008-08-08 15:22:24 by Karthik Kastury in dailyApps
...Vistas Security Rendered Completely Useless by New Exploit which reports on a new technique that can bypass all memory protection safeguards that Microsoft built into Windows Vista Mark Dowd of IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) and Alexander Sotirov, of VMware Inc. have discovered a technique that can be used to bypass all memory protection...
 
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CyberNotes: Understanding Vistas Reliability and Performance Monitor

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2007-12-31 12:00:38 by Ashley in CyberNet
...Vistas Performance Fix Vistas Slow File Transfer (Vista SP1 Beta Download CyberNotes: Your Week In Review With Sundays Summary
 
Tags: monitor, performance monitor, reliability, microsoft windows reliability, vista, windows reliability, vista reliability, cybernotes, type reliability
 
 
 
 
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Get More File Previews in Vistas Windows Explorer

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2008-04-21 22:11:02 by Ryan in CyberNet
...Vistas shortcomings The How-To Geek scrounged up a free program that will ease some of the burden, but only after he walks through the daunting steps to configure the preview handler manually. The free app is called PreviewConfig (no install needed), and it can be used to associate some additional file extensions as plain-text or media. There...
 
Tags: file, preview, preview handler, previews, file previews, additional file extensions, preview pane, windows explorer, preview handlers
 
 
 
 
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Keep Vistas User Account Control on guard duty

2008-05-01 14:54:04 by manunkind in PC Sympathy
 
...Vistas User Account Control feature. As Tom Espiners reports from the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft UAC Program Manager David Cross admits that UAC was designed to annoy users Espiner quotes Cross telling the security-conference audience that negative user reaction was the only way to coax independent software vendors to...
 
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4sysops - Vistas adoption rate is faster than Windows XPs - The latest Gartner forecast - What is wrong with our media?

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2008-05-23 14:32:50 by Joe in MS Windows Articles, Reviews and Videos
...Vistas adoption rate is faster than Windows XPs - The latest Gartner forecast - What is wrong with our media Post from: ITsVISTA 4sysops - Vistas adoption rate is faster than Windows XPs - The latest Gartner forecast - What is wrong with our media? Related posts ITsVISTA Web Links: April 18th KB934564 KB937430 KB947017 KB936852
 
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Vistas UAC spots rootkits

2008-05-24 12:59:44 by manunkind in PC Sympathy
 
...Vistas Account Control feature (UAC) has a security feature that marks it out from any other type of Windows security programme it can spot rootkits before they install This is one finding buried in a report published in two German computer magazines some months ago after testing by the respected AV-Test.org, which set out to find out how...
 
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