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The Age Microsoft gives you Windows 7 RC for a year, free guardian.co.uk, UK Short of that, begin testing your applications and hardware for compatibility against Windows Vista it will pay off with greater compatibility with Windows 7. (Get Ready for Windows 7, Forrester Research, April 2009.) Some corporate IT departments ... Microsoft Launches Tool To Simplify XP To Windows 7 Migration Wall Street Journal Could Windows 7 Ship on Back-to-School PCs? eWeek Verdict: Windows 7 - Like Vista, just a bit easier to use and less ... ZDNet InfoWorld - Windows IT Pro all 736 news articles More...

Software application development ZDNet UK, UK - Adrian Bridgwater This blog is intended to provoke discussion and exchange between like minded software application developers, engineers, architects, project managers - and keen hobbyists too. The wait for Windows 7 combined with the comparatively lower than ... More...

In XP you used to be able to reset the NTFS permissions on a drive using using the secedit tool and the templates that MS provided. I can't see how to do this in Vista as there are no templates under c:\windows\security\templates any more and the defltbase.inf template in c:\windows\inf hardly touches any of the filesystem. If you actually look at the contents of defltbase.inf it does have a lot entries for filesystem security but most of them are commented out with a semi-colon. It's the commented out ones for %systemroot% and %systemdirectory% that I'm interested in though. Why would MS put these entries in simply to comment them out.? It's not as if you can…

One of the most difficult selling point of Windows Vista is the enormous amount of hardware it required to perform at an acceptable level. Unless you have the extra cash to power up your hardware, you wouldn’t come to appreciate the operating system and would be disappointed with it’s slow performance. Microsoft has posted the [...]Post from: Windows Vista Weblog More...

How compatible is Katmai with Windows 7? InfoWorld, CA I tried an upgrade to Windows 7 with both Katmai and Visual Studio 2008 installed. How did it go? OK, as pretty much everyone knows by now, Windows 7 hit RC. So I decided to upgrade my Vista box at home. I'm gonna take a mintue to diatribe because I'm ... More...

Microsoft still believes that Windows XP is going to be useful even after the launch of Windows 7 and as such, they are extending the life of the operating system for one year after the launch of their newest operating system, at least for netbooks.Windows 7 is scheduled to be released at a later time [...]Post from: Windows Vista Weblog More...

With the “final†release of IE8 for Windows Vista and other versions of Windows in several languages, we’ve been focused on finishing IE8 in Windows 7. We’ll blog soon about the updates in IE8 in the Windows 7 Release Candidate around the Windows 7-specific features, like tabs in the taskbar, jump list, and touch. Today’s post is about reliability and telemetry. As in Win7, an important goal in IE8 was increasing reliability. For example, IE8 isolates crashing tabs from each other. If you’re listening to music in one tab, and the site you’re using in another tab crashes, IE8 isolates the crashed tab so the music doesn’t stop playing. We also pay very clo…

Product Reviews Windows 7 Gets a Dose of High Octane... Wallpapers Tom's Hardware Guide, CA - Marcus Yam That could be due to the change in how people use the internet these days as compared to Windows Vista. One thing is for sure though, and that is that Windows 7 feels more geared towards the user experience than ever. Microsoft feels that part of that ... Leaked copies of Windows 7 RC contain Trojan Computerworld How to Get Your Copy of Windows 7 RC1 Tuesday Webmonkey Windows 7 Release Candidate blocks upgrade from pre-RC builds Australian Personal Computer Virtualization Review all 171 news articles More...

Sydney Morning Herald Leaked copies of Windows 7 RC contain Trojan Computerworld, MA - Gregg Keizer ... who see the significant interest in something such as Windows 7 as an opportunity to try to take advantage of others," said Alex Kochis, director of Microsoft's Genuine Windows anti-piracy technology group, in a post to a company blog on Friday. ... Windows 7 Release Candidate blocks upgrade from pre-RC builds Australian Personal Computer Windows 7 Bundles Virtual PC Virtualization Review all 154 news articles More...

Movie freedom What PC?, UK It isn't possible to do this in Movie Maker, but the free add-on Blaine's Resize Effects enables it for the Vista incarnation of Movie Maker. You can get it from the Blaine's Movie Maker Blog. Once installed, this program adds over a dozen resize and ... More...

Opinion: Road-rage responses to life's problems and the world's ... Computerworld, MA - Don Tennant By Don Tennant May 4, 2009 (Computerworld) Question: What's the difference between Windows Vista and the infamous Baby Shaker application? Answer: One is an abomination that epitomizes everything that's wrong with the garbage that clueless software ... More...

I received the "Windows Installer looking for pano stand alone please insert CD ROM etc. In another forum I found a post suggesting that it was part of HP Image software so I found the original software disc that came with my HP laptop and inserted the disc "HP Image Zone Plus" and windows found it on the disc and cleared the error. It was a real problem because windows wouldn't shut down with out it. -- mmh449 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mmh449's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/96082.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/security-virus/610946.htm http://forums.techarena.in

Windows 7 Release Candidate blocks upgrade from pre-RC builds Australian Personal Computer, Australia This week's Windows 7 Release Candidate, for instance, will no longer allow you to update a previous edition of the Windows 7 OS – it will install only on top of Windows Vista running SP1. The 7RC setup routine will automatically quiet if it detects ... More...

A number of people are reporting that they are having problems in their Windows Vista SP2 installation and the reason for this could be vLite, which is a software used to customize the installation of Windows Vista. The error message seen is “Service Pack installation cannot continue One or more system components that the service pack requires [...]Post from: Windows Vista Weblog More...

Leo and I discuss the Windows 7 release candidate, XP Mode, and... More...

KELLNER: Linux alternatives to Windows, Mac Washington Times, DC - Mark A. Kellner As more new software arrives for Windows users, there'll be more of a temptation to switch to Linux. Costs for Linux programs are lower, and the bad taste left by Windows Vista for many users might also be a factor. Microsoft's Windows 7 looms on the ... More...

Here's what's new in the Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate... More...

Hello, I have created a simple scheduled task to run an executable. I can manualy start this executable, but have to accept it through UAC. However, when run through the Task Scheduler (either manually or by a trigger), there appears to be something wrong. The executable does either not start or doesn't start with the appropriate rights. I've tried running as Administrator and as SYSTEM as well as with or without Highest privileges. Could someone please help me with this? Thanks!

Hello, I'm not a Mac, and I'm not a PC The Hour, CT Many Windows PCs can be bought with biometric security devices like built-in fingerprint readers. These devices are not available on Macs. Furthermore, the Mac OS X operating system is less secure than Vista or Windows 7, much less secure. ... More...

Microsoft realize how many users are still relying on Windows XP to power their businesses and probably home computes. As such Microsoft is not abandoning Windows XP by placing a feature in Windows 7 which allow users to easily virtualize the operating system. The mode of Windows 7 is called XP Mode or XMP which allow [...]Post from: Windows Vista Weblog More...

good stuff! using the info mentioned, it seems to have thwarted the use of *ULTRAREACH *(u94.exe or whatever it's been renamed to) on our network. the app is prevented from launching under Windows. many thanks -- masonm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ masonm's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/95555.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/microsoft-security/630222.htm http://forums.techarena.in

As a follow-up to my prior blog post about Automatic Update/Windows Update distribution that began gradually in April, I want to provide an overview of the control users have over the installation and experience. First, to reiterate what I explained last month: when offered by Automatic Update, IE8 will not automatically install- the user has control over whether to upgrade to IE8. When offered IE8, three choices are offered: Ask later, install, or don’t install. If one chooses “Ask me later†then IE8 will continue to be offered via Automatic Update, and choosing “Don’t Install†will cause IE8 to no longer be offered via this method. Users who choose “Don 

TweakTown A Little Windows Change Makes A Big Difference InformationWeek, NY - Dave Methvin According to Microsoft's blog, this same change will eventually be rolled into Windows Vista and XP. There's no ned to wait, though it's not hard to disable AutoRun and AutoPlay on any version of Windows. If you want to bring your current OS up to ... About-face: Microsoft disables Autorun San Francisco Chronicle Microsoft doctors AutoRun in Windows 7 to stymie Conficker Computerworld Windows 7 Autoplay Improvements Windows 7 News Technologizer - PC Pro all 55 news articles More...

Geekzone Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack ... Geekzone, New Zealand - Mauricio Freitas Of course if you are only using Windows Vista it pays to wait for this update to be offered via Windows Update, when it will probably be a lot smaller and targeted at your specific configuration. Please note: comments that are inappropriate or ... More...

Here's the third and final part of my interview with Keith Curtis... More...