From blogs.msdn.com
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Hi there,
I know some of you have been waiting for a while before I made my first technical post. I’ve been busy helping you guys solving development issues, isn’t that a good justification? J
Today, I’m going to give you an example of a typical scenario application’s developer faces with when a new version of Windows is released and we discover that our application that was working perfectly fine on previous version now has a completely...
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- How to Disable the UAC in Windows Vista (pirillo.com)
- Why Windows 7 Is Supposed To Cure The Vista (connectedinternet.co.uk)
A whitepaper on Certificate Revocation Checking in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has been publshed on Technet here - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee619730(WS.10).aspx
Topics in this whitepaper include:
· What’s new in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 revocation checking
· How revocation checking works
· How pre-fetching revocation information improves performance
· Support for...
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From blogs.technet.com
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water… the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) makes an unexpected appearance right after, of all things, installing Expression Web 3. The silver lining is if you’re running Windows Vista or Windows 7 then you’re safe from this problem. It only affects users on Windows XP with Service Pack 2. So here’s a quick debriefing: After installing Expression Web 3 on a Windows XP SP2 operating system...
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From blogs.msdn.com
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I notice online that there's a broken link to the Group Policy Settings Spreadsheet changes. What happened was that the content for this area got consolidated and unfortunately in the process the old links were broken.
So if you are looking for settings changes in Group Policy for:
Windows 7
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Vista SP1 and SP2
Windows Server 2008
Windows XP SP1, SP2 and SP3
Windows Server 2003
Any associated Service Packs
then...
From blogs.technet.com
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- Service Pack 2 for Configuration Manager 2007 (blogs.technet.com)
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Microsoft has long said, and we have reminded users, that DirectX 11 is not just a Windows 7 technology. The company promised that DirectX 11 will be availalbe for Vista around the same time as the release of its latest and greatest operating system.
From digitalartsonline.co.uk
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- DirectX 11 Now Available For Windows Vista (gizmodo.com)
- DirectX 11 For Windows Vista Released (ghacks.net)
Windows 7’s overall superiority to Windows Vista has translated into the latest iteration of the Windows client leaving its predecessor in the dirt in terms of commercial success as well. Windows 7 RTM has been embraced by over three times more
From cooeesearch.com
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- Weekend tech reading: DirectX 11 comes to Windows Vista (techspot.com)
This fell in my lap over the weekend, but I didn’t have time to cover it last week: An update is available that allows for a potential power saving in an AMD multicore processor that is running an x64-based version of Windows Vista SP2, of Windows Server 2008 SP2, of Windows 7, or of Windows Server 2008 R2. The update in itself is worth a download and an install, to make post-Vista 64-bit platforms play nice with Enhanced C1 state (C1E) for...
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From feedburner.com
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For those of you sticking with Vista, Microsoft has finally officially released DirectX 11 for Vista, after having spent the last couple of months in beta. This final release looks to be the same as the last beta released earlier this month.
The update is KB971512, which is being released as part of a larger Platform Update for Vista that includes a few...
From anandtech.com
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- Windows Vista replica BlackBerry theme VISTALike (blackberrycool.com)
We all know Windows Vista got a bit of a bum rap. Its biggest sin was that it shipped earlier than it should and its reputation has never recovered. However, with Windows 7 now out, those of us who have to switch between PCs now find ourselves discovering completely new things about Windows Vista that are annoying -- because they are things that Windows 7 made so much better. Here's our list... #1 "Program not responding" Windows Vista...
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From neowin.net
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This Fix it Solution automates setting a system variable to ignore the IphlpsvcMigPlugin.ddd plug-in on Windows Vista which enables the update to occur successfully from Windows Vista to Windows 7. The Fix it solution can be applied after the 62 percent upgrade failure happens. At that point, the PC will roll back to Windows Vista. Users can then visit this support page, scroll down and click the "Fix this problem" link. The link will run a...
From bink.nu
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- Upgrade hangs at 62% when you upgrade to Windows 7 from Windows Vista (blogs.technet.com)


