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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...  

i had installed 2 os in my acer aspire 4736g i had ubuntu and windows vista i deleted the partition that contain the ubuntu os... when i reboot my laptop, it comes out GRUB loading stage1.5 GRUB loading, please wait... Error 22 and it stuck there....cannot load windows  

Microsoft Windows Vista gets DirectX 11 Platform Update for Windows Vista 971644 is going to bring support for DirectX 11 to Windows Vista users. Windows 7 already comes with DirectX 11 so this is... .  

PC World - Windows Vista is dramatically more secure than Windows XP, according Microsoft's latest Security Intelligence Report, released Monday. The infection rate of Windows Vista SP1 was 61.9 percent less than Windows XP SP3, the company said.  

Boxed Windows 7 sales were three times as high as those of Vista during the products' first few days of release - but price cuts will hit Microsft revenue Sales of Windows 7 boxed software vastly exceeded those of Windows Vista during the respective  

A Microsoft report released Monday indicates that Windows Vista significantly outperforms Windows XP when it comes to enhanced security. Infection rates for Vista were significantly lower than XP during the first half of 2009, the Security Intelligence Report said. But whether the user is running Vista or XP, Microsoft said the most current service pack available is always the least susceptible to security attacks. That's hardly a surprise...  

Disable User Account Control (UAC) for certain Windows Vista applications | Windows Vista for Beginners WTF, people. I want to disable UAC for my defragmenter, and my defragmenter alone. But to do so requires some tribal dancing, a sacrifice of a goat, etc. This "all or nothing" security model needs to die. This post written by Bob Plankers for The Lone Sysadmin. Unless otherwise noted it is © 2009 Bob Plankers and licensed under the...  

I have discussed many times before about how a computer ‘feels’ and how this ‘feel’ determines, at least for me, how a computer is performing. During the past 20 years or so, I have read a multitude of reviews, bench marking tests, comparisons between operating systems, charts, graphs and other statistical information that is complied [...]  

If you’ve been disappointed by the lack of Aero-based visual effects when you install Windows Vista or Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine installation, this handy guide will help you crank up the eye candy in your Windows virtualisation. (more…)  

Windows 7 offers a very user friendly interface to connect computers to the network.  If you’ve previously set up a home network using computers running Windows XP or Windows Vista, you’ll find that setting up a network with a mix of computers running Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 is similar. By far, the easiest [...]Post from:The Network and Sharing Center in Windows 7  

Like many PC owners, I never traded up to the Microsoft Vista operating system. My laptop has been plugging away on XP, the elder generation of the Microsoft operating system, and that has been fine by me. Introduced two years ago, Windows Vista was shunned... Sponsored Topics: Windows Vista - Microsoft Windows - Windows XP - Microsoft - Operating system  

TECH UPDATE Adios, Windows Vista, Windows 7 is here at last. It has been a high-profile week for software giant Microsoft Corp as its CEO Steve Ballmer offically launched its new Windows operating system in New York on Oct 22, Thursday  

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...  

The User Account Control feature in Microsoft Windows 7 is still irking some in the security community, who say Microsoft may have traded security for usability. - Concerns about the user account control feature in Microsoft Windows 7 have once again resurfaced. User Account Control (UAC) first appeared in Windows Vista as a way to bolster Windows security by limiting standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes a...  

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 2:38:36 PM, on 11/3/2009 Platform: Windows Vista SP2 (WinNT 6.00.1906) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18828) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe...