How to login to an expired Windows
Microsoft has a neat little way to prevent software piracy of their Windows operating system.
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14.12.2006 Expired Cookies Cleaner v1.02
Expired Cookies Cleaner is a free software for removing expired cookies from you personal computer (PC).
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17.3.2009 Login with Live!
Microsoft today came a step closer to replacing their old .NET Passport system with the launch of the new Live.com login.
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29.4.2006 Easily Login to Windows XP with No Password Administrator Account Backdoor Trick
In password-protected Windows XP Home or Professional edition system, each user logs on to his or her own user name and password to have full access to the Windows computer.
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25.11.2006 Firefox, IE vulnerable to fake login pages?
Mozilla's Firefox 2 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to steal passwords.
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23.11.2006 PC login Now - How To Change a Windows XP Limited User Account Into a Computer Administrator
One of the place that I work at has a few hundreds of computers and it is shared by students.
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12.7.2008 Windows 7 Migration Tool to Move From Windows XP to Windows 7
In past we had covered guide on upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7. Unfortunately there is no direct upgrade path from Windows Xp to Windows 7 and you have to use Windows Easy Transfer utility if you want to move your user and program files from XP to Windows 7.
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22.11.2009 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD – more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can – and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. It’s about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008 Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade
Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
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9.3.2008 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008How the default Windows 7 wallpaper evolved
Gizmodo tracked down Chuck Anderson, the creator of Windows 7's box art, default wallpaper and login screen. In an exclusive overview of the
evolution of the Windows 7 wallpaper and login screen, the gadget lovers managed to secure some rare development shots of how Microsoft came to the
wallpaper that is now used worldwide. Chuck Anderson is a 20 something digital media artist living in the US. Both the login screen and wallpapers
took approximately four months, start to finish according to Gizmodo. They were achieved by a mix of pen and paper, wacom tablet and Photoshop.
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06.11.2009Modifying the All Users profile in Vista or Windows Server 2008
Peter Fitzsimon: Ok, so I just spend a few whistful hours trying to work out how to modify the "All Users" profile on a Windows Server 2008 system.
I wanted to add a program to run at login (e.g. in the Start Menu|Programs|Startup directory) for all users that login, but things are now a bit
different with Vista and Windows Server 2008.
I have found quite a few people asking similar questions on the Internet but no one
seems to have offered a solution that works so I thought I'd post my findings.
Firstly, for those who haven't hit this before,
the "C:Documents and Settings" directory where user profiles are stored in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 systems has changed to "C:Users"
in Vista and Windows Server 2008. (I regularly encounter XP users who have upgraded to Vista getting confused by this one)
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24.02.2008Live services hit with outage system wide
Update: All systems are back up and running Many users have been locked out of their accounts as problems with users inbox's seem to be
inaccessible by any means. The problem appears to be system wide, as Microsoft reports on Twitter, stating "@MesaPink The issue will be resolved
shortly sorry for the inconveinvce. It is system wide." Users are unable to access their inbox, as they attempt to login, they are given the error
"You don't have an inbox...yet" Some others users are reporting login problems with logging into Windows Live Messenger, giving them an error
"We can't sign you into Windows Live Messenger". As the situation develops, more users are stating problems with more and more Live services.
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10.04.2009Desktop Security: Create Custom Login Experiences With Credential Providers For Windows Vista
Credential providers in
Windows Vista allow you to
customize the logon experience
and integrate the
authentication methods that
best meet your organization's
needs. With this article,
learn how to write your own...
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27.01.2007Licensing bug brings down VMware ESX data clusters
Could everyone's VMware licenses really have expired on August 12? That's the question hundreds of major data centers found themselves asking, right
after midnight when they realized they weren't rebooting or resuming...
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14.08.2008Facebook opens up to OpenID
Facebook has stepped forward and joined OpenID with a growing number of popular web sites that have recently joined OpenID. Up till now, Facebook has
only allowed third-party developers to access user's data strictly through its own proprietary standards. OpenID allows users who have never
before been on a web site with OpenID to allow that person to login using their Facebook account, but for now Facebook hasn't released details if
they will let people login using their Facebook account details, but only mentioned they will support OpenID.
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07.02.2009Has your Office eXPired?
From the Windows Vista Team
Blog,
Nick
White writes:
The other day I was
wandering through Building 27
here on the MS campus and
found that
Michael
Howard has a
great
little poster hanging on
his office door. I thought
you folks might be
interested.
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04.01.2007Ericsson Sues Samsung Over
Patents
Ericsson said on Friday that
it had filed a lawsuit against
mobile phone manufacturer
Samsung, accusing it of patent
infringement in a number of
countries. Ericsson says
agreements with Samsung to
license GSM, GPRS and EDGE
technologies had expired at
the end of 2005 and the
companies have been unable to
negotiate new deals...
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25.02.2006CardSpace (InfoCard) and Live ID
Running Windows Vista? Noticed
the Windows CardSpace applet
in the Vista control panel but
not sure what its for? That
may soon change if Windows
Live ID provides CardSpace
integration.
Formerly
called InfoCard, CardSpace
integration with Windows Live
was discussed back in March
2006 when Live ID was first
emerging as the updated
Microsoft Passport. To put it
as simply as possible,
CardSpace allows you to
securely store multiple
identies on your PC, and use
them online when required.
This eliminates the need to
enter a password when you want
to identify yourself to a web
service - instead you choose
the identity you wish to send
from your PC. This helps
protect the user from phishing
scams and keyloggers, which
for more important services
like online banking, helps
reduce the risk of identity
theft.
So how would
this work for Live ID? Testers
of the in-beta Windows Live ID
authentication services SDK
(which allows users to log
into 3rd party sites with
their Live ID) are currently
able to create a
custom
signin page on the Windows
Live ID test servers. This
login page presents the user
with the existing option to
sign in with a Live ID, or the
alternative - to sign in using
CardSpace.
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03.07.2007Linux integration components for Hyper-V RC now available
The virtualization team is pleased to announce the release of the Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V RC! These components provide compatibility
with the recent Hyper-V RC release. You can obtain the Linux Integration Components via the Microsoft Connect site. Cheers, -Jeff
Integration Components for Linux available through connect.microsoft.com:
1. Login to
https://connect.microsoft.com/default.aspx 2. Click on
Activity in All Connections Since Your Last Login in the left panel.
3. Review the available programs and apply for the Linux
Integration Components for Microsoft Hyper-V.
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02.04.2008Firefox, IE vulnerable to fake login pages?
Mozilla's Firefox 2 and
Microsoft's Internet Explorer
7 are vulnerable to a flaw
that could allow attackers to
steal passwords.
Dubbed a reverse cross-site
request, or RCSR,
vulnerability by its
discoverer, Robert Chapin, the
flaw lets hackers compromise
users' passwords and
usernames by presenting them
with a fake login form.
Firefox Password Manager will
automatically enter any saved
passwords and usernames into
the form.
The data
is then automatically sent to
an attacker's computer
without the user's knowledge,
according to the Chapin
Information Services site.
An exploit for this
flaw has already been seen on
social-networking site
MySpace.com, and it could
affect anyone using a blog or
forum that allows
user-generated HTML code to be
added, according to Chapin.
"Users of both
Firefox and Internet Explorer
need to be aware that their
information can be stolen in
this way when visiting blog
and forum Web sites at trusted
addresses," Chapin said.
According to security
company Netcraft, which
discovered the exploit being
used on MySpace, a fraudulent
login page was hosted on the
company's own servers.
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23.11.2006MySpace falls into Google's OpenID arms
Social-networking drama continues this week as MySpace plights its open-identification troth to Google Friend Connect. It also announced a name change
for its own universal-login system...
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10.12.2008Facebook to share its logins with other sites, wants better apps
At its annual F8 developer conference Wednesday, Facebook unveiled a system like OpenID where users can login to other sites with their Facebook
account. It also rolled out new tools to help developers create better applications...
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24.07.2008Using Certificate-Monitoring Tools with Windows Server 2008
One of the main objectives of administering certificates is to achieve an advanced level of security in your enterprise. Identity and access
management should be taken very seriously. In this article we will very briefly cover what CAs are and then cover the important aspects of using
specific certificate-monitoring tools such as PKIView.msc and certutil.exe with Windows Server 2008. It is Important to know how certificates affect
your security posture and if they are healthy or require maintenance, such as replacement. An expired certificate can show a request of a service to
show that your security is weak or non-existent; many times it may even instigate an attack. It may also indicate that you have not taken care of your
updates, do not have a maintenance routine, and do not get real time fault-based email or text alerts or worse. This article covers the importance of
using certificates, and how to monitor them with Windows Server 2008.
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14.01.2009Windows Live to act as OpenID provider
In July of last year, Microsoft
threw its
weight behind supporting the OpenID protocol. In February of this year,
Microsoft joined the OpenID
foundation's board. Now, Microsoft has committed to OpenID further by announcing that Windows Live will become a OpenID provider and that you
will soon be able to use your Windows Live ID account to sign in to any OpenID enabled website.
OpenID is a distributed authentication
method for allowing users to securely use a single digital ID to sign into multiple websites on the Internet. AOL and Yahoo already allow users to
authenticate against their AOL or Yahoo credentials on sites using OpenID. Google so far has not adopted OpenID through any supported means.
Currently Microsoft's OpenID implementation is on their Windows Live ID Integration environment, intended for sites and software providers who
provide OpenID authentication to test against the service. Your normal Windows Live ID cannot currently be used for OpenID. Microsoft does not seem to
have any plans to allow the use of your OpenID to login to sites that require a Windows Live ID. Meaning you'll still need to maintain accounts at
Yahoo, AOL and Windows Live to login to services on their individual sites. However, in becoming a provider, Microsoft has taken a step in the right
direction towards opening up their services.
Microsoft has given no specifics on when they plan to make OpenID authentication available on
their public servers.
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30.10.2008Google adds AIM capabilities to Gmail chat
Google said Tuesday that it had added interoperability with AIM into its GTalk client within Gmail, allowing users to login to their AIM accounts from
within the client...
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05.12.2007WSUS 3.0 SP1 on Windows Update coming soon
WSUS 3.0 SP1 will be available on Windows Update within the next few weeks. The package behavior is:
- Upgrade all previous versions
of WSUS starting with WSUS 2.0 to WSUS 3.0 RTM running on Windows 2003 SP1+
- All upgrades will require user interaction.
-
This service pack package will supersede WSUS 3.0 RTM packages.
- Block upgrades of all WSUS installation using remote SQL. This is now
a manual upgrade process.
- Do not support upgrading previous versions of WSUS running on Windows 2008.
- System Center
Essentials 1.0 RTM will not be upgraded to WSUS 3.0 SP1. This will be handled by a future release of System Center Essentials.
Note:
śWSUS 2.0 SP1ť and śWSUS 2.0 Client SelfUpdate Update for WSUS 2.0 SP1ť packages will be expired. These updates are still available on the Download
Center.
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20.03.2008Remaining Vista Ultimate Language Packs released
Late yesterday Barry Goffe, Director of Windows Ultimate, today disclosed on
windowsultimate.com that the remaining 19 language packs have been made available via Windows Update.
A
multi-language user interface (MUI) pack allows a user to run Windows Vista Ultimate in one of 36 available languages. You can quickly switch among
languages on a single installation of Windows Vista by associating a system language with your login name.
The additional supported
languages are ->
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24.10.2007Flickr Users in Uproar Over Login Policy
Some long-time users of the
popular photo sharing site
Flickr are up in arms over a
policy that requires all users
to merge their accounts with a
Yahoo ID by March 15 or risk
losing access to the site...
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02.02.2007Google Cross Domain Bug Proof of Concept
Google's Gmail service suffers from security flaws that make it trivial for attackers to create authentic-looking spoof pages that steal
users' login credentials, a security expert has demonstrated. Google Calendar and other sensitive Google services are susceptible to similar
tampering.
A proof-of-concept (PoC) attack, published by Adrian Pastor of the GNUCitizen ethical hacking collective, exploits a weakness in
the google.com domain that allows him to inject third-party content into Google pages. The result is this page, which allowed him (at time of writing,
anyway) to display a fraudulent Gmail login page that displayed mail.google.com in the browser's address bar.
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