Vista UAC: 7 Steps to delete a shortcut
Here is a interesting submission, although I'd like to point out that Microsoft is changing this behavior in future builds. Here's what would of happened if it weren't for dedicated beta testers and our loud vocal concerns being heard.
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5.6.2006 Is Microsoft preparing a Zune update?
A reader of a site dedicated to Zune news has posted photos of what are claimed to be new features at Zune's Marketplace, including flash animation and a new video section.
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5.5.2008 Prevent 1.0 - Stop Unauthorized Copy, Delete, Move & Change of Settings
I am sure everyone has faced the situation where either their friends, colleagues, family member of kids renaming, deleting important files or changing settings like wallpaper, screen resolution etc. this is typical with younger sibling.
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17.9.2009 Preparing for Windows 7 with the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor
When a new version of Windows is released, people either upgrade their existing PC or purchase a new PC with the latest version of Windows already pre-installed. For the people who want to upgrade their existing PC, they are often faced with the question of whether their PC can run the new Windows version or not.
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8.5.2009 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - let’s see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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11.10.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008 New Vista AutoPatcher - Vista update toolkit Alpha
Vista Update Toolkit Alpha (Windows Vista Updates Downloader) is a FREE program which downloads updates directly from Microsoft. All files are very useful with vLite!
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26.9.2008 Vista SP1 – Microsoft Could Not Have Given Less – Vista SP2 Anyone?
Microsoft had the chance to position the first service pack for Windows Vista as a panacea for the operating system, giving the platform nothing less than a fresh start and another take at the Wow.
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3.10.2007 Vista SP1 Rolling Over for Vista SP2
Vista SP1 did not do the trick for your RTM copy of the operating system? While such a scenario is highly unlikely, Microsoft is getting closer and closer to taking Windows Vista to the next level, again.
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7.12.2008 Vista SP1: Indictment of Vista 1.0?
Microsoft’s announcement that it is preparing a Vista Service Pack 1 beta in two weeks is curious on many levels. Although Microsoft delivers improvements via service packs I can’t help but consider Vista SP1 a do-over.
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30.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP2
We are all well aware of the limping start of Vista on the OS market. Despite the fact that its launch had been highly anticipated for a good while, contrary to all Microsoft expectations, Vista was received with great reluctance and unwillingness on the part of XP fans.
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13.12.2008 Microsoft: Vista! Vista! Vista!
Microsoft has a single generalized answer to all life's problems, but especially end user protection, and that answer is of course Windows Vista.
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14.8.2007 Windows XP SP3 Twice as Fast as Windows Vista – Leaves Vista SP1 in the Dust
Forget about Windows Vista. And forget about Windows Vista SP1. Microsoft's latest Windows client has been quite sluggish to begin with. This in both consumer adoption and in terms of the performance it delivers.
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27.11.2007How to Delete a Windows Service in Vista or XP
If you are a fan of tweaking your system and disabling services, you might find that over time your Windows Services list becomes huge and unwieldy
with a large number of services in the list that will never be enabled.
Instead of just disabling a service, you can
alternatively completely delete the service. This technique can be especially helpful if you've installed some piece of software that doesn't
uninstall correctly, and leaves an item in the service list.
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26.09.2008Gmail Gives Up, Adds Delete
Button
When it first launched in
2004, Google's Gmail was
missing a key feature
available in competing e-mail
services and clients: a
prominent delete button.
Although Gmail offered
deleting through a dropdown,
Google felt users should never
have to delete messages thanks
to expanded storage. But the
company has finally given in...
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20.01.2006Vista UAC: 7 Steps to Delete a
Shortcut
Here is a interesting
submission, although I'd like
to point out that Microsoft is
changing this behavior in
future builds. Here's what
would of happened if it
weren't for dedicated beta
testers and our loud vocal
concerns being heard.
Microsoft Windows
Vista's User Account Control
(UAC) is currently set up in
such a way as to take up to
seven steps to delete a
shortcut from the
desktop.
This
may change when the product
eventually ships, but for
those who are not able to test
Vista as yet, an interesting
series of images details the
process of deleting a shortcut
from the desktop.
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05.06.2006Microsoft Hints at Six Vista
Editions
A Windows Vista help page has
provided some insight into
Microsoft's packaging plans
for the next-generation
Windows release due out later
this year. While the company
has yet to make any official
announcement, Microsoft is
ostensibly preparing six
different editions of Windows
Vista...
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20.02.2006Facebook: please don't delete your account
After recent news of Facebook updating their Terms of Use to make all content posted on the web site theirs, and a follow up of removing the updated
Terms of Use, and reverting back to the original put a lot of Facebook users contemplating deleting their Facebook account. Facebook has updated
their site with a caution warning and apology about the recent change of Terms of Use when attempting to deactivate or delete your account. The
message reads: Are you deleting because you are concerned about Facebook's Terms of Service? This was a mistake that we have now corrected. You
own the information you put on Facebook and you control what happens to it.
Read full story.....
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20.02.2009Windows Vista SP1 Will Uninstall Group Policy Management
Probably in response to a few users' bewilderment over the seemingly unrestricted accessibility of what had actually been one of Windows Vista's
most requested new security tools, Group Policy Management Console, Microsoft announced today that the act of installing Vista Service Pack 1 will
simply delete the tool altogether...
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29.08.2007Report: Apple Preparing Movie
Rentals
Rumor site Think Secret is
reporting that Apple is
preparing to expand iTunes
beyond music and television
into the realm of movies, with
an announcement slated for
August 7 at the company's
Worldwide Developers
Conference...
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18.07.2006Microsoft Revs Up for Vista Launch
With Windows Vista set to
become available nationwide at
12am this evening and already
on store shelves across Asia,
Microsoft is preparing a slew
of events to kick off its
next-generation operating
system, including a
celebration in New York City
today with both Bill Gates and
Steve Ballmer...
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29.01.2007Europe is not preparing to impose sales limits on Intel
BetaNews has confirmed this morning that a widely disseminated story first published by Financial Times Deutschland , which said the European
Commission was preparing to issue sales restrictions on Intel, is false...
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28.05.2008Internet Explorer 7 Flush
History Feature
Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming
Internet Explorer 7 browser
will have a thorough flush
feature that clears its
history and all associated
files stored after a Web site
is accessed.
The new "delete browsing
history" feature under the
"tools" menu will be able to
wipe out five major data
categories, including
temporary Internet files,
cookies, history, form data
and passwords, Enuha
wrote.
A user
can delete all of those at
once or can individually
choose which ones to wipe
through the "delete browsing
history" panel, Enuha
wrote.
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18.01.2006Windows Vista RC1 via CPP
Soon?
It seems that Microsoft are
preparing to launch Release
Candidate 1 (RC1) of Windows
Vista via the Customer Preview
Program (CPP) shortly. A page
has been discovered, which
although returns an error, is
labelled with "Thank you
for your interest in Windows
Vista RC 1.". This surely
suggest that Windows Vista RC1
will be released very shortly.
Update: 64-bit
Download Link added.
Update 2: An E-mail has
recently been sent to
participants of the Office
2007 Beta, in which it is
revealed that apparently,
Windows Vista RC1 will not
reach public availability
until September...
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26.08.2006Preparing for an Upgrade to
Windows Vista
Columnist Joli Ballew explains
how to prepare for a clean
installation of a new
operating system by backing up
your software, media, and
personal data...
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05.09.2006Microsoft Builds Keyboard for
Vista
To accompany the release of
Windows Vista, Microsoft is
preparing what it calls the
"Ultimate Keyboard,"
which blends a modern design
with advanced features such as
proximity sensing and a
30-foot range. Microsoft has
also moved the Windows key to
below the spacebar and added a
Media Center button...
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30.06.2006Windows Vista Backup - questions answered
James Senior: There were a lot of comments in
my post about
Windows Vista backup I made in the summer and I wanted to follow up to some of the questions that I'd received having spoken to the guys who
developed the features over in Redmond.
Here are some of their responses:
- 0x8007001B: Please check the
firmware of the the DVD Drive is up-to-date
- 0x8007001B: The software knows how to swap DVDs
- My recovery drive: don't touch
it, it is perfect the way it is. Do NOT delete files - this thing is a life saver
- 0X8007045D: please get the etls files from under
c:WindowsLogsWindowsBackup and c:WindowsLogsCompletePC and we will take a look
- My recovery drive is almost full: exactly the
same thing: Do NOT delete files, do not put files, this thing is a life saver.
- 160GB: depends on the source drive. Backing up 500GB on
160GB usually doesn't work. I recommend 2.5 times the size of the source disk.
Hope this helps with some of your queries.
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22.10.2007Microsoft Plans Six Security Updates, Two For Windows Vista
Gearing up for next
week's Patch Tuesday release,
Microsoft announced on
Thursday that it's preparing
six security updates -- four
of them for critical bugs.
One
security update actually can
patch multiple vulnerabilities
so it's unclear at this point
how many flaws next week's
releases will fix. Microsoft,
though, did announce in its
Security Bulletin Advance
Notification that each of the
four critical updates will
affect Windows software, while
only one affects Internet
Explorer. Another one will
address issues in Outlook
Express, as well as Windows
Mail.
One critical
vulnerability affects Windows
Mail in Windows Vista and
Windows Vista x64 edition.
There another patch for
Windows Vista that's rated
"moderate"...
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08.06.2007Pressure-sensitive keyboard, new Microsoft Hardware prototype
Microsoft's hardware group this morning unveiled a prototype of a pressure-sensitive keyboard that can detect precisely how hard each key is being
pressed.
The company describes the potential uses as "limitless," saying it has tested concepts including pressing a letter
harder to get a capital letter or a larger font size, or hitting the delete key harder or softer depending on whether the user wants to delete one
character or an entire word.
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07.08.2009Microsoft bails on virtualization licensing changes for Vista
Microsoft almost tweaked its
licensing terms for Windows
Vista yet again this time in
order to ease virtualization
restrictions that irked a
number of customers and
partners. But in the eleventh
hour, company officials
decided against the move,
resulting in Microsoft
cancelling its planned
announcement.
Microsoft officials were
preparing to announce
officially on June 20 that
Microsoft had a change of
heart and would allow users to
run all versions of Windows
Vista in a virtualized
environment. Microsoft
prebriefed a number of news
and blogging outlets,
including me, about the
planned change under
non-disclosure.
Currently, Microsofts
end-user license agreement
(EULA) specifies that users
can run only the Business and
Ultimate versions of Vista in
virtual machines from
Microsoft and other vendors...
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20.06.2007As Windows XP Deadline Looms, OEMs Turn To Vista Downgrade Rights
Microsoft may be preparing to discontinue sales of Windows XP, but some OEMs have found a way to circumvent the software giant's June 30 deadline.
In yet another sign of the market's resistance to Windows Vista, Dell Computer, Hewlett Packard, and Sony on Wednesday all
confirmed plans to exercise the downgrade rights Microsoft offers with OEM versions of Windows Vista Business and Vista Ultimate in order to continue
offering XP-equipped PCs to their customers.
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24.04.2008Microsoft's GarageBand called
Monaco
Taking a page from Apple's
playbook, Microsoft is
preparing a new application
for creating music in the same
vein as GarageBand for Mac OS
X, according to the Microsoft
Watch newsletter. The program,
code-named Monaco, would be
designed specifically for
Windows Vista and take
advantage of the operating
system's Avalon user
interface...
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10.04.2006Microsoft Schedules WinHEC
2006
Microsoft's annual Windows
Hardware Engineering
Conference has been scheduled
for May 23-25, 2006 in
Seattle, Washington. The
conference will be crucial for
vendors preparing for the
launch of Windows Vista late
next year, with Windows Server
"Longhorn" also
expected to make an
appearance...
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