How To Disable Use the Web service to find the correct program Displayed in Windows Vista
When opening a file with unknown extension, normally you will see an additional window popping up that give you options of whether to use the web service to find the correct program or select a program from a list of installed programs.
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20.3.2009 Disable and Remove Half-Open TCP Connections Limit (to Unlimited) in Windows 7 and Vista SP2 with EnableConnectionRateLimitin Registry Key
Officially, the incomplete half-open outbound TCP connection attempts allowed at any one time is now unlimited by default in Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP2 (Service Pack 2), and Windows 7. Actually, the ability to limit or restrict number of half-open outgoing TCP connections system can create or establish is built into Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7, however it’s disabled by default.
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8.6.2009 Disable and Turn Off Windows Vista Search Indexer and Indexing Service
Windows Vista has greatly enhanced its search algorithm where the search process is now not only faster, but users can also easily search for almost all kind of files, documents, pictures, videos, emails and contacts in Outlook 2007, and even commands or application programs’ executables.
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19.9.2007 Skype to launch Web TV service
The founders of Skype are close to launching a global broadband television service promising viewers, content owners and advertisers “the best of the internet with the best of TV”.
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18.12.2006 Office 2007 Service Pack 1 Release to Web Tuesday 11th Dec
Next Tuesday, December 11th 2007, the Office System team here at Microsoft expects to announce the availability for download of the 2007 Microsoft® Office System Service Pack 1 (SP1).
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5.12.2007 How to Enable or Disable Windows Task Manager
ask Manager is a versatile task management and system utility in Windows operating system. With Task Manager, user can view detailed information about computer performance (CPU usage, physical memory, kernel memory, handle, thread, commit charge, etc.), running applications, processes, network activity and statistics, logged-on users, and system services.
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18.6.2008 Bypass and Disable Genuine Windows Validation Check
Microsoft has made it harder for illegitimate, or for whatever reason, your copy of Microsoft Windows couldn't be validated, users to retrieve updates via Microsoft Updates or Windows Update, and download programs from Microsoft Download Center.
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19.5.2006 Disable Windows Vista Evaluation Watermark from Desktop
If an user install Windows Vista in trial or demo or evaluation mode, by skipping and not keying in any Windows product registration key when asked during installation of Windows Vista.
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24.11.2006 How To Remove and Disable Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool
Windows 7 and Windows Vista comes with a memory diagnostic utility named as Windows Memory Diagnostic. Windows Memory Diagnostic is an utility that capable of scan, check and diagnose computer’s memory subsystem including physical RAM modules or sticks.
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5.10.2009 Enable/Disable/Swap the Task Manager in Windows Vista
Task Manager is a system utility that ships by default with Windows Vista. The tool is not new to Microsoft's latest operating system, having survived from older versions of Windows.
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11.10.2007 WinodwsUpdateSilencer - Disable Windows Update Restart Alert Message
Windows Automatic Updates is definitely helpful feature to keep Windows up to date with latest updates and thereby keeping it secure from viruses, worms and hacker.
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9.9.2009 Turn Off or Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista
User Account Control (UAC) is a new security feature in Windows Vista that requires all users to log on and run in standard user privileges mode instead of as administrator with full administrative rights, thus prevent unauthorized or accidental changes that could destabilize the computers or allows virus and malware to exploit the system-level privileges provided to the local administrator to attack the network security, compromise computer safety and privacy, and damage files and settings in the network.
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19.12.2006 Disable Aero Snap Auto Maximize and Arrange Window in Windows 7
Windows 7 includes a new feature called Aero Snap that intends to improve open windows management on the desktop. Aero Snap allows user to drag a window to the top of the screen to maximize the window automatically, or to the left or right side of the screen to resize the window to fill and take up half of the screen estate on the moved side automatically.
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19.5.2009 Windows 7 RTM Changes Disable DirectX Client-side Rendering over RDP 7
Changes implemented post-RC and ahead of the release to manufacturing deadline of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have stripped away the DirectX client-side rendering over RDP 7 from the operating systems, Microsoft has informed.
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22.6.2009 Disable and Remove URGE Online Store in Windows Media Player 11 (WMP11)
Windows Media Player 11 (WMP11) for Windows XP is the latest Windows Media Player (WMP) for Windows Vista, and available as free standalone program downloadable from Micrsoft for genuine Windows XP SP2 users. WMP 11 features Windows Vista-like feel and touch user interface, plus several other improvements and enhancements.
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20.11.2006 Twelve unnecessary Vista features to disable
Excess code has a way of slowing down an operating system; here are 12 Vista features that you can turn off right now.
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5.9.2008 Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 7
To help our customers become more secure and up-to-date, Microsoft will distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 soon after the final version of the browser is released (planned for fourth quarter 2006).
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27.7.2006 Microsoft: Disable or Remove the Pilot of WGA Notifications
Microsoft is providing end users with the instructions necessary to disable or remove altogether the WGA Notifications anti-piracy mechanism from Windows XP.
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1.9.2008 How to Disable/Turn off Bing Home Page Image
Microsoft new search engine Bing.com is steadily becoming popular and more and more users have started using bing to search.
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3.8.2009 Hack to Turn Off and Disable Windows 7 CD or DVD Writer Burning and Auto Tray Ejection Feature
Windows 7 inherits the capability to burn or write to CD and DVD burner or writer, with additional support to directly burn ISO and IMG disc images with Windows 7 Explorer.
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18.8.2009 Disable and Remove OGA Office Not Genuine Notifications Uninstall KB949810
After installing Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) Notifications (KB949810) from Windows Update, OGA Validation will perform genuine test on installed Microsoft Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007 and Office 2010 software. If Office product is validated as not genuine, “This copy of Microsoft Office is not genuine” notification message will be displayed on notification area (system tray), at splash screen during Office program (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) startup, and at Office’s toolbar or ribbon with extra “Get Genuine Office” tab or element.
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18.10.2009 Windows Vista RC1 Open to Public
Those eager to try out the newest release of Windows Vista, which has received positive reviews from analysts and testers alike, can rest easy: RC1 is now available to the general public.
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15.9.2006 How the Windows Vista Packaging will open - photo
Take a look at how the Windows Vista packaging will open up to reveal the media inside. Also, it is our first peak at what the Windows Vista discs will actually look like.
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2.11.2006 Winpooch - Open source anti-spyware for windows
Description: detection of spywares and trojans. It becomes an anti virus if associated with ClamWin
Winpooch is a Windows watchdog, free and open source. Anti spyware and anti trojan, it gives a full protection against local or external attacks by scanning the activity of programs in real time. Associated with ClamWin antivirus, Winpooch keeps safe your computer against virus.
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6.12.2005 Windows Vista Secret #1: Open Command Prompt Here
I don't know about your workflow as a developer, but I often find myself switching back and forward between an Explorer window and the command shell.
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19.9.2006 Microsoft to Increasingly Open up on Office 14 and Windows 7
There is a time for translucency, and there is also a time for transparency.
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11.7.2008 Windows 7 to open another round in Apple-Microsoft rivalry
Will Windows 7 blunt some of Apple’s momentum? At least one analyst thinks it’s possible.
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3.6.2009 Open Beta Invitation for Windows Live Mail Desktop
We’ve finally done it! Our ‘little’ project to bring you the next generation consumer mail application is going massively public. As of today (actually we slipped it out quietly last week or so) we are instituting a hassle-free sign up for the Mail Desktop beta.
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27.7.2006 Open letter to Microsoft: It's time for a single version of Windows
An Open Letter to Microsoft:
Windows XP did a great thing. It united two operating systems - the Windows 9x codebase and the Windows NT codebase (including Windows 2000).
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12.6.2009 Windows 7 vs. Linux, Microsoft Trashes Open Source OS
The advent of the next iteration of the Windows client represents yet another opportunity for operating system measuring contest, and the Redmond-based company is not the one to back down from a comparison that would push its product to the foreground.
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8.9.2009Microsoft: Please Don't
Disable UAC
At Windows Vista lab in
Redmond before the release of
Beta 2, Microsoft developers
showed off the new OS to a
room full of MVPs and
enthusiasts. But even the
company's most loyal fan base
turned ugly when User Account
Control took the stage. Now,
Microsoft is begging users not
to disable the controversial
feature...
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28.06.2006Microsoft: Malware can disable UAC in Windows 7 "by design"
A month has barely passed since the public beta debut of Windows 7 and we have our first horror story. UAC (user account control) was the major gripe
with Windows Vista which annoyed most tech savvy users and confused ordinary consumers. Microsoft has changed the behavior in Windows 7, lowering the
requirement for user interaction when changing system settings. The apparent downside to this is, according to reports, the way Microsoft has changed
the behavior makes it extremely easy for malware authors to write code to disable UAC without user intervention.
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30.01.2009Third MS Word Code Execution Exploit Posted
Exploit code for a third,
unpatched vulnerability in
Microsoft Word has been posted
on the Internet, adding to the
software maker's struggles to
keep up with gaping holes in
its popular word processing
program.
The
attack code contains sample
Word documents that have been
rigged to launch code
execution exploits when the
file is opened.
Microsoft has not yet
publicly acknowledged the
vulnerability, but the United
States Computer Emergency
Readiness Team issued an alert
to warn that Word documents
can be manipulated to trigger
code execution of
denial-of-service attacks.
"Data used by
Microsoft Word to construct a
destination address for a
memory copy routine is
embedded within a Word
document itself. If an
attacker constructs a Word
document with a specially
crafted value used to build
this destination address, then
that attacker may be able to
overwrite arbitrary memory,"
the US-CERT warned.
An attacker could
trigger the vulnerability by
convincing a user to open a
rigged Word document. Because
exploit code is publicly
available, the risk of a
widespread attack is
heightened.
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15.12.2006Lenovo creates SMS "kill pill'
If BIOS-level passwords, fingerprint recognition and encrypted hard drives aren't enough for the most paranoid portable PC user, get set for the
latest in security. A new service will allow users to disable a lost or stolen 3G notebook by sending it an SMS message! From early next year,
Lenovo's new Constant Secure Remote Disable service will allow owners of the latest ThinkPads to shut down their system by sending it a special
SMS message from your mobile phone. Once the laptop shuts down, the self-encrypting hard drive will scramble the data.
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26.11.2008Sony laptops disable Windows 7's XP Mode
It's not looking good for Sony Vaio owners who were looking to get their hands on a hot, fresh release of Windows 7 - Sony has disabled hardware
virtualization in their laptop range, thus rendering Windows XP Mode in Windows 7, and many other Virtual Machine Based products, such as VMware and
Virtualbox pretty much useless. Sony claims that they are disabled for "security" reasons - which doesn't really seem to make any sense; Sony
has also said that they will re-enable hardware virtualization on "select" laptops from the Vaio range.
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11.08.2009Disable Windows Server 2003 SP2 Scalable Networking Pack features
Michael Platts: As you may know, Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 included the
Scalable Networking Pack (or SNP) which allowed for increased performance in many situations by allowing some TCP functionality
to be handled by the network driver and network adapter instead of the Windows TCP/IP stack itself. This functionality was enabled by default in
Service Pack 2.
There have been some problems seen in some environments where Windows Server 2003 SP2 has been deployed on
systems that support the SNP features. Issues like this have been discussed in several previously published Knowledge Base articles.
There is now a new update available that will turn off the Scalable Networking Pack features on Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
systems. The article lists a number of symptoms that have been seen when Windows Server 2003 SNP is enabled and links to download the update for
x86, x64, and Itanium-based systems:
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14.03.2008Lenovo lets you disable your laptop with a text message
In the next couple months Lenovo will be rolling out a BIOS update for its Montevina laptop users which enables remote shutdown and subsequent
encryption via text message. The tech relies on the laptop having a WWAN connection and activates when a custom string, defined by the user and sent
from a single, paired phone, is received. In other words, you can choose whatever you want as the shutdown signal, from a cool "Kill" or
"Self-Destruct" to a long, patronizing multi-part message about the thieving youth of today. Constant Secure Remote Disable, as it's called,
isn't being touted as a first line of defense.
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25.11.2008Microsoft's My Phone service now in open beta
You may remember a while back, Microsoft announces a new web-syncing service named My Phone, aimed at, you guessed it, cellphones. We at Neowin have
given our first impressions on it, but at that time it was still only available through an invitation from the Redmond company itself. Well, this is
no longer the case; according to Slashphone, the service is now in public beta status, meaning that everybody can now go and try it out for
themselves. My Phone provides automatic syncing and backup, which means that users can have appointments, contacts, and even text messages be
constantly up to date; it also means that users can instantly restore all information upon losing their phone, or something similar.
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19.05.2009What Gives You the Right?
Combine the Powers of AzMan
and WSE 3.0 to Protect Your
Web Services
In this article, Niels
Flensted-Jensen demonstrates
how you can combine Windows
2003 Authorization Manager,
Web Service Enhancements 3.0,
and Enterprise Library to
provide flexible authorization
for individual Web service
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21.10.2005ActiveX Under Seige: Facebook, MySpace Image Uploaders Vulnerable
Web surfers are urged to immediately disable ActiveX controls from IE to protect against a swath of publicly reportedand unpatchedsoftware
vulnerabilities.
The US-CERT is urging Web surfers to immediately disable ActiveX controls from Internet Explorer to protect
against a swath of publicly reportedand unpatchedsoftware vulnerabilities.
The US-CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team)
recommendation follows the release of exploit code for multiple zero-day flaws in image uploaders used by Facebook and MySpace and bugs in the ActiveX
control that ships with the Yahoo Music Jukebox software.
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05.02.2008Live Mesh now Open to All
Well, you no longer need to have an invitation to sign up for Live Mesh:
"Microsoft has opened up its Live Mesh service to anyone who
has (or signs up for) a Windows Live ID. The service, announced in April, lets people share data among multiple Windows computers, as well as over the
Web.
The vision for Live Mesh is broader--envisioning people sharing data among Macs, PCs, and various devices, as well as opening up the
possibility for desktop applications to add online components, and Web apps to add offline components. For now, though, it's largely about file sync.
Microsoft is expected to add more features by its Professional Developer Conference in October.
In any case, Microsoft had
been limiting Live Mesh sign-ups to those with an invitation, but now it's open to anyone who wants to see it in its early stages."
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16.07.2008Open the Web Right in Microsoft Office
Sarah Perez: The
Digital
Inspiration blog had some cool tips on how to open the internet right into your desktop applications, but what caught my eye was their example of
opening a web page in Microsoft Word. To do so, all you need to do is type in a URL in the "Open" box - just don't forget the http://. Of course,
the web page might not look the same in Word as it does on the web, but this is handy way to import web content into a document.
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15.04.2008End of the line for MSN Web Messenger
Microsoft have announced that their veteran web-based messenger client will become unavailable from this Tuesday, June 30. The service has offered
access to their popular instant messaging network through a web browser for the past five years. Since earlier this year a newer replacement service
for MSN Web Messenger has been available as part of Windows Live Hotmail, featuring direct integration with the email interface and your contact list
(known as Windows Live People). This will now become the only officially supported web-based client for accessing the Windows Live Messenger network,
apart from the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit which allows developers to integrate messaging controls into their own websites.
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27.06.2009Survey says: Firefox, OpenOffice leads in open source deployments
Firefox leads the way in open source software used in organizations, and the Web browser is being deployed abundantly on Linux and Windows PCs alike,
according to new data from the Open Source Census released today.
Open source software deployment is higher in Europe than the
US, and in government and finance than in other industries, says the Open Source Census (OSC), a six-month-old effort which is also accumulating data
on use of open source software across Linux and Windows.
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01.10.2008AOL Extends Open AIM to the Web
AOL said Thursday at the
WebGuild Developers Conference
in Santa Clara, Calif. that it
would be expanding its Open
AIM program to include
web-based APIs and widgets.
With the new functionality,
developers would be able to
build AIM functionality into
Web sites and online
communities...
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20.10.2006Movie Gallery to Open Online Rental Service
The nation's second biggest
movie retail chain said Monday
that it would open its own
online DVD rental service in
order to stop the defection of
customers to rivals
Blockbuster and Netflix...
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20.03.2007Microsoft kills off Popfly web service
Microsoft has confirmed it will be shutting down its' Popfly tool on August 24, 2009. In a message to the Popfly blog company official John
Montgomery confirmed "unfortunately, on August 24, 2009 the Popfly service will be discontinued and all sites, references, and resources will be
taken down. At that time, your access to your Popfly account, including any games and mashups that you have created, will be discontinued." Popfly
originally launched publicly as a beta service in October 2007. The web service was originally introduced for users to create both Windows Vista
Sidebar gadgets and Windows Live gadgets. The tool was designed to help non-programmers in creating, sharing, and embedding mashups of content, feeds,
web pages and gadgets.
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17.07.2009Understanding Windows Vista Service Hardening
Microsoft has been touting Windows Vista as the most secure Windows ever. Backing up that claim, Microsoft has included a number of new security
features in the operating system. These new features are designed to address some of the common vectors by which previous versions of Windows have
fallen to anonymous miscreants and other criminals.
One such new feature in Windows Vista is known as Windows Service Hardening.
In older versions of Windows, services did not necessarily run with the least possible privileges. In fact, Windows services often ran under accounts
with very high level of access, such as the LocalSystem account. Further, users are often not aware of the services running on their systems, and do
not realise that some services are safe to disable. Finally, services and user applications ran in the same space, which could result in inappropriate
access. As a result of services running with privileges that did not match necessity, and services running that users did not require, Windows
desktops were left more vulnerable to attack.
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04.09.2007Microsoft announces new My Phone Web syncing service
Earlier we reported about the sight of the new SkyBox website going live for some time and later it turned out to be that it was indeed one of new
Microsoft's offering - Microosft My Phone Web Service Microsoft has now officially responded to jkOnTheRun website about the new My Phone web
service: Today, Microsoft's My Phone Web site went live prior to its scheduled debut. However, we are excited about the new Microsoft My Phone
service, which will be available as a limited, invite-only beta. This is a significant milestone for Microsoft as it connects the phone to the PC and
Web, making mobility a key pillar for the company's software+services strategy.
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07.02.2009Developers question Mesh openness
Developers have questioned the commitment to openness in Microsoft's Live Mesh service, which is designed to bridge the offline and online worlds.
The company's new service, that will synch all of a user's devices and applications to produce a seamless framework, was unveiled
at Web 2.0.
Microsoft has said the service will use open standards and be rolled out to Windows machines, Macs and mobiles.
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