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 How to enable Administrator account in Windows 7
Remember the Administrator account that was present in good old Windows XP days? The master Administrator account is not visible by default in Windows 7 or Vista. Here is a simple way to enable it.
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16.8.2009 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 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 Using Windows Server 2008 as a SUPER workstation OS
Vijayshinva Karnure, a IIS, ASP and ASP.NET troubleshooter as well as a consultant for developers and system admins of Microsoft India is so cool!
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14.2.2008 Super Personal Computer
Tyan Computer has announced its latest TyanPSC T-650 series personal supercomputers powered by Intel’s 50-watt quad-core Xeon processors. Tyan targets the TyanPSC T-650 series towards office environments. The new TyanPSC T-650 is a 5-node cluster with 40 CPU cores per system.
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22.3.2007 Super Bowl Virus Spreads
The game's over and patches are available, but many sites are infected with malicious code.
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8.2.2007 SUPER 2008 Build 24
SUPER is a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click.If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file,without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER © is all you need.
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21.1.2008 Office 12 to Feature 'Super Tooltips'
Tooltips, those little yellow popup boxes that provide information on a button or menu option, have become an indispensable part of the modern user interface. Now, Microsoft is looking to extend their usefulness by introducing what it calls "Super Tooltips" in the upcoming release of Office 12.
The next-generation Office suite from Microsoft is already slated to bring a major UI makeover. Standard toolbars have been replaced with task-oriented "Ribbons" that include features pertinent to the current job. But such a change will require a learning curve, which is where the new larger tooltips come in.
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6.12.2005 ViGlance – Windows 7 Super Bar for Windows XP
If you have decided not to upgrade your Windows XP to Windows 7 in the near future and would like to stay back with Windows XP, but on the other hand would like to experience and get a feel on how Windows 7 looks like, here is a good news for you. By having ViGlance installed, you can now enjoy Windows 7 super bar feature on your existing Windows XP based computer without the need of upgrading.
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8.7.2009 Microsoft "super excited" as Office Live passes 100,000 users
According to Internet statistics company, Ipwalk, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft's web hosting, email and collaboration service for small businesses has accumulated more than 100,000 users since its beta launched in February this year, despite several factors limiting the amount of users that have been able to join.
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8.7.2006 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 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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17.10.2007Using Windows Server 2008 as a SUPER workstation OS (Continued)
Vijayshinva Karnure: This is a continuation of my previous post
Using Windows Server 2008 as a
SUPER workstation OS Here are a couple of things I missed in my previous post...
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20.02.2008Built-in Administrator Account Disabled
Darren Canavor, Program
Manager on the UAC team has
made a post on the Windows
Vista Security blog about
changes to the behavior of the
built-in Administrator
account:
“In Windows Vista
we made numerous changes to
our user account model.
Standard users are now the
default user type for new
accounts created after initial
setup. The Power Users group
is effectively deprecated. In
addition, we’ve made it much
easier to run as a standard
user and even administrators
run with limited Windows
privileges and user rights by
default. But people often ask
us, “What about the built-in
administrator account? Isn’t
it a security risk to have an
administrator account with no
password?” Yes, in
some cases this administrator
account could be used to
circumvent other security
mechanisms. For example,
parental controls could not be
effective if the child could
simply login with the built-in
administrator account and do
whatever they want, including
disabling the Parental
Controls.
In
Windows Vista RC1 we will have
completed a series of changes
to disable the built in
administrator account under
most circumstances. These
changes apply to the default
administrator account named
Administrator, which is
created during
setup.”
See full
post at http://blogs.msdn.com/
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29.05.2007Windows XP Common Criteria Administrator Guide 3.0
This guide provides sufficient guidance to allow an administrator to securely operate Windows XP Professional in accordance with the requirements
stated in the Windows 2003/XP Common Criteria (CC) Security Target (ST).
The Windows 2003/XP CC ST, henceforth referred to as the
Windows 2003/XP ST, provides a set of security requirements taken from the CC for Information Technology (IT) Security Evaluation. The Windows XP
Professional product was evaluated against the Windows 2003/XP ST and found to satisfy the ST requirements.
This guide is
targeted at the administrator and provides a description of how to perform the administrative security functions needed to securely operate Windows XP
Professional in accordance with the ST requirements.
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15.09.2008Office 12 to Feature 'Super
Tooltips'
Tooltips, those little yellow
popup boxes that provide
information on a button or
menu option, have become an
indispensable part of the
modern user interface. Now,
Microsoft is looking to extend
their usefulness by
introducing what it calls
"Super Tooltips" in
the upcoming release of Office
12.
Photos:
View images
of the Super Tooltips..
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06.12.2005Study: Some Super Bowl advertisers 'missing the boat'
Reprise Media released results of its fourth annual study on companies' use of search marketing to complement their Super Bowl advertising campaign...
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05.02.2008Twitter administrator account hacked, others compromised
It seems Twitter is still having its share of security trouble, because according to Cnet, a person by the name of Hacker Croll was able to hack into
a Twitter administrator account, by guessing the secret question to reset the administrator's password on a Yahoo e-mail account where the Twitter
password was located. This person was also able to view the details of 10 other accounts including Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher according to
screenshots posted to a French blog site. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said that while no account information was altered or removed in any way,
email address, mobile phone number, and the list of accounts blocked by that user were viewed.
Read full story.....
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02.05.2009Enable Vista's hidden administrator account, and password-protect its equivalent in XP
You probably know about the "hidden" administrator account in Windows XP. It's the only account on XP systems on which no other accounts have been
created. Until you add a new account, you zip right to the desktop when you boot the OS, with no stop at the Welcome screen. Once you set up one or
more new accounts, the default administrator disappears, though you can bring it back in both XP Home and Pro (more on this below).
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13.02.2008Canon wants You at the Super Bowl
Canon U.S.A. Incorporated, the "Official Camera of the NFL" since 1984, has announced the launch of a Super Bowl sweepstakes. An advertisement
promoting the sweepstakes which will award one lucky winner at random (I wish the odds were a tad better than that) a trip for two to Super Bowl XLIII
in Tampa Bay in 2009, will begin appearing on January 14, both online and in print. Canon, the longest-tenured sponsor of the NFL, has lined the
football sidelines for years with both high-definition TV camera lenses and the white lenses used by professional photographers covering the game.
Read full story.....
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14.01.2008NTT DoCoMo Tests Super-Fast Wireless Data
Over the next month, NTT
DoCoMo plans to test a Super
3G, or LTE (long-term
evolution) cellular system
capable of sending data at
300MBps...
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13.07.2007Windows 7: User Account Control (UAC) overview
In part one of our overview of Windows 7, we looked into Federated Search. In part two, we look into the much criticized feature of Windows Vista -
The User Account Control One of the highly criticized features in Windows Vista is the User Account Control(UAC) which prompts up a dialog box
seeking users' permission to continue or stop whenever a system-level change is made. The problem with Vista is that even the default user account
which is created during the install, who is a protected administrator (unlike in XP where the user is an Administrator), could not bypass the UAC
until its tweaked.
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07.01.2009Network Solutions scores with Twitter during Super Bowl
GoDaddy's Super Bowl ads may have gotten predictably saucy, but the response to them on Twitter Sunday night led to something the company couldn't
have been expecting: A win for domain registration arch-competitor Network Solutions...
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03.02.2009Taiwanese MP3 maker charges Apple again with illegal monopoly
Tenacious Taiwanese MP3 player company Luxpro has yet again engaged in litigation with Apple over its Super Tangent (nee Super Shuffle) MP3 player...
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21.10.2008Measuring up Windows 7s new "super" taskbar
Long Zheng: For some users, one hurdle of the new "superbar" is its enormous size, or so it appears. To set the record straight, I conducted a
little side-by-side experiment with two quick-launch items and two active applications on both Vista and Windows 7. Together with a measuring tape in
one hand and a magnifying glass in the other, I counted. Soon enough, I grew impatient and resorted to Photoshop instead. Here's how they measured
up...
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04.01.2009Using Windows Server 2008 as a SUPER workstation OS
Vijayshinva Karnure: Windows Server 2008 is the best OS to be released till date from Microsoft's stable. And the moment I got hold of the RTM build
I could not resist installing it on my workstation. I always prefer running a Server OS on my workstation... I have been running Windows 2003
disguised as XP (with all the themes and stuff) all these days.
So here is my tale of how I went about setting up Windows Server
2008 to look and fell like its desktop counterpart Windows Vista.
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12.02.2008Experimental Super 3G network could reach 300Mbps
Japan-based NTT DoCoMo
announced today that it plans
to begin testing on an
experimental "Super 3G"
system for extra-high-speed
data on mobile devices.
The country's largest
mobile carrier said that it
hopes to achieve an impressive
300Mbps down in its tests over
the wireless network. The
company has already begun
accepting proposals from
suppliers and hopes to
implement the Super 3G system
in Japan by 2009.
The
company said that it planned
to start experimenting with
Super 3G in an indoor setting
with only one transmitting
antenna and one receiving
antenna. From there, NTT
DoCoMo plans to expand the
experiment by using four
Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
(MIMO) antennas on both the
transmitting and receiving
side. The ultimate goal will
be not only to achieve 300Mbps
down but also to look at how
well handovers will be handled
between towers.
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13.07.2007Camera tech behind the Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is one of the largest sporting events on earth. It attracts hundreds of millions of viewers each year and even more dollars will be
spent on advertising. Have you ever wondered what kind of technology is behind the curtains to make it all possible? This year NBC is leaving no
inch of the field uncovered. First off there will be "400 on-site production and engineering personnel" and they have put down over 50 miles of
fiber optic cable. There will be 35 high end Sony cameras using Cannon lenses to make sure every inch of game play is covered. Cameras will be
placed on everything from goal posts to outside the locker-rooms.
Read full story.....
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01.02.2009Super Talent preps super-fast PCIe flash drives
Looks like Fusion-io
won't be the only one with mind-blowingly fast PCI Express solid-state
drives anymore soon. Super Talent
has announced the
RAIDDrive, a similar solution that plugs into a PCI Express 2.0 x8 slot and can purportedly reach sequential speeds of up to 1.2GB/s for reads and
up to 1.3GB/s for writes...
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01.04.2009TiVo Users Love Funny Super
Bowl Ads
TiVo's yearly analysis of the
top Super Bowl commercials
revealed that Ameriquest's
ads "Friendly Skies"
and "That Killed Him"
were the most commonly
replayed ads in TiVo
households Sunday. TiVo said
that its analysis showed that
humorous ads seem to garner
the most attention by its
customers...
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06.02.2006System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Scripting Guide
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is a server application that facilitates the centralized management of a large physical and
virtual system infrastructure.
The Virtual Machine Manager 2007 (VMM) command shell is built on Microsoft Windows PowerShell, an
administrator-focused, interactive command-line shell and scripting language that is integrated into the Windows operating system. VMM commands,
called cmdlets, can be used separately to perform simple administrative tasks, as an alternative to using the VMM Administrator Console. VMM cmdlets
and other command-line elements can also be aggregated into scripts to perform more complex tasks and to automate tasks involving a large number of
managed virtual machines that would be burdensome to perform from the Administrator Console.
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07.11.2007Surface used to coordinate Super Bowl Security
If you've been watching the news this week, you might have caught NFL security VP Milton Ahlerich saying that Raymond James Stadium in Tampa will be
"one the safest locations you can possibly be" during the Super Bowl on Sunday, and it looks like Microsoft Surface will be a big reason why: it's
being used to coordinate security forces around the site.
It's seriously slick -- maps are integrated with planning and voice
communications software so the field commanders can immediately assess incident responses and personnel deployments, with the ability to initiate
radio contact directly from the interface
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