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 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 Microsoft Kicks Windows Vista Diagnostics and Recovery Up a Notch
The TechEd IT Forum 2007 in Barcelona, Spain, was the stage where Microsoft kicked the Windows Vista diagnostics and recovery up a notch.
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13.11.2007 Vista to Windows 7 Upgrades Kill Access to OEM Recovery Applications
Users that upgrade Windows Vista OEM computers to Windows 7 might find that the recovery applications set in place by the original equipment manufacturer are no longer accessible.
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9.10.2009 Vista Recovery Command Prompt
As good as the recovery console in is Windows-it really aint that secure at all. Did you know that the Command Prompt tool found in Vista’s System Recovery Options doesn’t require a User Name or Password? And that the Command Prompt provides Administrator level access to the hard drive? For multiple versions of Windows? All you need is a Vista Install DVD and you’re all set to go.
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18.6.2007 Vista SP1: Create a recovery disc
One of the new administrative tools Windows Vista Service Pack 1 provides is the ability to create a recovery disc. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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1.10.2007 Introducing Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)
The Windows Recovery Environment (aka Windows RE aka WinRE) team would use this blog to share information, tricks and tips about WinRE with support professionals and end-users of Windows.
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18.9.2006 Download Windows 7 System Recovery Disc
Most of the users are impressed with Microsoft latest operating system Windows 7 thanks to aggressive marketing by Microsoft.
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14.10.2009 Download Windows 7 System Recovery Discs
With Windows 7 released and currently making its way to shelves in time for the holiday season, we've taken this opportunity to upgrade our copy of the official Windows System Recovery Discs for compatibility with Windows 7.
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16.10.2009 OpenOffice Password Recovery
Thanks to pacpis for this news in our forum. OpenOffice Password Recovery is an "all-in-one" solution for effective recovery of passwords to open OpenOffice documents and instant removal of any type of document protection.
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23.4.2007 Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible
In a rare discussion on the severity of the Windows malware scourge, a Microsoft security official said businesses should consider investing in an automated process to wipe hard drives and reinstall operating systems as a practical way to recover from malware infestation.
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4.4.2006 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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27.11.2007 Windows Vista Wow! Forget about Vista SP1, XP SP3 and Windows 7!
That's it, forget about Windows XP Service Pack 3, about Windows 7, the next iteration of Windows and even about Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
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1.2.2008 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 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 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 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 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 Microsoft Makes Its Own: 32-bit Windows Vista vs. 64-bit Windows Vista
With Windows Vista, Microsoft delivered both the 32-bit and 64-bit flavors concomitantly, a first for the company, whose Windows XP x64 Professional (April, 2005) was launched one year after Windows XP SP2 (August 2005) and four after the initial 32-bit Windows XP (2001).
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8.1.2008 Microsoft: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP – Definitely Vista!
As far as Microsoft is concerned there is only one choice possible in terms of desktop clients. But Windows Vista is also the clear option over Windows XP when it comes down to the Redmond company's preferred operating system for mobile PCs.
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6.9.2007 Genuine Windows Vista vs. Pirated Windows Vista
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Essentially there is absolutely no difference between a genuine and pirated copy of Windows Vista in terms of functionality. Sure, there is a very good chance that the counterfeit version of the operating system would contain malicious code and that the user experience would be gravely diminished because the fabric of the platform has been tampered with in the cracking process.
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12.9.2007 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 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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10.6.2009Windows Vista Recovery Disc Download
If you're like most PC users, you got Windows Vista with a new PC or laptop. And if you're like 99% of the population, you get your new machine
from one of the major manufacturers. Dell, Acer, HP, Toshiba, Lenovo, all have one thing in common: they don't give you a real Windows Vista
installation disc with your purchase. Instead, they bundle what they call a "recovery disc" (that's if you're lucky - otherwise you'll have a
recovery partition instead).
It doesn't matter that you just paid a thousand dollars for a machine that comes with a
valid Windows Vista license - they just don't want to spend the money (or perhaps take on the responsibility) of giving you a Windows Vista
installation DVD to accompany your expensive purchase.
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19.01.2008Windows Recovery Environment
A new team blog has been
opened on the Microsoft
Developer Network, talking
this time about a derivative
product of Windows'
Preinstallation Environment
(WinPE), called WinRE (Windows
Recovery Environment).
The recovery platform
features two important
advancements, an automatic
diagnosis and repair of boot
problems, and a centralized
platform for advanced recovery
tools. WinRE is only available
in Windows Vista and is
intended as a replacement to
Windows XP's old recovery
console. The feature is
already available into Windows
Vista RC1 DVDs and OEM may
also include it preinstalled
in some machines' hard drive.
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19.09.2006Recover "Create a recovery disc" on Vista SP1 RTM
Long Zheng: During the betas, one of the few new functionality Windows Vista Service Pack 1 added was the ability to
create a Windows recovery CD with an easy-to-use GUI interface. Up and
until then, it was slightly harder but still possible to do so through a command line.
Whilst all Vista install DVDs include the
recovery functionality natively, it’s probably useful to burn yourself a spare copy to take with you. You can also
download an ISO from NeoSmart.net but you might not have bandwidth to
spare...
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24.03.2008Download: Windows Vista x64 Recovery Disc
NeoSmart: Ever since we
first made available the Windows Vista
Recovery Disc for download back in January, we've been inundated with requests for
an
x64-compatible version. Flash-forward to three months later, and it's finally here!
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08.04.2008Windows 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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22.10.2007How 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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26.09.2008Automated System Recovery (ASR) in Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1
Automated System Recovery or ASR as it is more commonly known is the Windows API set to capture the configuration of disks and volumes on a system and
restore them in bare metal recovery scenarios. During such recoveries, backup applications (requesters) invoke ASR to restore the disks and volumes
prior to putting back the operating system, applications and data.
For the purpose of bare metal recovery scenarios, the disks
and volumes in a system can be divided into two broad categories “ critical and non-critical. Critical volumes are those containing system state or
operating system components and include the boot and system volumes. A volume containing the Active Directory database on a domain controller is also
an example of a critical volume. Critical disks as youve likely guessed are those that contain critical volumes.
Once the
operating system and data have been put back, requesters may perform more recovery operations after the system is booted into the restored operating
system.
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12.02.2008Gmail 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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20.01.2006Windows Vista Makes Backup and
Recovery Simple
Columnist Mitch Tulloch
explains the new and improved
backup and restore
capabilities in Windows Vista...
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15.08.2006Vista SP1: Create a recovery disc
Long Zheng: One of the new administrative tools
Windows Vista
Service Pack 1 provides is the ability to create a recovery disc. At first, the name might fool you into thinking the
type of discs system manufacturers provide to you when you purchase a new
computer to restore your computer to a factory state, but this is not that. A more appropriate name would be śWindows repair discť.
To be blunt, this tool creates merely a slimmed-down Windows installation disc. It takes a normal Windows installation disc image and strips out
all the śinstallationť functionality leaving only the repair tools and common system files.
What a lot of people dont know (or
need to know) is that their Windows Vista DVDs are in fact running
Windows PE, an extremely lightweight version of Windows that can be booted from removable media for the purpose of system
maintenance. Up until now, creating a Windows PE image was not an easy task. This tool basically simplifies it down to just two clicks.
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29.09.2007Windows 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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29.08.2007IBM enters the data protection and recovery business
IBM today filled a hole in its storage product line-up by buying FilesX, a rising star in the category of continuous data protection (CDP) and data
recovery software for Windows...
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11.04.2008Best Buy Accused of Software
Piracy
System recovery software maker
Winternals said Wednesday that
it had been granted a
temporary restraining order
over alleged copyright
infringement by Best Buy and
its Geek Squad subsidiary.
Winternals claims the retailer
has been using pirated and
unlicensed copies of its
Windows recovery software...
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12.04.2006Windows recovery loophole lets hackers in
Windows Vista may be
Microsoft's most secure
operating system to date, but
researchers are still finding
some glaring loopholes for
hackers to exploit. Here is
the latest: all you need is a
Vista Install DVD to get admin
level access to a hard drive.
The loophole arises
because the Command Prompt
tool in Vista's System
Recovery Options fails to
request user name or passwords
before handing over access to
PCs running the operating
system.
The hack,
discovered by security
researcher Kimmo Rousku, only
works locally. Physical access
to a target PC is a must. Even
so, the potential for mischief
(such as deleting directories
or copying files on targeted
PCs) is enormous. Hackers
don't even necessarily need
to run a DVD. "Its easy to
create a bootable USB flash
memory that works in a similar
way," Rousku notes. ..
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13.06.2007Vista 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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05.06.2006Expect crash recovery features in new IE8 builds
Late Wednesday, a Microsoft spokesperson told BetaNews that a TechEd session in Orlando today summarized some of Internet Explorer 8's key new
features for administrators, one of them being crash recovery...
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12.06.2008Source: Vista downgrade rights extended to July 2009
Never mind that Microsoft has kicked off a hyped ad campaign to convince the public to buy Windows Vista PCs, - it's also given users more time to
switch back to Windows XP.
OEMs have been given an additional six months to sell PCs running Windows Vista with the ability to
downgrade to Windows XP using an accompanying recovery disc...
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03.10.2008Watching the stimulus at work
It's not through Congress yet, but if and when the new stimulus package is ratified, it'll be one of the first items to get the new transparency
treatment. The White House has reserved and posted a preliminary message on recovery.gov encouraging visitors to "check back after the passage of
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to see how and where your tax dollars are spent."..
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29.01.2009The Human Face of Technology: Using Information Technology to Manage Disaster Response
Microsoft disaster recovery team aids in response and recovery during times of crisis, when information becomes almost as precious as life itself...
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04.06.2008New version of the compatibility, reliability, and stability update for Windows Vista
This update improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista. This update includes the following improvements:
- It extends the battery life for mobile devices.
- It improves the stability of portable computers and of desktop computers that
use an uninterruptable power supply (UPS).
- It improves the reliability of Windows Vista when you open the menu of a startup application.
- It improves the stability of wireless network services.
- It shortens the startup time of Windows Vista by using a better timing
structure.
- It shortens the recovery time after Windows Vista experiences a period of inactivity.
- It shortens the recovery time when
you try to exit the Photos screen saver.
- It improves the stability of Windows PowerShell.
This update also resolves the following issues
in Windows Vista:
- A compatibility issue that affects some third-party antivirus software applications.
- A reliability issue that
occurs when a Windows Vista-based computer uses certain network driver configurations.
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