13 November 2006
Microsoft: Turn off Vista's UAC to fix problems
Be prepared to turn off Vista's new UAC to fix problems when Vista is released. Touted as one of the best security features's of Vista, it will leave a lot of users thinking that it causes more problems than it solves.
16 October 2006
Vista's Hidden Gems #1 - The Snipping Tool
by 1 otherThis is the first in a series of posts about some of the hidden features that you probably haven’t heard mentioned anywhere else. First up, the snipping tool, which is used to grab screenshots and save them to common image formats.
03 October 2006
Vista Feature Focus: Date & Time
Part 2 in a series of featurettes focusing on some of the nice, small changes you can expect to see in Windows Vista. In this part we take an in-depth look at the date & time applet.
30 September 2006
25 September 2006
Vista's UAC Falls Short of Promises
"The main goal of User Account Control is to reduce the exposure and attack surface of the operating system by requiring that all users run in standard user mode..."
It all sounds good, but there are two fundamental flaws with the way it has been implemented in Vista.
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