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Archive for the ‘Windows Vista’ Category

November 20th, 2008

Internal E-mails Spotlight Buck Passing at Microsoft

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November 7th, 2008

Did You Know About Microsoft Scraps

Image: Screen grab by Jason Bean
I just found out about a little feature of Microsoft Word that I never knew before today.
Where you aware of a feature and file type called a "scrap"?
The file doesn’t even have an extension. It’s just part of the shell command features.
What it lets you do though is […]

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October 23rd, 2008

Critical Security Update Released - All Windows Versions at Risk

Microsoft has released an out of band security update due to a vulnerability in the code that could remote execution of code on Windows machines. According to the bulletin I received all versions of Windows are vulnerable and should be updated immediately.
This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Server service. The vulnerability […]

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October 23rd, 2008

Is Microsoft Honestly Ignoring Vista

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I really do enjoy the PC vs. Mac TV commercials. I think they’re extremely creative and entertaining. I don’t feel they are exactly based on facts or research though.
The one above for instance implies that Microsoft is spending only a fraction of their money into actually […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

September 4th, 2008

Vote for Windows Vista Weblog

Milo Riano over at Windows Vista Weblog has been entered into a contest for best Windows Vista blog from The WinVista Club.
Take a minute and go show some support for him and the work he’s doing over at Windows Vista Weblog in keeping us up-to-date and educated on the latest news and functionality available in […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

September 2nd, 2008

Some Virus Issues to Work Through Tonight

I got a call from my mother-in-law this evening. Seems she came home this afternoon and her computer had completely wigged out on some trojan spyware junk. Loads of alert balloon messages and porn icons and quarantined trojan files alerts from her installed anti-virus. She’s running Windows Vista.
As you can see from the screen […]

By Jason Bean -- 4 comments

August 22nd, 2008

The Mojave Experiment – Have You Been Tested?

Have you heard about the Mojave Experiment?
Welcome to the "Mojave Experiment." What do people think of Windows Vista when they don’t know it’s Windows Vista? We disguised Windows Vista as codename "Mojave," the "next Microsoft OS," so regular people who’ve never used Windows Vista could see what it can do - and decide for […]

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August 20th, 2008

Fixing Stubborn Security Issues in Vista – Part 2

Continuing from my previous issues on security settings in Vista, here’s the follow-up.
Today my mother-in-law instant messaged me and said that when she tried to click on a link in her email in Outlook, it would give her an error.
This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions effect on this computer. Please contact your system […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

August 20th, 2008

Fixing Stubborn Security Issues in Vista – Part 1

I’ve had some new errors pop-up for me the past couple of days on my mother-in-law’s computer. She’s got a Sony VAIO desktop and is running Windows Vista.
She said that anytime she’d try to print something from the Internet, the Print Preview would display the HTML source for the page instead of the web page […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

July 22nd, 2008

What’s That Noise? The Sound of Windows Desktop Search Sucking

It could be that I’m just missing something but I’ve yet to ever actually find anything with Windows Desktop Search. Remember the days when you could just do a search for any file of a particular type by using a wildcard like the “ * “ in the search?
Can you not do that with Windows […]

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