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I delayed adding the three-part "Windows Calendar" tutorial preapred by Vista4Beginners because I had not decided on the bookmark category to place the links. Now that I have created the new Windows Mail page, it occurred to me that calendar would be a nice accompanyment. As a result, the new bookmark...
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http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=8199&pagtype=all http://www.beyondtrust.com/company/PressReleases/05March2007.aspx Apparently a company called 'BeyondTrust' has created a program called Privilege Manager that might actually be the only somewhat helpful and viable 3rd party...
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Today over at Channel9 my friend Chris Corio and UAC architect John Schwartz have an in depth look at User Account Control for Windows Vista. If you really want a good understainding of how this technology work then you should watch the entire video.
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The press has been having a field day with headlines like this one due to a recent post by Mark Russinovich which explains how UAC and its integrity levels (user rights separation) work, among other things. The part of the post that people grabbed onto was his statement that 'It should be clear then...
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Anyone that has used Windows Vista at all will be familiar with User Account Control (UAC) prompts. The bulk of these you will see during initial setup of your machine, typically during installation of new software but occasionally during management of your machine. If you see one of these that does...
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This week Microsoft furthered its commitment to the Standard User desktop by releasing the Standard User Analyzer . This tool is designed primarily for developers to help them understand when their applications are using Administrator privileges. Chris Corio, one of the UAC Program Managers, announced...
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Microsoft early this morning released an early copy of Windows Vista 5381 to its Connect web site for beta testers. This build is the bulid they are driving towards Windows Vista Beta 2, as reported by a number of sites. This means that the build number for Beta 2 will probably have the same major version...
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The User Account Control (UAC) team is responsible for some of the most important security features coming in Windows Vista and they have graciously agreed to answer many of your questions here with us. WindowsConnected - Hi, Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us. WindowsConnected...
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One of the big concerns of anyone considering moving to Windows Vista is “How many of my applications will work on Windows Vista?” We have spent a lot of time trying to answer that very question for our company so I will share with you some of the common problem areas we found for applications to help...
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Ok, so yesterday I vented a little bit of my frustration with people disabling UAP , but I think some of the reason that so many people are disabling it is because they simply don’t know how to accomplish some of the things that they used to be able to do in Windows XP. So today, I am going to cover...
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Lately in the newsgroups for the Windows Vista beta and a number of different online forums people are disabling one of the key pillars of Windows Vista’s increased security, UAC (User Account Control) formerly UAP (User Account Protection). This is really rubbing me the wrong way as it is ultimately...