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Fixing Explorer’s Security Warning Prompts

22-Jun-08

Last week I wrote about avoiding Explorer’s Security Warning prompts, this time around I want to document a related fix that I’ve had to implement because Explorer’s expected behaviour was not just not working.
First a quick background on what we’re trying to solve. By default, Windows Explorer will place network locations (mapped drives and UNC [...]

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Avoiding Explorer’s Security Warning Prompts

12-Jun-08

Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 made some changes to the way Windows handles specific file types opened or downloaded from certain locations, which results in Open File – Security Warning prompts like these:

Quite often users see these prompts in environments where files are opened from UNC paths (think [...]

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Disk Usage Display Improvement In Windows Vista

28-May-08

I’ve stumbled across a nice usability improvement in Windows Vista that had escaped me until today - the display of free disk space. Of course this feature has been in Windows Explorer since Windows 95, but the improvement in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is the reporting of disk space when a drive is [...]

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Troubleshooting Windows Vista Performance KBs

19-May-08

To get the best out of Windows requires the wipe and load approach when confronted with a slow performing OEM install. I’m working on a post to that effect and Ed Bott has some great articles on Windows Vista performance lately (not that I think I’m in Ed Bott’s league).
Windows’ greatest strength and weakness is [...]

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