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I thought I’d seen just about every dumb thing that a developer could do, but this latest one from MSI is a whopper..
I have an MSI Wind netbook that’s having some shutdown and sleep issues when running Windows 7, so my first thought was to ensure I was running the latest BIOS version. For some [...]
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Here’s a few articles that I’ve been reading recently and I thought it might be worthwhile sharing them:
Kevin Reeuwijk has an article on integrating App-V 4.5 with SCCM 2007 R2, but shows us how to get the best of both worlds - How to integrate App-V with SCCM without losing the features you care about.
Mark Wilson [...]
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Even though I log onto my domain machine with a standard user account, I’ve been prompted by UAC to elevate when running Registry Editor. After putting up with it for a couple of months, I finally got around to doing something to fix it today.
To see what was going on I used Process Explorer to [...]
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Here’s a great example of the improvements to interaction with User Account Control in Windows Vista Service Pack -creating folders in system locations (e.g. the Start Menu, Program Files etc.). This is probably the most ‘in your face’ UAC interaction, and beyond this I’ve personally found UAC to be quite usable.
With the release version of [...]
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TweakVI is a tweaking and “optimisation” application from Totalidea that is essentially a front end for a large number of registry settings that you can enable or disable to change the behaviour of features in Windows Vista. The application is mainly aimed at power users but I would assume that some slightly less power users [...]
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Here’s a key I’d like to see on new keyboards for Windows Vista – the Elevate Key. I’ve don’t know how it would work exactly – you would still be prompted for credentials and perhaps it could elevate the currently selected shortcut or the application in focus (can you elevate an already running process?), but [...]
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This one is in reply to Long’s post, but to be fair I know he’s all for UAC. Windows Vista finally introduces some real security improvements to the Windows operating system that have been long overdue. The product is still in beta, however people are already up in arms about how ‘intrusive’ UAC is. Why [...]
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