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Why complain about UAC prompts?

Jesper's article in TechNet Magazine on the purpose and future of UAC in Windows Vista and beyond reminded me that there's a whole slew of behaviours more annoying than UAC's prompting (which, as Jesper points out, is only the most visible...

Alternate Data Streams in Windows Vista

Windows NT 3.1 was released ... oh, back in the early to mid '90s. Ever since then, I've been aware that it supported Alternate Data Streams, also known as ADS, or in some technical documents that didn't make it to final review, Alternative...

ReadyBoost - swap space on a stick.

So, I've finally upgraded my laptop from Windows XP SP2 to Windows Vista. The upgrade process itself took over three hours - the first fifteen minutes of which was basically me uninstalling the applications that the Vista installation told me would interfere...