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Really, Vista Security Isn’t Lame

MBs Windows Security — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:25:19 GMT

Recently a friend was complaining to me about the “screen flickering” that occurs whenever a User Account Control (UAC) prompt comes up in Vista and he wanted to know how to turn it off—not UAC, just the dimming and flickering effects. He...(read more)

Time for a Windows Cleanup

MBs Windows Security — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:28:02 GMT

I have always been annoyed with the huge number of files under the Windows directory, but I was very surprised when I looked at my Windows directory under Vista: 39,609 files and 7,411 folders! Read More......(read more)

Plagued with Leaky Buckets

MBs Windows Security — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:45:09 GMT

A couple years ago I thought a pond would be a nice addition to an empty space on the side of my old house. I didn’t know anything about constructing ponds at the time but I thought that actually doing it would be a good way to learn. After reading...(read more)

What’s with this WMPUB directory?

MBs Windows Security — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:09:57 GMT

I was recently going through my windows lockdown procedure, cleaning up unnecessary files and noticed that every Windows 2003 Server I own has a wmpub directory in the root of my C drive. The only thing in the directory is an empty subdirectory named...(read more)