I've been trying back and forth to get CS-RCS Pro , a version control suite, to work on Windows Vista. I like CS-RCS Pro for a number of reasons: Files stored in CS-RCS Pro are kept in a simple format, open and well-documented. As a result, if I ever have to move away from CS-RCS Pro (say, for instance...
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 portion of a system-wide and company-wide approach...
Over the last several days, I've been getting more and more requests for my updated Wireless PC Lock software that I described way back last year . Possibly, it's because of stories like this one : At New York-based Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young, the security department confiscates...
In fact, it is very rarely Vista, from the problems I've seen. Sure, there are some programs that rely on features and functionality that has been removed from Vista - but by and large, that functionality was already documented by Microsoft as being 'deprecated' or 'obsolete'. [Some...
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 Data Streams. This was added, I think, to support...
A long time ago, the developer of a competing product to my own WFTPD Pro decided that he was going to do something about GPFs in his software. He released a new version, and declared that you would never see another GPF from his software. How did he achieve this? His entire main processing loop was...
That's a great way to ruin a message that several of us have been trying to push for several years - the suggestion here is that you should be an administrator because some of the things that you may want to do might require administrative privilege. That's like suggesting you should turn up for your...
In an article " Microsoft Now Decides to Accept Outside Security for Vista ", the Washington Post says that Microsoft "did an about-face", "agreeing to make it easier for customers of its forthcoming Vista operating system to use outside security vendors, such as those who make popular antivirus and...
Much press has been made lately about the complaints by McAfee and Symantec that they have been locked out of modifying the Windows Vista x64 kernel through the closure of undocumented back-doors that they used to use. (Sadly, none of what either company has said seems to carry any technical explanation...