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Mark Russinovich – Inside Windows 7 User Account Control
In this post, I’ll cover the motivations behind UAC’s technologies, revisit the relationship between UAC and security, describe the two new modes, and explain how exactly auto-elevation works. Note that the information in this post reflects the behavior of the Windows 7 release candidate, which is different in several ways from the beta.
Twice delayed, Fedora 11 is out. I hope to be able to give it a shot this weekend.
More info and download links at the Fedora Home Page. Also see the links at Distrowatch.
Updates available for, well, darn near everything.
As DooGie had told us about, PerfectDisk build 110 is out. Here is the statement from the PerfectDisk blog:
PerfectDisk 10 Build 110 is now available. Various bugs have been fixed, a couple of which I wanted to specifically point out. We addressed a boot time defrag problem on Intel, multi-core, X64 processors running Vista SP2 or Windows Server 2008 SP2. Microsoft introduced this possible crash with Vista/2008 SP2 and has corrected it for Windows 7, but will not be fixing it for Vista or Windows Server 2008. So we created a workaround. We also made a workaround for the latest version of Safeboot, which introduced a problem for PerfectDisk users.
Update from within the program.
I’ve spent the last few weeks updating the following guides in preparation for Windows 7 guides. There has been a lot of cleanup, clarifications, and several additions. As the name intimates the XP guide will not be revised again. The Vista guide may follow the same fate. I’ve never been shy about the fact that I did not like Vista. Those who are using Windows 7 know that it will probably leave Vista as just a bad memory. Once 7 comes out I will not have any Vista computers left (only 1 left now). At any rate, I hope you enjoy these guides and that they may be of some help to you.
TweakHound’s Super XP Tweaking Guide – SP3 Final
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The Right Way To Install Windows XP
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Tweaking Windows Vista
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Installing Windows Vista
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iTunes 8.2 now supports iPhone or iPod touch with the iPhone 3.0 Software Update.
iTunes 8.2 also includes many accessibility improvements and bug fixes.
Download iTunes
see also, Ed Bott – Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installer
Version History v2.20.920
– Added support for Google Chrome recently closed tabs.
– Disabled removal of most recent System restore point.
– Fixed bug with Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View settings.
– Improved uninstaller support for Windows 7.
– Enhanced right-click menu options for Cleaner screen tree.
– Added extra information under title for Options and Tools screens.
– Added right-click menu to Registry screen tree.
– Added support to multi-select items in Include, Exclude and System Restore screens.
– Added language support for Estonian and Farsi.
– Internal 64-bit improvements.
– Minor bug fixes.
PerfectDisk 10 has been updated to build 108. Update from within the program.
For those who don’t use PerfectDisk, there is a 25% discount available. From the email I received:
Get 25% Off All PerfectDisk 10 Products
Our prices have never been lower for all PerfectDisk 10 products. Purchase or upgrade by May 31, 2009. Simply add any PerfectDisk product(s) to your cart and enter coupon code PDSUMMER25 during checkout to receive 25% off any licenses.
PerfectDisk Store is here.
Click the link below for the list of fixes for build 108.
[Read more…] about PerfectDisk 10 Updated
The service pack cleanup tool has been renamed for SP2. The command is now compcln.exe.
Run this command from the command line. After running this command you WILL NOT be able to uninstall SP2.
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 has been released to the general public. These downloads contain both Vista SP2 and Server 2008 SP2.
These should appear via Windows Update today.
*edit 14:26 (EST) – It is on Windows Update now. I’m downloading it and installing on my last Vista machine (all others that had Vista are on Windows 7 now). My download (x64) is 567.3 MB.
“Service Pack 1 is a prerequisite for installing Service Pack 2.”
Downloads:
Windows Vista SP2 (x86)
Windows Vista SP2 (x64)
Windows Vista SP2 Five Language Standalone DVD ISO
Notable Changes in Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2