Windows Vista

By Corrine(noreply@blogger.com) It was some months ago when Scot Finnie announced Online Armor as <a href="http://blog.scotsnewsletter.com/2008/03/24/the-best-firewall-software-of-2008-online-armor/">The Best Firewall Software of 2008</a>. Online Armor just got better! V...

By Corrine(noreply@blogger.com) If you’re encountering application failures, operating system faults, or Stop errors in Windows Vista, you could have defective or failing RAM. Microsoft included the Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool in Windows Vista so that you can test the RAM chips in your system.

By Corrine Monday, May 26, 2008 Fixing Windows Vista File Associations One of the most viewed Security Garden pages is Ad-Watch Setting Can Kill .LNK and .EXE File Extensions. Although published in 2006, it still receives a dozen or more hits daily. That being the case, I can only suspect that users are s...

By Corrine Monday, May 26, 2008 Windows Vista Compatible Firewalls It has been a while since I checked the list of Vista compatible firewalls at Matousec. The list has grown considerably longer. More importantly, many more vendors have added 64 Bit support. I took the time this afternoon to update Vis...

By Corrine Now that Ed Bott has completed his five-part series on "Fixing Windows Vista", the series has been incorporated in Windows Vista Bookmarks. My favorite of the series is Part 4: Get smart about services. It is another example of Ed coming out against the tide. As always, not only does Ed provid...

By Corrine Friday, June 06, 2008 Norton 2008 Fix for XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1 Symantec has addressed the issues customers using Norton 2008 have experienced when installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 or Windows Vista Service Pack 1. If you are using Norton 2008, please see FAQ: Upgrading to Window...

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Windows Firewall Tutorial Addition The Vista Security Features bookmark page has been updated to include a new tutorial by Vista4Beginners how to use the built in firewall in Windows Vista. Unlike the firewall introduced with Windows XP SP2, the Windows Vista fir...

By noreply@blogger.com (Corrine) Is Windows Vista more susceptible to malware than Windows 2000? I do not believe that it is and neither does Austin Wilson and members of the Microsoft security team. Austin explains why Microsoft rejects that claim in Windows Vista and Malware.

By Corrine Wednesday, February 13, 2008 Windows Vista SP1 Prerequisites Delivered If you have been following the information being provided on the release of Windows Vista SP1, you should have noticed that there are prerequisites that Microsoft indicated would be made available via Windows Up...

Sunday, February 24, 2008 Windows Vista SP1 Update Information KB937287 -- "configuring updates stage 3 of 3. 0% complete" A few people have run into a problem after installing KB937287, of the pre-requisite updates for SP1. The solution for this issue is available in KB949358. If you have...

By Corrine Remember - "A day without laughter is a day wasted." May the wind sing to you and the sun rise in your heart... Computer security news & information, help, tips and more, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

By Corrine Concurrent with working on the beta Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Vista, Microsoft is preparing Service Pack 3 (SP3), Microsoft released an overview of SP 3 for the Windows XP operating system. The paper is available in PDF or XPS format from the link below the description:

By Corrine Here's a great tip via Josh at Windows Connected: Join the fun at Windows Connected. I'm connected, are you? Computer security news & information, help, tips and more, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Vista and Kodak EASYSHARE Printers Not long ago I wrote about the new Kodak EASYSHARE Printers, particularly the Kodak EasyShare 5300 All-in-One Printer that I saw demonstrated. I had been having problems with the old deskjet printer I got when I bought the Windows 95 machine quite some y...

By Corrine I am still experimenting as well as discovering "must have" files from my old XP box. My first reaction, however, is that Windows Vista is much more intuitive than previous Windows operating systems. So far, I like it a lot! Computer security news & information, help, tips and more from...

By Corrine No Windows Vista bookmark update would be complete without checking to see what Joe has been up to at ITsVISTA. Sure enough, I found a posting by Joe describing a "little utility that turns off Vista's Speech Recognition (SR) after a few minutes with no activity." This sounds like a useful to...

By Corrine Last month I added Donna's tutorial, “Vista’s Windows Firewall with Advanced Security” to Windows Vista Bookmarks. Donna's tutorial includes illustrated instructions on how to create an outbound rule for Windows Vista Firewall.

By Corrine Please note, however, that the preview version is an pre-release and, thus, unsupported. If Windows DreamScene Preview is installed, go to Windows Update and "Check for updates". The Content Pack is listed as an Ultimate Extra. Windows Vista Bookmarks, Customizing Vista, has been updat...

By Corrine Windows Vista RTM FAQ and Quick Start Guide - March 2007 Edition While you are at Windows Vista User Guide, check out the collection of Windows Vista Screenshots, a gallery of all the applications within Windows Vista Windows Vista Customizations Desktop Wallpaper

By Corrine Important for Vista Users -- WGA Activation Issues Having just finished reading a series of articles by Ed Bott's Microsoft Report regarding Vista WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) problems, I am hoping others will spread the word to Vista users to install update 931573, described in Mi...

Windows Live OneCare Failed VB100 Test In a report by BetaNews, it was indicated that a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that Windows Live OneCare antivirus failed a test conducted by Virus Bulletin. Windows Vista Business Edition was the operating system used in the test. The BetaNews...

By Security Garden Microsoft Websites: Internet Explorer 7 MSDN Office 2007 TechNet Windows Vista Home Microsoft Windows Vista Blogs: Windows Vista Team Blog Windows Vista Security Windows Ultimate Windows Vista Gadgets, Tips, and More: ActiveWin Vista Review Free Vista Drivers IE-Vista TweakVist...