March 13, 2009 4:38 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
KB958960,
KB960224,
MS09-006,
MS09-007,
MS09-008,
Patch Tuesday,
Windows UpdateTuesday, March 10, was the second Tuesday of the month, the day colloquially known to MS system administrators and security mavens as "Patch Tuesday." Here's a smorgasbord of the items that showed up in the list of 3/10/2009 items with relevance for Windows Vista:
March 9, 2009 8:50 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Acronis Disk Partition Manager,
backup disk partition,
boot manager,
copy disk partition,
create disk partition,
EASEUS Partition Master,
Enterprise Vista,
gparted,
merge disk partition,
Paragon Partition Manager,
Partition Magic,
partition mangement,
Vista boot manager,
Vista Disk Management utility,
Vista troubleshooting,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista boot manager,
Windows Vista troubleshootingIf the care and feeding of your Vista systems is anything like mine, from time to time there's just no getting away from messing with disk partitions. For me, that means one of several activities gets underway:
- Migrating a notebook or desktop user from a smaller drive to a larger one,...
March 6, 2009 8:51 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise Vista,
Fiasco 2009 Award,
Fiasco award,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista troubleshootingGosh, I love writing headlines because they can say so much and so little at the same time. Today's blog makes a terrific case in point. It refers to the recent Fiasco award for 2009, chosen by an anonymous Fiasco Awards Team, which was in turn sponsored by the Catalan Association of...
March 4, 2009 4:18 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise Vista,
enterprise Vista desktop,
Windows Vista SP2,
Windows Vista SP2 RC,
Windows Vista SP2 release candidateVisit the Microsoft Download Center today (March 4, 2009) and you'll see numerous Windows Server 2008/Windows Vista SP2 downloads available there, all of which posted on 3/3/2009. When I visited the page in the morning, here's what...
March 2, 2009 4:15 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
delete protected Vista files,
Enterprise desktop,
Enterprise Vista,
enterprise Windows Vista,
Secunia,
Secunia CSI,
Secunia NSI,
Secunia PSI,
WinPE Bootable UFDNow that I've been running Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) on my Vista machines for about three months I'm starting to learn a little about this program's behavior. Last Friday, Secunia notified users about an important...
February 27, 2009 5:08 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise desktop,
Enterprise Vista,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista deployment,
Windows Vista SP2,
Windows Vista SP2 RC,
Windows Vista SP2 release candidateOn Wednesday, February 25, Brandon LeBlanc, Windows Communications Manager for the Windows Client Communications Team, posted information to...
February 25, 2009 4:30 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise desktop,
Enterprise Vista,
IE 8,
IE 8 beta 2,
IE 8 deployment,
IE8,
Windows Internet Explorer 8One of my best sources for leaked info from Microsoft continues to be Malaysian-based site TechARP. Today's blog is based on some recent reportage from them about the upcoming Internet Explorer 8 release. The latest date for release to...
February 23, 2009 5:36 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
beta SP2,
Enterprise Vista,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista SP1,
Windows Vista SP2Last week, Microsoft an RC (Release Candidate) build for Windows Vista/Server 2008 SP2 through the Microsoft Connect program to a select group of pre-qualified beta testers. According to Mary Jo Foley's ZDNet coverage on this topic, the latest build number...
February 20, 2009 5:48 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise desktop,
Vista enterprise desktop,
Windows Vista boot UFD,
Windows Vista repair,
Windows Vista troubleshooting,
WinPE,
WinREIf you've ever messed with the Windows Vista Recovery Environment you know it's helpful, but it can take quite a while for it to appear on-screen on a machine in need of repair or recovery. In fact, the functionality behind this display is a WinPE-based facility that's bundled with the Windows...
