It was widely reported last week that Microsoft had automatically updated systems that had Automatic Updates set to "Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them". Nate Clinton, a Windows...
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Our customers have a lot of questions about OneCare activation and want to know exactly what it is all about. We commonly hear feedback from customers who say that activation is only for the...
There is a well known Windows Vista Upgrade secret in the IT community. In this article I talk about it and the possible legal implications! Please take this article "as-is" I provide no warranty of...
Windows Vista comes in several different incarnations. But essentially there are two pathways -- the home user and the business user. However, at the very top of the pile is the Windows Vista...
There have been a few articles floating around on the Internet since we released the private beta of Windows Server 2003 SP2 a couple of weeks ago. To remove any mystery or speculation about...
Thanks Scott Cate for the email alert for some new Knowledge Base articles that Microsoft have posted over the weekend. Below are two that we might find interesting; The following KB Alert applies...
If you were at the PDC last fall you might have heard about Monad. That's the code-name for a new command shell. Jason Nadal, on his blog, said he was "blown away" by what he...
Confused about Longhorn? Want to know what the various code names mean? Avalon/Indigo/Aero/WinFS/WinFX, be confused no more. I've posted 4 guides (most of which are from MS) documenting the answers to the questions...
Learn more about Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB): new security technology for the Microsoft Windows platform. Explore the resources on this page to discover how NGSCB can help create a more trustworthy computing environment....
Planet3dnow.de have posted an In-depth guide that takes a look at the AGP 3.0 specifications! Here's a snip. AGP 3.0 is the third generation of accelerated graphics for the Intel-compatible computers...
Greetings fellow Neowinians. I've put up an article that our kind friend, Frogboy wrote on Visual Styles. I hope you would find this to be resourceful and remember, we always welcome guest writers so feel...
Hey! as you all know we are on a new Dedicated server all by ourselves :D but we have been seeing some serious downtimes in the last week since we moved on there including...
There has been alot of speculation as to what caused our downtime, I am posting this to end that speculation. We experienced database errors when we moved to the new server. Moving an mysql database...
