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Vista SP1 Upgrade or Not? Damned Either Way

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I’m wondering how many people out there (on average) have updated their Vista laptops and desktops to SP1 not that it’s been available quite awhile. I have to say - I haven’t updated my laptop yet at all, especially since I read that (despite the initial hype) machines aren’t running faster at all post-upgrade, they’re [...]

Have you seen this Vista Error?

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Ask the Admin had the pic above, and you know come to think of it - I have seen this Vista error (”you do not have permission to view the current permission settings”). How redundant is this? It’s incredibly stupid, I mean this isn’t even “permissions” in the normal sense like read and write. It’s [...]

Windows Vista Laptops Attacked by Stoned Virus from 1994

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This is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard of in a very long time. The Register is reporting that an entire shipment of Windows Vista laptops was possibly infected with the ‘Stoned’ bootsector virus from 1994. These notebooks were shipped with both Vista and Bullguard Antivirus. I CANNOT BELIEVE that neither of these [...]

Vista IE 7 default home page now “Security Settings at Risk”

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Well, a few posts back I? talked about how I had to turn off all security just so I could connect to work using VPN adn IE7.? It’s bad enough that I had to turn off all the security in IE regarding ActiveX stuff…but now every single time open Internet Explorer 7 to do anything [...]

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