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When Vista denies you access to “your” files…

For my work I have two desktops and a laptop I always bring with me, and  despite all the online synchronization tools out there ( SkyDrive , FolderShare , Groove , Mesh etc…) I’m used to SyncToy to keep my important files and folders updated across Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:21 PM by carloc | 1 Comments

Share Favorites across different users on the same machine

If you have a dual boot machine like me (I installed Vista and Windows 2008 on one of my desktops in office) and you’re tired of synchronizing your Favorite folders like I was, here’s a quick trick: open the registry editor (as usual be careful!) Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:33 PM by carloc | 1 Comments
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Need to print from a x64 machine? Can you wait 60 seconds?

I guess some of you might have developed a web application which, among other functionalities, prints some kind of report; and sooner or later you might consider to move the application to a 64 bit machine. At this is what this customer did. They had Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:33 PM by carloc | 1 Comments

SyncToy not working on Vista x64?

I've been using SyncToy for quite a few months to keep in sync some folders between my laptop and the other two machines I have in office, and it always worked just great for me (I know, I should be using Groove instead but I'm not happy to have services Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:35 PM by carloc | 3 Comments

Process on Vista: Administrator or user?

This is an easy (and maybe already known) one for this hot summer day: how can you know if a process on Vista is running as ad Administrator or as a user? Process Explorer will tell you:   Carlo Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 1:45 PM by carloc | 0 Comments
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Avoid UAC prompt in IE component

Wow, this has been a tough one I closed this afternoon. The customer has developed a custom IE toolbar to interact with their portal, and found that when running this on Vista, IE displayed a warning dialog asking the user's consent to run an external Read More...
Posted Friday, June 22, 2007 10:45 PM by carloc | 11 Comments

Security bug in Vista recovery console? Well... not quite...

My colleague Feliciano Intini (Chief Security Advisor here at Microsoft Italy) just pointed me to his post were he comments about a news which is (re)spreading across the web about a security hole in the recovery console in Windows Vista: if you can read Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:32 PM by carloc | 4 Comments

It's raining Beta3 :-)

If a picture is better than 1000 words, what about a 3 minutes video? Lot of new stuff is coming for web developers: take a look, smile and download And here is a post about what's new in IIS7 on this release.   Cheers Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:18 AM by carloc | 0 Comments
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Vista and CHM

Now I understand why I have troubles viewing the electronic MSDN Magazine , have a look at this post from Chris Crowe... But I have to say that usually when I'm in that condition, expanding the content tree on the left and clicking on another topic solves Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:32 PM by carloc | 0 Comments
 
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