October 2006 - Posts
The first major obstacle to testing an application for compatibility on Windows Vista is to actually get that software installed, and there are still some challenges remaining in achieving this. One of the issues that has popped up is with deferred custom
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I ran into this issue working with a hardware manufacturer working on updating their drivers for use on Windows Vista. You may already know that you can uninstall a device directly within the Device Manager. You can simply right click and select uninstall.
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Windows has included securable objects for quite some time now, but Windows Vista adds a new concept: Mandatory Integrity Control. You can read a detailed description here ; in essence, in addition to requiring a particular SID to access a secured resource,
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One new feature in Windows Vista that makes a number of visual effects possible is the Desktop Window Manager. The DWM works through composition. Rather than rendering directly to the screen, applications render to their own off-screen bitmap. The DWM
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User Account Control (UAC) on Windows Vista changes the paradigm of being an administrator on a Microsoft Windows operating system. Rather than wielding full administrative privileges all of the time, the token is "split" and there are two of them. If
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