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  • Chris Jackson is an Architect and the Technical Lead for the Windows Application Experience SWAT Team.

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August 2008 - Posts

What is the TrustedInstaller Entity You See in Windows Vista?
A question came up in one of the comments asking me to please define TrustedInstaller. I've talked about it before a few times, but I've never gone through and dug through the implementation in a visible way. Time to change that - and we can do so with Read More...
How Long Can the Command Line Argument Be for a Shim on Windows Vista?
I had a comment come up on an earlier post : "FYI, I've hit a limitation with CorrectFilePaths - the maximum amount of data that can be entered in the parameter field is 512 bytes - not enough to fix more than 2 files under "Program Files" unfortunately..." Read More...
Getting (Some) Virtualization Data from the Internet Explorer Compatibility Test Tool
If you run the Internet Explorer Compatibility Evaluator on Windows Vista, you get back some data when an ActiveX control tries to write to a file that a standard user used to be able to write to. However, that data doesn't show up when you are using Read More...
TechReady 7 Recap
8-Aug-2008: Added details on my abbreviations (per comment) 7-Aug-2008: Updated to fit the table into the width of the column for web readers... ...And I'm back. I've been conspicuously absent for a while because I was furiously preparing for TechReady Read More...
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