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Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:54 PM

Password-protecting Compressed Folders in Windows XP

During a conversation today, a colleague of mine pointed out something that I didn't know:  A Compressed Folder in Windows XP can be protected with a password.  Like many of you, I've been using XP for years, and yet I somehow missed this. 
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Friday, September 28, 2007 4:45 PM

Virus Scanners and ASP.NET apps don't always mix

In a previous post , I talked about Alternate Data Streams and how some virus-scanning engines use them for tracking purposes. When this happens, the file is changed. It doesn't matter that the "real" data hasn't changed. The system still knows that a
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 5:00 PM

Alternate Data Streams

I want to recap a topic that has been around for a while: Alternate Data Streams. This topic has resurfaced again in an interesting way. I'm going to tell you about it in later post. However, I thought I'd explain Alternate Data Streams again, just in
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Friday, August 10, 2007 9:58 AM

Is 32-bit Windows coming to a end?

Bill Laing has been quoted as saying that “Windows Server 2008 would be the last 32-bit Microsoft server operating system.” Apparently, Windows Server 2008 R2 will be 64-bit only. However, the story for the desktop may be different. Alex Heaton says "A
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