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Monday, January 21, 2008 12:15 AM

KB946932: Disabling UAC Prompt for certain apps. Not that useful...

When I found a reference earlier today to this interesting KB I thought " wow, maybe I can finally get rid of the UAC prompts on my gaming PC " (I won't remove them from the development PC under any circumnstance), so I've just finished...
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:31 PM

Dark color themes support on Windows

All my friends know that my favourite color is black. I wear black, my iPod is black, my phone is black... And of course both my Vista Aero and Office 2007 are in black color :) But recently my friend Lobo666 sent me his "Darkness theme", which...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:24 PM

Fighting with Windows XP

Last night, after coming early home I decided to install Windows XP Professional 64, to play the (growing) list of Vista-incompatible games and to not need to tweak DirectX (after Crysis , I've lost my faith in DirectX 10, it just slows down any game...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:52 PM

Tweaking the Crysis SinglePlayer PC demo

Now that the so expected Crysis SP demo is available , I've already finished it but, until the game cames out, I'll replay and fine-tune it as much as possible. Being one of the big "Vista & DirectX 10" showcases, I was eager to...
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Saturday, October 13, 2007 2:26 PM

Filespots: A Vista-like Virtual Drive

This week I've been a bit busy, and with the deadly spree of FPS that have been released (I finally got Halo 3, plus Half-Life 2 Episode 2 + Portal, Quake Wars Enemy Territory, Call of Duty 4 demo, and Unreal Tournament 3 demo...) it's going to...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:13 PM

Tweaking Firefox

Today I'm a bit tired so the selected topic is "Tweaking", in this case the Firefox browser. Firefox is my favourite browser, but sometimes it takes too much RAM (more than 150 MB), and as I'm a bit maniac about computer performance...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 1:54 PM

Vista vs XP security (for laptops) SANS Paper

The SANS Institute has published an interesting paper about Vista vs XP SP2 security features for laptop users. The paper compares existing (and improved) features and the new features added in vista (like Bitlocker or UAC). It is interesting to read...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 1:15 AM

Summer == Less posts

Lately my posting frecuency has decreased, but it'll never stop ;) The reasons are multiple: It's summer, and in Madrid it means hot, hot, hot (we're getting nearly 40 degrees celsius some days!). And what better to combat hot temperatures...
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Sunday, July 22, 2007 2:06 PM

New book review: Writing Secure code for Windows Vista

Getting to work again on computers related stuff, I've done a new book review, which you can read at the Book Reviews section .
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 9:18 PM

ExitWindowsEx not working with Windows XP if computer is locked

Just a quick post of a problem I addressed today while finishing my current assignment. I used the ExitWindowsEx() API call to logoff the user (with the force close flag). In Vista it worked without any problem, logging out the user whenever he was using...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:31 PM

Quick tips for developing under Windows Vista

Now that I'm having quite a lot of development (and fighting with the OS) under Vista, here you are some quick tips that will help you a lot to develop efficiently with Visual Studio 2005. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7...
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 8:57 PM

WinSxS under XP: WTF?!

<FuriousMode> I've recently posted about WinSxS under Vista. But today I had to do some tests in a Windows XP machine... and what a surprise to find that XP doesn't have any tracing tool (sxstrace.exe precisely)!!! Are you MS guys nuts? You "fix...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 3:29 AM

Vista & Windows Side by Side Assemblies

Now almost everyone knows at least what Vista's UAC is. But not many people know what Windows Side by Side Assemblies (aka WinSxS ) are. Side by Side Assemblies are Microsoft's attempt to evade the DLL hell Windows terror (DLLs currently in use, overriding...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:33 PM

XNA & XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 Refresh

Yesterday I finally installed XNA Game Studio under Vista... and today comes the 1.0 Refresh. Someone did it on purpose :D Anyway, here it is (at last), Windows Vista fully supported, 3D Audio and sharing of binaries (currently just between developers...
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Monday, April 23, 2007 9:09 PM

Sensationalist News & Tergiversation

It's curious how even in internet "the news" manipulate and tergiversate information to make it more interesting, dramatic, or like in this example, worse than really is. Let's take a news post from The Register (a sensationalist site which from time...
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