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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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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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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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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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