Tweak Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC)

De fleste er efterhånden nok bekendte med muligheden for at slå UAC helt fra. Dette medfører at man ikke længere bliver mødt af disse irriterende sikkerhedsrelaterede pop-ups om at højne det administrative niveau. Dette bevirker desværre også samtidig at man mindsker sikkerhedsniveauet på Pc'en.

Der er nu lavet et lille gratis program som giver mulighed for at fintune UAC'en. Det hedder TweakUAC.

Det der er smart med TweakUAC er at du, udover at kunne slå UAC'en helt fra på en nem måde, også kan vælge noget de kalder "quiet mode".

"Quiet mode" er smart, det slår ikke UAC'en helt fra. Alle dine programmer vil stadig køre med standard bruger rettigheder, men du vil ikke længere (som administrator) blive mødt af alle disse irriterende sikkerhedsrelaterede pop-ups.

Standard brugere vil ikke mærke nogen ændringer når man anvender "Quiet mode", de vil stadig blive promtet.

Du kan hente programmet her.

Hvordan installerer man Windows Vista?

Hvordan installerer man Windows Vista?
Jeg har samlet lidt forskellige links til installationsmanualer/vejledninger/videocasts:

Windows Vista Installation Screencast - a video installation guide published by Long Zheng on his blog. It shows how to make an installation of Windows Vista on a clean system. All the waiting times have been cut from the video and it shows only the important steps of the installation procedure. This is why the video has a duration of only 2 minutes and 53 seconds.

How to Install Windows Vista - this is another video installation guide, published by PC World Magazine. It features additional commentary and information compared to Long Zheng's screencast.

Install Windows Vista in a dual-boot configuration along with Windows XP - if you want to experiment with Windows Vista until you get comfortable with it, then having a dual-boot configuration might be a great idea. This tutorial published by TechRepublic guides you through all the required steps. This way, you can always reboot your system to Windows XP when you are having trouble with Windows Vista.

How to triple-boot Windows XP, Vista, and Ubuntu - if you would like to try out Linux without having to give up Windows, the Lifehacker staff published the perfect guide for you. In this tutorial they show you how to install Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux on a system that already has Windows XP installed.

Setting Up Vista Ultimate on a RAID Array - the nice people from Legit Reviews published a complete tutorial showing how to set up and install Windows Vista Ultimate on an Intel Core 2 Duo system using RAID 0. If you have a new system with SATA hard drives, reading this guide will prove to be very useful.

Install Windows Vista from a high speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive - if you have a high speed USB 2.0 flash drive you can use it to speed up your Windows Vista installation. Kurt Shintaku (a Microsoft employee) describes how to copy the installation files on your USB 2.0 flash drive and use it for your Windows Vista installs.

Install Windows XP in a Dual Boot with Pre-installed Windows Vista - most of the dual-boot installation guides that can be found on the internet show you how to install Windows Vista on a system that has Windows XP installed. This one shows you what to do if you have Windows Vista pre-installed on your new computer and you want to create a dual boot with Windows XP.

How to dual boot Vista and XP (with Vista installed first) -- the step-by-step guide - this is another good tutorial describing how to create a dual-boot configuration when you already have Windows Vista installed and you want to have Windows XP as well.

April 2007 Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista.

Microsoft har her i april frigivet en større samlet opdatering til Media Center for Windows Vista. Opdateringen indeholder en del forbedringer og fejlrettelser.
Se detaljer nedenfor (teksten er taget fra Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 932818):

Platform:
Windows Vista Home Premium
Windows Vista Ultimate

Download Sites:
Windows Update
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
Windows Download Center
Windows Vista
Windows Vista for x64-based Systems

Hotfix replacement information
This is a cumulative update and replaces the following updates:

• 929011 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929011/) Windows Media Center does not correctly configure a combo TV tuner that supports both ATSC and NTSC signals on a Windows Vista-based computer
• 932753 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932753/) When you resize the Windows Media Center window in Windows Vista, video playback may stop

Issues that are resolved by this update
In addition to the fixes that are contained in the updates that are listed in the "Hotfix replacement information" section, the April 2007 Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista resolves the following issues:

• The video may appear to freeze when the movie begins in some DVDs.
• When you rotate a picture during a slide show in Windows Media Center, the wrong photo may be rotated.
• The cover art for recorded TV movies may not appear in the DVD library view.
• When you delete a picture in Windows Media Center, you may receive an error message that resembles the following:AUDIO ERROR. The Url contains one or more invalid characters.
• When you try to play a DVD by using Autoplay, you may receive an error message that resembles the following:Tuner not installed

Improvements in this update

• Online Media support has been added for Windows Media Center on 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate.
• Video Playlist support has been added for Windows Media Center Extenders
• Improvements have been made to Online Media caching.

Information for Windows Media Center Extenders
Windows Media Center Extenders, such as the Microsoft Xbox 360, use network ports to communicate over the network to computers that are running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate. This cumulative update contains updates to Media Center programs that may have been previously configured as "approved" or "allowed" by a third-party firewall. If you use a third-party firewall, you may have to manually update your firewall to let the new versions of these programs access the ports. If you do not perform these firewall updates, you may experience failures when you try to connect the Windows Media Center Extender to the Media Center computer.

Gendan slettede filer

Recuva er et gratis Windows program som giver mulighed for at gendanne slettede filer. Dette inkluderer naturligvis også filer slettet fra skraldespanden og filer som er forsvundet i forbindelse med evt. computer nedbrud.

Programmet supporterer alle versioner inkl. Vista (hvilket er grunden til at det bliver nævnt her). Installationsfilen fylder kun 200KB og tager ikke særlig mange ressourcer.

Programmet er meget enkelt at anvende:

1) Start programmet og vælg drevet hvor de slettede filer lå og tryk på Scan-knappen. Recuva vil nu scanne det valgte drev og vise en liste over de filer som programmet har en mulighed for at gendanne.

2) Vælg de filer ud som du ønsker gendannet og tryk på Recover-knappen. Programmet vil nu spørge dig hvilket drev du ønsker filerne gendannet til og starte gendannelsesprocessen.

Du kan hente programmet her.

HTC introducerer en ny mobil enhed med Vista

HTC Shift hedder den nye enhed der lanceres i 3. hvartal i år. Den vil bestå af en 7" skærm med tastatur, se nærmere specifikationer nedenfor:

7-inch widescreen display
30-gigabyte hard drive
QWERTY keyboard
Microsoft Vista Business OS
Windows Media Player 11
Tri-Band UMTS/HSDPA
Quad-Band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0

Du kan læse mere om den nye mobile enhed her.