by wwarren | Oct 31, 2009 | Microsoft, Security, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
I was presenting a seminar on data encryption and security and I got caught now knowing some commercial FDE products other than what is built into Vista and 7. As per my word here are some vendors I would reccomend simply based on either their security reputation or...
by wwarren | Oct 24, 2009 | Microsoft, Windows, Windows 7
Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows: Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media. You can get a family pack of Windows 7 Home premium upgrade which includes 3 licenses here. Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media It was the final unanswered question about...
by wwarren | Oct 14, 2009 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Windows
A user on the smallbizserver.net forums had an sbs server crash and had to restore it. Instead of reinstalling then manually installing(like i did in an earlier post) he leveraged the VHD’s to restore directly form the backups(something sbs seems to have a hard...
by wwarren | Sep 10, 2009 | Microsoft, Security, Security Alerts, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
Microsoft Confirms SMB2 Flaw, Heightens Severity By Ryan Naraine Microsoft has issued a formal security advisory to confirm the remote reboot flaw in its implementation of the SMB2 protocol, going a step further to warn that a successful attack could lead to remote...
by wwarren | Sep 8, 2009 | Microsoft, Open Source, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
How to Run Vista Sidebar in 32-bit Mode on 64-bit Vista. I’ve been running 64-bit Vista for some time now and for the most part it has been a very good experience. Today I was attempting to install a 3rd party sidebar gadget recommended to me by a friend, only to...
by wwarren | Aug 27, 2009 | Apple, Open Source, Windows 7
I found this in a google search since i was having issues. There is a working solution for iTunes 8.2 x64 in combination with Windows 7 x64 and the iPod Shuffle. You will only have to follow the described steps a SINGLE time. Once you did that, you’ll be able to...