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Windows 7 on Windows XP Machine
Jun 7th
Thanks to Sun Microsystem’s VirtualBox I can run both Windows XP and Windows 7 (Release Candidate) on my Windows XP machine with a 2.4GHz Athlon CPU and 2GB of RAM. Naturally, its not the fastest running setup mainly due to RAM, but its really cool for me. I wanted to check out Windows 7 first-hand and I didn’t feel like figuring out how to partition my laptop’s hard disk into partitions to allow Windows 7 to be run along-side Windows Vista or by overwriting it.
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Microsoft DirectX Vulnerability
May 31st
A bit about Microsoft Security Advisory 971778, Vulnerability in Microsoft DirectShow Could Allow Remote Code Execution (does not apply to Windows Vista, Server 2008 and Windows 7).
According to what I’ve read there is a vulnerability being exploited in Microsoft DirectX’s DirectShow in the form of a specially crafted Quicktime Movie. I don’t suspect any foul play on Microsoft’s part, but I find it very interesting that the vulnerability affects a Microsoft competitor, and that the fix is to disable movie playback on that competitor’s video product.
READ: Microsoft Security Advisory 971778
FIX: KB Article 971778 – has a Microsoft Fix it button to do the leg work for you
READ MORE: ZDNet’s Article on Dangerous Microsoft DirectX vulnerability under attack
Disk Defrag for Windows – Auslogics Disk Defrag
Nov 5th
Written for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista/2008 Server and FREE I find Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.5.19.330 is a great addition to Windows Disk Defrag, which I’m told is not the best. The only thing I don’t like (I have v 1.4) are the integrated advertisements for Auslogics BoostSpeed 4 for $29.95.
Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.4 lets me set up whether or not to remove temporary files first, whether or not to display removalbe drives (USB drives etc) and I can select the level of CPU usage (Low, Normal, High Highest) which allows me to set faster ro slower speed depending upon whether or not I’ll be using the computer while defragging.
Run Windows Update in Firefox!
Sep 17th
I only use Internet Explorer when I must, and that may change since I’ve read How to run Microsoft Update using Firefox on PCTips Box. After finding out I didn’t have to use Internet Explorer (IE) to run Windows Update (and possibly other sites that refuse to work in anything besides IE) I immediately went to Firefox Add-ons’ IE Tab page . As of this post they have downloadable versions of IE Tab for Firefox 1.5 through 3.
I installed it and restarted Firefox, went to google and searched Windows Update then right-clicked the link and selected the “Open Link in IE Tab” and tried it out right away. Windows Update ran flawlessly – well not really, but it only did the normal silly stuff it does in IE like warnign me to install the Critical Updates for Windows XP when none are available.
Get IE Tab!
