Microsoft has released an out-of-band security update for the Windows operating system that fixes a number of security vulnerabilities in the Microsoft .NET Framework. The vulnerability affects all 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows that receive security updates, and the following versions of the Microsoft .NET Framework: Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.5 Service Pack [...]

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Microsoft’s .NET Framework has become an integral part of the Windows operating system. Windows 7 for instance ships with the .NET Framework 3.5, which means that users can run applications that require this version of the framework, or an older version like the .Net Framework 3.0. Sometimes things are not working as they are intended [...]

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The Microsoft .net Framework is a software framework that can be installed on Windows computer systems. Some Microsoft operating systems come preinstalled with a version of the .net Framework. This is for instance the case with Windows 7 which comes with Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 or Windows Vista which ships with the .net Framework 3.0. [...]

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The Microsoft .net Framework is being used by a wide variety of software applications. Microsoft made the decision to provide the different .net Framework versions as separate installations. This effectively means that someone who installs the Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 on his computer will automatically install the previous .net Framework versions as well for backward [...]

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We have covered the Wikipedia Screensaver in the past which displayed and rotated through random Wikipedia pages. Some users did not like the randomness of the screensaver which could bring up inappropriate content on the computer screen. The Wikiquote Screensaver makes use of yet another Wikipedia site but gives the user more control over what [...]

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I lately tried to uninstall the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0 from my system only to find out that I could not do it. The uninstallation program told me that other applications installed on my computer were depending on that Microsoft .net Framework 2.0 and Microsoft was displaying the link http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=91126 to a Microsoft support page [...]

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My system felt a bit sluggish after starting the installation of a new application and a quick check of the task manager revealed a process named mscorsvw.exe that was running on my system using nearly 40% of my CPU. I never heard about that file before and a quick check on the Internet revealed that [...]

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It feels like I’m updating my computer every day in the last weeks. Microsoft issued yet another two security patches for Internet Explorer and the .net framework that can be downloaded from Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-040 – Critical and Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-024 – Critical. Both security patches are updated to patches that had been [...]

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