A new 0-day vulnerability has been confirmed yesterday. The vulnerability affects all client and server versions of Microsoft Windows up to and including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Security Advisory 2501696 reveals that the “vulnerability exists due to the way MHTML interprets MIME-formatted requests for content blocks within a document” and that it [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer, Security, Windows

Rumor, rumor, rumors. Microsoft is tight lipped about their upcoming operating system Windows 8 because of the possible impact on Windows 7 sales. What we know about Windows 8 so far is an assortment of indirect official information, from job postings for instance and leaked documents. The majority of news about Windows 8 on the [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

The visual conditions can sometimes be that bad that you can barely read anything on the monitor. That’s for instance the case if you are working with your laptop in broad sunlight outside. Microsoft has built-in a high contrast mode that has been specifically designed for those situations. Users of Windows XP and newer Microsoft [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

I have covered all the basics and then some in our Windows Update overview which I published a few days ago here at Ghacks. What I did not mention in the article in detail were the available configuration settings for Windows Update, and this article exemplifies the available options in the Windows 7 operating system. [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Bloomberg have today written that Microsoft’s apparent new Tablet version of Windows that’s set to be unveiled at CES next month will be a special version running on ARM chips, which is great news for those wanting a low-power tablet device.  The bad news though is that we’re unlikely to see this new version of [...]

Categories: Microsoft

The window header has not changed a lot in the past decade. It still shows the minimize, maximize and close buttons next to the window title. That’s it usually which often leaves lots of white space on the title bar. Extra buttons is a convenient solution that uses the space to add functionality to those [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Computer users who want to buy Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 7 have two choices to make. First they need to decide on the edition of the operating system. At least three different editions are available for retail users, they are: Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate. Windows 7 Home [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

When is a computer idle? A friend of mine asked me that question the other day after playing around with the Windows Task Scheduler for a while. One of the conditions in the Task Scheduler is the on idle condition which executes the given task if the computer has been idle for a given amount [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Every second Tuesday in a month is patch day over at Microsoft. What does it mean? Microsoft pushes out all security patches of a month on that day to all users of their Windows operating systems and other applications like Microsoft Office. Only highly critical vulnerabilities receive out of band security patches. This month’s patch [...]

Categories: Security, Windows