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It was widely reported last week that Microsoft had automatically updated systems that had Automatic Updates set to "Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them". Nate Clinton, a Windows...

Steven Parker · Sep 20, 2007 · Hot! with 39 comments

Our customers have a lot of questions about OneCare activation and want to know exactly what it is all about. We commonly hear feedback from customers who say that activation is only for the...

· May 26, 2007 · Hot! with 22 comments

There is a well known Windows Vista Upgrade secret in the IT community. In this article I talk about it and the possible legal implications! Please take this article "as-is" I provide no warranty of...

Steven Parker · Feb 15, 2007 · Hot! with 27 comments

Windows Vista comes in several different incarnations. But essentially there are two pathways -- the home user and the business user. However, at the very top of the pile is the Windows Vista...

Brad Wardell · Jan 10, 2007 · Hot! with 44 comments

There have been a few articles floating around on the Internet since we released the private beta of Windows Server 2003 SP2 a couple of weeks ago. To remove any mystery or speculation about...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Aug 2, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

Thanks Scott Cate for the email alert for some new Knowledge Base articles that Microsoft have posted over the weekend. Below are two that we might find interesting; The following KB Alert applies...

Steven Parker · May 30, 2005 with -1 comments

If you were at the PDC last fall you might have heard about Monad. That's the code-name for a new command shell. Jason Nadal, on his blog, said he was "blown away" by what he...

· Oct 16, 2004 with -1 comments

Confused about Longhorn? Want to know what the various code names mean? Avalon/Indigo/Aero/WinFS/WinFX, be confused no more. I've posted 4 guides (most of which are from MS) documenting the answers to the questions...

Tom Warren · Oct 29, 2003 with -1 comments

Learn more about Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB): new security technology for the Microsoft Windows platform. Explore the resources on this page to discover how NGSCB can help create a more trustworthy computing environment....

Tom Warren · Jun 6, 2003 with -1 comments

Planet3dnow.de have posted an In-depth guide that takes a look at the AGP 3.0 specifications! Here's a snip. AGP 3.0 is the third generation of accelerated graphics for the Intel-compatible computers...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Oct 10, 2002 with -1 comments

Greetings fellow Neowinians. I've put up an article that our kind friend, Frogboy wrote on Visual Styles. I hope you would find this to be resourceful and remember, we always welcome guest writers so feel...

· Oct 3, 2002 with -1 comments

Hey! as you all know we are on a new Dedicated server all by ourselves :D but we have been seeing some serious downtimes in the last week since we moved on there including...

Steven Parker · Dec 23, 2001 with -1 comments

There has been alot of speculation as to what caused our downtime, I am posting this to end that speculation. We experienced database errors when we moved to the new server. Moving an mysql database...

Steven Parker · Sep 9, 2001 with -1 comments

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