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Windows 8: roadmaps

mvalk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:20:34 +0000

Windows 7 is just out, and we are talking about version 8 already.

He also quoted someone who said:
”Working on Hyper-V features for Win8 in the Platform and Management Extendability team, which is part of the Windows Core OS Kernel Group”

Quick search on who that could be.

hmmmmmmm…. (Senior Program Manager –Windows Hyper-V)

Which Windows 7 is right for you

mvalk — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:43:18 +0000

A nice chart summing up al the differences between the Windows 7 versions.

Original source: here (and that one was based on a table from wikipedia)

Windows 7 Federated Search

mvalk — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:57:20 +0000

wow, this is nice.

Windows 7 Federated Search.
This Federated Search will change the scope of your search beyond your Computer. You can now search for items in remote repositories from your PC. It is based on OpenSearch and the RSS format. Since it is based on open standards, it becomes very simple to create custom ‘search connectors’ for your own remote repositories. For example, you can search Flickr or Twitter from within explorer.
Here are some search connectors.

I even created one for my own site , you can download it here

IE8 Security Warning HTTPS content

mvalk — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:54:33 +0000

Since I upgraded to IE8, I’ve been a bit annoyed with the this security warning:

It states: “Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely”. The first time I just pressed Yes, by pressing [Enter] on my keyboard (without reading the warning correctly), which obviously rendered me a incomplete page.

Note to Steve Balmer:
Why change this button press behavior Microsoft, just to let us read dialogs? It will cost time every time we have to read such a dialog, and as you know.. time is money

Since then the warning came up a few times. So I’ve you want to disable this warning the change this:
in IE8, go to [Tools], [internet options] , [security] , [custom level]
and change [display mixed content] to “enable”

Settings will take effect after a restart of IE.

*edit after comment
I’m not saying that you should disable the warning. If you find it annoying, you can disable it.
The “old” dialog was different:

As you can see, this is the other way around. The changed it.
What you do with it is your choice.

How to clear the Windows Stored Credentials Cache

mvalk — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:26:52 +0000

With th ecommand: rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr, you wil open up the Stored Credentials Cache of Windows.

You can now clear your stored credentials with this tool.

Note: this only works in Windows XP and (presumably) earlier (vista isn’t tested). See comments.