Microsoft developer Long Zheng, author of the blog istartedsomething, on Friday posted a proof-of-concept for the vulnerability in the Windows 7 beta, and said it stemmed from Microsoft's efforts to ...

Last week, Microsoft bloggers Long Zheng and Rafael Rivera published simple proof-of-concept code that automatically disables UAC in Windows 7 without any user interaction. On Wednesday, Zheng and ...

I have been away for a few weeks and the system was left shut down. I started it up, and black screen with mouse cursor is all I have. Shut down and logged in as admin - that works fine. Then changed ...

According to an ars technica source (who has no track record with insider knowledge), Windows 7 pricing will start at $200 and grow from there. UDPATE: ars has retracted this story. • Windows 7 ...

I recently setup a new Windows 7 computer for a non-techie user. As part of the initial tweaking, I created both a restricted (called a “standard” user in Windows 7) user and an Administrator user. As ...

Running a Windows computer as a restricted/limited/standard user is much like exercising and eating green vegetables; it’s the right thing to do, but not enough people do it. In large part, I feel ...