Of Interest to All.

[Ted]

This could start something:

 

Who of us have been faced with a difficult computer problem that no-one else seems to know anything about and then feeling on top of the world after managing to find a simple solution?

[unlimited24]

I did :(

 

and what are you planning?

[Maxxwire]

Ted- Reading your post inspired me to give my account of a recent victory over a puzzling internet access problem I was having and HERE is the solution that I came up with along with a link to the free 175 KB diagnostics program that made it all possible.

 

~Maxx~

[Ted]

Hi, unlimited24,

 

I did :(

Care to share it with us?

[Ted]

Hi, Max,

 

Most satisfying, eh?

That looks a snazzy little diagnostic tool. One for the keeper's tool-box.

[Maxxwire]

Ted- Yes you are so right that it is very satisfying to find a 'new to you tool' that solves problems and diagnoses computer security and even more satisfying when the tool is only 175 KB and written in a very potent code which can be run as a Portable App. I carry a copy of the GRC DNS Benchmark Program with me on my A Data XPG Dual Channel 16 GB USB Flash Drive and every time I have used it on someone's computer it has dropped every jaw in the room at how incisive and excruciatingly detailed the program is.

 

~Maxx~

[Ted]

Hi, Max,

 

There are probably scores of such helpful tools that many of us have used and then forgotten until the need arises again. Someone with a similar problem jogs the memory.

[unlimited24]

well when I am faced with a problem I usually try to deal with it myself... since, I know my way around the control panel :p

 

and no particular, note worthy, problem that I can think of right now (I take it programming solutions do not count?!)

[Maxxwire]

Ted- I had a simply horrible time with the annoying UAC prompts in Vista that would come up every time I started a program that is until I discovered that the Comodo Defence+ Hips not only replaces UAC, but does a much better job plus it has the ability to remember your answer so that you only have to answer a prompt once and it is then permanently recorded in the Defense+ policies.

 

~Maxx~

[unlimited24]

MAX - you saying that about UAC makes me glad I stopped using Vista a long time ago.... I mean, even if you turn it off... you still get the stupid messages every time you try to move an inch (metaphoric of course). makes me glad to have swiched over to 7 since the beta build 6xxxx.

[Maxxwire]

MAX - you saying that about UAC makes me glad I stopped using Vista a long time ago....

 

unlimited- It must have been a very long time ago possibly when you were using some early Beta version of Vista because since I shut UAC down I haven't heard anything from it.

 

I was simply trying to point out that a strong HIPS program is a totally superior upgrade to the UAC in Vista and as IT Tech Michael A. Silver of Gartner Technology points out...

 

Windows 7 is basically an incremental release of Windows Vista because Windows 7 is Windows 6.1 to Vista (Windows 6.0), or a Vista Release 2 (R2) if you will.

 

Or as Randall C. Kennedy of InfoWorld wrote in his article "Under the Hood, Windows 7 Is Vista's Twin"...

 

The more I dug into Windows 7, the more I became convinced that I was dealing with an OS that was a slightly tweaked, nearly baked revision of Windows Vista.

 

No one can argue that Win 7 in general along with its UAC aren't an improvement on out of the box unmodified Vista, but it is evident that they both came from the same original prototype and what works as a radical improvement for the the Vista UAC will also work to not only replace, but serve as a substantial security improvement on the UAC in Win 7!!

 

~Maxx~

[unlimited24]

I was just saying... in vista even when turning UAC off it would still pop out... and yes yes... 7 is based on Vista I think everyone managed to understand that :)

[Maxxwire]

I was just saying... in vista even when turning UAC off it would still pop out...

 

Well I must admit that my experience with Vista began with kernel v6.0.6000.16830 so there are at least a year's worth of different iterations of RTM Vista that I am not familiar with and you could have very well has one of those many versions where UAC acted differently than it does in the version that I have.

 

I am sure that Win 7 will be a great success and I say that after going in and stripping Vista to the bone and as a result eliminating 100 MB of RAM use from the kernel and the new Vista UltraLite is now 40% faster and starts for 501 MB at the desktop which is 1/2 of what it did when it was new stock Vista so due to the similarities I cited I am hoping that the just released Win 7 must will have a similar type of potential for radical performance enhancements when I get my new Win 7 desktop computer which will hopefully be in the near future.

 

~Maxx~

[unlimited24]

well i do have a retail version of 7 installed and its such a diffrent from Vista... any version. I also own win Vista 64 bit which i regret buying :(

[Maxxwire]

unlimited24- You are right...Win 7 is much different and will run much more efficiently than any retail version of Vista just as does my Vista v6.0.6000.16830 UltraLite which I put several 100 hours into to get it to boot 45 seconds faster for 501 MB RAM at the desktop and run 40% faster than it did initially. Any MS retail release leaves room for improvement and retail Win 7 has sooooo much of an advantage over retail Vista especially the very early out of the box unmodified versions.

 

~Maxx~