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Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) has a Group Policy setting that determines which publishers are to be considered trusted when launching connections (typically .rdp files served in various ways). The publisher is identified by the SHA1 thumbprint of the certificate of the publisher (the certificate used to sign the .rdp file). You get the thumbprint from …
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A new tool is being offered through Windows Update; the System Update Readiness (SUR) Tool. It is designed to help diagnose and fix issues that are preventing Windows updates or Service Packs from installing correctly. According to the documentation it is only offered to systems that are experiencing one of the conditions that the tool …
I’ve got to handle it to Oracle; their virtualization software VirtualBox is amazing…and free! It’s features surpass Windows Virtual PC by leaps and are on par with VMWare Workstation. Lately I have been using it for all my host-based virtualization needs. I am in the process of setting up a new computer and part of …
Introduction Windows 7 has a new framework; the Windows Sensor and Location Platform. In short it is a system that enables the OS to utilize different sensors; e.g. a GPS device to track your location, a light sensor to dynamically adjust your screen brightness based on the ambient lighting, an accelerometer to use for games …
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