I am looking forward to make an application complaint to the Windows VIsta
Software Logo Spec 1.1.
Till now an administrative user always had full access to the registry. Now
with UAC, write access to most parts of the registry needs to be requested. I

I have read about WRP in Windows Vista but I still need to find a way to
replace
a version of ir50_32.dll which exists in C:\Windows\System32 folder with a
different version in order to run some products.

Hi ..
Is there any way to restore/repair the default permissions state on Vista RC2?

Security Center reports firewall is off. Options to turn it on are grayed out
and it says Group Policy is controlling my settings. Why, I am not on a
domain? I'm connected to my home wireless network. Perhaps I don't really
need the firewall behind a router, but it was on last ...

1 - Tune-Up has a schedule setting but no On/Off that I can find.  Is there one?
2 - Tune-Up did a defrag on all three of my drives "C", "D" and "E".  Is there a way to prevent
this - to have it only defrag a selected drive?  My "C" drive is my working drive and I have XP
pro on ...

How does one enable BitLocker with TPM and a PIN?
I just went through the setup and could only do TPM only.

I am now using PGP desktop on XP. I do not encrypt the complete disk, I use
the virtual disk option (ie: folder).
I do not need or want to encrypt the entire disk. I only want a folder and
it's sub-folders encrypted. I also only want to open this folder when I need

I'm looking for Windows Vista Security Guide draft, but I don't have
permission to get it at Windows Connect.
Where can I obtain it? Could you send me a copy of it?
Do you know other documments about Windows Vista security?

Are we stuck with the new Vista login screen, where you have the last user
automatically displayed, or you select to choose another user?
This seems very longwinded, and as I work in a school the last user account
will simply be locked out after multiple login attempts.  We use Xp ...

from the start:
i have a laptop and it was sent off for repairs. i took out the hard
drive before sending it off as i told them i need the files for work.
so, i then connected it to an external drive holder which was acessible

If you want to add a bit of security to your Vista system AND have another
Windows OS installed, I'd recommend installing the other Windows OS onto a
Fat32 partition. This way if someone else uses your computer and you don't
want them to use Vista, or they don't want to use Vista ...

I've got an app I need to modifiy that's written in C# VS2005/.NET 2.0 which
is dsigned to ONLY run when the logged in user has administrator privileges.
At one point it needs to delete a HKLM\Software\... registry value if it
has, in fact, created it. So there is a method that ...

does anybody know, has a link or whitepaper containing information
about the rights to read and modify the registry in windows vista?
I want to know the rules in case of my application running in normal and
administrative mode.

I was referred to this group because the people on the scripting/IE
groups thought I'd have better luck here.
I need to identify if IE7 is running in protected mode on Vista so my
web page can help the user (in a user friendly way) add my site to their

Hi,
I have a problem in launching an application through my service. I am
trying to launch e. g. update.exe through my service. The update.exe has a
UI. The UI should displayed on the current desktop. But the update.exe has to