(Vista Vitals articles organized by topic)
These articles cover anything related to Windows Explorer. This includes File Copying, launching programs, UAC, navigation, etc. :
UAC: Microsoft Programs act weird - a little warning about Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer & Outlook.
Vista copies files like a duck - Mark Russinovich provides excellent details regarding the file copy process and how it has changed for Vista and again for Vista SP1. A must read.
UAC: Elevate Windows Explorer - Ever tried to launch Windows Explorer with Run as Administrator and fail? Find out why.
Quick Command Prompt - talks about a shortcut for opening CMD windows directly in any folder using Windows Explorer shift-context-menu.
Windows Explorer: Magic file deletions - a warning about Windows Explorer's surprising handling of attempted deletions of open files. Scary behavior you should be aware of.
Wrapup and retool - This is my wrapup to my Vista articles. I finally get around to delivering my punch line about Windows Explorer.
As an IT consultant, I have been devoting 2007/2008 to a Microsoft Windows Vista implementation for a large enterprise client. Here, I detail solutions to technical hurdles I have encountered. I discuss implementation choices and approaches. More recently this has become a diary of my adventure into Linux.
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- I have been an IT consultant to the federal government for the past 13 years. I am a generalist who has done some application development and a lot of scripting, AD design, network management and systems implementation.
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May
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- Who needs COFEE!?
- COFEE
- That darn desktop cleanup wizard
- Better Desktop.ini support please!
- More DRM woes for Vista users
- Microsoft's Springboard series
- Vista copies files like a duck
- Topic: Windows Explorer
- Windows XP SP3 deployment not going so well
- UAC: Microsoft Programs act weird
- Topic: Folders & Folder Redirection
- Topic: User Account Control (UAC)
- Topic: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)
- Topic: Miscellaneous
- Topic: In Other News
- Topic: Vista Humor
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Vista folders links:
- Great DESKTOP.INI Documentation and Utilities (pre-Vista, but still applies)
- Having trouble with Vista remembering folder settings? - This is the link for you!
- Losing track of where Windows stores everything? - The shell folders are your answer
- The most detailed and complete description of Vista's Offline Files feature
- Unable to multi-select files or folders in Explorer? - Here's the fix
- Vista Offline Files details brought to you by the Vista development team
Vista miscellaneous links
- 4sysops: A very intelligent blog about Windows administration (he has beaten me to the punch a lot in the past)
- A great forum that talks about Vista customization
- Impressive Vista FAQs by John Barnett, a Microsoft MVP
- Looking for some fast answers? Try the VistaHelp.ca forums
- Some good Vista information over at Maximum PC Guides
- VistaNews has some good tech articles