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We may witness history, as Windows XP can become the most longevive operating system as long as Microsoft won’t have any problem to reanimate it from time to time. Actually, I’m sure Microsoft isn’t too happy about it but you can’t force Vista forever and preloaded Vista systems won’t stop a XP installation, ever.
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It seems that Microsoft kept their words and released the Vista Service Pack 2 Beta for the public. This build comes with a series of small speed improvements, bug fixes and security updates. The Windows Vista SP2 Beta upgrade also comes with notable changes
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We can’t say we didn’t expected that and personally, I’m surprised it happened now. While still the dominant software company, Microsoft started to lose ground for the Windows OS and people are more attracted to other platforms, such as Mac or Linux. Microsoft has Windows 7 in its sleeve, but nobody can predict at this point how much will Windows 7 repair what Vista collapsed.
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You may have noticed that when your Windows is downloading updates and fixes, upon booting, it will not login into your account automatically. The cause of this ‘problem’ is most often the .NET Framework installation that adds an additional user account called ASPNET. If you want to check it out, you can browse to your “Control Panel > User Accounts” .
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If you are a fan of the uptime command present within Linux or you are a heavy multimedia 24/7 download freak, you should know your current system up time. What is the system up time you ask? Well, shortly, the system up time shows you how long your system has been online. Surely you can brag or do contests with your friends, but we’ll keep this aspect for another time.
This question popped in our heads many times in the past and for some, it’s still an enigma. So, I will try to clarify what is svchost.exe, what’s used for and why in some occasions it eats your CPU.
What is svchost.exe?
According to Microsoft, “svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries” or, in plain English, svchost.exe is a system program that is needed by Windows to launch other programs that cannot be run without being hosted (thus the generic host process).
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Microsoft developed this tool specifically to deal with the increased number of SQL Injection attacks towards websites hosted on Windows server platforms. While the 3.0 version of Urlscan managed to deal with the SQL injection attacks, it also allowed attackers to diversify and it become a threat to the administrators, by backfiring.
Microsoft started to throw small pieces of Windows 7 goodies at the developers, raising the enthusiasm for some and curiosity for others. This Windows 7 build is one the Milestone 3 builds, the 6801 build to be more precise.
So, without further delay, let’s see what is Microsoft holding in the Windows 7 bag-o-goodies so far.
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