the gold standard of user friendly operating systems (OS), to universally derided bloatware and back again. Windows 10, released in 2015 aims to bring the venerable OS back once more to glory. This is no small task given the less than positive response to the mobile friendly Window 8. The...
UIPI is the process-isolation mechanism and is displayed as the Windows shield for window messages. Because a process is unable to send messages to a higher-integrity object, UIPI prevents privilege-escalation exploits based on code injection to different processes in the same session....
“It’s by far the most robust and reliable consumer operating system from Microsoft.” And for Peter Dale of Ionia, Mich., the feature that won his heart is System Restore, which allows users who encounter a problem to return to a point where their system was working...
DISM /Online /Get-OSUninstallWindowDisplays the number of days after upgrade during which uninstall can be performed. DISM /Online /Set-OSUninstallWindowSets the number of days after upgrade during which uninstall can be performed. For more information, seeDISM operating system uninstall command-line...
This app combines Windows PowerShell, a command prompt, and Azure Cloud Shell all within the same terminal window. You don't need to open separate apps to use these command-line applications. It has tabs. When you open a new tab, you can choose your command-line application: If users or...
To query which version of Window XP is running, you can use either VerifyVersionInfo or GetVersionEx. The improved version of GetVersionEx accepts the OSVERSIONINFOEXW structure, which includes fields for determining which edition of the operating system is running.Figur...
To query which version of Window XP is running, you can use either VerifyVersionInfo or GetVersionEx. The improved version of GetVersionEx accepts the OSVERSIONINFOEXW structure, which includes fields for determining which edition of the operating system is running.Figure 1shows the structure. ...
The next interface change, was also announced at BUILD, and that is the ability to run Windows Store apps within a window on the desktop. This is a big change for two reasons. First, on a desktop, full screen Windows Store apps are less useful. Generally you have multiple things going ...
On the topic of AI, Microsoft is also doing away with the current implementation of Copilot as a sidebar on Windows 11. Now Copilot is an app that's pinned to the taskbar by default, and it opens in a normal window you can move around anywhere. This does give you more flexibility, ...
Windows 365 Cloud PCs now support multi-window and Call Me in Teams. For more information, see the blogTeams Multi-window support and Call Me generally available on Windows 365. Week of May 9, 2022 (Service release 2204) Device management ...