Tag Archives: XP

Safely Remove Windows XP Update Backup Files to Free Up Hard Disk Space

Posted on 20. Nov, 2008 by Yao Yuan.

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Microsoft regularly makes available critical Windows XP and Windows 2000 security patches (or hotfixes as they are also called) which ensure that your operating system keeps up to date. These patches/hotfixes are obtained in a variety of ways such as visiting the Windows Update or Microsoft Update website (accessible from your START button), through the Automatic Update service which runs in the background on your PC and weekly checks for recently issued updates/patches/hotfixes or by System Administrators downloading and applying patches and hotfixes to your PC.
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Vista UAC Security Feature in Windows XP with suDown

Posted on 07. Nov, 2008 by Yao Yuan.

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User Account Control (UAC) is a technology and security infrastructure introduced with Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system. It aims to improve the security of Microsoft Windows by limiting application software to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes an increase in privilege level. In this way, only applications that the user trusts receive higher privileges, and malware should be kept from receiving the privileges necessary to compromise the operating system. By default the user in Vista is still an administrator but it runs in a low privileged environment and you can elevate your rights only when necessary. [...]

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