If you’re sharing a computer with other users and don’t want them to read certain files, you’re going to need a decent protection mechanism. Fortunately, Windows provides a built-in encryption mechanism that protects your files at the file system level.
Windows Encrypting File System provides a file encryption technology used to store encrypted files on NTFS [...]

In Windows Vista, you have limited privileges on the machine, although you’re a power user. This means that programs you run have limited permissions, and you must elevate your privileges whenever you want to perform certain administrative-tasks, such as changing system settings or installing programs.

Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a set of hardware and software technologies that help prevent damage from malicious software that attack your computer by executing arbitrary code from memory locations due to software vulnerabilities. DEP works by making sure that software uses system memory safely, blocking a technique used by hackers to exploit software vulnerabilities [...]

Accidentally deleted an important word document? Office crashed and your presentation was damaged? If you got Vista, you can restore any file within minutes thanks to Vista previous versions feature.
Vista automatically creates previous versions of your files without you having to create a backup of them manually. Previous versions are basically backup copies of files [...]

Hidden shares are special shares identified by the dollar sign ($) at the end of the share name. By default, Windows automatically creates administrative shares for each logical disk on your system in addition to another share called ADMIN$ for the Windows root directory.
Although these shares are designed for remote management and accessible only to [...]

Virtual memory is a truly great mechanism. It protects programs from one another and lets them utilize more memory than actually available. In a nutshell, you can think of virtual memory as an alternate set of memory addresses.
As you run more and more programs, at some point, you’ll begin running out of physical memory. Since [...]

As part of Microsoft’s commitment to help mitigate the spread of malicious software, Windows Vista and later versions require kernel-mode software to have a digital signature before Windows will load it on a 64-bit computer system.
In order to disable Vista’s driver signing verification, you need to restart your computer and enter the Advanced Boot Options [...]

User Account Control enables users to perform common tasks as non-administrators and as administrators without having to switch users, log off etc. User Account Control was developed to help prevent malicious programs silent installation and computer-wide infection.
By default, when you try to run an executable that has an administrative token (privilege), you’re prompted to consent [...]

In Windows Vista, even though you have administrator privileges, the programs you run have “Standard User” permissions, unless they ask you for permission through the User Account Control mechanism - “Windows needs your permission to continue”.
If you are comfortable with command line utilities, a possible option is to run a command line with Administrator [...]

WirelessKeyView is a free utility to recover all wireless keys (WEP and WPA) stored on your computer. It allows you to easily save all keys to text/html/xml file, or copy a single key to the clipboard. WirelessKeyView supports both Windows XP Wireless Zero Configuration service and Windows Vista WLAN AutoConfig service.

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