17-year-old computer bug was patched for Microsoft

The main feature on software is the reutilization of components and this ancient bug was discovered by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy in January 2010 and involves a utility that allows newer versions of Windows to run very old programs.

Mr Ormandy has found a way to exploit this utility in Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 as well as Windows Vista and Windows 7.

You can read more on  BBC article: Microsoft to patch 17-year-old computer bug

Windows Integrated Authentication in Firefox

We are using intensively SharePoint and we are not like use IE (Internet Explore) to access it.

We like access using Firefox, but all time it requests us the Windows Authentication.

Could we integrate Windows Authentication in Firefox? the answer is yes, Firefox has its configuration page some hide. but we will use to it.

In address bar enter about:config

Click I’ll be careful, I promise! in This might void your warranty! page

In filter enter network.automatic

Double click network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris

And enter the URL for which you like to enable integrated Authentication. In order to enter multiple URLs, separate them by commas.

Click OK

And that is it

Next time the Firefox will not request your account

Windows 7 will be available in...

The official Windows blog gives the GA (General Availability) date for Windows 7, this OS will be come the successor of Vista.

And the date for it is:

October 22nd.

The most interesting features for this OS is the Virtualization tool with fetures similar to Citrix, when the applications of Virtual machines could be executed as Windows in Real Machine Desktop

Bing.com is live...

Bing the new search engine of Microsoft is now live... and really it will become the substitute of live search...

At the moment the results are very fast and the information more useful, a little more organize that google.

Some nice features are:

• History of search in left panel


• History image in left panel for image search


• The background image will change every day


• It will be define version for USA and beta for rest of world

How generate a full user-mode dump file in Windows 2008

Dr. Watson is not included in Windows 2008. Dr. Watson was the default debugger in older Windows operating systems. The replacement for Dr. Watson is Problem Reports and Solutions.

One alternative is Debugging Tools for Windows, it has support for Windows x86 and x64 versions (http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx)

The steps to registry the tool in Windows x86 are:

1) Install the Debugging Tools for Windows your machine, usually is installed in C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows, and you can select other location such as C:\debuggers
2) Open the Registry Editor, from run program using regedit command
3) Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug
4) On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click String Value.
5) Type Debugger, and then press ENTER.
6) Right-click Debugger, and then click Modify.
7) In the Edit String Value dialog box, type C:\debuggers\ntsd -p %ld -c ".dump /f /u c:\tmp\mydump.dmp;q", and then click OK.
8 ) On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click String Value.
9) Type Auto, and then press ENTER.
10) Right-click Auto, and then click Modify.
11) In the Edit String Value dialog box, type 1, and then click OK.
12) Exit Registry Editor.

The steps to registry the tool in Windows x64 are:

1) Install the Debugging Tools for Windows your machine, usually is installed in C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows, and you can select other location such as C:\debuggers
2) Open the Registry Editor, from run program using regedit command
3) Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug
4) On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click String Value.
5) Type Debugger, and then press ENTER.
6) Right-click Debugger, and then click Modify.
7) In the Edit String Value dialog box, type C:\debuggers\ntsd -p %ld -c ".dump /f /u c:\tmp\mydump.dmp;q", and then click OK.
8 ) On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click String Value.
9) Type Auto, and then press ENTER.
10) Right-click Auto, and then click Modify.
11) In the Edit String Value dialog box, type 1, and then click OK.
12) Exit Registry Editor.

How to re-enable hibernation on a computer that is running Windows 2008 or Vista

The Hibernation option is enabled by default the Hiberfil.sys hidden system file is located in the root folder of the drive where the operating system is installed.

It can be re-enabled using following steps:

1) Run as Administrator the command line program, from start search box menu type cmd and in result right click in Command Promt and click Run as Administrator
2) Type powercfg /hibernate on
3) Press Enter
4) The Hibernation will be on

Also you can review other details in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920730/

How to disable hibernation on a computer that is running Windows 2008 or Vista

The Hibernation option is enabled by default the Hiberfil.sys hidden system file is located in the root folder of the drive where the operating system is installed.

It can be disabled using following steps:

1) Run as Administrator the command line program, from start search box menu type cmd and in result right click in Command Promt and click Run as Administrator
2) Type powercfg /hibernate off
3) Press Enter
4) The Hibernation will be off

Also you can review other details in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920730/