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Thursday, June 03, 2010 2:26 PM

The Machine SID Duplication Myth

Extract from Mark Russinovich’s blog On November 3 2009, Sysinternals retired NewSID , a utility that changes a computers machine Security Identifier (machine SID). I wrote NewSID in 1997 (its original name was NTSID) because the only tool available at...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 8:41 AM

32-bit (x86) vs 64-bit (x64)

Comparing 64 to 32 bit windows…. This is an excerpt from Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions Deployment Scenarios ( http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/64bit/x64/deploy.mspx) This is broken down by the System Type (e.g Database, Application, etc)...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:10 AM

The end of an era - Windows 3.x - I thought it had died years ago...

An application has expectedly quit. Windows 3.x has come to the closing moments of its long life. On 1 November Microsoft stopped issuing licences for the software that made its debut in May 1990 in the US. The various versions of Windows 3.x (including...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:11 AM

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC Refresh Public Availability Program

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=529d992a-d69e-4c73-9213-7a7f3852c0ca&DisplayLang=en
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