FREE: AccessEnum – Displays directory and registry permissions

AcessEnum from Microsoft’s Sysinternals tool collection enables you to list user accesses to a tree of directories or registry keys. With Windows Explorer or a registry editor you can only view access rights for a particular object, a certain folder, for example. If a directory has many subfolders it is difficult to figure out if [...]

A picture of Michael PietroforteMVP By Michael Pietroforte - Wed, April 30, 2008 - 0 comments google+ icon

Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.

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Poll: Vista x86 or Vista x64? What is your choice?

Okay, this is the last post in my series about the 32-bit or 64-bit question. I don’t expect this poll to be generally valid since 4sysops readers are probably more adventurous when it comes to adopting new technologies. IT pros are used to fighting with computer-related problems all day. So they are not that much [...]

A picture of Michael PietroforteMVP By Michael Pietroforte - Tue, April 29, 2008 - 13 comments google+ icon

Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.

Vista x86 or Vista x64? What about hardware compatibility?

This is the third post in my series about the Vista x64 vs. Vista x86 issue. In my first article, I claimed that CPU performance is not really a good reason to jump on the 64-bit bandwagon at the moment. In my last article, I wrote that software compatibility is only a theoretical problem now, [...]

A picture of Michael PietroforteMVP By Michael Pietroforte - Mon, April 28, 2008 - 8 comments google+ icon

Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.

FREE: Compatibility Administrator – Configure legacy apps for Vista

Microsoft’s Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0 is mostly for bigger companies that have to evaluate and mitigate application compatibility issues before deploying Vista. I have downloaded it before, but I found it too complex for a quick look. Some days ago, I stumbled across a post in the vista4beginners blog that seemed to have a solution [...]

A picture of Michael PietroforteMVP By Michael Pietroforte - Fri, April 25, 2008 - 7 comments google+ icon

Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.

Is Windows XP SP3 available or not?

A few days ago, I blogged about a Neowin article that published a “secret” time table for the release of Windows XP SP3. I was a bit skeptical because I learned from the past that such information is usually not very reliable. On Monday, many news sites reported that XP SP3 indeed RTMed. I was [...]

A picture of Michael PietroforteMVP By Michael Pietroforte - Thu, April 24, 2008 - 16 comments google+ icon

Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.