Vista/2008 Service Pack 2 is out
Microsoft has made Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (Build 6.0.6002.18005) available for public download. You can get x86 stand-alone installer (348.3 MB) from here and the x64 SP2 (577.4 MB) from here.
Windows kernel mode driver signing certificates
A question that is often raised in the windows driver community, is which vendor’s certificate works for signing kernel mode drivers in 64-bit Vista/2008. Many times certificate vendor websites and their support personnel are unaware of the windows kernel mode code signing requirements and may misguide companies into buying wrong type of certificate. If it [...]
Layered Service Providers in Vista/64-bit
Layered Service Providers (LSPs) are user mode dlls that allow one (most usefully) to be in network packet chain and thus can change (think encryption/compression) or inspect (think sniffing) buffers from winsock applications. They are chained along with base providers by registering in LSP System Configuration Database (aka catalog). On 64-bit Windows, there are 2 catalogs, one [...]
file – a tool to get file information from command line
In my limited Linux experience, I have always found the file command to be very useful. That may be partly because I was poking around in Linux most of the time to figure out what was what, but to have basic information about a file handy is as valid a need in Windows as it is [...]
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