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Revision Note: V1.1 (July 19, 2010): Clarified the vulnerability description and the "Is this a security vulnerability that requires Microsoft to issue a security update?" FAQ entry. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is investigating reports of limited, targeted attacks exploiting a vulnerability in...

Howdy everyone! I'm trying to replace the default Windows 7 shell so that it starts iexplore.exe in kiosk mode. In Windows Vista I was able to modify the following registry key: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell and it would work fine, but for some reason...

Hi everyone, I would like to use Cygwin to run a Perl program, so I downloaded Cygwin. I installed the packages under "Cur" (the current stable release). My problem is that whenever I try to start Cygwin bash shell it just appears for a second then exits immediately. I don't know what the...

Hello, About 2 days ago I'm having shell problems, the right click menu of the mouse is the little problem. First i noticed that i coudnt right click on a rar file and then select extract with winrar. The menu of winrar was there but wen i clicked nothing happend, it just didnt do anything. I...

I just installed the telnet client and it works from a cmd shell but any other shell (eg tcc) gives "unknown command" and can't see telnet.exe in system32. I tried copying the telnet.exe to another directory but that just hung! Any ideas?

I have a bit of an odd problem, it looks like theres a program / application window that didn't close properly. The left has like a glitched graphic or something. Appears after restarts, and after reloading shell. I just finished upgrading from Windows 7 Beta from a USB installation. I...

Hi I am using a keyboard as described above. But the drivers wont work on win7. I get an error code 9 (I think) when the standard drivers install... and then I have to roll back to my previous drivers. I knew how to do this on XP and Vista, and the same thing works on here, but I get the error...

Hi.. I just upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 Presently every single time I open a new windows explorer folder, Windows 7 repeatedly changes my theme's window colour from the default "sky" to a black colour.. This only happens when opening a window shell but is fine (doesn't change the...