On March’s Patch Tuesday, IT administrators worldwide once again found themselves bracing for impact as Microsoft released its monthly tranche of security updates. While these cycles can sometimes become routine, occasionally news emerges that shakes administrators out of their patching...
When Microsoft finally lowers the curtain on Windows 10 and ushers it off the stage—scheduled for October 14, 2025—millions of users will face a dilemma: upgrade, migrate, or expose themselves to the wild digital west of an unsupported operating system. For those with stubborn software...
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Introduction
Microsoft’s security team has recently issued an advisory regarding CVE-2025-26688—an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) functionality. This flaw stems from a stack-based buffer overflow that, if exploited by an authorized local attacker...
Hello WindowsForum.com members! Microsoft has just rolled out the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Builds 22621.575 and 22622.575 (KB5016694) to the Beta Channel. These updates bring exciting new features and critical fixes that enhance the overall user experience.
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i have win 10 hyper-v host --> (H1 - 192.168.1.200)
i have created to VMs, viz. 1} hv-nug1, 2}gui-nug, 3}core-nug --> "gui-nug" & "core-nug" are Clonned from "hv-nug1".
when i try to install windows feature from "core-nug" OR "gui-nug" on Offline VHDX(core-nug.vhdx OR gui-nug-) residing...
Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.0 (November 8, 2016): Bulletin published.
Summary: The Windows Virtual Hard Disk Driver improperly handles user access to certain files. An attacker can manipulate files in locations not intended to be available to the user by exploiting this...
Has anybody used Windows 7 Virtual Hard Disk for a bootable OS? I I ran across this Link Removed and wondered if there are any pitfalls. It looks like it might be an improvement over a Virtual PC. Is there a problem when deleting the Virtual hard Disk?
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I recently had much trouble with my computer and was reinstalling OS many times! XP and win7.
When i was installing windows 7 there were 3 virtual drives one about 400 mb named windows reserved and 2 others each (300gb) the 3d one was backup
I formatted first 2 deleted partitions, made...
Most of all windows 7 users are aware of native VHD support in Windows 7. The Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk file
format aka VHD is virtual hard disk used in Microsoft Virtual PC. Now you can Create, Mount and Boot from VHD images on Windows 7. You can also...
Here are some of the changes that are being discussed as being a part of Windows 7:
New version of Windows Media Center
Gadget for Windows Media Center
Native support for multiple graphics cards from different vendors in one system
Gadgets integrated into Windows Explorer
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