Thursday, December 13, 2007

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate


Microsoft has released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate. Users can Install Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate through Windows Update. Windows Vista SP1 RC is pre-release software and will undergo so many changes before the final release. Windows Vista SP1 RC is for individuals, organizations, and technical enthusiasts and is provided for testing purposes only.

You must uninstall any previous versions of Windows Vista SP1 before installing Windows Vista SP1 RC. Windows Vista SP1 RC is time-limited software. Windows Vista SP1 RC will no longer operate after June 30, 2008 and should be uninstalled prior to that date. If you install Windows Vista SP1 RC it is strongly recommended that you install the final version of Windows Vista SP1 when it is released. To do this, you will be required to uninstall this RC version of Windows Vista SP1.

Download Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC


IE ACA Update to disable “Click To Activate”


Previously web pages are required to manually activate ActiveX controls, by clicking the control or confirming a “click to activate” message, before interacting with controls loaded by websites. At present Microsoft has released an Internet Explorer Automatic Component Activation (IE ACA) update that will disable the “Click to activate” behavior of the Internet Explorer ActiveX update. So web pages that previously required activation will no longer require controls to be activated. The update that removes this behavior is called the Internet Explorer Automatic Component Activation update (IE ACA). This activation behavior will be permanently removed from Internet Explorer in April 2008 by Microsoft.

This IE ACA Update (945007) disables the “Click to activate” behavior of the Internet Explorer ActiveX update that is contained in update KB942615. This update should only be applied after installing KB942615 to ensure that the security updates contained in update KB942615 are still present and functional.

Download IE ACA Update

Update KB942615 for IE7 in Windows XP Service Pack 2

Update KB942615 for IE7 in Windows XP 64 bit

Update KB942615 for IE7 in Windows Vista 32 bit

Update KB942615 for IE7 in Windows Vista 64 bit