Three Windows Vista non-security updates, that had originally been released as hotfixes, and then released as full fledged updates for download, will finally be pushed through Windows Update. As mentioned by the Windows Vista Blog, these updates will eventually become part of Vista’s SP1, but if you don’t want to wait for the benefits they offer, the update will be pushed to you this Tuesday, the 13th. Keep reading →

Microsoft released a number of updates for Vista on October 2nd. One of them was quite vague in it’s description: “An update is available that improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista“. Of course the other updates had these same goals in mind, but they had a number of fixes related to the same feature. This one is a random gathering of fixes. Keep reading →

In the Windows Vista “Reliability and Performance Monitor,” you add a Heap Trace Provider for a Data Collector Set. However, you find that the name of the trace session is incorrectly set to NT Kernel Logger.

Note: The NT Kernel Logger session name is reserved for the session that only contains Windows Kernel Trace provider.

Would you trust YOUR life to Vista? Keep reading →