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Image via Getty. This week, Microsoft ended support of Windows Vista, ten years after it arrived on our computers in frosted-glass splendor. Was it bloated? Perhaps. The demands of the interface were unforgiving on old hardware. But it felt like a glimpse of the future.
Microsoft is not as Service Pack happy as it once was. While Windows XP and 2000 had three and four SPs respectively, Windows 7 had just one while Windows 8 went with a versioning approach instead, in the form of 8.1. Microsoft now looks like it’s bringing Service Packs back…
You’ve shared a folder on your Windows machine and set up the permissions, yet, when a networked user attempts to view the directory’s contents, they’re given an access denied dialog instead. Sharing a folder and setting up users should be enough, but sometimes it isn’t. Here’s how to fix this…
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