Get the latest technology news and product reviews from TechRadar.com right on your sidebar! Easy to use, lots of options, multiple sizes, and website search. For more information and support: www.BuildAGadget.com.
TechRadar

(5 customer ratings)
Downloads: 3023
Created by: «-BuildAGadget·Com-»
Price: Free
Download

Upgrade with confidence.

Get free downloads for Internet Explorer 7, including recommended updates as they become available. To download Internet Explorer 7 in the language of your choice, please visit the Internet Explorer 7 worldwide page.

Check system requirements.

Take a tour
Take a few minutes to learn more about what’s new with Internet Explorer 7. This tour will help you discover the changes to Internet Explorer and help you find your favorite features.

Automatic Updates distribution process
To help our customers become more secure and up-to-date, Microsoft is distributing Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates. Distribution of Internet Explorer 7 by Automatic Updates will take several months to complete.
Get Internet Explorer 7
Based on your operating system, the version of Internet Explorer 7 below is best for your computer.

Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)
This is the most common version for use with Windows XP Professional Edition SP2 and Windows XP Home Edition SP2.

download
If you want to download Internet Explorer 7 for a different operating system:

Data security on lost or stolen PC devices is a growing concern among security experts and corporate executives. The data stored on the PC asset is often significantly more valuable to a corporation than the asset itself, and the loss, theft or unwanted disclosure of that data can be very damaging.

BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data protection feature available in Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate for client computers and in Windows Server 2008. BitLocker is Microsoft’s response to a frequent customer request: address these very real threats of data theft or disclosure from lost, stolen or inappropriately decommissioned PC hardware with a tightly integrated solution in the Windows Operating System.

Solid protection for home or office PCs.
BitLocker prevents a thief who boots another operating system or runs a software hacking tool from breaking Windows Vista file and system protections or performing offline viewing of the files stored on the protected drive.

The feature ideally uses a Trusted Platform Module (TPM 1.2) to protect user data and to ensure that a PC running Windows Vista has not been tampered with while the system was offline. BitLocker provides both mobile and office enterprise information workers with enhanced data protection should their systems be lost or stolen and secure data deletion when it comes time to decommission those assets.

BitLocker enhances data protection by bringing together two major sub-functions: drive encryption and the integrity checking of early boot components.

Drive encryption protects data by preventing unauthorized users from breaking Windows file and system protection on lost, stolen or inappropriately decommissioned computers. This protection is achieved by encrypting the entire Windows volume; with BitLocker all user and system files are encrypted including the swap and hibernation files.

Integrity checking the early boot components helps to ensure that data decryption is performed only if those components appear unmolested and that the encrypted drive is located in the original computer.

BitLocker is tightly integrated into Windows Vista and provides a seamless, secure, and easily manageable data protection solution for the enterprise.

Windows BitLocker is for both business and personal users who need to help protect sensitive data on their PC.

Organizations face increasing concerns around intellectual property and sensitive data being compromised on a lost, stolen, or recycled computer. To address this issue, Windows Vista Enterprise includes Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption, a new technology that helps prevent sensitive data and intellectual property from falling into the wrong hands.

Windows BitLocker uses hardware-enabled full-volume data encryption technology that gives you greater peace of mind knowing that your corporate intellectual property is safer and will remain your strategic asset. Also, because the entire Windows volume is encrypted, Windows BitLocker reduces the cost associated with decommissioning old PCs.
Watch the video.

Brief Description
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is an update to Windows Vista that addresses key feedback from our customers. SP1 addresses specific reliability and performance issues, supports new types of hardware, and adds support for several emerging standards.
Quick Details
File Name: Windows6.0-KB936330-X86-wave0.exe
Version: 936330
Knowledge Base (KB) Articles: KB936330
Date Published: 3/18/2008
Language: English
Download Size: 434.5 MB
Overview
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is an update to Windows Vista that addresses feedback from our customers. In addition to previously released updates, SP1 will contain changes focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues; supporting new types of hardware; and adding support for several emerging standards. SP1 also will continue to make it easier for IT administrators to deploy and manage Windows Vista. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Five Language Standalone version can be installed on systems with any of the following language versions: English (US), French, German, Japanese, or Spanish (Traditional).
Read the overview of Windows Vista SP1, including what’s new, technical details, guidelines and notable changes.

Read the Deployment Guide for Windows Vista SP1. This guide includes technical information, procedures, and recommendations for installing Windows Vista SP1 in a business or corporate environment.

DO NOT CLICK DOWNLOAD IF YOU ARE UPDATING JUST ONE COMPUTER: A smaller, more appropriate download is available on Windows Update.

NOTE: Customers running Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) Store Operations and Headquarters are advised to install this hotfix prior to installing Windows Vista SP1.

To download the Standalone version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 please follow the directions below in the Instructions section.

Before installing SP1, please visit the Windows Vista TechCenter and read the page “Things to Know Before you Download Windows Vista SP1″

Download From Microsoft site

Brief Description
A remote code execution security issue has been identified in the Graphics Rendering Engine that could allow an attacker to remotely compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it.
File Name: WindowsVista-KB912919-v1-x86-EN-US.EXE
Version: 912919
Date Published: 1/13/2006
Language: English
Download Size: 1.2 MB
Overview
A remote code execution security issue has been identified in the Graphics Rendering Engine that could allow an attacker to remotely compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.
Top of page

System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Longhorn (Windows Code Name)

Instructions

Click the Download link on this page to start the download, or choose a different language from the drop-down list and click Go.

Do one of the following:

To start the installation immediately, click Open or Run this program from its current location.

To copy the download to your computer for installation at a later time, click Save or Save this program to disk.

Download

But does patching beta code make sense?
August 17, 2006 (IDG News Service) — Microsoft Corp. has released two patches for its Vista operating system, saying that it too is affected by flaws that were disclosed during the company’s Aug. 8 security updates.

The patches, which were released for download earlier this week, fix critical flaws described in Microsoft Security Bulletins MS06-042 and MS06-051. They fix bugs in Internet Explorer and the Windows kernel, and were described Tuesday in a blog posting by Vista Product Manager Alex Heaton.

Vista is not affected by the most-scrutinized vulnerability in this month’s patches, a Windows Server service flaw that is already being exploited by some hackers. This bug prompted a rare warning from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week.

The latest patches raised some eyebrows, because Microsoft had not previously acknowledged that these bugs also affect Vista.

Microsoft has issued this type of patch for beta software in the past — it released a January security update for Windows Vista Beta 1 — but the company does not provide information about beta products in its regularly scheduled monthly updates, said Stephen Toulouse, security program manager with Microsoft’s security response center. “Beta products are not listed in the security bulletins as they are still under development and not intended to be used in production environments,” he said in an e-mail interview.

Vista, however, will be “the first major Microsoft product release that will be serviced with security updates throughout the beta process,” Heaton wrote.

One Microsoft observer was cool on the idea.

Microsoft is setting a bad precedent by agreeing to these security updates, because it muddies the difference between supported products and those in beta testing, said Russ Cooper, a senior information security analyst at Cybertrust.

He said Microsoft is “dead wrong to commit to providing patches of any kind for Vista beta testers, in any forum other than official beta tester channels.”

The updates do provide Microsoft with one benefit, however, Cooper said. They preempt reports on security flaws in Microsoft’s beta software like those issued by Symantec Corp. in recent weeks. “They’re avoiding more of that stupid Symantec publicity that says that Vista has security holes,” he said.