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Engaging with rich media—whether watching a movie, video chatting, or playing music—is one of the most prevalent and enjoyable things we do on our PCs today. I’d like to talk a little bit about the work we’ve done in Windows 8 to make a rich variety of multimedia activities possible, and to extend those capabilities to third party developers through an extensible media platform. We had three goals in mind when designing the Windows 8 media platform: Maximize performance. We wanted media playback to be fast and responsive, enabling the full power of the hardware while maximizing battery life on each PC. Simplify development and extensibility. We wanted to provide a p…

I have Outlook 2007 - send and recieve appears stuck "in processing" - this began when I added my windows live account into outlook - I have since deleted windows live from outlook - under set up I have sent test messages and whil it says successful, but nothing appears in the inbox View the thread

New laptop 2 days old, after many MS autoupdates I get message to say Windows Prem Home is not genuine (error code 0xC004F059). If I go back to restore point then mesage disappears so definitely to do with one of the 50 or so updates. Other than trial & error to install one at as time deos anyone have an idea which update causes this? Output from MS Genuine Advantage Diagnostic Tool: Diagnostic Report (1.9.0027.0): ----------------------------------------- Windows Validation Data--> Validation Code: 50 Cached Online Validation Code: N/A, hr = 0xc004f012 Windows Product Key: *****-*****-2QWT6-HCQXJ-9YQTR Windows Product Key Hash: PVjSC5x6njvqunmbCY3lOD…

Hi, My desktop is a window XP 32-bit with Internet Explorer 8 and Miscrosoft Security Essentials as my anti-virus protection . My PC presently is having the old version of Mozilla Firefox software, My unstanding is Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed for Miscosoft window,Mac OS X and Linux coordinated by Mozilla Coporation and Mozilla Foundation. I noticed that the latest version of Mozilla Firefox software (version 14.0 Beta 6) is also an anti-virus software contains anti-virus,worms,trojans and spyware, My questions are: 1. should I upgrade my Mozilla Firefox ( as I was prompted to do so) to version14.0 Beta 6. If I do so will there b…

I just bought microsoft office 2010 from Mohave Community College. The problem is that I have a Dell notebook which has no place to insert the disc. I need to know how to install the program without installing a disc. I have the isbn number and several other numbers but I don't know what to do from here. Can someone please help me asap. I have work due in my class in two days and will have to drop my class if I can't get this program. Thanks, Denise View this thread

After upgrading from Outlook 97 to Outlook 2010 I noticed there was no option to set sounds when collasping or expanding mail groups. I found no option in Outlook 2010 Options setting except setting sound for new mail and that does work fine. I double checked Sounds and Audio Devices in Control Panel and the option is set to sort.wav within Microsoft Office - Expand/Collapse yet there is no sound when I expand or collapse a group such as Yesterday How can I get back all my sound effects as they were in Outlook 97? View this thread

changing "pinned icons" symbol when I pin internet explorer sites to taskbar the icon just shows the I.E. "E" symbol. Can I change the Symbol? View the thread

hi, how do i create a password for outlook 2010, i tried going to, " folder, right click, advanced settigs, change your password", it asks for old password that i never set up, please help, thanks View this thread

I acquired a laptop which had Windows 7 Home Premium installed, together with the original installation CD and product key. As I needed a laptop that ran Linux, I removed W7 and installed Linux instead. I also have an old PC running XP, and would like to upgrade this to W7. Can I use the installation CD that came with the laptop? View the thread

I was experiencing some problems with my HP Pavilion and was advised by Miscrosoft Helf to take the files out of my computer and make a set of recovery discs. Now I'm left with a fine computer, but no files or programs because I don't know how to get those recovery discs back into my computer. Can anyone inform me how to get those files on the recovery discs back into the computer? View this thread

I cannot tell if the scan is actually happening. It appears to be scanning but then I still get the yellow icon that my computer may be at risk. View this thread

My computer says my Windows Defender is turned off. When I try to open it, I can't. The computer won't let me, but I am getting messages that I need to turn it on. View this thread

Can i install windows vista home pemimum 64 bit full version downloadable software for free or even with a cost with 32 bit product key installed, instead of I installed as a 32 bit than a 64 bit on a pre install windows on an asus f5 laptop dual core amd 64 with 4 Gb of ram. p.s Q1. would the 64 bit intall over the 32 bit system or would it need a clean system to start off witch to install.Q2. I have the product key label readable from retail.. where would be best to download software? ie. microsoft.. or ?i will thank-you for your help, yours faithfully michael H.005.. View this thread

Multiple VSS writers are failing and my backups are failling too. Need help: I have one desltop installed XP SP3 x64 and one laptop with Seven SP1 x64. In both the machine my backups are failing. I am trying to back up data using Storage Craft, Windows backup is also failling. I am trying to take complete backup to an extarnal USB drive (2TB). I did "vssadmin list writers" and it showing multiple writers are at failed state. I have done SFC /ScanNow, it did not help. There is no error in the disk and CHKDSK passed. I do not know how VSS works and how to troubleshoot the issue. Please help !! View the thread

80070663及び64C上記のエラーコードの修復方法を探しています、みなさんどうかよろしくご協力ください。お願いしますPCに関してかなりの素人です。 View this thread

Dear friends can we install microsoft security essential on A NETWORK 300 computers(having genuine Windows & CALs installed) in a non profit making medical college of University of Delhi, India. Is it legal? View this thread

I’ve just noticed that my picture library contains many duplicate photos some 3x. How do I delete the dups without deleting the original? View the thread

I need to find something to access entries in Regback folder down in Windowsconfig for Windows 7. I'm looking for a specific key on the backup. (I've formatted my PC and need a certain key from my old installation for activation purposes) How do I go about this? View the thread

Posted on Note: If you use a public computer, I’d advise not removing your password for access, especially if you store personal or confidential information.[/b] You will begin by searching for the keyword “netplwiz” either on your Start screen or from the run cmd. [url=http://www.everything-microsoft.com/2012/06/07/disable-logon-passwords-windows-8/win8password1/" rel="attachment wp-att-94529">http://cdn9.everything-microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Win8Password1-650x399.png?9d7bd4 The next step involves unchecking the box labeled “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer” and click OK. [url=http://www.everything-microsoft.com/2012/0…

my microsoft security essentials keeps saying I am potentaly unprotected....Why? View this thread

I have tried to remove it using add/remove programs, but there is no add/remove in it. Just has usage. I am using xp pro version 2002. Anitvir and or MS security essentails tell me to remove it first before I can download either one. View this thread

Help How to I get control back from the hackers? View this thread

The near-final Release Candidate of Windows Server 2012 included no new features since Beta, but lots of performance tweaks that made it good enough for the Bing team. Source: All About Microsoft

my current video card isnt compatible with wddm View the thread

Recently, I had to reinstall Wild Tangent Games app (a had a problem after downloading a new game). At one point the WT support guy told me to remove the program and re-install it (was outdated). Did that, downloaded new setup.exe file. But, when I run it, it fails to install. (The progress bar with "Installing critical files" was displayed, but did not progress. After a few minutes, got the alert, "There was an unexpected error during installation. Please try again. (Error 1-769)". Tried a few more times, but no luck.) Was told by WT support that it is probably not working well with my security/AV/firewall software. I have only MS Security Essentials running. I…