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My hotmail account was hacked and my hotmail page is now in Arabic. I was to delete this hotmail account completely. I had a pop-up to update SkyDrive which I did not do. This is one of the words I did recognize on my now Arabic hotmail page. We thought my hotmail was hacked about a week ago and we changed the password immediately. But, now it is sending out emails again to people in my contacts and my hotmail page is in another language. So, my husband thinks it may be a virus. I have a Macintosh with no virus protection. We didn't think Macs needed it. Continue reading...

Hi In my project I am using a ReportViewer to display SSRS Report 2008 R2. The report does not show up properly.After a lot of trial and error I got to know the problem is displaying in IE9. I am not sure whether it is only with IE version 9 or with previous version also. Continue reading...

Microsoft is testing a beta of an Azure-based online backup service for Windows Server 8. Here are a few more tidbits about it. Continue reading...

Hi Just got my mc 75 and i need to tweak my on screen keyboard. Default behavior is that keyboard pops up automatically every time a data entry field appears on screen , and Iwould like to have keyboard enabled all the time regardless data entry field is on or off the screen. Is this something possible to do on WM6?? Continue reading...

By Paul Thurrott You may recall that Microsoft once hosted a "Where’s My Phone Update?" page on its Windows Phone web site but then later stopped providing this level of clarity because of the complexity of documenting which updates were available for which phones on which carriers in which countries. Well, now Nokia is picking up the slack. And they’re offering a new take on the "Where’s My Phone Update?" page, albeit only for their own Windows Phone handsets. Continue reading...

I just had a phone call, from overseas, saying that my computer is corrupted or has corrupted files. They wanted me to switch on my comp while they waited on the line. Is this a genuine call or someone trying to hack into my comp? Continue reading...

I purchased a computer from Dell in early January (three months ago), and for some reason after I run System Mechanic it fixes many registry keys, which ends up shutting down all Microsoft 2010 products in a matter of two seconds..(Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.) The dll files get corrupted and as a result Dell technicians have set me back to factory settings too many times and also had me buy Windows 7 professional after selling me Windows 7 Home version first. I have,after three months lost any hope that a Dell technician can help me. All they do is like a parrot, over and over again, uninstall, reinstall, set to factory settings, and remove software tech install so…

Environment is Win7, Outlook 2010, using Exchange 2010 - talking about in Mail only here.... I have a user who has a couple hundred folders (many of them are nested). She wants to be able to color-code some of those folders. I have searched and found many other people asking for the same thing - but thus far have found no way to do it (either within OL natively or via a plugin). Surely there has to be a way to do this. It just can't be that hard (after all, thunderbird does it). Continue reading...

I'm working with a number of clients who are only noticing this problem on Windows XP machines. They have a program that maps a UNC path to a drive letter (for the users to access on their own) and then proceeds to use the UNC to access these files. (it basically runs the command "net use v: \\computername\sharename" for the user and then tries to access a few files on \\computername\sharename) Lately, they have been running into a large number of problems with their XP machines using this program. The program works fine for a day, but the next day, it is unable to connect to this same UNC path for file sharing. It returns an error about not being able to find the s…

My Uncle and employer had purchased a copy of Windows 7 prior to my employment with another IT gent. They had installed it on a pc rig and the rig's mother board had fried on them. He's not the tech type and decided to toss the rig and go to an all mac business enviroment. He was in need of some windows applications and decided to go the way of Parallels but the CD key is no longer valid for obvious reasons. I guess I'm here on one knee to see what sort of mercy I can get kicked down to me. I was told the last rig didn't last a couple of weeks. I've been a Windows fan and loyal user since ever, and am just trying to set up a product the way we intended to use it when we …

Former Microsoft execs who were associated with the nixed Courier dual-screen tablet project are resurfacing at companies doing Courier-inspired apps for Apple’s iPad. Continue reading...

this program does not work properly as it was before, i don't know how to solve the problem. Please help me out with that problem Continue reading...

i dont have rates also how i can solve this mater Continue reading...

I want to move to another machine and I lost the CD, how could I download and put the Product ID as evidence that I bought it? Continue reading...

I cannot download updates. When I try I get the error code 8024402f. I cannot down load the trouble shooter either. I have not received any updates since 11th Feb.Up till then everything was fine. What can I do? Continue reading...

En El antivirus de Microsoft esencial de seguridad que me PIDE ACTUALIZAR CUANDO Pero Comienza la actualizacion aperase UNA Ventana Que dados de error al ACTUALIZAR las definiciones de virus y spyware Continue reading...

I am unable to create a new user account on my Windows 7 Home Premium computer. I have 3 accounts on it already, two are adminstrators, and just trying to add a fourth one (standard user). I go to User Accounts, click Create new account, give it a name, keep Standard user checked, and press Create Account. The account appears to get created and shows up on the User Accounts screen, though it shows that it is password protected already, even though I didn't have an opportunity to give it a password yet. I can manage that new user account and delete the password, and it then shows up on User Accounts as not having a password. When I try to log on as that user from the mai…

Hi everybody! I need some help connecting a windows mobile 6.x device to the internet via usb (Win7). FTP and HTTP works as desired but I am not able to do a timesync via UDP. The request always timed out. I've deactivated the Windows Firewall but no luck. When running my app in the emulator (or inserting a sim card configured for internet access) everything works well. Can somebody give me a hint to make UDP working when using a USB connection, please. Thanks in advance, M. Alter Continue reading...

Hi, I've got a problem when installing Windows Thin PC on our HP T5740 thinclient. When the installation media is booting it hangs on "Starting Windows" message. Is there any place where I can find some troubleshooting informations...? Or do you know about a solution? Thank you Jan Marek MCT | MCITP | MCTS Continue reading...

Hi i hope someone can help me with this, i am new to 2008 R2 and im looking in my event logs can am seeing this error almost daily: - System - Provider [ Name] Schannel [ Guid] {1F678132-5938-4686-9FDC-C8FF68F15C85} EventID 36888 Version 0 Level 2 Task 0 Opcode 0 Keywords 0x8000000000000000 - TimeCreated [ SystemTime] 2012-03-28T15:32:01.377965400Z EventRecordID 293985 Correlation - Execution [ ProcessID] 500 [ ThreadID] 548 Channel System Computer ***-*-****\********** - Security [ UserID] S-1-5-18 - EventData AlertDesc 10 ErrorState 1203 I am just wondering what i could do to stop this issue, i have seen that it …

I opened a web link in IE9, Window 7, and when I tried to close it, the session kept re-opening. I had to use the task manager to close it down. Since then, my PC has been very sluggish. I think I have a virus or a worm but neither Norton nor the Microsoft Safety Scanner have found anything. My Internet Explorer.exe processes in the Windows Task Manager are using 40K memory which I read somewhere is too high and my iexplore.exe memory usage seems off the charts. What do I need to do to get my laptop's performance back? Continue reading...

Whenever I navigate to the login.live.com page using IE9 I get a blank screen, I've tried starting in safe mode shutdown every add in, done the server revocation thing mentioned in other posts, used the 64bit client and 32 bit client, no joy. It works from Chrome, I've got vs2010 installed along with sql server 2008r dev edition and I'm running windows 7 home 64 bit on dell xps 14z. Can anyone help with this? Continue reading...

Hi, how could I be sure that SP3 is installed on XP machine through \\IP_address\c$ thanks, N Continue reading...