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By Paul Thurrott While technology enthusiasts are still wondering whether the next major Windows Phone version will be based on Windows 8 or the existing Windows Phone codebase, Microsoft this week did provide an answer to one important question: The company revealed that existing Windows Phone apps will indeed run on Windows Phone 8. Continue reading...

hur gör jag så att jag kan få en säker anslutning till ett bingorum?, där får jag in en röd låda med rött kryss över httpsadressen. Hur gör jag med en router, där jag bara står som ansluten men inte har säkerhetssystem? mvh Ilse Continue reading...

no p-uedo accesar al firewall de windows comn segurida avanzada y tampoco ayuda y soporte tecnico, la compu es una home basic Continue reading...

I'm trying to get the Hebrew input installed on my Exe. Dir.'s machine. We are all running Windows 7 pro. For some reason, when we switch the input language, Hebrew characters do not show up. I did the exact same process on my machine and it worked fine. I keep reading i will need to upgrade to Ultimate for full language support but it strikes me as odd that my machine works fine and hers doesn't. She just needs to be able to read and write hebrew, not to use her machine completely in hebrew. Any ideas on what the problem is? Thanks! Continue reading...

By Paul Thurrott Microsoft today announced that it has begun the Technical Preview program for Office 15, the next version of its office productivity suite. While details are still sparse, the software giant did say, however, that Office 15 is the most ambitious undertaking yet for the Office Division. And that suggests some interesting changes ahead. Continue reading...

Running windows XP Version 2002, service pack 3. Current updates are installed automatically. Had Microsoft security essentials installed since approx 2010 and as I have already said i run scans and updates automatically. Anyway my dell laptop crashed the other day and i had to repair the os which i was able to do Ok and everything seemed fine except I noticed that on rebooting Windows, MSE no longer appeared in the bottom tray as it usually did. Checked programs installed and it was there so I clicked on it but it would not load so I went to the Microsoft website and tried to download a repair or update for MSE but this also failed. MSE program was still showing on …

hi every body plz help me with the problem in security essentials. though i ran full scan with microsoft security essentials that frequently says ur computer is at risk , u have not run a scan for a while this could be harm ful to your computer. i could not understand this problem. plz help me. Continue reading...

how do i keep my real time protection on at all times. everytime i shut mycomputer down it shuts itself down. Continue reading...

Microsoft is making available to select testers the technical preview of Office 15 client, server and services as of January 30. Continue reading...

Please sorry me if I post here but is urgent ultimamamente my xp is taking much time for start, so I decided to reinstall it by choosing the solution that does not erase any programs, but only to repair the operating system. Unfortunately it frozen and if I you restart always froze in the same point. What I can do for go back to the slow version but working or finish the actual installation?I saw that in the root there are 3 folders with names consisting of random letters that can not be deleted (like "asfqqtrergeqrgeqrgq") and a "$ $ WIN_NT. ~ BT" Thanks Continue reading...

I just wrote a vbscript that I want to copy to a certain folder on all my PCs, then have a scheduled task run it as a certain user account (SYSTEM) on a certain schedule. Is there a way I can use SCCM to do this for me? If i were to do this manually, i'd have to copy the .vbs to the folder, then copy an already set up scheduled task file to c:\windows\tasks then change the username for it once its on the machine to SYSTEM. If this is the wrong forum, please let me know. Continue reading...

Hello, i come here to find a little help because i'm going nuts with my problem : we've revceived 70 PC HP 8200 Elite and there is no way to make them boot with PXE on our WDS server. I found a lot of discussion about that model, but nothing resolves my problem. Here the description of my infrastructure : - WDS on Windows 2008 R2 - boot.wim inside i've tried almost a thousand of drivers. - Windows 7x86 SP1 image on WDS - NIC on the PC : Intel 82579 LM ( damn it ) When i boot in PXE everything's fine until it try to find a network driver to access the share on WDS. If i plug another NIC inside the PC the PXE boot works fine and the Windows 7 image goes well on the ma…

By Paul Thurrott Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo this week announced their support of a new email security initiative called DMARC that they say will lessen the impact of so-called "phishing" attacks. The firms are joining various financial services companies to promote a set of technologies offered by the initiative that authenticates the origins of individual emails. Continue reading...

Before my family moved my computer downstairs and installed microsoft security essentials, the computer did not freeze. Now, it freezes very occasionally, but is more likely to freeze when I'm running a CPU-intensive task. It's a complete freeze the screen stays in one picture, any sound stops, and my only option to keep going at what I was doing is to hit the restart button. This freezing only happens when it's doing real-time protection. Help? Continue reading...

Hi - I have reason to believe that my computer is infected with something - virus, malware, something! We had been using Rogers Home Protection but it was not getting it clean. I uninstalled Rogers and installed Microsoft Security Essentials and ran my first scan. It unconvered a couple of trojans and removed them. I think there is something still there though. When I run a full scan it gets stuck on a folder that I cannot find hidden or otherwise and the scan runs for 24 hours plus. I have a lot of files but not THAT many! I have a screen shot of the scan and the path it appears to be stuck on is: C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Application Data\A…

I have a phoenix black screen and now my windows has been marked as not valid for united states was last response I rec'd. I have rec'd documentation of microsoft securities errors since the 21st and I am no closer to resolving than when I started. Is there a tec I can speak with to help me understand. I also have had the Trojan Jasaprat. I have been led on many wrong paths probably because of the trojan. This is the 30th and I have spent 9 days going in circles with no end in sight. pls assist. Continue reading...

I am looking for a quick-access function that temporarily disables real-time protection for a while (5 min / 15min / 1h?) while I am installing a program. Without this function it is a good chance that I forget to reactivate the real-time protection, leaving the PC unprotected for potentially a long time. Or is this function allready available somewhere? ZipZapp Continue reading...

A lot of web pages use your email address as your user name. Is there a way, lets say some sort of hot key, that I can hit a hotkey and have it automatically type in my email address of what ever username I am using? I am so tired of typing in my email address and was hoping there is a way to do it with a few keystrokes. Continue reading...

The RIM-hosted replacement for Microsoft’s BlackBerry Enterprise Service is now generally available to Office 365 customers. Continue reading...

By Paul Thurrott Three months ago, online retailing giant didn’t even sell a tablet computer, but today the firm controls a stunning 40 percent of the market for Android-based tablets, according to one market analyst. But whichever numbers you choose to believe, one thing is certain: With its low-ball pricing, Amazon is sure to capture serious market share in this nascent market with its Kindle Fire device. And that’s bad news for high priced luxury items like Apple’s iPad. Continue reading...

I recently upgraded my system from vista 64 to windows 7, and when I tried to back up received the following error message: The backup application could not start due to an internal error. The specified service does not exist as an installed service. (0x80070424) (1) There is a "Windows Backup" in Services.msc. (2) "wbengine" folders are missing from the Control Set folders in Hkey_local_machine Continue reading...

I have IE9 installed in Win7 x64 Ultimate. I have the Tools / Internet Options / Browsing History set to delete browsing history on exit. I have checked off all the possibilities. (history, cookies, etc). Steps to Reproduce Bug: I sign into Gmail. Close the browser without signing out Wait 30 seconds for IE to finish its closing out business Relaunch IE9. Go to www.gmail.com It will already be logged into your account. IE8 worked fine with this. IE9 does not. Can others reproduce this? Continue reading...

Unable to send texts to Iphone devices from a windows mobile 6.5 (Motosurf A3100). All other devices are fine to text to. I have tried changing various settings with no success. I have tried contacting my network provider and they seem to be baffled by the whole thing. I can receive text messages from the particular Iphone but I cant reply to them. It is my partners Iphone so I am able to see if the texts come through. Please help someone who knows anything about this? It's becoming a bug bare for me. Kind regards Jord Continue reading...