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By Paul Thurrott I’m starting a new series of articles about Office 365 with a focus on the individuals and small businesses that are most likely to adopt this exciting new productivity service. The series will cover initial setup stages such as configuring a custom domain, look at integration with Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, examine the optional, subscription version of Office Professional Plus, and more. Continue reading...

Today I am warned by MSE that I have not run a scan "for a while". It has been less than four days as stated on my MSE home tab. What is the current programmed length of "a while"? Continue reading...

i would like to completley unistall all of security essesntials and go back to just running defender .how do i remove it and all of its parts? Continue reading...

How do I share files on a laptop with multiple users? I cannot seem to share files even though they are in a shared folder. They are AutoCAD 2007 files Continue reading...

Hi Follks, I'm hoping someone has come across this....First time this has happened to me and I have been fixing Windows Installations for years for other people, but my own laptop is now the victim of the dreaded StartupReapir Unnable to Fix! ArrrrggGgghhHHH! Basically the issue is thus Startup repair can not Automatically fix the problem: When Viewing the Diagnostic and Repair Details, all is ok until the final section which reads Root cause found: ------------------------ No OS found on disk. Repair action: Partition table repair Result: Failed. Error code = 0x490 Time taken = 3401 ms ---------------------------------------- ---------------------…

By Paul Thurrott Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang suddenly exited his struggling company Tuesday, setting off speculation about the timing and giving Yahoo stock a small bump. Widely considered ineffectual and detrimental to Yahoo’s chances of survival, Yang perhaps clung too tightly to the company he helped found with David Filo in 1995. Continue reading...

Hey all, I put together an installer for installing office 2010 with an adminfile. It works great on windows XP, but in Windows 7, I get an error message. It seems to have to do with paths, or permissions, but I've used both "run as administrator" from the right-click menu AND full paths pointing to the relevant files. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I'm attaching a screenshot.. Continue reading...

Hi - what are the security implications of adding 'about:internet' OR 'res://' to Trusted Sites. I know what Trusted Sites is, and how it works, and I know about:internet is the MOTW that can be added to webpages to have them treated as 'Internet' - but what I don't understand is what happens to my overall security posture by adding 'about:internet' or res:// into my trusted sites list. btw - I have been asked to do this by a vendor in order to make their Oracle forms based application work. thanks in advance. Continue reading...

If I attempt to launch a message of "Class not registered" is displayed. What could be a solution? Continue reading...

Hi, I want to enable previous versions via GPO or script. I cannot go to every machine... Thanks in advance... With the best regards, Dino Sousa Continue reading...

Environment: Windows 7x64 English Hi, I'm looking for a script allowing me to change these following settings in the Region and Language: Format: between English US and Swiss French Location: between English US and Swiss French Keyboard: always Swiss French Thanks in advance for your help, Continue reading...

Is there any free tool you've ever come across that can report (remotely) the last say 5 logins to a windows member server or workstation? i.e. management want to see whose been logging in (with either domain or local account) to workstation X, dates and times, and they want a tool to produce this information from their desk. Workstations are XP. Continue reading...

Goodday I am having an issue with using powerpoint on ncomputing terminals. This terminal connects to a windows XP SP3 computer running the VSpace software and start to flicker and go to black when running powerpoint 2010. Now i have been searching within the Ncomputing forum and cam up with the link posted beneath. http://www.ncomputing.com/kb/Screen-flickers-when-you-start-WPF-applications-in-a-Windows-Server-2003-vSpace-session_301.html I have tried the mentioned hotfix but i cannot install it because it is created for WS2003 and not for XP. Is there a new hotfix esspecially for Win XP so my users can use powerpoint again, or can it be created because now they can…

Why is my CD drive not reading, its blank when I put a CD. Continue reading...

What to do about Security Certificate Error in Internet Explorer causing difficulty in browsing. Continue reading...

I need urgent help.... I have lost most important files after the attack of Trojanspy and worm win 32....I am using Microsoft Security Essentials. the virus was removed but lost the data. Now pls suggest me to get re back my data... kindest regards sb arya Continue reading...

I want to migrate most if not all of the programs on my old computer to the new and WET sounded like just the thing. However, it is not clear whether it will actually transfer the programs to the new pc. I have dozens of program suites to install on the new machine, which will be a real pain if I have to reinstall each one via the installation disk. The transfer report details all the programs that I might want to move across, but will the WET program install them on the new pc with comparable settings? If not, is there another solution? Continue reading...

For many weeks now, Windows Update has tried to install the Microsoft.NET 4 Framework Client, but it routinely fails. I need v.4 for a program, so I've gotten serious about trying to fix it. I've gone through numerous solutions in these forums and elsewhere on the Web, but nothing has worked. Every time, the installer gets to somewhere between 30 and 60 percent, and then rolls back. I would welcome any assistance. Continue reading...

how do i findout that whether my system is having a genuined version of windows7 ultimate by looking at the properties Continue reading...

Pastor in our church had a key laptop that wouldn't boot. Being the "go to" IT guy in our church, I ended up with the laptop to fix. Diagnosed the problem to a dying hard disk. Of course he had no backups. :( Laptop was out of warantee and because of the way the big box stores install Windows on the machines, they don't issue a Windows recovery disk anymore. :( [Microsoft needs to re-evaluate this policy] Using Ubuntu Linux Live, I was able to boot the machine, and from Linux in memory, mount the hard disk, and copy his data folders to an external usb disk. I purchased (and donated) a replacement hard disk. After replacing the hard disk, I loaded one of my TechNet l…

reasearch button doesn't function Continue reading...

Hi all monday we have patched our clients and today we have more problems with Internet Explorer 9 (32bit) und Windows 7 64bit SP1 (see four errors) Faulting application name: iexplore.exe, version: 9.0.8112.16421, time stamp: 0x4d76255d Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000 Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x7484c9f1 Faulting process id: 0x10bc Faulting application start time: 0x01ccd467c585c870 Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe Faulting module path: unknown Report Id: c3c06d4c-41b5-11e1-8335-3cd92b50a3f0 Faulting application name: iexplore.exe, version: 9.0.8112.16421, time stamp…

I normally use English language on my Nokia Lumia 800. But when I see posts from facebook, some of these are in Hindi (Devanagari font), I can see only squares in place of characters. Do I have to load any additional font? Continue reading...

I get the message "The system has recovered from a serious error" and no matter whether I choose "Send Error Report" or "Don't Send" once this message close new copy appear over and over again. Restart didn't helped. Continue reading...

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