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Come back at 6:30 pm PT/9:30 pm ET on January 9 for ZDNet’s live blog of CEO Steve Ballmer’s last CES keynote address. Continue reading...

I just downloaded IE 9 and lost all my favorite places andcan't seem to find where you can start a new list Continue reading...

By: Paul Thurrott Tablets and smart phones, oh my! Microsoft’s last official appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show promises to be a big deal, with announcements related to Windows 8 and Windows Phone, and a final keynote address from CEO Steve Ballmer, which Mary Jo Foley and I will be covering live. It’s Microsoft @ 2012 CES! Continue reading...

I want to keep my current antivirus program (McAfee), but I need MS Anti-spyware, too. To my knowledge, McAfee has no free anti-spyware program. Thank you. Continue reading...

Microsoft security essentials detected trojandownloader:win32\agent.yp... tried the remove option and it would say it was removed however upon restart of the system the detection would reappear. through much searching on the issue i then ran...CCLEANER and also ADVANCED SYSTEM SECURITY to clean up junk files, malware, registry and what not. System seemed to be clean afterwards...no more detections in security essentials, however this morning, recent programs does not show up in the start menu and 90% of my programs in the all programs folder show up as HIGHLIGHTED just like if they would have been JUST INSTALLED. everything is working fine, all programs open up and work a…

Dear Microsoft / Community, We are experiencing problems with missing keystrokes in IE8 and I hope someone can help! We are using ORACLE's Siebel CRM as our CRM system. Siebel is a web-based application using Internet Explorer and ActiveX. For years, everything was working fine, but with the introduction of IE8 some users started to experience missing keystrokes while typing in Siebel popup windows. For example the text "I am using Internet Explorer" might become something like "I a usng IntenetExplrer". First we started to replace their keyboards, but it did not show any effect. It definately is not related to the keyboard. So I searched the internet and found variou…

i am no longer able to send link or page by email usjing IE9 in windows 7 by going to file-send-link or page by email can some one please help me Thank you Continue reading...

I am continuing to get a synchronizing files error after a server is no longer existent. I uncheck synchronize with the server and it is still trying to synchronize. It doesn't seem to stop trying to synchronize with the server even when I tell it not and delete all the files that it may be trying to synchronize. I even tried to delete all references to the old server in regedit and it continues to try to synchronize.Please help. It is taking my users an extra 30 seconds to log on with the synchronization error. Thank you for your help. Continue reading...

por favor nao entendo ingles se alguem puder me ajudar em portugues agradeço.. Continue reading...

Hello all, I seemed to have run into some problems regarding my attempt to run Windows Easy Transfer when switching someone over from an XP box to a Windows 7 box. At first, everything seemed to go pretty well. There was one curiosity when the woman was not able to print from the previously configured network printer, but I just removed the old connection and reestablished it. This worked fine for several days until it crapped out again. The second time, though, I was not able to reconnect the printer and was constantly told that the print spool service was stopped under the one login (under my own everything was fine. . .I even attempted to make the user a local adm…

can not up date virus on mse.. error message 0x80072f76 Continue reading...

I realise this is a long shot but am wondering if there is any way I can download WindowsXP 64 bit OS. I am caught in the situation where business critical apps will not run under Windows 7 but really need to try a 64 bit solution in an endeavour to fix problems with another software package.Thanks, Granville Continue reading...

I think the crashes have been caused by some files in some very popular applications which have very long filepaths. they show up worst on XP boxes,which have a very long APPDATA. some file trees in APPDATA are extremely long, and including the username, exceed 260 characters maximum filepath length for a file (MAX_PATH in the C++ compiler). one file I was looking at was 264 characters. this has been causing crashes in anything that walks a directory tree which uses char arrays for filepaths. so this is a security issue. Apps this problem can cause to crash or work incorrectly are: backup. disk cloning. file finding/locating (like whereis or file counting for…

the configuration i am working on, does not use a windows update server on the network, and there is no problem using the default windows update service directly from microsoft, there is a problem however in that if the update manager is set to only notify about updates and not automaticaly install them, then on the next install of updates, it changes that to automaticaly install all updates as it feels necessary. is there a way to prevent it from changing this setting, so that it can't decide to automaticaly install updates? Continue reading...

I am trying to print a report from a corporate application and received the following error: "Windows has blocked this SW because it can't verify the publisher. Name: AdobeControl.CAB Publisher: Unknown Publisher". I'm running IE8. Please help! Continue reading...

On a 2002 Dell Inspiron 4300 desktop, I get the "install hal.dll" message after POST. I do not have a copy of the OS that came with the PC. Can I use a OS disk from another Dell PC to do a repair to the OS? Continue reading...

Hello, I am doing a research Project and I am looking into Windows Phone History, such as where it started, how it has evolved and what is the future? Are there any sites which are recommended (not Wiki) to be used as have been having trouble in tracking down any information thus far. Regards ordandrew Continue reading...

Taskbar icon does not always start Continue reading...

m trying to load new talktalk anti virus security on my pc but says i havnt deleted my old norton av, when i try to uninstall it does nothing! help!! and wot is beta??? Continue reading...

Hi all, I've posted the question on the IE extension developement forum, but actually I'm not quite sure it's actually quite the right place for it. Anyway, the question is here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ieextensiondevelopment/thread/d793ed5d-4a1e-4dcc-b48d-8d1d3693e7df If anyone could help I'd be very appreciative! :) Sorry for cross posting too! Andy. Continue reading...

Hello, i have this computer which have the same configuration as others, this computer takes an ip, mask, gateway...etc of the same of others using DHCP. ipconfig /all for this computer wich have a windows xp professional SP 3: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : 192.168.3.1 Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 90-4C-E5-3B-2C-C0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.3.101 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.3.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.1…

Notebook Clevo D901-c / W7 installed from beginning with sata set to AHCI. If i select restart, than it will restart normally. If have to Switch off instead of "Restart", than in the next restarting job session it'll hang on after ahci post message. Than , only procedure i have to solve this issue is: must restart and change bios to IDE restart it and wait for blue error screen, and finally while restarting go into bios and re select back to ahci. Start normally and select restart normally. When is running normally, if I check registry, msahci "start" service is already set to "0" so i don't know what else could do for . How can i solve it? Just for better explain, let's…

Team, one of the user in my organisation Having problem in Toshiba Laptop. Issue : Unable to boot the Operating System. Error: " A Disk read error occured" Laptop Model : Toshiba Satelliet M55-S3314 Operating System: Windows XP SP3 Please suggest me, what would be the problem? is it Harddisk crash or problem with OS? If it is Hard disk crash, How can i retrieve the data? Thanks in Advance... Karthick.P | India. Continue reading...

I'm unable to open the outlook data files, there is no e-mail showing in my folder Continue reading...