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0x8000ffff error when I want to recover my Laptop
by Guest Benjo772- 0 replies
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Hey I have a HP G62 and I recently tried to restore my Laptop to an earlier point of time (only the system) with a restore point, but everytime I do it It restarts the computer and when I log in it says "error 0x8000ffff Restore point could not be extracted from C:\" And I tried every single restore point and none of them works, I even downloaded all updates for Windows. Please help ! Continue reading...
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windows up sp1 error WindowsUpdate_80073712
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hi all, i deleted on purpose the runas.exe files and folders and also the takeown.exe files and folders, but i didnt know that it would affect windows updates and now i cant update to windows 7 service pack 1,so i ran the fix readliness and it fixed one error, which i believe it would be the takeown.exe coz after installing the fix i noticed that the takeown.exe files were there again, but then the sp1 throws another error and i researched and i found out that that error occurs due to file corrupted ,so i ran the command sfc/ scannow and it found errors ..when i looked in the file log i right away found what was going on and i believe that its because the runas.exe file …
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active 2010 office
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i can not active office home and business 2010 when i but the key give my not vilad Continue reading...
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WIndows 7 Login Screen Mouse & Keyboard failure
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Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, fully patched and kept up to date. I was away a few days and came home to find my machine on but with a bluescreen of death. I rebooted and Windows did some repair stuff and then it brought up the login screen. Issue is mouse and keyboard are unresponsive, so no ability to login to do anything further. I tried safe mode with networking same issue. I tried a PS2 keyboard, same issue. (Both keyboards work in bios and on any windows repair screens). Next I tried a plain old USB mouse, same issue. I tried checking bios for USB enabled (it was) and then rebooted, same issue. In normal and safe mode windows boots fine into login screen but then loses…
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I do a clean install. Delete all the partitions, make a new one, format. Then "Copying files" takes approx 1 second. Then it does to "Expand" and gives me the error. Exact message: "Windows cannot install required files. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x80070570" Continue reading...
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Jury Deadlocks in Novell Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft
by Guest Paul Thurrott- 0 replies
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By Paul Thurrott If you thought there was nothing stranger than Microsoft being the subject of an antitrust lawsuit for actions it allegedly took against a product that is no longer owned by the company that’s suing, then hold on to your seat. Because it just got stranger: A federal jury has deadlocked, effectively ending the case. But the company suing Microsoft says it’s going to try again. And that means a whole new trial. Continue reading...
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Windows Phone 7.5: Over the Air Podcasts
by Guest Paul Thurrott- 0 replies
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By Paul Thurrott While many point to the Metro UI as evidence of innovation in Windows Phone, this platform’s cloud-centricity is, I think, the more profound innovation. You can see this in the system’s support for email, PIM, and social networking accounts and in its various integrated hubs. And in Windows Phone 7.5, you can see it in the platform’s first-ever support for over-the-air podcast subscriptions. Continue reading...
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RIP, RIM
by Guest Paul Thurrott- 0 replies
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By Paul Thurrott RIM announced this week that its next generation mobile OS, now called Blackberry 10, won’t ship until the end of 2012, a full year from now. This comes on the heels of one of the worst years I’ve ever seen any tech company experience, and I’d remind you that this happened during a time in which both Yahoo and HP were stumbling around blindly. Continue reading...
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Microsoft exec: More multi-platform mobile products coming in 2012
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Watch for Microsoft to continue to roll out more of its productivity wares on non-Microsoft platforms in 2012, an official with the Office 365 team says. Continue reading...
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Watch for Microsoft to continue to roll out more of its productivity wares on non-Microsoft platforms in 2012, an official with the Office 365 team says. Source: All About Microsoft
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The experience of signing in to your PC with touch has traditionally been a cumbersome one. In a world with increasingly strict password requirements—with numbers, symbols, and capitalization—it can take upwards of 30 seconds to enter a long, complex password on a touch keyboard. We have a strong belief that your experience with Windows 8 should be both fast and fluid, and that starts when you sign in. Other touch experiences in the marketplace have tried to tackle this problem, with the canonical example being a numeric PIN. A PIN is a great solution: Almost everyone has seen or used one before, and a keypad is simple to use with touch. We knew though, that there was …
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WinInfo Short Takes: December 16, 2011
by Guest Paul Thurrott- 0 replies
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By Paul Thurrott An often irreverent look at this week’s other news, including Bill Gates’ denial about returning to Microsoft, Dell abandons the netbook market, Amazon sells over 1 million Kindles each week, Nokia’s first smart phone for the US, no verdict in the Novell/Microsoft antitrust case, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab lemonade, a Blackberry 10 delay and, finally, an Apple product made in the US. Continue reading...
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Will Bing grow at Google's expense (or Yahoo's) in 2012?
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Will Microsoft’s Bing grow search share at Yahoo’s expense — or Google’s — in 2012? Continue reading...
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Will Microsoft’s Bing grow search share at Yahoo’s expense — or Google’s — in 2012? Source: All About Microsoft
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Heads-Up: European Nokia Lumia 800 Will Not Work in the US
by Guest Paul Thurrott- 0 replies
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By Paul Thurrott The Lumia 800, Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone handset, will not work on cellular networks in the United States. So if you were planning on purchasing an unlocked unit overseas and using it here, you need to be aware of this incompatibility. Continue reading...
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Microsoft Touts New Accessibility Add-ins for Office 2010
by Guest Paul Thurrott- 0 replies
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By Paul Thurrott Microsoft today posted about two new accessibility-oriented add-ins for its Office 2010 productivity suite. They providing video subtitling for PowerPoint and Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) compatibility for Word, respectively. Continue reading...
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New Hotmail Version Now Fully Deployed ... Plus, a Hotmail App for Android
by Guest Paul Thurrott- 0 replies
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By Paul Thurrott To say that Microsoft has been on a torrid release schedule when it comes to upgrading its cloud-based services is a bit of an understatement. Today, the company revealed that it has completed deploying the latest version of its Hotmail email service, so all customers are now on the new version. And in celebration of that, the company has provided a list of the top 10 new features in this release ... and a new Hotmail app for Android. Continue reading...
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Meet the Folks Behind Windows Phone's Wonderful User Interface
by Guest Paul Thurrott- 0 replies
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By Paul Thurrott I’ve seen a lot of strange complaints in recent days from the Windows Phone crowd, since Microsoft is porting a lot of its mobile apps to iOS and Android now, presumably nixing some of their favorite platform’s key differentiators. But the real advantage of Windows Phone has nothing to do with apps, it’s all about the wonderful Metro user experience, which deemphasizes the need for standalone apps. And today, Microsoft profiled some of the folks responsible for that UI. Continue reading...
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Microsoft takes the wraps off its So.cl social-search project
by Guest Mary Jo Foley- 0 replies
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Microsoft is taking the wraps off a new learning tool, it social-search research project known as So.cl, from its FUSE Labs division. Continue reading...
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Microsoft is taking the wraps off a new learning tool, it social-search research project known as So.cl, from its FUSE Labs division. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft Opens Up Windows Live Messenger, Sort Of
by Guest Paul Thurrott- 0 replies
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By Paul Thurrott Microsoft this week announced that it has opened up the Messenger network, which powers Windows Live Messenger, to the XMPP open standard. This change gives developers of virtually any platform--mobile, web, PC--the ability to create their own Windows Live Messenger-compatible instant messaging solutions. Continue reading...
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Facebook Unleashes New Timeline UI
by Guest Paul Thurrott- 0 replies
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By Paul Thurrott Facebook today released its new Timeline user interface, allowing the hundreds of millions of people who access the social networking service to opt-in to this new, more visual profile type. The feature was first revealed at the company’s F8 developer conference back in September. Continue reading...
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Microsoft to push latest version of IE to users starting in 2012
by Guest Mary Jo Foley- 0 replies
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Microsoft is going to start automatically upgradingWindows PC users to the latest version of the IE browser available for their PCs, as of January next year. Continue reading...
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Microsoft is going to start automatically upgradingWindows PC users to the latest version of the IE browser available for their PCs, as of January next year. Source: All About Microsoft
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In Major Shift, Microsoft Will Auto-Update Internet Explorer Users
by Guest Paul Thurrott- 0 replies
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By Paul Thurrott Microsoft announced this morning that it will begin auto-updating Internet Explorer users’ PCs to the latest versions of the browser, a situation that will vary somewhat according to which Windows version they’re using. This is similar to how Google’s Chrome browser works, though Microsoft is of course also providing corporations and end users with workarounds should they wish to remain on their current IE version. Continue reading...