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i'm running Vista on a sony vios laptop last night i was informed i had updates so i went ahead and installed them. This morning i can not boot vista, tryed F8 safe, last boot that worked, still nothing it is trying to start i see loading windows the screen gets lighter the mouse appeares then it just sits there NOTHING HELP!! Continue reading...

After the automatic updates of 28-10-2009 i must restart my system a Acer T180 Now the system isnt working. On the screen appear a message with this numbers: !! 0xc0000034 !! 142/46660 (_0000000000000000.cdf-ms) What to do to bring my system back in a working condition? Greetings ManS-H Continue reading...

Please I need your help about a parcial sync between an smartphone with WM6.5 and my notebook, Outlook 2010 32b, Windows 7 Professional 64b Example, I have a note OneNote mobile, and the same in my OneNote on the notebook. If I edit the note on the phone, and sync as usual, there is no actualization on my notebook. I can do that in the reverse mode, editing on my notebook, actualization OK on the phone. I am trying to convert almost 300 Outlook Notes that was imposible to sync, but also this way I have problems. Thank you in advance. Continue reading...

Dear All, I try to launch Phone setting program with PIN enable, it will prompt us to enter PIN. it does make sense, but when i click cancel button, we still could enter phone setting. we want to block lauching phone setting program without PIN is there some registry configuration to solve this issue or anything else? . Thank you. Continue reading...

i trait to open my mail and still not goint true Continue reading...

After buying a product on market place, where is my unlock code? because I DID NOT get an email - basically you have stolen my money And while your at it, why is it so hard to ask a question? don't bother to answer that Continue reading...

I have an HTC touch2 phone. I tried to send an email with a word attachment to my phone. The word attachment was a form with drop down lists and checkbox fields. When I received the email on the phone the Word attachment was missing. Is it possible to send Word Forms to fill and return as an email attachment? Continue reading...

So, I have an ASUS laptop, and the home edition of windows 7. My laptop was in the middle of an update, when the battery died. I can no longer use the main part of the computer, and am restricted to the gaming side. I have the serial number for windows 7 on the bottom of the laptop, I simply need to re-download it... though I'm finding it's not that simple. Can anyone help? I've been trying to get help from ASUS since August and they're still ignoring my problem. Continue reading...

Installed Win 7 RC 64bit as a stand alone OS on my machine. When booting, if the DVD is inserted, it will give me the "Press any key to boot from CD/DVD" message, if I wait until that message expires, then the OS boots fine. If I remove the DVD, then the system does not see either drive as bootable. Drives are: C:\ (A0) Intel 64GB X25-E SSD (OS installed here) D:\ (B0) Maxtor 1TB drive E:\ (B1) Pioneer CD/DVD burner Motherboard is EVGA nForce 750i SLI Probably doesn't matter, but just in case: CPU: Q8400 RAM: 8GB Corsair 800 GPU: [2] GTX260 PSU: Cooler Master 1000W I've tried Installing multiple times now, with both drives installed, and a…

I just did a clean install on a 128GB SSD. I also installed the normal motherboard and video card drivers but thats all at the moment. I now show 50GB remaining out of 119 (formatted size). So first thing, to my knowledge Win 7 is big but not that big. That is confirmed when I take a look at C: and do a properties on each top level folder. This adds up to be about 15GB which I see on line as about right. So what happened to the other 55GB? Swap space, dump space? In Disk Manager it identifies Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, and Primary Partition (and 100MB system reserve). This led me down the Crash Dump path and that a large 'file' size was allocated but I haven't …

Hi All I need to display System Information on desktop and used "BgInfo" from SystemInternals. I have following concernes while considering the image design. 1. If user change the desktop theme, the System Info not more visible. --> How to enforce that BgInfo works disregard to any wallpaper /theme. 2. Also, using BgInfo did not shows information when machine is locked / login screen. --> How to solve this issue?. /Malik N.A.Malik Continue reading...

Hello, In the past (even with W7 Beta), I could create a profile set up to corporate specs, then copy that profile to the Default Profile. The process went something like this: 1 - Set up profile with corporate settings, links, etc. 2 - Create dummy admin account. 3 - Log in to dummy admin account and copy 'set up profile' to the default profile. 4 - Log out of dummy admin and delete the dummy admin account. At this point any new logins would have the 'corporate profile' as their starting point. With W7 RC1, I am unable to copy any profiles to the default. The 'Copy To' button in 'User Profiles' is grayed out for any dummy admin account I create, as well as…

By Paul Thurrott Microsoft writes about protecting your digital identity and a new Windows 8 feature called picture passwords, while the blogosphere invents some drama over leaked Metro-style Music app shots, a drop in Developer Preview usage, and Microsoft’s ability to delete downloaded apps from users’ PCs. Yep, it’s another week in the pre-release life of Windows 8. Continue reading...

My new laptop crashed, and HP would not / could not re-install the Office 2010 Professional suite, just the files I generated from the wimpy software that comes with the computer. I have the Product Key for the Office 2010 product. What do I do next to re-install the "real deal" that I paid for already, and want to use it again for WORD, EXCEL, PPT ?? Dr J P Reilly Continue reading...

Is it possible to use BCM in a environment where the user (outlook 2010) and Exchange are in domain xx, but the SQL server where the BCM database is located is in domain YY? The problem seems to be that i cannot give appropriate rights, because the user is in another domain with no trust between them. Thanks in advance! Allan Continue reading...

My word starter 2010 does not: 1. activate the “picture” icon when in insert mode. 2. “ save as “ or “save” my word documents. I am reduced to emailing my word documents to myself and downloading these to “my documents”. The various forum suggestions did not work. I thought things would be different but this is not the case. Toschiba the OEM installer of Windows 7 was suggested as the responsible party as a fix, but Toschiba denied responsibility. It is not within my ability resolve contract conditions re MS and Toschiba. Here is what I want. I want MS to provide a fix. If this is a reinstallation of Windows 7 with or without the “starter” constraints. This…

Good afternoon, In Office 2010 the building Blocks are stored in de roaming profile path %appdata%\microsoft\document building blocks. In our environment with 7 language maps is count almost 30 mb of data. What is de most recommended way to get this files out of the roaming profile? We do have folder redirection but not for appdata. Can we redirect these files to e.g. the homedrive which is a network share or to the local or locallow folder? Kind regards, Peter van der Laarse Continue reading...

1) Is Microsoft known to be working on a real fix for these probelms? If so ETA? (Uninstalling the connector and the hotmail acct, and re-instaling, does fix the issue temporarilly, but the issue re-emerges in a bout a week) 2) There is a suggestion on the web to setup the hotmail account in Outlook as a MAPI acccount. Can this really be done, and does it solve the problem? 3) Does the Outlook Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010 also suffer from the hotmail connector probelms? Any input would be greatl appreciated. Outlook is a great product but this crazy connector problem has me thinking of finding another product. Any suggestions? Continue reading...

i dont know everytime i press the flag right down beside clock i found that msg above !!! Continue reading...

error code 0x80070424, how can this be resolved? I have windows 7 my laptop is a sony vaio and i my firewall will not work and my virus scan has scanned over 100 viruses in the past 3 days. Continue reading...

I'm on Windows xp, disinstalled other anti-virus programs before starting, had successful Quick scan, restarted computer, but now Essentials refuses to start. Continue reading...

I have an XP installation infected with Win 32 Alureon E, which Microsodt Safety Sweeper says has been 'partially removed'. What exactly does this mean, and what steps should I now take to restore my system? At present, Windows XP will not load properly, and System Restore will not work. Seems likely I have MBR problems or some such. George Bolam, UK. Continue reading...

security essentials fails during the install with error code 0x80070643, I have tried everything in the problems installing section and it still fails Continue reading...

My internet explorer 9 will not let me open one particular website. It happens to be www.virginia.edu and no computer on my home network can open that site. All other sites are fine Continue reading...

Why can I not allow pop-up blockers on some sites. I am told to go to tools, pop-up blockers, pop-up blocker settings and allow whichever sites I want to disable pop-up blockers. I cannot do that since the setting is greyed out. Continue reading...