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I just saw a folder on the C: drive root (C:\) named 'a3dc416c0d89388d46c1d20d' which has the following 'dir' listing: ===== dir listing starts ======== Volume in drive C is OS Volume Serial Number is D444-41B8 Directory of C:\a3dc416c0d89388d46c1d20d 02 Aug 2010 08:57 . 02 Aug 2010 08:57 .. 14 Jul 2009 12:11 510 Windows6.0-KB970158-x86- pkgProperties.txt 14 Jul 2009 12:11 510 Windows6.0-KB970158-x86- pkgProperties.txt~I50567LV 14 Jul 2009 12:09 601,801 Windows6.0-KB970158-x86.cab 14 Jul 2009 12:09 601,801 Windows6.0-KB970158-x86.cab~8…

Online privacy and tracking have been in several news articles and public hearings lately. The recent attention has been on how visiting one site shares information with many sites, and how those sites can then share the information and effectively &lsquotrack&rsquo your activity on the web. The articles certainly show the complexity of the topic. This blog post offers some context on online safety and privacy and specific information about InPrivate Filtering, a feature in IE8 designed to help protect users from some tracking scenarios, as well as several other features IE8 offers users to help protect their privacy online. Part of what makes online privac…

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IF THE POST IS NOT FROM BEAVER VALLEY THEN IT'S NOT ME. IF THE POST IS FROM NUTSACK CITY, THEN THEN IT'S ME. IF THE POST IS NOT FROM INTERCOURSE, PA THEN IT'S NOT ME. IF THE POST IS FROM LICKBALLS, NV, THEN IT'S ME.

Was using Windows live messenger this am . When over to check my hot mail from inside of windows live messenger. signed out and got a pink notice bar say live messenger had encountered a communication error . Ever since then it will not start up just get a box at bottom of screen searcing for solution. That is it. Tried to down load a reinstall it no help. Am running windows 7 64 bit. Even tried to restore to ealier time . Then tired to start windows live messenger again. It started once then logged out and when tired to start it again went back to same problem as before. Hope some one has run into this and has a fix Thank You …

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WHOEVER IS POSTING HERE UNDER "STAN STARINSKI" NAME IS NOT ALWAYS, IN FACT MOST OF THE TIME, NOT REAL STAN STARINSKI. REAL STAN STARINSKI IS POSTING LITTLE & STRICTLY TECHNICAL, USEFUL STUFF. BUT THE FAKE ONE'S REAL NAME IS: BILL YANAIRE OF CALIFORNIA (WILLIAM YANAIRE) WHO DRIVES A TOYOTA PICKUPTRUCK. MAKE SURE WHEN YOU RESPOND TO SOME GARBAGE POSTING, THE GARBAGE COMES FROM BILL YANAIRE POSTING UNDER OTHERS NAMES: HE IS MOST OFTEN USING KEVIN JOHN PANZKE, BILL GATES, BARAK OBAMA & OTHER CELEBRITIES. NOW HE IS USING MY NAME. LOL. IN A WAY IT'S FLATTERING, IN ANORHER WAY IT'S SAD HOW AN ADULT FINDS FUN IN IMPER…

I just got an XBox 360 controller for the PC ("XBox 360 Wireless Controller via Play & Charge Kit") and the driver from http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/download/DownloadResult.aspx?category=Gaming&type=Gaming&name=JR9-00001&os=XP_SP2&lang=en but it's still not showing in the Game Controllers control panel, nor being recognized by my games. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers with no luck. I press the "X" button and the ring flashes green: Three fast, then 12 slow. Ports are OK, no other USB devices connected. Anything else to try, and are the flashes an error code?

In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Tom Merritt and I discuss Microsoft's record quarterly revenues, Windows Phone's best features and worst omissions, the return of the Slate PC, cheaper new Kindles, Microsoft's security tie-up with Adobe, and the proposed Google/Yahoo deal in Japan. We also held a live listener Q and A. Read the Full Story

Back to the original question...... If you are developing your own program, (you probably are if you're concerned with grammar files), then yes you can use Speech Recognition without enabling the Windows Commands: Heya Mike, Not sure if you'll still be interested, but there is a solution to your question. If you've moved on, it'll still be relevant to the rest of us, so I'll post away.... There's two ways to instance a speech recogniser using SAPI. The most common, and the simplest is through simply using the shared recogniser: hr = pRecognizerEngine.CoCreateInstance( CLSID_SpSharedRecognizer ) The more comp…

Frequently, my Taskbar ceases to hide. I think it might have something to do with open apps needing attention but I can't prove this and I'm not even sure it's true. I am using Windows 7 now - BUT I have had this same problem with Vista, XP Pro and OS's before that. It's only now that I'm searching for a fix (guess I was very lazy - sorry!!!). Can anyone help me? The only thing I've been able to find is to close Explorer.exe then retart it. That 'seems' to work - but it is a workaround, not a fix - and it happens often enough that it has become a huge annoyance.

Just FYI. You are delusional. The poster wasn't claiming to be Stan Starinsky. If you look real close if you have the ability, you will see that the post was generated by a MRS. Stan Starinski. Clearly not Stan Starinski the group retard and wannabe EE. I think if you print this out, take it to someone who can help you with that concept. It is allowed to have names different or the same. Sometimes names are similar but different. I know that is foreign to you but it's true. No wonder you can't get employment! Just FYI. "Ibrahim Al-Qassam (Abdelaziz)" wrote in message news:i2ttne$q78$1@news.eternal-september.org... …

In article , "(PeteCresswell)" wrote: > Per (PeteCresswell): > >My Question: > > > >Is there a way to image that 300-gig partition - which will > >contain less than 30 gigs of actual "stuff" - in such a way that > >a good system can be created by re-imaging to a 30-gig partition? > > > It *sounds* like Acronis True Image will do this. > > Anybody with TI actually done it? Pete, check out CloneZilla - I think the newest version will do exactly that. Plus its open source.

Celebrated Windows expert Mark Russinovich has joined the Windows Azure team. For the past three years, Technical Fellow Russinovich has been working on Windows. More...

The August 2010 edition of my print magazine column looks at the Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 SP1 Public Beta, Windows Server vNext in 2012, Windows 2000 EOL, Small Business Server "7" and "Aurora", HTML 5 and the future, Microsoft Communications Server (MCS) "14", and Windows InTune. Read the Full Story

The latest Platform Preview Build includes two great interoperable features for working with the DOM &ndash DOM Traversal and Element Traversal. These features provide web developers with simple, flexible, and fast ways of traversing through a document using the same markup across browsers. These features come in the form of flat enumeration, simplifying the DOM tree to an iterative list, and filtering which enables you to tailor the set of nodes you traverse. These features work with the same markup across browsers &ndash you can try out any of the code here in the IE9 platform preview and other browsers. Without these features, finding an element of inte…

Microsoft is planning to go to the Japanese Fair Trade Commission (FTC) to make its case as to why the just-announced Google-Yahoo search deal is anticompetitive. More...

I suggest you to try repair PST software tool. Repair PST is an advanced Email Recovery Utility to repair corrupted or damaged PST files with all other items such as Journals, Tasks, Notes, Emails, Calendar, Contacts. Microsoft Outlook stores its data in PST file, and these PST files contains tasks, calendar, notes, journal, contacts which can be successfully restored using Outlook PST Repair Software. PST Repair Software provides following features: * Recover mail messages, folders, appointments, journal, contacts, tasks, journals and notes in PST files. * Recover all properties, such as subject, to, from, cc, bcc, date, etc., are re…

For various reasons I have a need on logon to automatically copy a user Auth certifcate from the Active Directory User Object store into the Personal Certifcate store. The certificate in questions issued to field will be the same as ther logon ID (naturalyl since its a user auth certificate). Can anyone suggest how to achieve this or even provide a script that might do this that I can run at logon?

One of the most pressing questions on investors’ and shareholders’ minds about Microsoft is how the company plans to respond to Apple’s iPad. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reiterated at FAM that the company and its PC partners are going to have new Windows 7 slates coming to market “soon,” but didn’t much else about the company’s plans. More...

I've gotten a lot of email about the recently released Window 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta, which is interesting because this update doesn't add a single meaningful new end user feature to Microsoft's popular new Windows version. Due in Q1 2011, Windows 7 SP1 is essentially just an update rollup, one that doesn't change the system's user experience at all. Here's what the install process is like. Read the Full Story