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If you are still in Windows XP or Windows Vista, you might be thinking how long it takes to upgrade from your Windows box to Windows 7. Don’t get carried away with all the of reports saying that the upgrade is a breeze and simple enough. I do agree it should be a simple process, that is if you are upgrading from a Windows Vista fresh installation to a Windows 7 fresh installation. There are so many things you need to do to prepare for an upgrade and the following are items you should consider: 1. File backups – [...]Post from: Windows Vista Weblog More...

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On Sep 12, 4:07Â pm, Pegasus wrote: > Since this is far from a trivial set of batch files, you should ask > the batch file experts in alt.msdos.batch.nt for advice. They love > this type of challenge!- Hide quoted text - > Actually, if you look a little closer you will find those batch files are really quite simple. They both essentially boil down to executing some FOR commands that look similar to this: for /f "tokens=4 usebackq" %%a in ('a b c d e f g h') do echo %%a According to the docs, that command should produce the command "echo d", which should in turn echo the d character to the screen. In fact that does happen. However, quite oft…

Windows 7 News Windows 7 Upgrade Performance Windows 7 News Many users will purchase a computer system that is already coming pre-installed with Windows 7. Those that bought a computer with Windows Vista or are ... Worst Case Scenario: Windows 7 Upgrade Can Take 21 HoursGizmodo.com [/size] all 9 news articles

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Just purchased new server, as well as WS 2008 Standard 64 bit, with external LTO tape drive. R2 is already available for download from MS eOpen Vol License site, so elected to use it rather than install WS 2008 SP2 and perform in-place upgrade later. All of the new product info on Windows Server 2008 on the MS web site relates to R2, so expected critical third party software to be compatible by time MS released the OS version. Backup Exec 12.5 was thought to support R2 by the hardware vendor, but didn't function after installation other than recognizing the tape drive, allowing erase jobs, but unable to perform backups. Symantec tech support indicate…

Hi all, this is my finding on the event viewer, i am not sure is it the correct root cause, can someone help me? Event Type: Error Event Source: ClusSvc Event Category: (16) Event ID: 1006 Date: 9/8/2009 Time: 4:58:03 PM User: N/A Computer: CBCDENCN204 Description: Microsoft Clustering Service was halted due to a cluster membership or communications error. The error code was 1000. Event Type: Error Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Event ID: 7031 Date: 9/8/2009 Time: 4:58:03 PM User: N/A Computer: CBCDENCN204 Description: The Cluster Service service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time (s). The fol…

I have not been able to get flashplayer working in Vista or Firefox and here is what fixed it for me. In IE 8 I went to Tools and clicked Manage Addons and found adobe "disabled" for some dumb reason so I enabled it and as simple as that it now works.... In Firefox I redownloaded the program (note: pay attention to the download process because in Firefox you probably will have to "enable" the download by clicking on an enable button on the screen during the process to make sure you get the download.) Hope this helps a few people style_emoticons//smile.gif -- wrangle09 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wrangl…

Microsoft has launched a series of advertisements geared towards their next operating system, Windows 7. The advertisement debut as a commercial on the CW’s show Vampire Diaries. This is a 30 second commercial which features a girl using her father’s PC powered by Windows 7. The girl says that she have found happy words all over her dad’s computer which happens to be 7,7,7,7. After that, the girl launches a slide show which feature menagerie which comprise of bunnies, cats and unicorns. The advertisement ends with the girls saying she is a PC and more happiness is coming.It seems Microsoft [...]Post from: Windows Vista Weblog More...

Hi, I notice that vista has made some shortcut folders as placeholders for previous XP folders. For instance: C:/Application Data If I look at the properties for that shortcut, it is type folder with no target. That all makes sense. But I see another shortcut at: C:/ProgramData/Application Data That shortcut is type folder, but it has a target of "C:/Program Data" And, when opening that shortcut you get into an endless loop. :-( And causes my script to endlessly drill down. This is a 1 month old vista home laptop. I believe it should be a shortcut with type folder and no target. Is that correct? If so, how would I create such a shortcut? I suppose I …

See the "How to obtain help" section of http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957638 PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote: > And the KB number for this update is...? > > How to troubleshoot Windows Update, Microsoft Update, and Windows Server > Update Services installation issues: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906602 > > 1. See the "Need more help? Tell us what problem you are having" section > of > http://support.microsoft.com/ph/6527 > > 2. You cannot install some updates or programs > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822798 > > 3a. Check your WindowsUpdate.log (%windir%WindowsUpdate.log) for errors > associated with…

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"hooty01" wrote: > When I go to windows update, it says to install activex control from yellow > bar under address bar. I have tried everything I know. Yellow bar doesn not > appear. I cannot play games or anything until I get this loaded. Help anyone.

Windows Management Framework RC Available Redmondmag.com Last month, Microsoft unveiled RC versions for Windows Vista SP1 or SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP1 or SP2. The components support management capabilities ... http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&ncl=d3vrYhSUv8TjS6M More...

Hi -- I have a user who accesses a Windows 2003 Terminal Server using a login that launches her directly into the application she uses without ever showing her a desktop. When she exits from this app, she is automatically logged out. She is having occasional problems printing to a printer that is local to the Terminal Server. Most of the time she can print to this printer without any problem. Occasionally, though, a print job will get stuck in there, and then all her subsequent print jobs just stack in the queue. The quick solution to this problem is to open up the print queue and delete the stuck print job. But she has no desktop ... Is there any …

I AM GOING WITH THE FUTURE OF ALL COMPUTING WHEN IT GETS HERE. JUST FYI. I AM NOT SURE WHAT IT IS BECAUSE EACH TIME I LOOK, THE FUTURE IS STILL NOT WITHIN REACH. JUST FYI. UNTIL THEN I WILL: INSTALL UBUNTU. CRY THAT UBUNTU DOESN'T WORK UNINSTALL UBUNTU INSTALL WINDOWS VISTA RTM SERVICE PACK 2 CRY THAT WINDOWS VISTA DOESN'T WORK UNINSTALL WINDOWS VISTA INSTALL WINDOWS 7 RC CRY THAT WINDOWS 7 DOESN'T WORK. ASK THAT WINDOWS BE RECALLED. JUST FYI. START OVER. JUST FYI

Security Fix Live Washington Post Brian Krebs: Microsoft tried to clarify its "type" rating for various software updates in Windows Vista, but as far as I'm concerned they only managed to ... http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&ncl=ddzYgvSeNMPZAcM More...

Old patch introduced SMBv2 flaw, says finder SecurityFocus In December 2007, Microsoft patched the file- and printer-sharing functionality in Windows Vista to fix a medium-severity vulnerability. ... http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&ncl=dDpZGh2eIHpcxjM More...

I have a a Windows Datacenter 2008 R2 Server configured with 4 nodes, each with 8 six core processors for a total of 98 cores. I am running into a whole mess of performance problems so serve that a basic 8 core server with 12 GB of memory is running twice as fast. By default, when a server has more then 64 cores, it assigns them evenly into groups with a max of 64 CPU per group. So in my case I have 2 CPU groups with 48 CPUs each. Now the problem I am running into is that window OS applications, like perfmon that will only see the CPU assigned to group 0. In this case , I want to use perfmon to monitor all the cpu, but it will only show be the first …

TG Daily Snow Leopard update fixes Adobe Flash issue CNET News Microsoft had to make big changes in Windows 7 because Windows Vista was "rushed to market" in 7 years. And to say Apple released early to beat Windows 7 is ... Zeichick's Take: Prepare for the desktop update onslaughtSDTimes.com Snow Leopard Could Be Apple's VistaInformationWeek Snow Leopard: Snow job or honest upgradeThe Hour MacDailyNews -CNET News all 263 news articles

I was following instructions given to me in microsoft.public.windowsexplorer.general in the "Blocked from a Website" posting. All instructions there worked fine. But when I entered the kb2.adobe.com URL, after being sure I was "running without addons," it waited for a while and then showed a dialogue box that said: "Could not retrieve a valid progID of Class: MSXML2XSLTemplate 3.0. (original exception undefined)" The site did open, however. And everything proceeded without further incident. I'm wondering is this be related to another set of problems I've had/am having? Might it be a clue? I was asked to use www.windowsupdate.com to uninstall M…

I have used some code to register an OCX file from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/173091 and this works fine for XP but Vista seems to need to be done manually (with Run As Administrator) - does anyone know how this can be done programatically?

Yesterday Windows did some auto updates and rebooted. No initial problems, however today when I booted up I received a blue screen with STOP: c000021a Fatal System Error The verification of a knowndll failed. system process terminated unexpectdly with a status of )xc0000020 (0x8c4b13f8 0x00000000) The system has been shut down Initially I couldn't hit F8 to try safe mode or repair. eventually i got in but neither is helping .... Anyone have any suggestions ? -- pm

Get a quad-core Gateway desktop for $290 CNET News The system comes with Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit). Alas, because it's a refurb, it doesn't qualify for a free upgrade to Windows 7. ... http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&ncl=dcvQ9tIbGCDfBMM More...

"mikedepetris@gmail.com" wrote: > The error is read is: > S_Bt8x8 Error: No Broktree/Conexant 848/849/878/879 found. > Try WDM(Generic) source instead. > > then: > Error in plugin Plugins/S_Bt8x8.dll: Crash in PluginInfo > > This may be of use: http://dllrepairs.com/library/s_bt8x8.dll/