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The greening of tech packaging - CNET News
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CNET News The greening of tech packaging CNET News Microsoft claims that Windows 7 packaging "has a 37 percent weight reduction, and the econometrics score has improved by 50 percent over ... [/size] and more
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Control.exe error
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Inspiron 530 Running Vista Home Basic SP1 When trying to open Control panel from the Start, Programs Menu, or right click on Computer to go to System Properties, I get the following message in a small window: Control.exe shdocvw.dll not found - reinstalling may fix the problem The shdocvw.dll file is in Windows\system32 directory , but I cannot replace it nor delete it even in safe mode.It says I don't have permission to edit, rename it, or delete it. I am also getting a window when I right click on Computer and try to go to Properties/System properties.It says Control.exe - unable to locate component.Application failed to start, SHDOCVW.DLL was not …
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Re: BSOD = Bestiality Sadomasochism Overdose Death
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"JEWboy" wrote in message news:%23JOmf0e9JHA.4204@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Is it true? > BSOD = Bestiality Sadomasochism Overdose Doom > > Or > BSOD = Blue Screen of Death? No wonder why you didn't post very much yesterday. You had to spend most of the day trying to come up with words for BSOD. HA HA HA HA HA Loser
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Re: Gadget Side Bar
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style_emoticons//smile.gif Hi! Has anyone tried Windows Sidebar Properties? Ticking the box Start Sidebar when Windows starts then clicking Apply then Ok worked for me. Had the same problem for a while and this helped. Hope this might work for you guys as well. Cheers.style_emoticons//smile.gif -- GorpMan Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
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Windows 7 Touch screen on Archos
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One of the powerful features of Microsoft Windows 7 is it’s touch screen abilities. One of the products that is taking advantage of these features is French portable media company Archos who has released a number of Tablet PC like devices. Their latest product Archos 9 is a mini PC that would attract a certain market. [...]Post from: Windows Vista Weblog More...
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Windows 7 Upgrade, Pricing Announced - Techtree.com
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BBC News Windows 7 Upgrade, Pricing Announced Techtree.com Under this program, consumers buying a new PC today onwards from the participating PC makers or channel partners with specific Windows Vista SKUs will be ... Microsoft tries to make Windows 7 easier to openCNET News Windows 7 Will Cost Less, with Advance Order DiscountsCIO Today Windows 7 Half-Price Sale Starts FridayInformationWeek Computerworld -PC World -Computerworld all 979 news articles
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I am trying to add a domain controller to Windows server 2008 data center. I must say that my root directory runs on windows server 2003. When I am trying to connect to my root directory the following message appears. As I understand i must run the adprepe ustility for server cd to the server that has the schema of my forests? Thanks
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Inside Windows 7 - MSDN Magazine
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Inside Windows 7 MSDN Magazine Figure 1 shows the Windows 1.0 taskbar. (Note that the 1.0 taskbar bears more resemblance to the Windows 7 taskbar than to the Windows Vista taskbar. ... [/size] and more
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Re: BSOD = Bestiality Sadomasochism Overdose Death
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"JEWboy" wrote in message news:%23JOmf0e9JHA.4204@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Is it true? > BSOD = Bestiality Sadomasochism Overdose Doom > > Or > BSOD = Blue Screen of Death? Yes, it's true. You're whacked.
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Sesame Workshop: Video games good for kids - CNET News
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Sesame Workshop: Video games good for kids CNET News Software maker will let consumers preorder Windows 7 at a big discount, while offering permanent prices at or below the retail prices for Windows Vista. ... [/size] and more
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$50 Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade
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Can I upgrade Windows Vista Home Premium OEM with Windows 7 Home Premium? All I have is recovery disks, In the past Windows asks for a previous full version CD to upgrade.
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Is Windows Installing Updates without Permission? - PC Magazine
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ZDNet Is Windows Installing Updates without Permission? PC Magazine Reports are coming in that Windows XP and Vista are, in some cases, installing updates at system shut down on systems where they are ... Are Windows stealth updates back again?ZDNet [/size] all 26 news articles
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Seattle Post Intelligencer Microsoft Windows exec to leave for new pastures Seattle Post Intelligencer He was vice president of Windows networking and device technologies during the development of Windows Vista. (He) remained in that role for about a year ... [/size] and more
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Frank Effect type B (FEB)
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apart from frank effect type A (*) there is another frank effect called type B this is what happens if you get to know frank.. then whenever you meet someone called frank the following things will happen: a) you automatically think he is an idiot like our loser frank style_emoticons//cool.gif you start giggling because you are thinking of all the times you have kicked franks arse basically our idiot troll moron frank has stigmatized the name frank and from now on its turning into a kind of insult... if you want to insult someone call him a frank (*) frank effect type A is the effect frank has on people to start swearing and cursing and spewing …
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System restore failed?
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I went and bought another hard drive and used the built in backup on Vista and backup on another drive. The original C:\ has a 75 gig partition and I back it up on a partitioned 1TB drive. I partition it for 100 gigs and 900 gigs. I back up on the 900 gig partition and tried to restore it on the 100 gig partition and it failed. This happen to me about 2 years ago and I forgot how I fix this. Could someone please help me. The Old Man
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Declaring Security
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Recently, a number of people have asked me what I think about Mozilla’s Content Security Policy draft spec. Back in January, I went on record as being someone who thinks that CSP is a good idea. CSP is a mechanism for declarative security, whereby a site communicates its intent and leaves it up to the user-agent to determine how to enforce it. There are a number of benefits to declarative security mechanisms: Reduced compatibility risks. Because sites must opt-in and declare what, if any, restrictions they want, new security features may be added to the user-agent with decreased compatibility fallout.Clear intent. By plainly declaring which restrictions are…
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Best tools for real-time search - CNET News
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Best tools for real-time search CNET News Software maker will let consumers preorder Windows 7 at a big discount, while offering permanent prices at or below the retail prices for Windows Vista. ... [/size] and more
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When Tech Products Go Pro, It'sâ¦Utterly Meaningless! Technologizer With Windows Vista, Microsoft stopped focusing on âprofessionalâ-ism and instead gave users the business, Windows Vista Business, that is. ... [/size] and more
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Green Dam exploit in the wild - ZDNet UK
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Green Dam exploit in the wild ZDNet UK, UK ... this stack-based, buffer overflow vulnerability in Green Dam 3.17," Trancer wrote in his Recognize-Security blog. "I've tested this exploit successfully on the following platforms: IE6, Windows XP SP2, IE7, Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1. ... More...
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Seattle Times Brier Dudley column: Comcast converter a must or you ... TMCnet Eyeing Windows 7 If you're shopping for a new PC, you may want to wait until Friday. That's when Microsoft and computer makers could start giving coupons for a free copy of Windows 7 to people who buy a new Windows Vista PC. The coupons are intended to ... More...
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A browser-free Windows 7 - BBC News
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BBC News A browser-free Windows 7 BBC News, UK You upgrade from XP or Vista to Windows 7, and then find you've got no browser. No problem, I hear you say, you just go and download one - say Firefox, or Chrome, or Safari or maybe Internet Explorer 8. Using your browser. Ahh...right. ... More...
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Windows 7 Pricing
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Microsoft announces the retail pricing for Windows 7, as well as info about a money saving promotional pre-order program! More...
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Are Windows stealth updates back again? - ZDNet
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ZDNet Are Windows stealth updates back again? ZDNet Adrian is a technology journalist and author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology. He also runs a popular blog called The PC Doctor. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations. More...
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What do you want removed from Windows 7?
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Microsoft has already announced the removal of Internet Explorer 8 for Windows 7 that are going to be released in Europe. The European Commission comes down hard on companies that have been judged guilty of anti-monopoly. Intel was previously slapped with $1.45 billion dollars after the chipmaker was found guilty of anticompetitive practices four years [...]Post from: Windows Vista Weblog More...
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Hey guys! I got some questions for you.. My dad wants to have a home server in our house... At first, he wanted some god-like server, which can do everything... But I talked him out of that pretty fast, because it needs A LOT of power, if you want to play games over a terminal session.. Anyways... The server should be able to hold all our data and to make it accessable... It'll also run a streaming software, so I can watch stored movies with my PS3... There we got the first problem... The PS3 can't play the *.mkv format, which means, that the server has to decode the movie and then send it to the PS3... I store all my bluray movies as *.mkv on my hdd, so more…
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