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I experience poor sound quality with Windows Media Player 11 and Media Player Classic but NOT with VLC Player. By poor sound quality, I mean that the sound becomes more 'gravely' or garbled as the loudness of a piece of music increases. This can be heard whether playing CDs from the DVD drive or playing stored media files from the hard drive. I have experimented with adjusting the volume levels of the players, the sound card and the speaker system but the problem seems to be in the sound being output by the player not in how the level of its volume is adjusted. I have turned off SRS WOW Effects, Graphic Equalizer and I have experimented with Quiet Mod…

i tried this with a couple of my games and created a games folder...it took it out of my website and cut it up into categories such as download, launch, uninstall and now cannot get into them...i tried this with trial versions first to see what would happen and its not what i want to happen. 2 of my games disappeared completely. i unpin them and i cant find them anywhere either. So maybe i am doing something wrong or its not working properly? thanks in advance -- just looking to learn more "Uncle Joe" wrote: > I agree with Trax. Organize your Programs folder. I've got many folder > such as > Accessories, Adobe, Audio/visual, MS Offic…

Windows 2008 Standard SP1 64 bit I installed windows, add IIS and configure it, install MS SQL 2008. Install all updates. System works fine some days, but after restart all services are stopped. I can login into windows but nothing works at all. We have two different servers and I tried at both. System works fine during some days, I can restart it without problem. But suddenly after restart, without any reasons all services are stopped and system does not work.

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One of the powerful features of Windows 7 is it’s touch screen technology and devices from netbooks, laptops, desktops who has touch screen capabilities would make Windows 7 look very good for Microsoft. In this, Sony has prepared well for this upcoming operating system as they have announced that their Vaio series are going [...]Post from: Windows Vista Weblog More...

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I am using a Dell Inspiron 1600 linked to the internet. When I try to install Microsoft LiveCam or download from a DVD camcorder the internet settings are deleted/changed as I cannot get on to the internet. I have to restore my settings prior to the download. Any thoughts!! -- tomo150

Microsoft was playing hard ball with the European antitrust officials in the early stages of their browser anti-trust charges by saying that they would rather ship Windows 7 with no browser than ship one with a ballot screen. Microsoft might have been testing the water but there is no way they are releasing an operating [...]Post from: Windows Vista Weblog More...

MiamiHerald.com Yahoo Tie-Up Is Latest Sign Tide Turning for Microsoft's Ballmer Wall Street Journal Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system was pilloried for technical problems, and its videogame ambitions were nearly thwarted by widespread malfunctions ... San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Chris O'Brien Column: Yahoo and ...istockAnalyst.com (press release) [/size] all 3,634 news articles

Telegraph.co.uk Yahoo Tie-Up Is Latest Sign Tide Turning for Microsoft's Ballmer Wall Street Journal Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system was pilloried for technical problems, and its videogame ambitions were nearly thwarted by widespread malfunctions ... San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Chris O'Brien Column: Yahoo and ...istockAnalyst.com (press release) [/size] all 3,392 news articles

Verizon adds Wi-Fi on LI Long Island Business News The service requires Windows Vista 32-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit or Windows XP 32-bit with Service Pack 3. What about PDAs and other Wi-Fi-capable devices? ... http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&ncl=d0vpNeQtvQ97XsM More...

CNET News Intel: Windows 7 will deploy faster than Vista CNET News Intel made a splash last year when it said it there was "no compelling reason" for Intel's IT department to upgrade to Windows Vista. ... http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=us&ncl=djlEgM_KbyAWUfM More...

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I wonder why I don't get silverlight update notification on my Vista laptop. It has version 2.something. On my (Windows XP) PC I already have version 3. Setting: no automatic update, only notifications... -- regards, |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os

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ok i need help every time i log on my name or any other name windows updater pops up and says and unidetntified progam wants to access your omputer and i click allow, but nothing hapenns my taskbar doesent pop up or anything so a did ctrl shift esc and manually started internet and stuff. ive heard that windows defender can stop start-up programs, but ive removed windows defender from my computer but its still on and i cant fully romove it or re-download it "R. McCarty" wrote: > If it's not a feature you're likely to use or want in the future: > Click Start, Run (type) Services.Msc [Enter] > When the console view opens click the "Standard" Tab a…

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Hello: Often when I download and install Windows updates my desktop settings revert to the way they where when I got the computer. I have to go into System Restore and go back to a point 2 or 3 days old. Is there any way to keep this from happening ? Thank you Drew

Hi, I am having a problem accessing a local printer on Windows 2003 64 bit, under IIS6.0 running a 32-bit ASP.Net application. Printers can be successfully enumerated, but not printed to. This previously worked, so is probably due to some configuration change or OS patch. I have narrowed it down, I think, to a problem calling CreateDC and friends (via p/invoke). We have detailed tracking turned on, so I can see that when this call is made the splwow64.exe is being started in the context of NETWORK SERVICE and immediately exits (with no delay). Simultaneously the CreateDC call hangs for 60 seconds exactly before returning NULL. GetLastError also returns zero …

Hello Should the Videos folder be on the rhs of the start menu ? , along with pictures & documents & music etc ? I know I have a videos folder, and I think its a user personal folder because it is blue not yellow. I can find it ok under 'users/myname' , but I cant find how to add it to the rhs of the start menu. Ive tried 'start menu properties/ customise' and cannot see it there. Help pls ? K

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I recently noticed that my Security Center icon is missing from my Control Panel list even though it is set to start automatically as a service. It also displays fine when I run wscui.cpl. wscui.cpl does not show up under the "don't load" folder in the registry, which is good. Is there a way I can get the Control Panel icon back? Thanks.

Hi, In order to achieve a sql server 2008 tutorial (and more later), I have to create a new user group. I'm on vista basic, so I don't have access to the usual user and group manager window. I heard there is a way of doing so by the registry... How can I found this information. Or if there is another way, what is it ? I know this is an issue for a lot of people. Thank you for your time. -- stephP

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Hello, I am using a windows Server 2008 standard SP1. Now I connect to the server with remote Desktop. So far no problems. When I use any kind of barcodescanner I have the following problem: Normally the scanner send a CTRL-B as a start character. On this environment in the keypress function I get the Character B at first and then the Control Character. So it is vice versa to any other kind of Windows Server. The problem does not occur when the remote desktop window it not maximized! Thanks you for your suggestions. Gregor