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CBC.ca Living on Air: A Windows guru spends two weeks with a Mac Computerworld, MA More recently on my Computerworld Windows blog, I've been called various schoolyard epithets when I've written anything remotely critical about Macs or people who use them. So it was with more than a little trepidation that I accepted a new assignment ... Score a Mac Mini for $459 shipped CNET News Apple: 'PC is no bargain when it doesn't do what you want' ZDNet Blogs "Apple tax" report backfires on Microsoft while Mac fans fume The Industry Standard all 60 news articles More...
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Office 2010 FAQ
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Microsoft finally starts discussing its next-generation Office 2010 suite of products. Here's what we know so far... More...
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Death of Linux on netbooks greatly exaggerated - Ars Technica
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Death of Linux on netbooks greatly exaggerated Ars Technica, MA In a triumphant blog entry posted earlier this month, Microsoft blogger Brandon LeBlanc asserts that Redmond has dominated the netbook space. Citing the latest NPD retail tracking reports, he says that Windows netbook marketshare has grown to 96 ... More...
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Disable Memory Dump
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In any case you want to disable memory dump in Windows Vista, below are the steps: 1. Open Control Panel 2. Go to Advanced System Settings 3. Go to Startup and recovery 4. Go to settings 5. Look for the write debugging option drop down 6. Set the item to “None†Disabling the Memory Dump allows you to free the CPU of [...] More...
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Jamie's Random Musings - ZDNet UK
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Jamie's Random Musings ZDNet UK, UK Various thoughts and adventures, including but not limited to Video IM, Linux, Windows XP and Widows Vista, and various bits of hardware new and old. Several people have mentioned to me that they have given Linux Mint a try following my recent blog ... More...
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Building a "High Performance" Windows 7 PC - ZDNet
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Building a "High Performance" Windows 7 PC ZDNet With Windows 7 release candidate just around the corner, the other day I was asked to spec out a high performance PC suitable for Windows 7 64-bit, This system would also be a great Vista system. Note: Just to clarify that this is a “high performance†... More...
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Increased R&D spending is vital to the software industry - InfoWorld
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Increased R&D spending is vital to the software industry InfoWorld, CA And remember all those innovative new features that were going to ship with Windows Vista, née Longhorn? The most exciting ones seemed to fall by the wayside. "Microsoft, after a decade of acquisitions and R&D spending, is equally dependent on its cash ... More...
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RE: Security Center won't turn on
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brickener try this it does work ..... Click Start, click Run, type Services.msc, and then click OK. In the right pane, double-click Security Center. In the Startup type list, click Automatic, click Apply, click Start, and then click OK. Restart the computer. "Brickner" wrote: > I did a clean instal of Vista Ultimate, everyhting was running great. The > security center informend me I did not have antivirus software on my system > and suggested a few that were Vista compatible. I have used symantic > antivirus in the past so I picked up the latest norton antivirus 2007 and > installed it. It never worked, and I kept getting an error say…
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RE: Security Center won't turn on
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my security wont let me turn on and i dont know what to do help
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How do I... Take control of my Windows Desktop with WinSplit ... TechRepublic, KY Stay on top of the latest XP tips and tricks with TechRepublic’s Windows XP newsletter, delivered every Thursday. Automatically sign up today! Jack Wallen is the host of the TechRepublic open source blog as well as a regular writer in the "10 Things. ... More...
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Reign in the unbound storage appetite of Vista System Restore TechRepublic, KY In this edition of the Microsoft Windows Vista & Windows 7 Report, I’ll show you what I discovered and show you how to fix it. As I do, I’ll also show you how to use the Volume Shadow Copy Service Administration command line tool, VSSAdmin. This blog ... More...
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Microsoft releases Exchange Server 2010 beta - VNUNet.com
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Techtree.com Microsoft releases Exchange Server 2010 beta VNUNet.com, UK "The 2007 Office Suite SP2 has been tested and is supported for Internet Explorer 8," said the blog post. "Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 and Windows Server R2 will all be supported on their release." Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Due April 28 Techtree.com Office 2007 SP2 Arrives in Two Weeks Microsoft Watch all 21 news articles More...
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Disable Pagefile
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Pagefile in Windows Vista eats up a lot of disk space and sometimes it causes your computer to run slower whenever the arrangement of files is not arranged well and scattered all over your disk.To disable Pagefile, below are the steps:1. Open Control panel2. Open System3. Open Advanced System Settings4. Go to advanced \ performance [...] More...
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Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Due April 28 - Techtree.com
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Techtree.com Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Due April 28 Techtree.com, India Office 2007 SP2 will support Internet Explorer 8 on Windows Vista SP 2, Windows 7, Windows Server R2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2. Microsoft claims that the SP2 has been tested by thousands of beta testers from 60 different countries. Office 2007 SP2 Arrives in Two Weeks Microsoft Watch Microsoft Set to Release Office 2007 SP2 Windows IT Pro Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 coming this month PC Advisor all 22 news articles More...
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Create Custom Event Source by turning UAC ON in Windows VISTA
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Hi, We have a WPF Windows Application and this application would be used by all our client having VISTA OS. For any error occured, system will create an entry in Application event log using the custom event source - "Application Manager". When the User Access Control (UAC) is turned ON, VISTA does not allow to register custom event source in the registry. But this works well when the UAC is turned OFF. Is there any way where in we can create a custom event source (on the fly/programatically) with UAC turned ON? Note: Our application gets installed using "Click Once". Regards, Vipul Mehta -- mehtavipulk
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AnvSoft Photo Flash Maker Professional 5.02 - ZDNet.de
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AnvSoft Photo Flash Maker Professional 5.02 ZDNet.de, Germany AnvSoft Photo Flash Maker Professional läuft unter Windows Windows, Vista, XP, NT, 2000, die Dateigröße beträgt 18,28 MByte und das letzte Update wurde am 14. April 2009 in die ZDNet-Download-Datenbank aufgenommen. Die ZDNet-Redaktion hat das Programm ... More...
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Office 2007 SP2 Arrives in Two Weeks - Microsoft Watch
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Office 2007 SP2 Arrives in Two Weeks Microsoft Watch Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 and Windows Server R2 will all be supported upon their release. There's a long list of improvements, which everyone deploying Office 2007 SP2 should review. The update will affect Microsoft server ... More...
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Hands-on: Trillian Astra beta supports Twitter and Facebook Ars Technica, MA When I was trying to figure out how to make it go away, I found a helpful blog entry that explains how to configure its contents or disable it altogether. Subjectively, I think that the new look and feel is a bit of a step down from the previous ... More...
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Win 7 Upgrade: One step forward, two steps back - TG Daily
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BBC News Win 7 Upgrade: One step forward, two steps back TG Daily Microsoft claims a fresh install from Vista will reveal more data to Microsoft than simply upgrading from the current Windows 7 Beta. According to the engineering blog: "We've also learned that many of you (millions) are running Windows 7 Beta full ... Microsoft: Go back to Vista then install Windows 7 release candidate Computerworld Windows 7 will allow downgrades too CNET News How do I... Use System Restore in Windows Vista? TechRepublic VNUNet.com - Maximum PC all 397 news articles More...
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Confirmed: Office 2010 will come in 32-bit, 64-bit flavors Ars Technica, MA That's right, 64-bit versions of Windows will no longer have to emulate a 32-bit environment in order to run Office 2010, provided that the user has the 64-bit version installed. With 64-bit OS usage rapidly growing (thanks to Vista, if you're asking ... More...
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CNET News AudioIn turns your iPhone, iPod Touch into wireless headphones CNET News, CA In addition to writing CNET's The Cheapskate blog, he oversees BNET's Business Hacks. Rick is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET Networks. Disclosure. Follow Rick on Twitter at cheapskateblog. More...
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Zune phone ad campaign coming? - CNET News
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Zune phone ad campaign coming? CNET News, CA He's written about the technology industry since 1995, and reviewed the first Rio MP3 player for CNET.com in 1998. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network. Disclosure. by msbpodcast April 14, 2009 12:10 PM PDT Microsoft has a product of zero interest ... More...
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ODF, PDF become part of Microsoft Office on April 28 - BetaNews
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TechSpot ODF, PDF become part of Microsoft Office on April 28 BetaNews "Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7, and Windows Server [2008] R2 will all be supported upon their release." Amid other enhancements in SP2: Long-time testers will recall how the new charting object model created for Excel 2007, ... Microsoft Set to Release Office 2007 SP2 Windows IT Pro Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 coming this month PC Advisor all 9 news articles More...
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Re: Inheritated Permissions
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Yes, the /reset switch is like genius. Should have figured it out myself :/ Thanx! Also see: 'impossible to delete file because it is impossible to take ownership (let alone, modify ntfs permissions) - I'm about to give up : ( Kadaitch? - 24hoursupport.helpdesk | Google Discussiegroepen' (http://groups.google.nl/group/24hoursuppor...25a61d67bd8fd8#) (The problem is, I suspect, not with inherritance. I truely know all that sheit. The reset switch seems to do something magical, to prevent all those access-denied errors. Whatever you do, it fails... With reset, all problems and files gone : ) Peace! Devvie Conare nullius momenti videri fortasse missi…
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IE April Security Update Now Available
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The IE Cumulative Security Update for April 2009 is now available via Windows Update or Microsoft Update. This update addresses four privately reported vulnerabilities and two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. The security update addresses these vulnerabilities by modifying the way that Internet Explorer searches the system for files to load, performs authentication reply validation, handles transition errors when navigating between Web pages, and handles memory object. For detailed information on the contents of this update, please see the following documentation: [*]Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-014[*]Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 963027 This security upd…