Microsoft Support & Discussions

Hi everyone, :-) It turns out that I have a server with SBS2008 Premium, and will not let me modify the GPO, no, not the domain controller or domain. Explaining the details below: From the SBS console, there are a couple of shortcuts where you can change the lifetime of the passwords as well, and altered the dialog SBS confirms that the changes are ok. When I go to the tab of any user, on the expiration date of the password changes are reflected correctly. But if I go to the gpmc that the value in the directive continues to 180 (in default installation). That is a strange and contradictory, but only one more fact, solving this mystery would not matter here. When I g…

CNET News Is an Apple more form than function? CNET News, CA It's all about the OS and as many others have observed for years, Vista is a cobbled together, poor excuse for a reliable easy-to-use OS. My mother-in-law has been a die-hard Windows user for many, many years and recently purchased an iMac after using ... More...

When Windows Vista came up many hardware devices did not run correctly on the latest operating system. Until Windows Vista SP1, users were not pleased with the earlier version of Windows Vista. Here comes Windows 7. A lot of folks are wandering whether they would encounter the same problem with the upcoming operating system.Simply put, [...] More...

Windows netbook market share continues to grow Netbook Choice, UK Indeed, the latest news we have heard on this is that Microsoft has now extended Windows XP for use on new PCs to April 30 2010. The inability of Windows Vista to run on netbooks forced Microsoft to offer very low cost licenses for Windows XP to kill ... More...

Leo and I discuss Windows 7 RC news, Windows Home Server PP2, Windows Mobile 6.5, OnLive gaming in the cloud, our apology to Derek, and more... More...

Microsoft gets beautifully picky in new Mac attack CNET News, CA Just as how in Mac ads, being critical of Vista was essentially the same thing as supporting Macintosh, Microsoft selling PCs is pretty much the same thing as selling Windows. by Dalmatian28 April 4, 2009 5:05 PM PDT This whole Microsoft - Apple ... More...

Dell touts Windows 7 Beta experience Neowin, Netherlands Dell also plans to test the later builds of Windows 7 and share the experiences with users. It is good to see Dell testing Windows 7 in their systems at an early stage.Personally, I have found Dell Laptops with Windows Vista to have many problems, ... More...

The future of computing is open source and collaborative, says ex-Microsoftie Keith Curtis... More...

I'm using a 3rd party firewall program. In Administrative Tools---Services it shows Windows Firewall status as Started. But, in Security Center it shows my 3rd party firewall being On but Windows Firewall being. Off. Why would one show Windows Firewall as Started and another show it as Off??? James

Do you want to improve your Windows Vista boot up operation? This 5 minute long video shows you the things you can do to make Windows Vista boot up faster. As per video description: tips to make vista faster at start up and everywhere else, defrag and do virus and spyware checks as well as [...] More...

VLC 0.9.9: The best media player just got better CNET News, CA He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. by aMUSICsite April 3, 2009 7:35 AM PDT It's been a long time coming, but V1.0 is almost here... I don't know what I would have done without this lovely bit of ... More...

Acer was sued by two Americans for selling low-cost Aspire notebooks saying that the company has packaged it with Windows Vista despite lacking 128MB of memory needed for graphics processing.The complainants are residents of Fostoria, Ohio who are seeking damages and relief after buying a $600 Aspire notebook loaded with Windows Vista Premium. They argue [...] More...

Hi All, I used the free ISO distributed of the Trinity Rescue Kit on my home computer, Vista Ultimate x32, as my daughter had been playing on it and had set "user must change password at next login" and "password does not expire". Anyway, after running the recover disk to elevate another user to the admin group to use it to reset this admin account, I can now no longer see any user in the admin group i.e. it is blank!!! You can add users, but as press the "Apply" button they disappear right in front of you. BTW, I forgot to turn system restore back on from a previous virus due to my daughter. Any idea as to how to do a registry restore of the hive keys.…

In a previous post, Andy wrote about some of the new features we introduced to improve reliability in Internet Explorer, such as Loosely Coupled IE and Automatic Crash Recovery. These features help minimize the impact of reliability issues (such as crashes and hangs) once our users encounter them, allowing them to return to their original browsing state as soon as possible. From an engineering perspective, our goal is to minimize the occurrences of these issues in the first place. In today’s post I’d like to walk you through the various approaches we use to identify, prioritize and address reliability issues in IE8. Each of these approaches covers different angles …

I've noticed that a lot of our domain PCs have screwed up permissions on the C:\ drive which are inhertited all the way down the file structure. I thought I would use the security templates for Vista (i'm running vista but there is a mix of vista and xp) in conjunction with the Security Analysis and Configuration and Security Templates tools fix the perms on my own PC. On looking at the templates (which i downloaded from the MS site along with the security guide) i noticed that none of them have any entries under the File System node. I was expecting to see entries for the root of the C:\ drive, the Windows directory etc such that I could reset my permissions …

CNET News Could a Zune phone come with free music? CNET News, CA The Zune was a complete failure, and Windows Mobile is terrible (I even thought it was terrible before the iPhone came out). XP is outdated, Vista is severely bloated and unusable, and Windows 7 will probably help them maintain their marketshare, ... More...

It's time for Microsoft to supply ALL patches to All users ZDNet Blogs We offer all security updates, service packs, and other critical reliability updates on Windows XP and Windows Vista even if the machine is non-genuine (these are ‘Important’ and ‘High Priority’ Updates). 2. Other individual recommended or optional ... More...

Liberal Hollywood Conspiracy Confirmed--Bill Gates and Warren ... U.S. News & World Report, DC I guess I won't worry too much until the cops on Law & Order start trashing Macintosh and praising Windows Vista. On Facebook? You can keep up with Thomas Jefferson Street blog postings through Facebook's Networked Blogs. More...

Will Partitioning My Hard Drive Render My PC Unrepairable? PC World It's still there, but you can't boot to it and therefore can't use it. For what it's worth, both were Dell computers that shipped with Windows XP. I've written two blog posts about repartitioning recently, one for XP and one for Vista. ... More...

WindowsForDevices PC software scales up Windows phones WindowsForDevices, CA According to Celio, the newly available Redfly Mobile Viewer software includes both a Windows Mobile driver, and client software for a computer running Windows XP or Windows Vista. Once the two devices are connected via USB 2.0, the phone becomes fully ... More...

Amazon's Kindle 2 eBook reader is better than its predecessor but is far too expensive... More...

CNET News As Intel's Atom gains, Apple still holdout CNET News, CA He writes for the CNET Blog Network, and is not a current employee of CNET. Contact him at mbcrothers@gmail.com. Disclosure. by ddhboy April 1, 2009 8:50 PM PDT They'll do it eventually and people will praise it as revolutionary which is just as bad as ... More...

PC World Will Partitioning My Hard Drive Render My PC Unrepairable? PC World It's still there, but you can't boot to it and therefore can't use it. For what it's worth, both were Dell computers that shipped with Windows XP. I've written two blog posts about repartitioning recently, one for XP and one for Vista. ... More...

vLite allows for custom automated installation of Windows Vista.* The main features of this application are as follows:hotfix, language pack and driver integrationcomponent removalunattended setuptweakssplit/merge Vista installation CDscreate ISO and burn bootable CD/DVDAs per product description:Windows Vista from Microsoft takes a lot of resources, we all know that. vLite provides you with an easy removal [...] More...