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Gadgets for geeks from Microsoft Hardware Philippine Star, Philippines - 29 minutes ago The Explorer mouse operates on the Windows Vista, Windows XP or the Macintosh operating system and connects directly to a USB port. ... More...

Hello, I'm trying to setup L2TP agains an CheckPoint Firewall. I have installed a certificate for the computer and one for the user. The logging of the firewall shows to me, that the IKE Quickmode completition is OK. On Vista following is logged: Eine IPsec-Schnellmodus-Sicherheitszuordnung wurde beendet. Lokaler Endpunkt: Netzwerkadresse: 192.168.178.29 Anschluss: 1701 Tunnelendpunkt: - Remoteendpunkt: Netzwerkadresse: 2z3.2y2.1x3.1wx Anschluss: 1701 Tunnelendpunkt: - Zusätzliche Informationen: Protokoll: 17 Sicherheitszuordnungs-ID des Schnellmodus: 72 Than Beendigung einer IPsec-Hauptmodusverhandlung. Lokaler Netzwerkad…

I cannot remember the last time taskmgr could not close the application or end the process especially when it is as common as Windows Media Player (see image above). I think this experience only happened in Windows 95 and Windows XP without the service pack updates. Today, I am so frustrated because I could [...] More...

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Whilst gazing at my XP Home ed. desktop, looking for an icon, (there's only about 42 icons on my desktop but, at my age - I have to look at them for ages in order to locate the one I want!), I noticed a desktop icon labelled :- Document Scrap '????????????????...' ...where ???????????????? is my Credit Card No. !!! ....now, I do often copy and paste my CC No. into various places e.g. banking website SSL login page, and a small number of website SSL pages where I buy things. ...and it's copied from a Word document, (MS Office 2000 - Word), ....so considering that I'm as sure as I can be, that my internet security has not been compromised, ...any …

Whilst gazing at my XP Home ed. desktop, looking for an icon, (there's only about 42 icons on my desktop but, at my age - I have to look at them for ages in order to locate the one I want!), I noticed a desktop icon labelled :- Document Scrap '????????????????...' ...where ???????????????? is my Credit Card No. !!! ....now, I do often copy and paste my CC No. into various places e.g. banking website SSL login page, and a small number of website SSL pages where I buy things. ...and it's copied from a Word document, (MS Office 2000 - Word), ....so considering that I'm as sure as I can be, that my internet security has not been compromised, ...any …

I wondered the same thing -- in computer management / services, if live update should be automatic. Live Update was listed as manual so I changed it and now I hope I did okay by my PC in doing so. "Allen" wrote: > Start/Run/services.msc > > Look for the Norton or Symantec Anti Virus service and verify the Startup > Type, Manual or Automatic? Change to Automatic. > > > "ManThatNeedsHelpPlease" > wrote in message news:E2488666-BB3F-498C-8BFA-C5A0832CAB6C@microsoft.com... > > At my home computer, when I start the computer and it loads, Norton > > Anti-Virsus loads but see It has an x through it in the system tray,…

WinHEC 2008: General Impressions EDN.com, MA - 26 minutes ago Look, for example, at the fact that a substantial percentage of the problems early adopters suffered with Windows Vista in 2007 were caused by Nvidia ... More...

On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 00:34:07 -0800 (PST), Penang wrote: >I have Norton Anti Virus installed in my PC, however, I just found out >that it is utterly useless. Congratulations. You just discovered what security experts have known for many years. This applies to all AV products though, not just Norton. >My PC has been infected with banbot, but NAV can't even find it, let >alone remove it ! Of course not. What makes you believe that malware would let anti-malware get in its way? >It isn't that Symantec doesn't know about banbot, they have 2 webpage >devoted to it -- > >www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2007-091…

Where's Vista? CNET News, CA - 18 minutes ago But, perhaps the most shocking thing about the list is how few computers have Windows Vista installed. The top ten consist of 7 Netbooks running Windows XP, ... More...

Enterprise IT Planet Windows 7 IT Pro Feature Watch List Enterprise IT Planet, CT - 8 minutes ago By Dries Janssens With all the commotion surrounding Windows 7, one could almost forget that most companies have not even made the leap to Vista. ... More...

CNET News Windows 7 Server gets its day CNET News, CA - 15 minutes ago WinHEC attendees received a pre-beta version of the new server OS alongside their copy of desktop Windows 7. Microsoft said on its server blog that the ... More...

I up-graded my 2003 server and the OS to Server 2008 and need to move my users and groups to the new machine. Also, is there a way to see when a user last logged in to the network so I can delete the in-active users. Thanks in advance for any assistance..

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PC Authority > Features > Live 3:30pm today: Take part in our live ... PC Authority, Australia - 22 minutes ago Scroll down the page for the Live Blog. The Windows 7-fest has already begun in earnest, with recent announcements and info about the OS appearing at PDC ... More...

Will Linux ever be a mainstream desktop play? CNET News, CA - 34 minutes ago The Microsoft-haters blame Vista the blame at least equally sits on the reality that Windows XP is a good enough desktop OS for most purposes. ... More...

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New malware exploits Microsoft RPC flaw SearchWinIT.com - 46 minutes ago The flaw is rated critical on Windows 2000, XP and Windows Server 2003 and is given an important rating on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. ... More...

My company is a Microsoft partner, and I've recently deployed our 2 Windows Server 2008 MAPS licenses on two new machines I've built. The new OS seems to rock like crazy, and I'm interested in Windows Vista "Workstation" (a la a pared down version of Server 2008). I want it to do very little actual "server" tasks, preferring rather to have simply a nice, stable, fast OS for my laptop to run Visual Studio, SQL Server and some other apps we have in house. XP is alright, but I'd like to get up into the Vista kernel, but don't like the actual versions of Vista that are available. Windows Server 2008 Standard costs too much for my company to justify the expense. Windows …

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Windows 7 has already been released at PDC 2008. Here is a video showing you how fast Windows 7 is running. It seems faster than Windows Vista, although I am sure all applications weren’t installed yet.Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More...

Penang wrote... > I have Norton Anti Virus installed in my PC, however, I just found out > that it is utterly useless. > > My PC has been infected with banbot, but NAV can't even find it, let > alone remove it ! > > It isn't that Symantec doesn't know about banbot, they have 2 webpage > devoted to it -- > > www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2007-091318-2239-99&tabid=2 > > and > > www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2007-091318-2239-99&tabid=3 > > and yet > > Can anyone please tell me if there's any utility that can help me > getting rid of banb…

Washington Times Microsoft discontinues Windows 3.x licensing...watch out Vista CNET News, CA - 21 minutes ago Consider Windows 98 (bad) versus 2K (decent) or XP (good) versus Vista (bad) and it's clear that marketing and lock-in go a long way to having a fantastic ... EXTRA: Will Windows 7 be a trick or a treat? Computerworld all 42 news articles More...

Hey all, I have upgraded my domain from 2000 to 2008. Everything went well except out XP clients are starting to spew userenv 1030, 1058 errors. Vista clients don't seem to have this problem. I have combed the net and tried MANY different fixes. None have worked so far. The error points to "the system cannot find the path specified". What is very interesting is that when I browse to either \\DC\Sysvol or \\domain\Sysvol nothing shows up, but only in the xp clients. everything is there in the vista clients. Any hints?? Thanks, Dylan