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Dell Inspiron Mini 12: Bigger display, Thinner body Inquirer.net, Philippines - 20 minutes ago Windows XP and Ubuntu will still be the OS options for 2008 but come 2009, Windows Vista will likewise be available as well. There will also be 60GB or 80GB ... More...

hey jerry, did you ever resolve this issue? i am experiencing the same thing but i have not seen resolutions posted anywhere. thanks - noel

Hi we are all in Windows 2003 - xp environment here. We are deploying vista slowly to a few stations. How can i use the new GPO for vista. Because when i open the GPO editor on my windows 2003 server, i cannot see the new GPO for vista Thanks to clarify things !

Microsoft was straight to the point during the presentation of Windows 7 at PDC mostly to the delight of the audience.Ray Ozzie noted that Windows 7 is going to increase the value of consumers’ investments through the combination of PC, Web and mobile devices. — “If you take one thing away from what you see [...] More...

Dennis O’Reilly asks you to check your Windows Vista update history as an important patch by Microsoft needs to be applied on your machine. In an excerpt:Microsoft usually releases patches for Windows on the second Tuesday of the month. But last Thursday, the company sent out an update that was too important to [...] More...

I am attempting to use diskshadow.exe on Windows Server 2008 RTM. My question is specifically with the "writer verify" and "writer exclude" commands. The technet help at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771649.aspx is fairly non-specific. It tells me that the syntax is “writer exclude [<Writer> | <Component>]†and that “Writers are specified by ID.“ But it doesn’t tell me how to specify <Component>! For example, I can get the writer ID from “vssadmin list writersâ€. No problem, and that works great. As an example: writer exclude {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f} works fine. To get the comp…

I had this issue until I used the /silent switch on the batch file. Open the properties of your scheduled task and put a /silent switch on the end of your RUN command.

Mobile Networking News ComputerWeekly.com, UK - 53 minutes ago GPRS and wireless LANs hold the fort while frontrunners research the way aheadIn Depth Date: 01:00 25 Aug 2000 IDG Connect : Using Windows Vista on a ... More...

We have added a hash rule to software restriction policy to "disallow" user from executing the Window Live messenger (msnmsgr.exe) However, we would like to allow certain group of people (ie: Customer service colleague) to run the Live Messenger, so I created an OU, then add another hash rule to msnmsgr.exe and set it to "unrestricted", and then put all customer service colleague in that OU. But I found that this does not work, it seems that the OU's "unrestricted" rule does not override the Default Group policy's "disallow" rule. And now all the customer service colleague cannot access Live Messenger. Would anyone can help on this ? thanks

Hello this is a question is continuing my question of yesterday :"get message:no program is associated with this file to run this..." on my research for recovery or restoration tool I downloaded "Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset" (eveluaton version for one month) which create a booting cd that may do a system restore. (at the moment I can't use "system restore" from my windows.) my new problem: when I boot with the new cd that I created, I get the message that the image on the cd has expired... any Ideas ?

Hi, I created a Scheduled Task on Windows 2003 Server. Sometimes I have to start the Task manually in a RDP Session. The Task is starting a simple batch script. When I start it manually the Script is running in the DOS Box. While it´s running I´m logging of my session. Then the task is stopped with the following Error Code: c000013a. When I do the same action on a Windows 2000 Server the task is still running when I log off from the session and when I re-logon. Anyone has a suggestion to get the same behaviour on Windows 2003 ?

If i have power save on my monitor ctx pr700 after some update sp1 or after i get this intermitent bug of my screen turning green yellow with blue lines and i have lost my 3 basic colors red green blue i now have red light blue black and the only cure i have found is not to go past sp1 or turn off power save on the monitor which says vesa dpms and i believe this keeps it from recalling corrupt settings. then the monitor never goes into true sleep mode shuts off and see red green blue bars and then it reawakens just fine. ctx has no monitor drivers for vista. It will hold the corrupt readings when shut down during restart too sometimes it bsods and it fixes…

We have a distributed application that uses IIOP to communicate to an application server (EAServer) running on Windows Server 2003 SP1. We are trying to understand how the servers allocate threads for processes and if there are any tools to monitor the threads that are being created and used by windows. We think that at some point client requests are waiting for a thread to become available. How can we monitor threads and their status? We have gone thru many many tests to believe that the server waits for threads to become available. We have verified that the connection is established from the client to the server and then may wait if the condition above appea…

Windows XP News ComputerWeekly.com, UK - 38 minutes ago However, faced with an upgrade from Windows XP to Vista and IE7 from IE6 and you have a situation akin to explaining quadratic equations to a t...Blog Date: ... Windows NT News ComputerWeekly.com Unix News ComputerWeekly.com SQL Server News ComputerWeekly.com all 6 news articles More...

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie finally announced during WinHEC PDC 2008 their Windows Cloud operating system named Windows Azure.I have previously written about Windows Cloud and was excited how it would synch up with Windows Vista. The announcement focused on the architecture of Windows Azure which was being built for open development. In the [...] More...

In one of our domains we run WINS to support Windows 98 machines. Recently, WINS stopped working and I have come to the end of my rope trying to figure out why. What I am seeing is: In System Event Viewer - Event ID: 4102 The connection aborted by the remote WINS. Remote WINS may not be configured to replicate with the server. (Getting this message on the forest level DC and on each local DC) Replication on each DC setup to push/pull per Microsoft standard instructions. WINs console, at Forest level, shows all DCs in lower domains. Each has a green arrow to the left of their name. dcdiag states - failed test systemlog Event ID: 0x40011006 RPC (call) se…

cj75s wrote: > > Hi > > I'm new here and find all this info great. Kind of new to vista as well > so its a mine of information for me. Thanks to you all. > > My problem is this: > > I was running xp pro with sp2 fine for a couple of years and now have > taken the plunge to go to vista and of course decided to go the dual > boot way. I have XP on 1 sata drive and have loaded Vista premium home > on another sata drive. Vista is working fine, however when I boot into > xp it runs for a while then just crashes to restart the pc. It never > used to do this when it was just xp. my system is: > > amd 3800 dua…

We have a few 64 bit Enterprise Windows 2003 servers that mstsc /console does not work. You log in and the screen just stays blank. You can log in under a normal mstsc login. We are running SP2.

When I open ODBC Data Source Administrator, 3 User DSN's are listed: dBASE Files, Excel Files, MS Access Database. If I try to configure any I get an error message 'The setup routines for ...ODBC driver could not be found. Please reinstall the driver.' When I go to the Drivers tab, it is empty. The PC is winXPpro SP3, with MSOffice 2003 standard SP1. I have tried reinstalling Office, but this hasn't added any ODBC drivers. Can anyone give me a clue as how to reinstall the ODBC drivers on their own? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been checked for all known viruses. The information…

Scate Releases Ignite 4 Home Edition MarketWatch - 25 minutes ago Scate Ignite 4 Home includes a free account at Scate's own media sharing website (IgniteCAST.com) for podcast syndication, blog posting, message board ... More...

Hi Since yesterday (updates 10/29), I frequently get error messages about disk access when starting Windows. It seems a program try to access a disk which is not present.... Sometimes, no error message appears. Is there a known problem with these updates ? There is no detail in the windows logs.... Error 26, Windows Error Disk Popup... Thanks for your help and sorry for my bad english.... -- F.

Penang wrote: > Dunno what happened, but somehow my hosts file has been acting up. > > This isn't a joke, it's happening ! > > FYI -- Dual core cpu, 4GB mem, XP SP3, 750GB hd. > > I've never played with the hosts file. Never set anything, ever. > Didn't even know its existence until something gone wrong. > > For no reason at all, the host file has the following entries --- > > = = = = = ===================================== > > 127.0.0.1 go.mail.ru > 127.0.0.1 nova.rambler.ru > 127.0.0.1 google.ad > 127.0.0.1 www.google.ad > 127.0.0.1 google.ae You are running something like SpywareBlast…

Penang wrote: > Dunno what happened, but somehow my hosts file has been acting up. > > This isn't a joke, it's happening ! > > FYI -- Dual core cpu, 4GB mem, XP SP3, 750GB hd. > > I've never played with the hosts file. Never set anything, ever. > Didn't even know its existence until something gone wrong. > > For no reason at all, the host file has the following entries --- > > = = = = = ===================================== > > 127.0.0.1 go.mail.ru > 127.0.0.1 nova.rambler.ru > 127.0.0.1 google.ad > 127.0.0.1 http://www.google.ad > 127.0.0.1 google.ae You are running something like Spywa…

Canada.com Vista's successor is more than Windows dressing guardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour ago To give just one example, the Windows Engineering blog points out that the number of applications and tasks that generate a UAC prompt fell from 775312 at ... BLOG: Why Windows 7 could change the way you make music MusicRadar.com - The place for music makers Microsoft previews Windows 7, and it looks like... Vista Dallas Morning News Microsoft leaks Windows 7 details New York Times DaniWeb - Seattle Post Intelligencer all 773 news articles More...

TourW.exe is an essential program for operation but not sure on what. Its located in the I386 folder. The same thing happened to me, no matter which xp disk of the 4 I own it was the same, always stopping on the TourW.exe file. I tried several things, changing HD's, CD Roms, and the same thing. I then saw a post on another site that a person change his memory and it solved the problem, thats when I got an idea. I ran a memtest and found that the first memory slot was reporting 2 errors and the test would not complete. I then tried each stick I had in the first slot and the same thing happened, I tried 2gb 4gb, 1gb, and 3gb and the same thing. Then I reinst…