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When I go to Sounds and Audio devices in control panel and click on it,it comes up. When I click on sounds and click on a sound to play such as dada the little arrow next to the name doesn't highlight and I can't play the sound.I don't have windows sounds or Adobe Flash sounds. Everything else is fine Windows Media player.Rapsody and Quicktime play sounds fine

Ars Technica Microsoft launches Windows Azure CNET News, CA - 31 minutes ago On Tuesday, Microsoft plans to go into more detail on Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista, due out by about January 2010. With the launch of Azure, ... Microsoft Announces 'Azure' Cloud Services PC Magazine all 195 news articles More...

On my old XP machine, I had it set up with a second tool bar at the top of my screen with an address bar there where I could type in web pages to open them up, folders to open the folder, or programs, like notepad.exe to launch the programs. I also somehow had it set up where I could type "g whatever" and it would search google for "whatever", "d whatever" and it would search dictionary.com, etc for about 5 different search engines. It was built into XP and you could choose a one-letter prefix to select the search engine. For the life of me, I haven't been able to figure out how to set this up in Vista. Does anyone know what I'm talking about, what it's called …

NewsOXY Microsoft Urges Patch but Downplays Security Vulnerability Reports eWeek, NY - 43 minutes ago By Brian Prince In a post on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog, the company stresses the importance of the patch, but downplays media reports of a ... Microsoft flaw attracts only minor malicious acts SecurityFocus Microsoft Bug: Patch Now, Patch Fast CRN Microsoft Releases Emergency Patch For Windows Vulnerability InformationWeek ComputerWeekly.com - New York Times all 249 news articles More...

SkyRecon StormShield Protects Un-patched Windows Environments MarketWatch - 43 minutes ago On Windows Vista and 2008, an authenticated account is required to access the service. While the default Windows Firewall configuration has this component ... More...

So, why do you hate Windows Vista? PC Pro, UK - 3 minutes ago So why, exactly, is the press and blog coverage of Vista almost universally negative? Why does every forum post I see slag it off? ... More...

dBTechno Microsoft PDC Live Blog InformationWeek, NY - 29 minutes ago Every few years, Microsoft hosts a big conference, the Professional Developers Conference, to announce the next versions of Windows and . ... Windows 7: Five things Microsoft needs to do ZDNet PDC 2008: Live blog of Ray Ozzie's online services keynote BetaNews Details about Microsoft's cloud computing expected at conference Seattle Times all 47 news articles More...

Unfortunately, my laptop does not include TPM. So I intend to use the alternative, a USB flash drive. Like most laptops, my PC has ports for the USB flashdrive but also the flash card which phones and cameras use. Can I use the later to secure bitlocker? Thanks in advance for advice. Regards, Greg

Unfortunately, my laptop does not include TPM. So I intend to use the alternative, a USB flash drive. Like most laptops, my PC has ports for the USB flashdrive but also the flash card which phones and cameras use. Can I use the later to secure bitlocker? Thanks in advance for advice. Regards, Greg

NewsOXY Microsoft flaw attracts only minor malicious acts SecurityFocus, CA - 27 minutes ago "The weekend was really quiet," F-Secure stated on the blog. "We received about a handful of Gimmiv variants and no other malware that uses the same ... Microsoft Bug: Patch Now, Patch Fast CRN Microsoft Releases Emergency Patch For Windows Vulnerability InformationWeek Symantec advisers Windows users to patch ComputerWeekly.com New York Times - Seattle Post Intelligencer all 245 news articles More...

Windows 7 to get a kinder and gentler UAC Computerworld, MA - 11 minutes ago And it shows that Microsoft is paying a great deal of attention to what its users have to say about the most reviled feature of Windows Vista. The blog says ... More...

Receive "Error 1079: Account specified for this service is diferent fromthje accontfor other servies runnning in hte same process". HP Vista Prem, Stand alone no networking, Broadband account, No SP1 installed, Avast (trouble installing Comondo FW). Thank you in advance. :huh: -- Avie

Hi – we build gaming machines here, many of which contain ruggedised PC’s running XP Embedded. We’re now upgrading our hardware, and my employer is willing to let me have several unused motherboards for very little. The boards have XP Embedded licences and COA with them, and I’d like to build them into PC’s, but the Embedded build we use is pretty minimal, so I’d like to put full XP Pro on them. If this is legit (my very limited understanding is that XPe can be built pretty much any way you like, up to a full XP Pro build), any tips as to how I might go about preparing an image or install CD? More of a hobby, ie for learning, than anything …

I have an ACER portable computer. I very recently upgraded to XP home service pack 3. The default language is Greek. Since then, most of the time I cannot switch from one language to the other (Greek and English), neither from the keyboard nor by using the tool bar menu. Some times the languages do change but this is not reflected on the tool bar. Is it possible for someone to help me on this?

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Hi Is there any non-gui tool to export user certificate in pfx format? I need to script that style_emoticons//sad.gif Tnx

Hi Is there any non-gui tool to export user certificate in pfx format? I need to script that :( Tnx

We have Sharepoint setup so that within Outlook 2003, if you click on Outlook Today, it will be a sharepoint site for us to post general announcements. The problem is that every machine with Internet Explorer 7 prompts the user to login when they click on Outlook Today, and those machines with Internet Explorer 6 works just fine. I've searched the web and found what everyone says is the answer, but still no luck. I've changed the Local Intranet zone security level to low, I've added the site name to trusted sites, yet it still prompts for a login. I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

Vista SP2 beta lands next week 12:15PM, Monday 27th October 2008 PC Pro, UK - 18 minutes ago Speaking on the Vista blog, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Windows Product Management, Mike Nash reveals the beta will include all fixes released ... More...

Hi does anyone know any screen recorder which can be integrated with .Net ????? or else how to pass parameters to open the particular recording application when the .Net application opens ?????? Pls let me know if any of ul have any idea about this..... Rgds Nimantha

Dell Inspiron Mini 12 -- the big-screen, thin $599 netbook guardian.co.uk, UK - 12 minutes ago The Mini 12 also has a 60GB or 80GB hard drive instead of a solid-state Flash drive, but that's needed to run Windows Vista. Dell says: Like its counterpart ... More...

Windows 7 to feature GPU acceleration like Apple's Snow Leopard? engadget, CA - 4 minutes ago And even if vista didnt have it, did we realy have to compare it to snow leopard. Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. ... More...

Windows Vista News ComputerWeekly.com, UK - 19 minutes ago So should you deploy Vista SP1 instead?Blog Date: 09:11 26 Mar 2008 Windows Vista. Forrester Research - Bits - Technology - New York Times BlogDell seems to ... More...

Ten Windows 7 features that should be announced this week PC Advisor, UK - 5 minutes ago You can understand the need for business versions, and perhaps a Windows 7 Basic for netbooks. But Windows Vista Ultimate has been a pointless product with ... More...