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Windows 7: Five things Microsoft needs to do ZDNet - 43 minutes ago One of the worst qualities of Windows Vista is that it is almost always slower than its predecessor Windows XP when running on the same hardware. ... More...

PDC: Brand expert knocks Windows 7 name Seattle Post Intelligencer - 7 minutes ago (Microsoft's Mike Nash said in a blog post earlier this month that because the new operating system was the seventh release of Windows the company decided ... More...

"Caveat: Quantity is not necessarily a measure of Quality" Newsgroup.................: microsoft.public.win2000.general Stats Were Taken..........: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:55:24 GMT Stats Begin...............: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:14:55 GMT Stats End.................: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:58:47 GMT Days......................: 7 Total No. of Articles.....: 87 Total No. of Characters...: 220841 Total Volume..............: 215 Messages Per Day..........: 12.4 Characters Per Day........: 31548.7 Average Daily Volume......: 30 kB Total Posters This Week...: 26 Messages with Sigs........: 21.84% Original Content Rating...: 41.13% Top 10 Prolific Po…

Brand expert knocks Windows 7 name Seattle Post Intelligencer - 5 minutes ago (Microsoft's Mike Nash said in a blog post earlier this month that because the new operating system was the seventh release of Windows the company decided ... More...

ZDNet.com.au Vista SP2 beta next week when Windows 7 pre-beta arrives iTWire, Australia - 21 minutes ago ... to Microsoft’s “Technology Adoption Program†(TAP) customers as part of the development and testing process, according to the Windows Vista Blog. ... Microsoft sets the stage for Windows 7 NetworkWorld.com Vista SP2 beta due next week CNET News Windows Vista SP2 Beta Next Week Hard OCP Gotta Be Mobile - PC Magazine all 73 news articles More...

New York Times In Age of Impatience, Cutting PC Start Time New York Times, United States - 12 minutes ago Today only 35 percent of machines running the latest version of Windows, called Vista, boot in 30 seconds or less, the blog notes. ... More...

Yahoo discontinues Vista-optimized IM program ZDNet Asia, Singapore - 28 minutes ago By Ina Fried, CNET News.com One of the first applications designed to run only on Windows Vista has been discontinued. The custom implementation of Yahoo ... More...

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Slim, Stylish and Well-Connected: Introducing the Dell Inspiron ... WELT ONLINE, Germany - 14 minutes ago 1 and only 0.92 in. thick 1 , current standard features on the Inspiron Mini 12 include: Windows Vista® Home Basic, built-in webcam, 1GB of RAM and a choice ... More...

Can anyone tell me if the address's you put in the ProxyOverride option in Internet Explorer include https e.g. if I put http://www.xyz.com it will overridde the proxy setting for http and https connections or just http? If it's just http can I override https by putting in the https prefix or something? How can I override http and https for a ipadress range like 165.28.0.0/255.255.0.0 Thanks. PS this is a duplicate, i didnt know which forum to put it in so I did both this and Active Directory

MODI keeps setting as the default printer. I even tried uninstalling it and it still sets as default. THe weird thing is that it is only doing this for one of our divisions. We have 3 other divisions on the same terminal server and their printer default stays as selected.

Hello! I did the following steps when I change´d the wallpaper in vista home premium and now I want to remove the created search way in the scroll list how can i do that ? Best Regards Alex If the picture you want to use is not in the list of desktop background pictures, click the Picture location down arrow to view other categories, or click *Browse* to search for the picture on your computer. When you find the picture you want, double-click it. It will become your desktop background and appear in the list of desktop backgrounds. -- alema

Bnojour j ai installe un logiciel (rm to mp3 converter) et depuis il a ferme avast antirus et je ne puis plus l ouvrir. il me dit qu avast n est pas une application win32 valide de meme que spybot et ccleaner que faire merci d avance pour votre aide hi there i installed rm to mp3 converter and since i cannot open avast anymore it says that avast isn t a win32 valid application as spybot and ccleaner most of online antiviruses can t find a virus but each time i restart my computer it doesn t load avast and spybot..... please help !!!! thanx in advance and greetings from france my machine vista familial premium edition -- P.S.B. JUDO 3 chemi…

Bnojour j ai installe un logiciel (rm to mp3 converter) et depuis il a ferme avast antirus et je ne puis plus l ouvrir. il me dit qu avast n est pas une application win32 valide de meme que spybot et ccleaner que faire merci d avance pour votre aide hi there i installed rm to mp3 converter and since i cannot open avast anymore it says that avast isn t a win32 valid application as spybot and ccleaner most of online antiviruses can t find a virus but each time i restart my computer it doesn t load avast and spybot..... please help !!!! thanx in advance and greetings from france my machine vista familial premium edition -- P.S.B. JUDO 3 chemi…

I have a local network running among four computers. On one of these, I have lost my ability to connect with other computers in its workgroup. This had been working for ages and I'm not sure what could have caused it. I can connect to the router and have access to the internet. My "network places" shows the workgroup, but when I click on it to connect I get an error message that the workgroup is not accessible and I might not have permission to use this resource. I've checked that the workgroup name is correct and even went through the process of re-entering the name - to no avail. I appreciate any advice.

In ie, again, windows aren't being saved when I resize them or maximize them. I do have a .reg file to reset the folder view but when I select Merge it opens the file up for editing. The same thing happens when I double click it. Any help will be appreciated. James

I would like to uninstall several language packs from my system. However, whenever I select multiple languages to remove, the first one succeeds, and all the rest fail. Is this a bug? Thanks, I. Kinal

Hi I am running Windows Vista Ultimate SP1. I am trying to install VMware Worksation 6.5. When I attempt the installation I get the following message: 'Extracting file failed. It is most likely caused by low memory (low disk space for swapping file) or corrupted cabinet file. I have been able to successfully install the same program using the same MSI package on Windows XP SP2 & on another install of Vista. Do you have any information as to what the problem is? -- needinfo

The Risk of Waiting for Windows 7 Hard OCP, TX - 26 minutes ago This blog addresses the popular sentiment among XP users to skip Vista and wait for Windows 7. Definitely some interesting points made but it seemed a bit ... More...

I am trying to resolve issues with Word and Excel files loading slowly, and in File type associations Advanced properties for .DOC and .XLS I unchecked the 'Use DDE' checkbox. However, this checkbox always seems to be checked automatically after saving and exiting the dialog. Any ideas how to keep it unchecked?

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New York Times In a New Age of Impatience, Cutting PC Start Time New York Times, United States - 15 minutes ago Today only 35 percent of machines running the latest version of Windows, called Vista, boot in 30 seconds or less, the blog notes. ... More...

Alias wrote: >and you can download the new Ubuntu, Intrepid Ibex, from > http://www.ubuntu.com/ > > What you can do with Ubuntu: > > Email > Surf the web > Burn CDs. > Rip CDs. > Listen to music. > Watch vidoes/DVDs. > Scan and print. > Spreadsheets. > Presentations > Newsgroups. > HTML editing. > Games like Chess, Tetris, all kinds of solitaire, etc. > Make videos. > Download photos from a camera and organize them. > Translations. > Use a dictionary > Learn how to touch type. > Edit images. > Send and receive a fax. > Take screenshots. > Creat…