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Hi, I could not find my original post to add this fix so i have started it here, If the new service pack update reduces the size of your pages and icons, this is simply because the update has returned your display settings to default, to fix this 1, right click on your desktop 2, select personalise 3, select display settings 4, move the resolution slider to the desired setting 5, Press apply 6, Press OK my setting should have been set 1024 by 768. I did not do this fix i was helped by my daughter, so i apoligise but this is all the info i have. -- wallnutwhip

WinInfo Short Takes: Week of October 13, 2008 Windows IT Pro, CO - 16 minutes ago An often irreverent look at some of the week's other news, including a Windows Vista Secrets SP1 Edition give-away, Yahoo! and wishful thinking, ... More...

Hi to all! Need somebody's help. I want to analyze occupied disk space on my pc. What app (Vista supported) would you advise for me? (i know only Directory Size). Thank you!

Exploit code loose for six-month-old Windows bug Computerworld, MA - 5 minutes ago On Thursday, Microsoft revised a security advisory it first posted April 19 about a bug in Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008 that could be ... More...

My New PC is a Mac Mini Seattle Post Intelligencer - 21 minutes ago I am going to install Windows on it via Boot Camp and need to decide between choosing XP and Vista. I am leaning towards XP. My old Mac iBook was dead as a ... More...

Lifehacker Australia Microsoft Kind Of Promises To Fix UAC Lifehacker Australia, Australia - 16 hours ago Sadly, Microsoft hasn't pledged to kill off UAC when Windows 7 arrives, but in a new post on its Engineering Windows 7 blog, it has suggested that it will ... More...

Lifehacker Confessions: The Tips and Tricks I'm Not Using Lifehacker, CA - 23 minutes ago My laptop came loaded with Windows Vista Home Premium, however, and Launchy was one of many utility apps I always had running, but after a few months, ... More...

Is there anyway of restricting users from double clicking the programs icon (in classic XP style) and allowing access to a Window Explorer window which allows access to unauthorized areas. We are using redirected desktop and global policies.

[Crossposted to Security Virus newsgroup, as OP has repost there] There's a very strong possibility that you have a Vundo infection, which is usually accompanied by ZLOB and/or SDBot infections, all of which are protected by a rootkit. Run a thorough check for hijackware, including posting your hijackthis log to an appropriate forum. Checking for/Help with Hijackware http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=5878 http://wiki.castlecops.com/Malware_Removal...n:_Introduction http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/data/prevention.htm http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/tshoot…

[Crossposted to Security Virus newsgroup, as OP has repost there] There's a very strong possibility that you have a Vundo infection, which is usually accompanied by ZLOB and/or SDBot infections, all of which are protected by a rootkit. Run a thorough check for hijackware, including posting your hijackthis log to an appropriate forum. Checking for/Help with Hijackware http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=5878 http://wiki.castlecops.com/Malware_Removal_and_Prevention:_Introduction http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/data/prevention.htm http://inetexpl…

I have an application (faxing) that captures the printing thru the standard LPR/LPD protocol. It works find when send from Linux based servers but not well with the Windows print queues. I need to redirect the "raw" data stream from a shared Windows printer (\ \PC1\prtfax) out to an IP address (\\192.168.1.1\fax) without having a Windows printer driver "formatting" the data. How can I do this?

Geek Week: Campaigns mired in sleaze, Microsoft & Google make peace InfoWorld, CA - 44 minutes ago Politics is infecting everything these days, from YouTube to email to, yes, Cringely's blog. Thank god Microsoft and Google finally decided to get along. ... More...

We recently had some issues with installing updates that were resolved by reassigning the "Manage auditing and security log" user right to administrators. The problem is that the organization I supports requires strict separation of duties between administrators and security managers, and we need to prevent administrators from tampering with auditing or security logs. Is there a reason that this user right is specifically needed to install Windows Updates? Is there a workaround? If not, can Microsoft consider changing a future version of automatic updates to not require this particular user right? Thanks. -- Jeffrey Harris, MCSE W2K and W2K3. …

You need permission to perform this action is the message when I try and delete a folder so how can I delete the folder?

Hi, A customers VISTA Laptop has failed to install Windows Search V4, the problem now is that the V3 no longer works - although the service will not start the fact it tries to start slows the system performance down immensely, setting the service to DISABLED corrects this particular issue and the system performs correctly. However what I would really like to do is to re-install Windows Search 3 and attempt to upgrade to V4 again, how is it possible to re-install the V 3 ? that is the real question. Look forward to your responses. Thanks

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Hi, I've developed a test web application that will use an AzMan store to control security. The store is currently on my XP box and the application is developed in VS2008 using C# and .NET 2.0. The application works fine from the IDE but when I publish it to the localhost and try to run that version I get an error: Insufficient access rights to perform the operation. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80072098) this is when I call the line: AzManStore.Initialize(0, ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[PolicyStoreConnectionString].ConnectionString, null) Reading arround I see that this error could come from having the app and store on different domai…

Hi, I've developed a test web application that will use an AzMan store to control security. The store is currently on my XP box and the application is developed in VS2008 using C# and .NET 2.0. The application works fine from the IDE but when I publish it to the localhost and try to run that version I get an error: Insufficient access rights to perform the operation. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80072098) this is when I call the line: AzManStore.Initialize(0, ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[PolicyStoreConnectionString].ConnectionString, null) Reading arround I see that this error could come from having the app and store on different domai…

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Hi, In the first few minutes after starting XP, I have heavy harddisk access. Looking at filemon shows that XP is reading files I used recently. That may have someting todo with the prefetcher!? (but my "C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch" is empty for example) How can influence/reduce that heavy "prefetching"? Bye Chris

RE: The blog is great... OS News - 1 hour ago I was reading a trade journal the other day where sinofsky was talking about the expectations they built up during vista development by the transparency in ... More...

Harish.G Thank You so much. your formula worked !! i could not grt it to work at all now all is fine. anyone with th same problem please just follow the instructions. IT WORKS!!!!!!! -- RAY BENNETT JR H&R CO. INC. , JAPAN "

System: Vista home premium, SP1 with latest updates and patches. The system is not able to detect USB devices compatible with Vista. It asks to install the driver which obviously is not needed for Vista. Any help would be appreciated. I did find a hotfix KB940199 which seems to be pre SP1 so I am unable to install it. Any updated fixes for this issue? Thanks in advance...