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Jason Hiner has written over at ZDnet and article which lists the top 5 reasons why Windows Vista failed.I agree on only two of his five reasons. Below are my comments on each his reasons:5.* Apple successfully demonized Vista - why do people keep on putting Apple on the equation? Jason himself has outlined that [...] More...

I'm looking for a sidebar clock that shows a map of the world and where it's day and night. I used to have an old 16-bit application that would do this and run under 32-bit OS's, but I've upgraded to 64-bit Vista so I could expand my memory and it won't run there. I'd love to have a similar clock for the sidebar. Does anybody know where I can find one? Thanks! -- "Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "Oh, I think so, Brain! But doing a clog dance in actual clogs will give me awful blisters."

How can I log the sessions when a user is logged on? Also, can terminal services be setup that the user can only log on from only one computer? Thank you. Nereida

Hello I have numerous desktops running windows XP who's users have a policy puching out corporate wallpaper, which requires active desktop to be enabled. The same users logon to a Win2k terminal server, and active desktop (with it being enabled for the user account) gives every user the homepage when they logon. Is it possible to have this feature disabled? I think it must be in the default user profile somehow but unsure, can someone help? Thanks

Does anyone know of any software that lets someone know, via a pop-up or whatever, when someone else is connecting to their computer over the network in XP?

I know this is an old thread, but I get asked this often Right-click on "Downloaded Program Files" Folder>Left-click Properties Un-check "Read-Only" box>click Apply. When Attribute changes Pop-up appears>click on OK to change the files (which are what cannot be touched) The Damaged Files should now be able to be deleted. Make sure to change the folder back to read only, to preserve it from being messed with(by a hacker or rouge website) you should be fine then Dejavu2u -- Dejavu2u ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dejavu2u's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/dejavu2u.htm View this thread…

Hello, a few days ago, a strange printing issue occured at our site. We have an employee, who works on a WinXP Pro SP2 Workstation with a HP Color LaserJet 2550 attached via USB. She is connected to a Windows Server 2003 via mstsc 6.0.6000. Until the error occured, she could print. But since a few days ago, it is impossible to print from within the terminal session. We reinstalled the drivers, and the printer appears in the session, but it ist even impossible to print a testing site from the printer dialog. The dialog only says, that it is impossible to print. We also tested the registry hack, described in KB302361. Who could help me? Thanks, Andreas

An Unblinking Look at User Access Control Technologizer, CA - 18 minutes ago If you were to list all the things that contributed to Windows Vista’s lackluster reputation, I’m not sure if UAC would be in the top four or five. ... More...

Here is the PIG in all his glory!!! --------------------------------------- By PowerUser: "Licentious. Obnoxious. Anti-democratic. In case you can't tell, I'm making a direct reference to Mr. Adam Albright. Before I launch into my main topic, I want to make a few matters crystal-clear: (1) Failure to recognize this salient point will result in Adam's getting free reign to enshrine irrational fears and fancies as truth, and (2) as a result of that, my observations are perhaps unique. Now that you know where I stand on those issues, I can safely say that wily cutthroats like Adam are not born -- they are excreted. However unsavory that metaphor may be, Adam act…

Hotmail's many ways of closing your mail account Australian Personal Computer, Australia - 1 hour ago One user, Tom Raftery, writes on his blog "I Logged into my Windows Live email account yesterday only to find all my email deleted. ... More...

I was running my computer normaly and unplug my speaker jacks while the comp and speakers were on, when i plugged them back in the speakers got loud and fuzzy then the comp crashed. After re-booting when i try to start windows normally I get the green loading bar, then after that the screen goes black. So far I tried -To do a system restore in safe mode, this didn't work -Tried a system restore with the repair disk, restored but still black screen -Did a startup repair, said there was no problem. -Did a memory check, useless since I can't see the report. -Did chkdsk /r, which took forever and to no avail. -Did a error scan on the c: drive with no avail. -unp…

I’ve just purchased a 1TB Buffalo Turbo external hard drive. Problem: my Seagate 320GB external hard drive has only about 20% free space left. Is it possible to have these 2 drives on at the same time and transfer direct from the Seagate EHD to the Buffalo EHD and so reduce the transfer time considerably? Both supplied FAT 32 formatted and are still so. Running XP Home SP3. Thanks - Andy

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No surprise: Microsoft to fine-tune UAC in Windows 7 ZDNet - 2 minutes ago UAC, which debuted with Windows Vista, provides users with standard user rights, as opposed to uber administrative rights, by default. ... More...

I have a client that is using Windows XP Pro SP3. His laptop is joined to a Windows SBS 2003 domain. He uses offline files to access files when he takes his laptop out of the office. He is synchronizing his Mapped "S" drive. All but three folders are synchronizing. When I try to sync the folders, I receive an error that says: "Offline Files (\\server1\Shared on Server1): Unable to make 'Caldwell, Christopher' available offline on \\server1\shared\customer\A_C\C. The system is currently running with the last-known good configuration" I have tried recreating the Share at the server and remapping the mapped drive. I have also tried deleting the offline…

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Hi, I was printing something from a program called Guitar Pro and the program crashed in the middle of the job. After that I could not print at all so I rebooted. Now every time I reboot the print spooler crashes during start up so I can't even see the printer to try and delete the job and I can't add a new printer because it tells me the print spooler service is not running. It seems like that corrupt job is stuck in the queue somehow but I can't even see the printer to delete it. Would appreciate any suggestions on how to fix this. Thanks in advance, Steve

Just the net, please guardian.co.uk, UK - 8 minutes ago The Eee Box runs Windows XP Home, but it has a simple Linux-based front end called Express Gate (bit.ly/aj0042), which lets you surf and run Skype without ... More...

Windows XP downgrade deadline extended to July 31, 2009 engadget, CA - 37 minutes ago ... something to do with the fact that some folks don't want to move to Vista at all. Take your pick. Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. ... More...

Microsoft is known to have code names for their products and eventually changing its name a few months before its release. For the successor of Windows Vista, named Windows 7, it most likely that Microsoft is going to create another name for it since “7″ doesn’t cut it because they have never named Windows in [...] More...

I have 2 new hds they are not twins not puchaced at the same time, one is a white label. I cannot get xp32 or 64 to see this drive. the install disk sees it. vista sees it. linux sees it, and partition manager (dos) sees it. xp says there is something on the sata channel but that it has no id, therefore has no idea what it is so i can't use it. The only difference in the hd id's that i can see is the white label has an ascii charector at the end of its id. is this odd or what?

Within the last couple of weeks i have had a couple of users call me and tell me that they have received an error box about the DEP. I have also experience it on my system and really confused as to why we are getting these messages. Nothing has changed on the computers.. no new software (except for ms updates) or even hardware. the systems that these machines are getting the DEP message are Windows XP SP3... What can i do to stop this besides turning DEP off? -- Thank you,

Microsoft has again extended the life of the Windows XP media to large OEMs from the current January 31, 2009 to July of 2009. A Microsoft spokesman contends that they are doing it to help companies become confident in using Windows Vista and allow them to have a painless transition. But given thatWindows 7 is expected to [...] More...

All - I have a Terminal Server Cluster that has been built. In my testing, I placed a user that has a large (2.5 GB) Exchange mailbox. When he launches Outlook 2007, it comes up, but he gets an hourglass for about 5 minutes. During that time, he can go on do other things, but when he comes back to Outlook, he gets the "Not Responding" or the white screen. Eventually, it comes back around and he's able to use it. He's not running in cache mode, because of running on TS. All patches have been applied to the servers in the cluster. I've disabled the add-ins that would allow me to. I know that the account size is an issue, but he didn't have the pr…

When try to oper SB Equalizer I get EQRes.crl is missing. How do I find this? Tried to reinstall driver and did not change. Any ideas?