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Here's an early look at the Live Services activity center, a central location for all of my articles about cloud computing! As with the Vista activity center, this will be updated over time. More...

My new book, Windows Vista Secrets SP1 Edition, is here, so I've set up an activity center that includes errata, changes, and notes from each chapter in the book ... Stay tuned for a daily book giveaway! More...

Thank you ,Heresgeo ,for your very specific directions how to solve this problem. I will certainly try this option and get back to you on the results. I do not understand why the Microsoft people at their Update service could not come up with an answer. Their way of solving this issue was to remove SQL server from my computer. I really apreciate the help. Removing SQL from my computer did not seem the right answer. It was obviously put there for a purpose. I am not so computer literate to figure out why I need SQL, but if it was on my computer it is there for a purpose. This has been a most frustrating experience. I thank you again for bothering to answer …

Hello. I have bought my new pc system three weeks ago. i have the vista ultimate package installed. My problem is that my system cannot understand the greek language. I have downloaded the greek language package from the vista updater and installed it succesfully. I may be able to read a file online but when i download it i can't read it anymore. The greek characters change into non-readable ones. I found out that the problem is about notebook mostly. All the notepad files i have downloaded are saved as ANSI and that's why i can't read them. If i write in the notebook program i have to save the file as Unicode and not ANSI. Is there anyway to download a notepad…

"Terence Howarth" wrote: > I have repaired my XP install and after completing this I am unable to install windows updates. My explore works fine I also have stoped, started, registered, and reinstaled windows. Also tried my Belarc advisor ditto why? > > EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice > http://www.eggheadcafe.com I have uninstalled the "873339" update...There is definately a bug in this update Go to start click CONTROL PANEL then click ADD or REMOVE than put a thick in show updates and remove update (KB873339). it shows you that some updates or programs wil be affected "egnore this" When removed go to win update and clik Iwil…

For those who experience problems with updates for vista, there is only one sure way of overcoming this without all the hassle. 1- delete the main partition, then create a partition, then reformat the drive, usually C:\ 2 - Install Vista 3- DO NOT install anything at all, no firewall or antivirus, just let windows firewall and windows defender take care of things for now. 4- Update vista, continue to update/restart and update until there are no more updates available. 5- place a shortcut on the desktop for " windows update " (Control Panel/windows update-"right click, send to desktop-create shortcut) 6- install your third part software one at a time, after each…

For those who experience problems with updates for vista, there is only one sure way of overcoming this without all the hassle. 1- delete the main partition, then create a partition, then reformat the drive, usually C:\ 2 - Install Vista 3- DO NOT install anything at all, no firewall or antivirus, just let windows firewall and windows defender take care of things for now. 4- Update vista, continue to update/restart and update until there are no more updates available. 5- place a shortcut on the desktop for " windows update " (Control Panel/windows update-"right click, send to desktop-create shortcut) 6- install your third part software one at a time, after each…

For those of you who have USB scanners that Vista has reported to be incompatible, do the following. 1- Make sure you have your scanner installation CD 2- Unplug the USB lead from the scanner to the computer. 3- Restart Vista 4- Plug in the USB cable for the scanner to your computer. 5- Vista will state "new hardware found, searching for drivers" let this finish, you will then be prompted for your driver software disc 6- Insert CD and click on next, Vista will install your scanner and it will work fine in the Vista Camera and scanner wizard. 7- Please note, if your scanner came with software such as "panel" etc, this will not work. However, at least you can…

For those of you who have USB scanners that Vista has reported to be incompatible, do the following. 1- Make sure you have your scanner installation CD 2- Unplug the USB lead from the scanner to the computer. 3- Restart Vista 4- Plug in the USB cable for the scanner to your computer. 5- Vista will state "new hardware found, searching for drivers" let this finish, you will then be prompted for your driver software disc 6- Insert CD and click on next, Vista will install your scanner and it will work fine in the Vista Camera and scanner wizard. 7- Please note, if your scanner came with software such as "panel" etc, this will not work. However, at least you can…

Under Windows XP, when I would connect to another network via VPN, I would get an icon in the system tray indicating my connection in addition to the icon for my "regular" connectivity to the internet/lan. With Vista, a single icon serves as an indicator for any and all networks I am currently connected to. How can I separate the icons to reflect the behavior I had with XP? Thanks, ~alan

RE[3]: run XP on Vista OS News - 7 minutes ago i was gonna say the same thing, windows vista only driver problem was with crappy video drivers from nvidia and the drivers from creative., who apart from ... More...

"unknown" wrote: > cavalier wrote to unknown. You must be a source of worry to your parents

"unknown" wrote: > cavalier wrote to unknown. You must be a source of worry to your parents

There is a significant contrast in what frank says he is all about with what frank shows he's all about. Big frank claims he is rich, handsome, successful, computer literate, smart, and can kick ass... while from everything frank posts the conclusion is in reality: LITTLE FRANK! He is broke, old and falling apart, the biggest loser in the world, a computer illiterate, a super duper idiot, and a coward. Proof is in every single post of Frank... there is no hiding the truth. Yes frank is the biggest loser you will ever meet online and offline (*) (*) even though frank is a super duper loser he is still LESS revolting than the semi-dead quasi-ge…

There is a significant contrast in what frank says he is all about with what frank shows he's all about. Big frank claims he is rich, handsome, successful, computer literate, smart, and can kick ass... while from everything frank posts the conclusion is in reality: LITTLE FRANK! He is broke, old and falling apart, the biggest loser in the world, a computer illiterate, a super duper idiot, and a coward. Proof is in every single post of Frank... there is no hiding the truth. Yes frank is the biggest loser you will ever meet online and offline (*) (*) even though frank is a super duper loser he is still LESS revolting than the semi-dead quasi-ge…

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Microsoft fights Ballmer testimony in ‘Vista Capable’ suit Maine To Skip Vista, Go Directly To Windows 7 Lawyers want Windows Update used to push ‘Vista Capable’ lawsuit notices Microsoft gives users six months longer to flee from Vista Businesses focus on Windows 7, XP over Vista Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More...

you can convert your vbscript into EXE using any online tools like this one 'Vbs2Exe : Online VBS to EXE converter' (http://www.vbs2exe.com/) and place manifest beside the exe so it runs as administrator -- gareen Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

Hi, In our exchange Win2k3 server we are getting lot of errors as below Event ID : 59 - Resolve Partial Assembly failed for Microsoft.VC80.MFCLOC. Reference error message: The referenced assembly is not installed on your system. Event ID : 32 - Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.MFCLOC could not be found and Last Error was The referenced assembly is not installed on your system. Server went to hungstate after rebooting.Found that the event id 59 and 32 was the last event while the server went into hungstate. Hence please let us know whats the cause of hung state and this eveent id http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923014 => Microsft article …

I try to follow this instruction: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/startmfu.htm ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Resolution Right-click an empty area in the Start menu and select Properties. In the Start Menu tab, click Customize. Configuration options for the Programs list are on the General tab. Make sure that the "Number of programs on Start" is not set to 0. Try clearing the MFU list in the registry once, by pressing Clear List button. Disable the two policies namely NoInstrumentation and NoStartMenuMFUprogramsList. See article Q292504 for more information - Policy Settings for the Start Menu in Windows XP Microsoft Knowledgebase article Q292504 talks onl…

"unknown" wrote: >cavalier wrote to unknown. You must be source of worry to your parents

"unknown" wrote: >cavalier wrote to unknown. You must be source of worry to your parents

At location A I use SJ4850. At location B I use SJ8250. I use the same laptop (HP Pavilion dv9000) at both locations. This system has worked well in the past. I’m now at location B. Suppose I scan a fully printed A4 sheet. I see an A4 image, but the printed sheet has been “pushed” to the right and upwards, lopping part of it off, while leaving corresponding blank space at the left and the bottom. Have tried reinstalling the HP drivers to no effect. The defect seems to be at the HP end as four different software scanning programs give the same result. Is there a way of regaining congruence? Is SJ8250 dying?

Brutal does not describe the XP File Transfer utility. I ran the utility on my XP machine to output all my settings to an external drive. I then installed a new laptop hard drive and re-installed the same version of XP with SP3. When I tried to run the utility I got the message that the Migration store was created with a previous version of files and settings. How am I supposed to go back and create the export with a different version of the utility. as an IT Software Developer I can't imagine how non IT people would feel about this brutally bad utility. This is beyond Frustrating. Fed up with non user friendly issues such as this! Whoever wrote that util…

Hi all, Just recently I have noticed that when viewing file properties for .sys files the 'details' tab contains very little information, as can be seen here with tcpip.sys: http://www.mikeyjames.com/psys.jpg It seems about 50/50 whether details from a .sys file will be interpreted properly by Vista. This was confirmed by using System Information: http://www.mikeyjames.com/sysinf.jpg I then noticed that a third party app (SiSoft Sandra) was able to read the info without any problems: http://www.mikeyjames.com/psandra.jpg I thought I'd try and see what effect changing the file extension had & changed it to tcpip.dll. This resulted in all the info…