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Hello, I have a very strange issue with my Belgian azerty laptop keyboard. All dead keys, those are the keys used to place accents (¨ , ^ , ´ , ` , ~) above letters, are not working when I try to create a letter with an accent. However, when I keep the dead key pushed, after a second or so, an entire set of the dead key appears (e.g. ^^^^^^^^) after which I can type my character which will now have an accent above it (e.g. ^^^^^^^^ê). Of course, this is not a suitable solution. I know the keys are working (if I try to use the other non dead characters on the same key, they work immediately) and nothing is wrong with my keyboard. So I'm figuring it must be so…

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Anyone using time.nist.gov to update there computer clocks and find it is not working now it is because it is down for maintenance for 24 hors starting at 2200 UTC on October 3, 2008. Link below shows status of all NIST time servers. http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi Jerry

Hi i am trying to burn music cd's from the windows media player. It does every thing okay ans says the disc is finalized but when i try to play it on the pc, it says "Blank Cd" and in a cd player it comes up with "Not finalized". Also when i try to copy documents to a cd it does the same, it copys them ok but when i put the cd back in to check i get the message " Blank CD" again. One more thing that may help i tryed a different make of disc and that comes up with "windows does not support this cd-rw format " yet i have copyed in it before in 2006! All the updates are up to date Please can some one help thank you Niall

I am unable to update , reinstall or uninstall either Office 2007 or Silverlight. If I try to update them I get an error. If I try to reinstall I get an error and when I go to add/remove programs they are listed but when I click on them I am not given the option to uninstall them. Please help because I don't know what else to do at this point except wiping my drive and reinstalling everything which I don't what to have to do. I am running Vista 64 Ultimate.

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TechRepublic is currently running a poll asking users whether their company is eventually migrating to Windows Vista and the choices are “Yes”, “No”, “Unsure”. I think Jason, who authored the poll should have included the option “Have Migrated” and that should have been my answer.Anyways, go ahead and vote in the poll here.Tags: Microsoft, Vista, [...] More...

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Right I have a work laptop that connects to a domain. When I am at home and connect to the domain over the VPN I can access the fileshare on my laptop. When I bring the laptop home and connect to my home network I cannot access the fileshare - I get the error message above. I can see the machine in the Network Neighbourhood - I just cannot see any of the fileshares or connect to them in anyway. (This happens regardless of whether I shutdown the laptop at work or I leave it running when I bring it home). The strangest thing is this used to work (ie. I could do the above and see the fileshare and access it no problems at all). Now it does not. Wh…

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I have a small network of 3 machines all running XP Pro. I installed SP3 on machines A and B I had it installed on Machine c but uninstalled it because of a conflict with a program that I need to run on a daily basis. I would also like to uninstall it from Machine B but when I do I am unable to get to the internet. Now for the real problem. Since attempting to uninistall and reinstall SP3 on Machine C the "Share" tab is gone from the Properties configuration window. How can I get the share tab back??

Hello, We created a service using SC.EXE for <gasp> Oracle Application Server ("opmnctl.exe startall"), and the service creates ok, but have noticed the following problems: (1) Service appears in the services applet, but the status always shows not running despite the actual process status (2) Attempting to start the service via the GUI returns "failed to start in a timely fashion" yet the service does indeed come up Is there anything we can do to correctly enumerate? Thanks!

"Octavio" <inquirer@inquirer.com> wrote in message news:9F079471-7686-44A2-9E25-5FB3310529EA@microsoft.com... > When I send a message using the Newsgroups, like this one, when I clidk > the send word it goes to the Outbox folder and then it goes to my Sent > items folders that is under the Storage Folder. Then I have to open the > "Sent item" to find the message still there and then I open it and then I > send it and it goes. Why these additional steps? It is a bug with > Windows LIve Mail?

We're trying to implement a custom userinit procedure in our network. The user MUST register his/her time-entry within a custom application (that we developed) just after the network authentication and before the logon procedure continue. Here's the sequence we're trying to achieve: 1. User authenticates in our domain providing his/her username and password 2. Gina calls Winlogon which in turn calls MYUSERINIT.EXE 3. MYUSERINIT prompts for a time-entry 4. User agrees clicking in a button 5. MYUSERINIT calls the DEFAULT USERINIT.EXE and ends 6. Logon continues. The issue is that, everytime we manually change the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\W…

Error: 80072efd = ERROR_INTERNET_CANNOT_CONNECT Translation: Cannot connect to the Internet server This error may occur if your Internet connection or configuration is preventing access to the Windows Update site. http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v5consumer/showarticle.aspx?articleid=16&ln=en http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=836941 You receive an "Error 0x80072EE2" or "Error 0x80072EFD" error message when you try to use Windows Update See also: When searching for available updates on the Windows Update site, you receive the 0x8024502d error. http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v5consumer/showarticle.aspx?articleid=26&ln=en -- P…

I'm going to try and explain this as best as I can...I'm stumped and need some ideas. We have a marketing company who developed a presentation video for us. We used a personal website on an XP box to test the launching of the video and it worked fine - played audio and video and showed you the video controls (play, pause, stop, etc). We then attempted to apply the same code and files to our DEV and TEST webservers, both of which are running Windows 2003 R2 server. For whatever reason, the video will not play. Just a little black screen and it doesn't even show the video controls. We then applied the same code and files to a windows 2000 test box on a…

[X-post to Windows Update newsgroup] See the section "How to obtain help and support for this security update" here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938464 How to troubleshoot Windows Update, Microsoft Update, and Windows Server Update Services installation issues: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906602 See the "Need more help? Tell us what problem you are having" section of http://support.microsoft.com/ph/6527 You cannot install some updates or programs http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822798 Windows Update-specific newsgroup: http://news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsupdate Archive of Windows Update newsgroup: http://gro…

Running Vista 32 Ultimate. How to make Vista folders to display jp2 thumbnails? Thanks in advance. Alain

I'm using Microsoft office 2007 sp1 enterprise on a high-end Dell laptop... two downloads refuse to install. They are the latest Silverlight download and security update for Microsoft Office 2007. Constantly the yellow shield remains in my icon tray. I've tried using the custom option and unchecking him but they will not go away. For the Silverlight update, I've tried all the obvious things, such as reinstalling Silverlight or trying to uninstall it from the original installation program. For the Microsoft office I've tried all the obvious things such as running office diagnostics. I've gone to the office update website and it cannot determine what …

Tapes Releases Instant JPEG from Raw Utility imaging resource (press release), GA - 7 minutes ago The operating system plug-in for Mac OS X or Windows XP/Vista can, Tapes said, eliminate the need to shoot Raw+JPEG because the extraction is very quick. ... More...

It's 10 AM Do You Know Where Your Backups Are? Washington Post, United States - 10 minutes ago With Windows machines, you're in worse shape. The backup utility in some copies of Windows XP is a joke, and Windows Vista's backup tool is little better ... More...

WinInfo Short Takes: Week of October 6, 2008 Windows IT Pro, CO - 7 minutes ago Imaginatively dubbed Windows Vista Secrets SP1 Edition, this second edition of "Vista Secrets" has is over 250 pages longer than the previous edition. ... More...

Microsoft is talking about Windows 7 as the successor of Windows Vista, but aside from that Steve Ballmer just announced that they have built something called “Windows Cloud” which runs in the internet.Steve contends that they have operating systems for the PC, phone, servers and now it’s time to have something for the internet. This [...] More...

Every time I wake up my computer from sleep or hibernation, Windows Media Center starts automatically. I don't know why. I wonder how to make it not annoy me anymore?