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On one of my Vista Ultimate (32 bit) systems the order of the icons on the launch bar changes when I reboot my system. Also the task items gets pushed to the far right. I've unlocked the taskbar, moved the task list under the lauch bar, arranged the icons on the launch bar as I want to see them. I then lock the taskbar, and reboot my system. Upon reboot the icon arrangement is messed up and the running applications appear on the far right. I've searched for a solution but cannot find anything, possibly I've looked in the wrong places. Sugggestions would be appreicated

"Boraxus" wrote: > > I found 2 sites with fixes, combined them into a batch file and ran it, > restarted, and did all updates without a hitch: > > assuming your os is win xp adn located on your c: drive, > > open notepad: > > start- all programs - accessories - notepad > > Cut and paste this into notepad: > > > regsvr32.exe iuengine.dll > regsvr32.exe wuapi.dll > regsvr32.exe wuaueng1.dll > regsvr32.exe wuauserv.dll > regsvr32.exe wuaueng.dll > regsvr32.exe wucltui.dll > regsvr32.exe wups.dll > regsvr32.exe wuweb.dll > regsvr32.exe wups2.dll > regsvr32.exe cdm.dll > re…

Hi, my name is Helen Drislane, I am a program manager on the IE team responsible for some of the user interface including tabs and I‘m going to discuss the new Tab Grouping feature (tab color!) with you. We had a lot of fun putting this feature together, so I am going to explain a little bit about the process involved in designing it and then describe the things you can do with it. EVOLUTION OF THE DESIGN AND ALGORITHM After shipping Internet Explorer 7, the IE team collected data from user reviews, from IE Feedback on MS Connect, and from other Microsoft product teams. We formed a list of top user requests which included the new Reopen Closed Tab feature, the…

Siliconrepublic.com PDC attendees will get pre-beta Windows 7 CNET News, CA - Sep 24, 2008 ... that were part of Windows Vista. Microsoft plans to make those available as downloadable Windows Live applications. The blog posting as well as several ... Windows 7 alpha to ship Oct 27 Microsoft NZer: we’ve taken punches National Business Review Developers to get Windows 7 pre beta next month Register Microsoft to Deliver 'Pre-Beta' of Windows 7 in Oct. PC Magazine Tech2 - Computerworld all 89 news articles More...

Hi, When browsing to servers via UNC, the "Scheduled Tasks" share does not show up anymore. It used to show up, but now the window is just blank when browsing to \\<servername>. I am a member of the Local Administrators group, I have administrative privileges on the servers. When connecting to this server by Remote Desktop and by opening a windows explorer with \\<servername>, I can see the Scheduled Tasks share listed. Moreover when I am running a schtasks command from my computer on this server: schtasks /query /s <servername> I am getting a: Error: Access is Denied. But if run locally, it works fine and lists the scheduled jobs.…

The Real Deal 130: Road Test CNET News, CA - 25 minutes ago Windows Home Server - not using backup app, restoring from Vista 64- Rafe -Maxtor encrypted drive TrueCrypt ? -Rafe Please explain the 250GB restriction ... More...

Was trying to configure a router the other day.. IP address give via routers dhcp (also tried static), fine but because vista couldn't find an internet connection it assumed the worse, said limited access with a yellow bang and I couldn't even ping the router. Tried it with my old xp machine and everything was fine. I cant work out which settings kills this annoying feature. Any ideas? Tim

I have a recurring issue with a Print Spooler on a Windows 2000 Server. A print job will get stuck and take a large amount of the CPU time. I stop the print spooler in Services, go into Windows (or Winnt) | System32 | Spool | Printers and delete all jobs in that folder and restart the print spooler. This fixes the issue temporarily, but several days later, the same process occurs. Is there a way to trace where the stuck print job is coming from, or has anyone run into this same issue? Thanks, David

In the second part of my Windows Live Wave 3 preview, I take a look at the Windows Live Wave 3 apps suite, which picks up a few new additions this year! More...

On Monday, 09/29/08, my Windows Server 2003 system told me I was low on system resources, and when I checked, I only had 700 MB of 12 GB left of free disk space when I should of had 2.27 GB free space. The problem was the "CIfiles" folder, which held a 500 MB .ci file. The number in the file name was also on three other files, but they were small. The windows.edb file was 1GB. So, we stopped the Windows Search service, deleted all four "CIfiles" folder files with the filename of the 500 MB, and emptied the recycle bin. Then, the windows.edb file shrunk and the disk space increased back to 2.27 GB free space. We restarted the Windows Search service, and this…

Amazon plugs hole in free-movie offerings Computerworld, MA - 59 minutes ago ... offers about 40000 movies and TV shows for streaming to a Windows or Mac browser, or for downloading to a PC running Windows XP or Vista. More...

I have two computers, both with Vista business. On the one computer I get the message "Setting Message Flags" when I exit Windows Mail. I don't think I have done anything to initiate this message. It takes a while for it to complete its action and close. How can I stop it from appearing?

When I check the box to wake computer to run scheduled Spysweeper task, close and re-open task scheduler, the box is unchecked. I have Vista Home Premium. Properties settings General--Run when logged on, run with highest privileges Triggers--Mon. and Fri. @ 2am Enabled -- TomG ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TomG's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/tomg.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-help/1046963.htm http://forums.techarena.in

This has nothing to do with Windows Update functionality. Forwarded to WinXP General via crosspost. > I run Windows XP SP3...and Registry [Mechanic] You'll probably have to reinstall the application in order to uninstall it, since Registry Mechanic probably removed the necessary uninstall files for the current install. Still think your Registry needs "cleaning" or "repairing"? Read http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099 (let alone this thread) and draw your own conclusions. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ FraG wrote:…

If I leave the computer alone for around 5 minutes it goes into a sleep mode. Moving the mouse brings up my password screen. Entering the pw brings me back to where I left off. I have the sleep mode set to never shut down the computer when plugged in, and 1 hour on battery. Turn off display is set to 20 minutes for both plugged in and on battery. Thanks for your help. Bob The Dog Breeders List http://www.dogbreederslist.com

Hope I'm posting this in the right section.. I run Vista MCE through a 42" screen. My biggest frustration is not being able to fit more of the program guide into the screen - either by decreasing the font size and/or increasing the size of the program guide grid - to allow me to see more of the programs in the future without having to manually scroll forward. With all the marketing I am seeing with people using Media Center huge TVs I am wondering why it is not more obvious how to see more. Does anyone know how to do this? Any help is greatly appreciated!! -- benjaminshaw123 Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

Hi, We had Symantec Firewall earlier and there were couple of rules that were defined (I am not sure whether it was defined in the GPO or using local machine policy). The rules were that if the machine was getting DHCP address then they were blocked at the firewall for access violation of certain sites. So, the users had to log in to Symantec and was then allowed to go out. We have now removed Symantec firewall and we have added another product called Fortigate. So, when the user tries to access some sites which are restricted by the firewall. But, if the same user is provided a static address IP range which is actually allowed to go through the f…

Hi, We had Symantec Firewall earlier and there were couple of rules that were defined (I am not sure whether it was defined in the GPO or using local machine policy). The rules were that if the machine was getting DHCP address then they were blocked at the firewall for access violation of certain sites. So, the users had to log in to Symantec and was then allowed to go out. We have now removed Symantec firewall and we have added another product called Fortigate. So, when the user tries to access some sites which are restricted by the firewall. But, if the same user is provided a static address IP range which is actually allowed to go through the f…

Snipping Tool in Vista Mobility Site, AL - 46 minutes ago Vista includes now tools that were part of Windows Tablet PC Edition and not included in XP. One of them is the Snipping Tool, one of the most useful tools ... More...

I have discovered that Read Receipt feature in Outlook 2007 contain security hole that doesn't appear to be fixed or even described. In "Options\E-mail Options\Tracking Options" I've feature named Read Receipt set to "Never send a response". Recently I received a few messages with titles "Undeliverable mail: Read: ....". After inspecting this mail messages I've found that their mime-headers is OK and it looks like Outlook sent mail messages (without any notifications) titled "Read: ..." to a few SPAM messages in my inbox (IMAP4 account). Of course these spam-messages have Read Receipt option set. I've made simple test to determine is that really bug b…

Hi all guys. I want a feed back from all of you about the behaviour of your Vista machines in the case you wake them up from sleep with a task scheduled in the vista task scheduler. I mean, i scheduled various tasks to perform during the night time setting them to wake the computer up from sleep. It is clear that i don't want the screen to wake up from standby since i am sleeping and no one need to see what's on the monitor. Instead i found in the morning that the screen is not in standby but is in two possible conditons, it is on showing the logon screen or it is on showing only a black screen with the mouse poiter. Is there a way to force the monitor to…

"msnews.microsoft.com" <SQL_Help@aaa.com> wrote in message news:%23YCTnssIJHA.2580@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Thanks for the reply, Tibor. > > Sorry I missed this. Yes, I had created a test file in the share, while > logging in as the service account and it worked fine. I will ask this in a > Windows group. Thanks for your help, Tibor. > > "Tibor Karaszi" <tibor_please.no.email_karaszi@hotmail.nomail.com> wrote > in message news:e%23ZMhXsIJHA.3644@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> CREATE DATABASE code will *always* run as the service account. It doesn't >> matter who you login as. I suggested that you yourself (while…

Today I found that all my users have disappeared from active directory, only built in users remain. I am user windows 2000 SBS server. The only hint as to what happened is in the event log is shows that file protection had to replace net.exe and net1.exe a few times after that services needed a users permissions stated to fail. any ideas on what to do. I have a system state backup but want to here is there are any other option before I commit to restoring system state

Highlight all items in folder and then click "Delete". Once the folder is empty you can then delete it. -- alexhosking

On Jul 11, 6:15 pm, "Censored Syndrome" <syna...@NOSPAMsyndrome.me.uk> wrote: > <oldcomput...@volcanomail.com> wrote in message > news:db7ae9a6-4032-4654-ae8e-782b3ff9f71e@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... > > Anyone know who composed the Longhorn startup sound? > > I like this kind of music, and wondered who did it. > It was done by the 1970's prog-rocker, Robert Fripp. > http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/scobleizer/Robert-Fripp-Behind-the-sce... > ss. >> I know that he did the sound for Vista, >> but I didn't know he did it for Longhorn. >> There is a sound of a woman in the Longhorn startup. …