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As mentioned in the first post on this topic, the IE8 Smart Address Bar works better with Windows Search installed. However, IE8 does not require Windows Search, and IE8 will still provide a superior experience to IE7 if it’s not there. We are going to go through and detail the differences between IE8 with and without Windows Search so people can understand the trade-offs. To start with, we made a choice to use Windows Search as our index & query engine when we began work on IE8 almost two years ago. We could have written our own engine, or we could have used a different engine, but it came down to a simple realization: we have a team of people here at Microsof…

Thoughts on the following problem report that was generated during the auto-update of vista to sp1 (vista home premium 32, on a gateway with sigmatel): Description Windows installed driver software that supports the basic features of your MTP Device. Its manufacturer may provide software that enables additional features. Problem signature Problem Event Name: PnPGenericDriverFound Architecture: x86 Hardware Id: USB\VID_1004&PID_6010&REV_0002 OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033 Extra information about the problem Bucket ID: 10127171

I've virtualized a w2003 for testing purposes (vmware server on debian on ibm x206). I noticed a gread performance loss, and I suspect this loss is related to disk virtualization. I'd like to do some performances test, but I'm not very experienced with perf. counters. Which counters should I activate? Is anywhere some good doc? tnx Ago

Auto-update finally had the sp1 update available for a 32 vista home premium installation. (gateway with a sigmatel sound card). Went through the update with 2 driver errors. One of the driver errors was the verizon vcast music manager driver. (It allows you to download songs to your verizon phone, in this case an lg env). The program runs, but can't play any music files listed before the sp1 update, even though these files are in the same hardrive location, says the files are not in the expected location. If you add new music files to the pc hardrive, vcast can find and then play those. Verizon answer was "this isn't our problem, but it's mic…

I just saw this in my computer. As I have just written, there is a problem on iTunes 8. However, Alisha commented she installed it without problems. Good for her, but until there is a quick patch installed, I would hold off from installing as I cannot afford to mess up my system.Share This More...

Attempting to lock down various w2k3r2 laptop(s) using the Bastion host template (standalone, no domain) with secedit which has some settings under the /machine/system/currentcontrolset/services/lanmanserver/parameters registry hive key namely: RequireSecuritySignature EnableSecuritySignature EnableForcedLogoff AutoDisconnect AutoShareWks RestrictNullSessAccess and using supplemental .cmd scripts that run reg.exe or regedit.exe to set some of these parameters as well ... we are finding basically that no settings for this lanmanserver/parameters hive key are taking. Notes from a previous programmer who has left the company indicate that he had similar probl…

Moneyweb Editor's blog: Microsoft's charm offensive Management Today, UK - Sep 10, 2008 A billion people use PCs that run with Windows. The geeks that might admire its amazing achievements regard Microsoft as the Evil Empire and Gates as the ... Was that an ad, or did I just get punched in the gut? Loudoun Times Apple ad takes a bite out of the NYT home page Los Angeles Times all 18 news articles More...

>I have installed firefox 3 for my new vista operated machine. I get the > following error message: > > Could not initialise the application's security component. The most > probable > cause is problems with files in your browser's profile directory. Please > check that this directory has no read/write restrictions and your hard > drive > is not full or close to full. It is recommended that you exit the browser > and > fix the problem. If you continue to use this browser session, you might > see > incorrect browser behaviour when accessing security features. > > I have tried following the steps sugge…

Windows 7: Straight from the VPs Mouth Tom's Hardware Guide, CA - 8 minutes ago Ever since the lukewarm reception of Windows Vista, the next version of the operating system Gates built has been on a lot of peoples minds. ... More...

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I use Word 2003 with XPPro, and use the language bar all the time. On Sept. 8 or so, we started having problems: 1) Does not load and has to be repopulated with my frequently used keyboards every time I start the computer 2) will only register the Unicode Keyboards that come with windows XP I have 2 alternative Hebrew keyboards and one alternative Greek Keyboard installed. Regional and Language options lets me select all of these, but when I apply and close the dialogue box, they do not appear on the language bar. Between Sept 1 and Sept 8, automatic updates added a slew of updates, including Service Pack 3 on Sept 1 we installed Kodak EasyShare 6.0…

Just wondering if you have used mail merge in word? I am looking for information on why in 2007 there is not all the avery labels, can you give me any help? -- PJ "rthrasher" wrote: > I have the most perplexing problem - When opening or creating a next text > document in Word 2007 (part of Office 2007), I cannot select any text with > the mouse - I can select text with the arrow keys + shift, but not the > mouse. I can select menus, and use the mouse cursor on other parts of word, > but not on the document. Also when I click on the office button, and choose > Word Options (thought I may look there), I cant choose any of the ca…

We are using Windows Server 2003 and in the past couple of days the System process has been taking about 50% of the CPU. I am using a program called "Process Explorer" but can't nail down what is actually causing this. Prior the System process was only using about 5% of the CPU. There have been no addionational software or hardware changes recently. This is causing some network file sharing to be sluggish. Any help in pointing me in the right direction to try find the issue that is causing this would be appreciated.

Why pay more? That was the only and simple message the commercial of Seinfeld and Bill Gates had going for them when they decided to launch (commercial here) their 300 million dollar campaign anchored on the former TV mainstay. Microsoft wanted to create the buzz and so they did — in a way that they [...] More...

from SamBeckett: I just installed itunes 8 over my itunes 7 on Vista. Now whenever I plug in my ipod nano, I get a blue screen death. 3 times so far. even if it is plugged in on boot, I get a blue screen. Before itunes 8 I never seen a blue screen with vista since it [...] More...

I am trying to configure a Server 2008 Datacenter Core server to mount an iSCSI volume. The server has multiple NIC's, one of which is on the iSCSI VLAN. The server is in a workgroup and will be a Hyper-V host. On a separate Win 08 box with a full installation and domain membership I can mount the iSCSI volume no problem with Storage Explorer by entering the target portal address and logging into the right IQN. In addition, from that '08 box (or another Vista box that I have) I can fully remotely manage the Server Core box through a combination of firewall rules and local accounts (cmdkey /add). So, I know my problems are not permissions related. Aga…

Globe and Mail Google the Browser Builder: Chrome InfoToday.com - 41 minutes ago At launch, it was only available for Windows Vista or Windows XP Service Pack 2 or above. Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been quoted as saying that "it’s ... IE8 is praised but doubts over compliance remain Small Business all 243 news articles More...

Google the Browser Builder: Chrome InfoToday.com - 6 minutes ago At launch, it was only available for Windows Vista or Windows XP Service Pack 2 or above. Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been quoted as saying that "it’s ... More...

I just wanted to say my firmest thoughts and prayers go out to everyone who has suffered today. 7 years ago, my older brother Tom had his friend killed. Our Super John had his nephew killed. This will always be a rough and sad time of the year for me. May this September 11, be filled with kindness, strength, gentleness and patience for all. May the Higher Power have Mercy on Us All.

An old post but thought I'd mention how I solved this as the process may help someone even if the fault is different. This was the error: "The server {204810B9-73B2-11D4-BF42-00B0D0118B56} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout." I searched the registry for the {...} reference and found the key: "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{204810b9-73b2-11d4-bf42-00b0d0118b56}" I searched for this and found Microsoft info explaining that it "registers the COM coclass for the UPnPRegistrar interface." (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms907987.aspx) I was lucky because the same info gave a sub-key which was missing from the registry. I created the s…

I fixed it by stopping netpker service, and disabling it. -- unidentified ------------------------------------------------------------------------ unidentified's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/unidentified.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-help/707675.htm http://forums.techarena.in

Add-ins cause problems with Mouse input in Word 2007 While using Microsoft Office 2007, Word started refusing mouse input. I could not select text, use the right OR left button within the text area. Some menu buttons worked while others did not. My mouse worked normally in other applications. I found the following article: "[Word 2007] Mouse Doesn't Work (i.e. Can't Highlight Text)" and a common thread was observed add-ins cause problems. http://help.lockergnome.com/office/Word-2007-Mouse-Work-Highlight-Text-ftopict936907.html I found that two Adobe Acrobat add-ins were enabled on my own system. I disabled them both and the problem was resolved. To b…

Moneyweb Editor's blog: Microsoft's charm offensive Management Today, UK - 21 hours ago The punters get frustrated with Vista and wonder why Macs look so much cooler than PCs (which isn’t Microsoft’s fault). Love and a 95 per cent market share ... Apple ad takes a bite out of the NYT home page Los Angeles Times all 13 news articles More...

Hi, In my VSS requestor code, I am interested in knowing the Database files and log file volumes/files used by SQL database. Currently, we are using method, IVssWMComponent::GetComponentInfo to get the information about the SQL database component. But what we are seeing is cDatabases and cLogFiles values in VSS_COMPONENTINFO are zero. With these values being zero we are not calling methods, IVssWMComponent::GetDatabaseFile or IVssWMComponent::GetDatabaseLogFile With cFileCount I am able to get the list all all the files but not getting which are for database and which are for logs. And with SQL Server 2008, do not know which are for FileStream ? Is th…

Hi All, I know the answer but i'll ask anyway. Does anybody know if it is possible to get Windows Storage Server R2+ iSCSI not via OEM? We have a need to utilize the storage server and iscsi in a virtualized environment and would really prefer to not have the hardware. Cheers