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Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds? ZDNet Blogs - 25 minutes ago The much-touted official “Engineering Windows 7´´ blog has provided a lot of words about how Microsoft developers think about building an operating system ... More...

Hello, I've successfully installed SPA 2.0 on a domain controler to troubleshoot Active Directory issues. But, the tool fails to generate the report after data collection. The current report view show the following error message : "This report does not contain useful information due to a bad data collection. Please refer to the help for more information." However, I've found a file named "incomplete_report.xml" in the report directory... There is information neither in the help file, nor in the windows logs. I've used Process Monitor to check for denied access. Everything is fine though. Any Help appreciated. TIA. Olivier MATROT.

Hi, We're running office 2003 sp3 on windows 2003 terminal server. Every couple of weeks our users email signatures disappear and they have to recreate them. Does anybody know of a permanent fix for this? We tried http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918561 But our servers do not have the registry key. Thanks Paul

Hi, I am using the secondary monitor to have an eye on some management conole counters. Occasionally I minimize the MMC when switching tasks or something and have to bring it back up. Question: is there a utility that would pin a window and allow to set the mmc to always stay maximized (and not react on commands like "show desktop")? TIA for any hints! Regards DC

Was looking for some music and clicked on preview and WHAM - got da bug Used spyhunter adaware norton and spybot got most out I think But still have flashing icon in tray and file C:/WINNT/system32/drivers/etc/hosts is constantly busy so I cant put a block site entry in there. goggle showed me some sites which have software downloads to fix it http://removal-tool.com/antispycheck/ http://www.removeonline.com/remove-antispycheck Are they trustable sites since the bug came from purported bug fix site? Or are there other suggestions for fixing it? W2k IE6 all patches installed -- --------------------------------------------------------------- …

Just a quick note about a flaw in default policies which I've discovered: If used in the standalone-server role with no AD, Windows Server 2008 sets a default password policy enforcing complexity-rules, but NOT requiring a minimum length. This is an unsafe combination, and should be changed. Where useraccounts are created by way of a batchfile or script, this condition may lead to some or all accounts having null passwords. This fact may not be realised by the operator, but even if it is, it may then prove difficult to correct the situation. Example commands: C:\> net user fred /add Creates a new account with a null password. This should no…

Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print Slashdot - 3 minutes ago "I'll take another example: just before Microsoft launched Vista, it invited us [to work with it] so that Firefox works better on Windows Vista. ... More...

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Beim wiederholten Versuch, das Update KB946648 zu installieren, bekomme ich immer die lapidare Fehlermeldung "Der erforderliche Installationszweig wurde nicht in der INF-Datei gefunden". Was ist die Ursache? Wie kann ich das Problem loesen? Im voraus besten Dank. MfG Wassermann1940

I'm trying to clean up my hard drive and notice a lot of subfolders under c:\winnt\installer, they have names that are long series of numbers, and in these subfolders are files, some of which have names of programs I've installed. I'd like to know if it's essential to keep these files/subfolders, or if I can just delete them to save space. Does anyone know? John

Now that Beta 2 has released, I want to provide a short update on some of the smaller security changes the team has recently made. I’ve also linked to a great article on the IE8 XSS Filter implementation written by the architect of that feature. Restricting document.domain The document.domain property initially returns the fully qualified domain name of the server from which a page is served. The property can be assigned to a domain suffix to allow sharing of pages across frames from different hostnames. For instance, two frames running at app1.example.com and app2.example.com can script against one another if both frames set their document.domain to their common …

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Hello, I manage a webserver and to keep track of the performance and stability of this machine, I've created a Counterlog. This log writes it's data to a SQL database 24/7. Now and then the counterlog just stops. How can I make sure it will always keep running and it restarts itself when it is stopped? When the server is rebooted the log starts, so that's not the problem. I think it has something to do with loosing the connection to the database, but I have no proof for this. But when that db-connection is lost, or something else makes the log stop: how should I configure the log so that is starts again? I have scheduled it to start manually and stops …

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Is there any way to 'switch off' a keyboard on Win XP Pro and conversely, is there some way to switch it back on? It seems my main administrator profile has either been corrupted or somehow changed so that it does not recognise the keyboard. Other user profiles seem to work normally on the same hardware. I have tried to remove / reinstall the keyboard using Device Manager & tried to use an USB keyboard - all to no avail. I tried to copy the profile (sans the nti* files), but it is a pain to do so since I have to use the on-screen virtual keyboard to do so. Anyway, I have not been successful in transferring the old profile into a new profile. Bef…

So, I have a device connected at serial port and always on and sending data to the port. When XP restarts sometimes it understands it as mouse put driver on it and problems begin... Already tried fastdetect at boot.ini never helps - before at NT was NoSerialMice parameter, now it is substituted by fastdetect - but it never works. Could you recomend me how to solve this one? Can I turn off serial checking for mouse driver at all? Thx, Oleg

Since I Can't Work With Vista Because I Don't Know What To Do With Vista, I Am Going To Install Ubuntu Again And Maybe I Can Work With Ubuntu But I Think I Will Uninstall Ubuntu And Install Windows 2008 Server, RTM BFD. Just FYI Once I Do This I Will Then Start Over Again. Just FYI. Did I Say Just FYI?

Hi, I am testing out Terminal Server 2008/TS Web Access/TS Gateway solution and it's work (almost) wery well. I have one server with terminal services and one with TS Gateway/TS Web Access. The problem starts when i turned on "change password at next logon" for one of my test users then I can't logon to TS Web Access and i got the same result when i try remote desktop but there i got a message that my account is disabled or password is run out.... I hope somone have a solution here. Best Regards Tom (Norway)

There are some info I picked up from website: 1. Without partition software. You can resize other partitions, just not the boot partition which is the one that the Windows server 2003 files are located on. To resize it, use the disk configuration tool after starting up with the 2003 disk. You'll have to reinstall when you do this. 2. There is no free windows server 2003 partition software, there are two great partition software for windows server 2003. * Partition Magic will do not the trick. Use Norton Ghost to copy the partition onto another HD, and uninstall your Windows Server 2003. Then install Windows Operating System which Partition Magic supported,…

I am getting an error on startup after doing windows update. Never saw this before. The ordinal 49 could not be located in the dynamic link library MAPI32.dll Looking on the Web, it seems that if you run Fixmapi.exe, this should fix it. It doesn't on my machine. Doesn't seem to do anything - just goes right back to a command prompt. I have 3 Mapi files: MAPI32.000 that is 110KB MAPI32.DLL that is 145K MAPI.DLL that is 81K What happened here? How can I fix this? Thanks, Tom

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I simply cannot get this service to start. I was using it to VPN my Palm Centro to my home machine, but since SP1 it just will not start. I have followed every KB article I could find and Googled for a couple of days, nothing. I have tried disabling all services and startup items except MS items, still will not start. In addition to the errors below, this also appears in the event log: "Unable to load C:\Windows\System32\iprtrmgr.dll." The file exists and the permissions are correct, it is read/writeable by the system. In addition, there are two other files that the KB told me to check, both exist in the correct locations and have the correct permission…

Help pls...I have a friendster account and i want to download pictures to it...but my pictures are mostly 2mb in size...i am trying to download the pics using the windows xp uploader but i need to access the "publish selected items to the web" which is under Files/Files task in the windows xp...I dont see this "publish selected items to the web" anywhere in my windows vista...help pls...i want to update my pictures in my friendster account but i am not able to do so...:( -- Rowena