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Windows 7 Blog Bad News for Vista Redmond Channel Partner, CA - 32 minutes ago Microsoft would really love for you to buy Vista and all...but, hey, if you're really into Windows, the next version has its own blog. ... More...

Does the operating system matter anymore? Hydrapinion, Australia - 2 hours ago By Anthony CARUANA OK - so this isn't strictly a "mobility" topic (and Carry is meant to be a blog about mobility) but it is a topic where the mobile tech ... More...

I have Vista Home Basic on my laptop, which, aside from somewhat slow lately, has been running fine. Within the last month or two i purchased a second monitor, hooked it up, and it worked perfectly, i had the screen extended to the right. Then, for reasons involving the amount of space on my desk, I moved the external monitor to the left and changed the configuration for it, which again, worked fine up until yesterday. Now, whenever i turn my laptop on, or close it, then open it again later the old settings come back, and the screen is configured for the right instead of the left, so now, every time i start up my laptop, i have to change the external monitor's s…

Im trying to access the event viewer in vista, but it says the service isnt running. i go to services.msc and try to turn on Windows event log, but an error comes up Windows could not start the Windows Event Log Service on local computer. Error 5: Access is denied Help please? -- mastern200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mastern200's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/mastern200.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-help/1023600.htm http://forums.techarena.in

It’s been just over five months since the MIX08 conference and IE8 Beta 1. One of the things I remain committed to is the furthering of web standards through a comprehensive test suite for each standard. This is necessary to eliminate ambiguities or differences that cause implementation differences between user agents (aka browsers). Those differences create frustration for web developers who are just trying to build web sites that interoperate. The IE team has been actively working on Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. In parallel with the CSS 2.1 implementation in the upcoming beta, the IE Test team has been developing test cases against the CSS 2.1 specification. Today w…

Ars Technica Microsoft Sends Up Trial Balloons for Windows 7 PC World - 1 hour ago It's enough to make one wonder how Windows 7 will avoid the implementation failures and missed deadlines that plagued Vista's launch. The engineering blog ... Microsoft may have 2000 developers working on Windows 7 Computerworld My Windows 7 wish list ZDNet 2500 Windows 7 employees broken up into 25 feature teams Ars Technica NewsChannel 9 WSYR - ARNnet all 14 news articles More...

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plugin that enables features such as animation, vector graphics and audio-video playback that characterize rich internet applications. Silverlight competes with products such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Adobe Shockwave, and JavaFX. Version 2.0, now in beta-testing, brings improved interactivity and support for .NET languages and development tools. -- -------------------------------- TaurArian [MVP] 2005-2009 Update Services http://taurarian.mvps.org "Octavio" wrote: > I got a successful update this morning of Microsoft Silverlight 1…

Ars Technica Microsoft Sends Up Trial Balloons for Windows 7 PC World - 43 minutes ago It's enough to make one wonder how Windows 7 will avoid the implementation failures and missed deadlines that plagued Vista's launch. The engineering blog ... Windows 7 details to be released Tehran Times Microsoft may have 2000 developers working on Windows 7 Computerworld Microsoft To Unveil Windows 7 Features Next Month Tom's Guide ZDNet - Ars Technica all 16 news articles More...

I Don't Know If Anybody Is Interested In What I Am Running On My Computers, Just FYI. I Am Running OEM Open Source Linux Ubuntu 8.04.1 Long Term Support Release 2 Web But I Don't Know What To Do With OEM Open Source Linux Ubuntu 8.04.1 Long Term Support Release 2 Web. Just FYI. The Title Looks Fancy But When I Install, The Icons Just Sit There On The Screen And I Can't Work A Word Processer. Just FYI. What Could I Say? I Can't Work A Spreadsheet. Just FYI. What Are The Numbers For? Just FYI. What Else Is There To Do With A Computer? I Know, I Can Rite Annoying E-Mails And Posts. Just FYI. The Weather Is Always A Good Topic And Barack Obama I…

Microsoft Sends Up Trial Balloons for Windows 7 PC World - 12 minutes ago It's enough to make one wonder how Windows 7 will avoid the implementation failures and missed deadlines that plagued Vista's launch. The engineering blog ... More...

At times when on the internet or updating Itunes. I will here random clicks the sounds and voices will play then go away. It happens off and on. I have download XP3 and need help.

You'll need Windows Vista, but it is actually possible to sync Windows Live Contacts with the iPhone. Here's how you do it! More...

Michael Arrington has some bad luck with his Macs, thinks it means ... MacDailyNews - 6 hours ago ... and anything else involving luck and/or risk because if what you write is actually true, your luck sucks worse than Windows Vista and the Zune combined. ... More...

Ars Technica Windows 7 details to be released Tehran Times, Iran - 42 minutes ago Based on Vista, Windows 7 is expected to be released in January 2010. The announcement about the unveiling was made on a new Windows 7 blog written by ... Microsoft may have 2000 developers working on Windows 7 Computerworld Microsoft To Unveil Windows 7 Features Next Month Tom's Guide My Windows 7 wish list ZDNet Ars Technica - NewsChannel 9 WSYR all 10 news articles More...

After reading many MS KB's on the subject of security I am lost when it comes to editing "ESCDomains" in Regedit. I can delete unwanted "domains" one at a time, but there are too many (perhaps thousands). Is there a way to hold down Shift to highlight more than one at a time, or is there a better way to delete in bulk? Many thanks! -- Rusty

Hi I'm having a HTPC running Vista Ulltimate (SP1). At some point, very possible after installing the lastest Vista updates, I have started getting boot issues. What happens is that if I shut down (S3 standby) the computer with the remote and then turn it back on again everything works fine. However, it seems as if the computer is in standby during the night or over a longer periode of time, something happends... The remote control stops responding so that it is not possible to turn the PC on using the remote. If I use the on button on the PC, Vista start up with the "Vista failed to boot screen" letting me select safe mode and so on. I select "Norm…

Microsoft gives Windows Vista administrators a tool to administer Vista PCs remotely. This tool is called Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tool (KB941314). It is described as follows: Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) enables IT administrators to remotely manage roles and features in Windows Server 2008 from a computer running Windows Vista with SP1. It includes support [...] More...

Running Vista Home orem 32 bit. When reviewing Windows EVENT VIEWER I see a "bunch" of WARNINGS entitled "Spooler Wim32 SPL Event ID-4. I used the feature that sends the error to Microsoft and checked all issues that were listed as the possible cause. One of which was the Spooler Service might not be running, but it is. My printer is working fine.....so I don't understand my everyday in the EVENT VIEWER list I see a Bunch of these WARNINGS. It seems like they are recorded during PC Startup. Anyone had this issue and if so, what corrected it?

Pegasus, That didnt work for me. We have TS 2000 and want to do the same thing as Zeno did. I manually changed the language settings for some profiles so the language icon appears on the taskbar and the user can switch to another language. Isnt there a way to propogate this setting to all users. The language options in XP lets you apply this kind of change to all users and the default user profile. Any ideas? "Zeno" wrote: > Problem solved thanks........... > > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > > > > > "Zeno" <Zeno@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > > news:7041B77B-C513-4A33-852E-3BDE605F1B1A@microsoft.c…

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:16:07 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Torvalds to kernel hopefuls: Think 'trivial' Linus must be talking about Linux's desktop market share.... -- Moshe Goldfarb Collector of soaps from around the globe. Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots: http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:54:21 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Linux PVR and Media Centre gets HD > > ,----[ Quote ] >| THE FOLKS at Neuros Technology have introduced a 'developer version' of its >| upcoming next-generation Linux-based Digital Video Recorder and Media Centre, >| the OSD 2.0. And here we have our first look at this device which just >| arrived at our LatAm review lab. http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/19/osd-v2-linux-pvr-media-centre-gets-hd Translation: We are running out of funding so we are unloading these half done pikers on the …

"Octavio" <inquirer@inquirer.com> wrote in message news:9811DDED-2214-40A9-8D38-E20D7117740E@microsoft.com... > I got a successful update this morning of Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 > > I tried to find out in Google what it is for, and I got a very > sophisticated > (and slow) website with some marketing information about what "it is" or > what "it does", with the wording very technical and very difficult to > understand. I really could not determine by reading these what is the > Silverlight about. > > Any brief and easy to understand description or what Silverlight is about, > what it does, and also about this update …

Hi all, I have an app that I need to run as a service. I used SRVANY and INSTSRV to accomplish this in the test XP Pro computer however, I am having problems doing this on a Win 2003 Server (not SBS) SP1 computer. When I start the service nothing happens, no log is created. I then tried running the Calculator applet as a service and got same results. FYI: I did the same with XP Pro and Calculator started just fine. I had a look around and found articles such as: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q152/4/60.asp&NoWebContent=1 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137890/EN-US/ http://support.…

"Obi" wrote: > When I run Windows Updates, it recommend I install SP3. When I try to do so, > it starts to download and install, but will end up saying, "the update was > unable to instal.l" > Again and again this goes on. > What should I do please?