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Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine ‘nagware ... ZDNet Blogs - 23 minutes ago The new WGA notifications, which Microsoft will deliver via Windows Update, will behave like the WGA notifications introduced with Windows Vista Service ... More...

Microsoft to tweak WGA Notifications on Windows XP ZDNet - 42 minutes ago Microsoft is to tweak WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) Notifications on Windows XP to make it behave more like WGA on Vista. Regular readers of this blog ... More...

Microsoft's recent release of a new Xbox 360 model with a 60GB hard drive has me wondering: Is this new version of the console any cooler and quieter than previous versions? More...

ABC News BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY - Aug 20, 2008 It worked for Windows 95.) What will the comedian – who uses a Vista PC in spots he filmed for HP – say about Windows? Some ideas from the Biztech blog: An ... Microsoft Seinfeld Strategy to Save Vista is Pathetic DaniWeb Posted by: David Kiley on August 21 BusinessWeek Seinfeld and Microsoft: Yadda, yadda, yadda Seattle Post Intelligencer Computerworld - Windows IT Pro all 709 news articles More...

Microsoft Seinfeld Strategy to Save Vista is Pathetic DaniWeb, VA - Aug 22, 2008 This blog entry was written by Ron Miller, staff writer aka Techwriter10. It has received 0 views, 0 comments, and 0 linkbacks. It was promoted to featured ... More...

The birth of cool? ReportonBusiness.com, Canada - Aug 21, 2008 “The image of Vista is beyond saving at this point – and yet it has outsold every previous version of Windows at this point in its lifecycle by a mile. ... More...

I got a call from one client today who can't open My Documents. Error: "This file or directory is corrupt and unreadable." Another client yesterday had a problem that started with a serial label printer not being detected. While troubleshooting that I tried to run a System Restore to Friday. That failed. I ran a Safe Mode System Restore to Thursday and that succeeded, but it created a new user profile tree!! If the user's original profile folder was Hanna and the computer's name was DELL, then the new profile folder was Hanna.DELL. (The same behavior you would get if you were doing a fresh reinstallion of Windows without reformatting.) The old pr…

Why does Apple get a break? Computerworld, MA - 17 minutes ago Only about 10% of the computers at the show were running Windows, none of these, I might add, were running Vista. Of course, not all those Macs were running ... More...

Heads Up: Trojans and Viruses Are Out to Get You PC World - 20 minutes ago Windows Vista Small Business: 866/613-0270. Vista Small Business Assurance is available for free to all small businesses purchasing a new PC with Windows ... More...

Hi, I have Windows 2003 server SP2. When it starts it always gives the following error: Could not initialize communication profile: TCP/IP. Could not open a TCP/IP socket. Winsock returned error code 10013 Any help would be greatly appreciated! John

I am running the MAP Solution Accelerator to baseline a number of Server 2003 machines in terms of running them as VM's using Hyper-V on Server 2008. There is a rather intrusive status window having a cancel button showing the status. It is not minimizable. It appears that if I hit the cancel button, the assessment and logging stops altogether. Is that true? Since I plan on running this assessment for several weeks, isn't there a way to run this as a service so it persists between logon/logoff and server reboot cycles?

When I try to run an application I receive this message: Access violation at address 7C82EB29 in module ntdll.dll . Write of address 00405745. What can be the problem? How can I trobleshoot this problem. I try with IE6 and IE7. The proble sure is with the IIS config. Thanks, NiRo

Here's a weird issue, we're setting user home drives in ADUC as \\k2\home$\user.name For most people this is working fine, and shows up in XP as 'user.name on \k2\home$'. Now, I have one user who is having a issue. That location isn't getting mapped correctly. Their folder is there, but their computer just shows '\k2', no home$. We've removed the mapping from ADUC, and put it back in, let it confirm that the folder is there and tried again, same thing. Odd thing is, this seems to be happening on only 1 computer. If I use his profile info on another computer, it works fine! How can we fix this on his machine?

Is there a way to unzip a .zip file from the command line using the built in Windows XP 'zip' file utility? I have a need to unzip a file from an SSIS package, and I am hoping to use the utility that comes with Windows XP. Thank you for your help! cdun2.

People, I'm experimenting with using Server 2008 as a workstation. What I'd like is to get the behaviour of the desktop the same as Vista. I've got the Desktop experience, Vista Theme and Areo Glass working. However Vista also animates window minimises and restores anyone know how I turn that on? I'm also missing the sidebar but I don't think that it is in server installs so that isn't going to be easy. -- Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET

Plz, solution this problem. "Robert Aldwinckle" wrote: > (cross-post added to ISA Clients) > "zhi yuan" <zhi yuan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BE811ECA-BA62-45E8-88C7-F6F4B10CC450@microsoft.com... > > this is not very useful ... we are using isa server 2004 and infront of it is > > a IWSS server. Would the root cause of the problem is the iwss server? > > > The usual problem with proxy servers is that they won't accept the > anonymous connections required during downloads. > > However, my understanding is that they may allow the user to use > at least WU and perhaps even AU to show th…

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montrealfrog3255822 Wrote: > THANK YOU VERY MUCH for the post you saved me from killing myself after > 2 hours of registry search and office install and uninstall... YOU > ROCK! i think i really messed up.... you guys dont say which add ins to change i have a list of places that have the add ins in these locations.... what are the values supposed to be for each? HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\Groove.OutlookProxyAddIn HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\Microsoft.OMSAddin HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\Microsoft.VbaAddinForOutlook.1 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWA…

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I was having problems with getting a program to prepare my backup external drive to be safely turned off (eSata - hot swap). So I disabled several Scheduled Tasks in the task scheduler such as consolidator and opin notific. Could you tell me what tasks should be scheduled in Windows Vista Ultimate task scheduler? And, do you happen to know of a good program that will make my eSata connection to my external hard drive hot swappable. The one I had problems with was HotSwap 4.1.1.0. Thank you.

I wanted to secure my account with a strong authentication, so i bought an Aladdin eToken pro and created a private key at it using MS Certification Authority built in 2008 Server. The problem is that vista doesn't see the key during logon process saying that "there is no valid key" on the smaty card. I was trying to secure my drive using that key so i tried to assign that key in "User accounts/Manage your file encryption certificates". Vista recognizes my certificate but in a final step, where probably Vista is trying to read a key contetnt, EFS REKEY wizard is freezing and i must to replug the token to make it visible and accessible again... What do I do…

I wanted to secure my account with a strong authentication, so i bought an Aladdin eToken pro and created a private key at it using MS Certification Authority built in 2008 Server. The problem is that vista doesn't see the key during logon process saying that "there is no valid key" on the smaty card. I was trying to secure my drive using that key so i tried to assign that key in "User accounts/Manage your file encryption certificates". Vista recognizes my certificate but in a final step, where probably Vista is trying to read a key contetnt, EFS REKEY wizard is freezing and i must to replug the token to make it visible and accessible again... What do I do…

Hello, I have developed an LSP (layered service provider) DLL and Window Service for url filtering. This DLL works fine with Vista Ultimate edition but when I use this DLL with Vista Business edition, on reboot Vista business edition stop responding for first 8 - 10 minutes and after that everything works fine. I registered this DLL and service on both Vista Ultimate and Vista Business by using run as administrator. What could be the reason of not responding on Windows Business. Regards, Manish Agarwal

When using Windows Vista's built-in Backup and Restore Center, is it possible to create multiple backup "scenarios"? Meaning, I want to backup different scenarios throughout each and every week: sometimes I want to backup the entire system I want another scenario to back up just one folder and yet another scenario to back up a set of folders that I use quite regularly. Is it possible to have multiple backup scenarios in place with this built-in backup program? In looking over the options (or the lack thereof), I'm guessing probably not. If not, would anyone care to recommend a free backup utility that would have this capability? I simply do not hav…

yes this is the prob,em i have "Dave" wrote: > I keep getting this message. Everything was fine but then I started getting it. > "Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with > your sound device. There might not be a sound device installed on your > computer, it might be in use by another program, or it might not be > functioning properly." > > Can anyone help?