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Sometimes when I wake up my computer from Standby and I'm looking at the Password Protect box, the text box that you enter your password in is completely missing. I mean the box is gone. I can still type in characters to enter my password to log on, but for some strange reason, the text box itself does not show. At first I thought it was due to an outdated video driver, but I just updated the driver and it still happens on occasion. Anyone know why this could be happening?

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Windows 7 Details To Steadily Leak Redmondmag.com, CA - 29 minutes ago ... systems -- and that means getting you excited about Windows 7, the follow-on to Vista. To keep you all amped, Microsoft has a new Windows 7 blog. ... More...

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Hi there I hope someone working on our helpdesk in the IT department that need to manage all the backups for regional offices. Some of the offices are small and only have one Windows 2003 server that will act as a DC/Fileserver/Exchange server. We use NTBackup for the smaller sites. I need to give this user access to manage the backups without giving him too much permission. He is a member of the account operators/backup operators and server operators. If he tries to manage media in the removable storage area in Device Manager we will just get an access denied. Can someone please help so that I can grant this user enough permission to manage all back…

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Microsoft Windows 7 features to be unveiled Coolest Gadgets, UK - 14 hours ago It is without a doubt that Microsoft’s high hopes for Windows Vista has been dashed due to lackluster reception, and it is so bad that Microsoft even needs ... Windows 7 features announced next month Techwatch all 3 news articles More...

Hi, I have an NT server that I want to virtualize. It has a disk that shows as local, but it is mapped from a share on another drive. Does anyone know how to unmap this drive. I have other mapped network drives, but they do not look like this one, they look like normal networked drives. I can send you a screen shot if this doesn't make sense. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I notice that I seems to have a similar problem as encountered by one of the users, Carl. All along, I haven't had any problem logging on to other users in the same computer, until recently. I tried to logon onto other users, I keep receiving this error message 'Windows are unable to load your profile. Pls check that you are connected to the network. Add. details: insufficient resources exist to complete the requested service'. What does the above error means? Is there any other way to resolve this issue rather then create a new user and copy the files from the old users to the new user?

I'm using Mandatory profiles on PC's in one of my labs on Server 2003 network. The profiles load very slow and I can't figure out why. I don't see anything abnormal in the event view and was curious of other ways to do some logging. When I log on, the "Loading your personal settings" is very quick < 5 seconds "Applying your personal setting" is the slow part >60 seconds Logging off also takes significant time also. "Logging off" >40 seconds "Saving settings" <5 seconds The reason I believe this isn't normal is because I have other PC's in another lab that are much quicker, but were ghosted from a different image. They load much …

Windows 7 Details In October, Microsoft Says Network Computing, India - 4 hours ago In its attempt to improve communication around the Windows development process, Microsoft is clearly hoping to avoid a repeat of Windows Vista's shaky debut ... More...

I'm having trouble with wingrub. The problem is that it won't load menu.lst Here is setup: SATA drive= NTFS Windows on C: IDE drive= Solaris with its grub on MBR the problem might be caused by strange thing that after loading windows, SATA drive becomes (hd1,0) but in grub its (hd0,0) so grub is trying to load menu.lst from solaris, but I cannot change that in windows.. if I try: grubinstall -d (hd0,0) -1 c:/boot/stage1 -2 c:/boot/stage2 -m c:/boot/ menu.lst it says that hd0 is not NTFS or FAT (because its Solaris) please help me solve this..

BBC News Is Vista out? Successor Windows 7 coming soon domain-B, India - Aug 16, 2008 Windows 7 is based on Vista, and is expected to release sometime around January 2010. News the sharing of details came from a new Windows 7 blog written by ... Windows 7 details to be revealed in October ZDNet UK Microsoft prepares for the next OS Windows 7 TechShout! Microsoft: More Details Coming On Windows 7 CRN NewsFactor Network - BBC News all 85 news articles More...

Hello - I upgraded my WindowsXP Pro installation to Windows Vista Ultimate. There are a few things that don't appear to function properly and the one that is most annoying is simply this...any icon on the start menu panel will not launch. I check the properties and consistently find that they match identically to any shortcut I put on the desktop (these will all launch properly). More over, if I right click one of the icons pinned to the start menu and select 'put into quicklaunch', once there, they start properly as well?! Why is this happening and how do I fix it? Anyone know? Tia Randy Volters

Microsoft to open Windows 7 for scrutiny on blog MyADSL, South Africa - 28 minutes ago According to the BBC, Windows 7 will use components of Vista at its core and it will have a touch interface that can recognise gestures to complete tasks. ... More...

Microsoft Windows 7 features to be unveiled Coolest Gadgets, UK - 10 hours ago It is without a doubt that Microsoft’s high hopes for Windows Vista has been dashed due to lackluster reception, and it is so bad that Microsoft even needs ... Microsoft taking the shutters off Windows 7 next month ElectricPig.tv Windows 7 features announced next month Techwatch all 3 news articles More...

Windows 7: Vista-like hell or an OS heaven? iTWire, Australia - 56 minutes ago The first post at the E7 blog is designed to introduce the blog to the world, to make lots of promises, to explain that Windows 7 will be explored in ... Windows 7 nearly ready for public debut Australian Personal Computer all 4 news articles More...

Hi all ! I'm trying out the new firefox 3.01 and have found out that this version has an annyoing limit of "one file at a time from one site" ! In other words, if there are like 20 files from a site, and I want to download them all using FireFox 3.01, I have to download the first file, wait until it is finish, before the second file is downloaded, and so on, and so forth !! Is there a way to enable FireFox to download _more_ than one file at the same time from a single site ??? Please help !! Thank you !!

Hi all. I have a windows 2000 server with sp4. It is my sql production server used by my company. SQL service use up 1.3GB++ ram base on my check on task manager. Services.exe use up about 400+MB ram which i find it unusual. My users are complaining their applications which connect to my sql server is very slow. I suspect it is caused by high mem utilization as free memory available can go as low as 10MB. I have checked the internet and have installed debug diagnostic tool on my server but do not know how to use it to check if there is something wrong with services.exe. Pls advise how i can use this tool or if there are better alternatives. Thks in advance…

Windows 7: Vista-like hell or an OS heaven? iTWire, Australia - 23 minutes ago The first post at the E7 blog is designed to introduce the blog to the world, to make lots of promises, to explain that Windows 7 will be explored in ... More...

Hi all, VSITA Home Premium, 2GB, Dual Intel 4300, 1.8GHZ, 1000+ GB Recently booting took 5 minutes. Running Boot Logging in the nbtlog.txt I discovered hundreds of "Did not load drivers" over and over again. Someone hinted to set in MSCONFIG | tab Computer startup | "Advanced Startup" > Processors to: 2 and > "Max Memory" to: 2GB. PCI, Detect HAL, Error detect: ALL set to OFF. Since boot is down to 2'30" which is better but not impressive. Between the INTEL logo and black/white bootscreen it seems to be sitting doing nothing. Then after 2' the VISTA curtain opens and after some 20 seconds I see my Desktop appear. In bootlog however I still fi…

Microsoft To Unveil Windows 7 Features Next Month Tom's Guide, CA - 37 minutes ago In terms of the base technology, we know that its kernel will be based on Windows Server 2008 kernel, which is an evolution of the Windows Vista kernel. ... More...

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Why Vista is 'Universally Hated' and Other Training Truths DaniWeb, VA - 1 hour ago From DOS 1.1 through each version of Windows, the new OS provided you with increased functionality. Vista does not seem to be doing that for most people. ... More...