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Using Win XP Pro. I would like to put all my Adobe programs into a folder in my programs area on my Start Menu. And do the same with other groups. But I can't seem to find all those programs when I go to the "start Menu" area of Explorer. Also, how can I make it so it *always* opens all programs in the Programs area of my start menu, instead of just recent programs. Thanks, chris

Thanks for telnet help, that worked -- prescottscott Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

Why Switch to the Mac? Five Top Reasons WebWorkerDaily, CA - 1 hour ago WinFS, which was supposed to be a Mac-like, robust file system was planned for Windows Vista, but then shelved. The speed with which I can retrieve anything ... More...

I have been trying the new Windows Search 4.0, and I do like it, but I have one question. In the right-hand pane, where the document preview appears, even for short (1-2 page docs), it can take a good 10 seconds to appear. This is rather slow, because the middle pane (where I see the results) don't have any "preview" or results from inside the document that allow me at the blink of an eye to see if the doc is possibly the one I'm looking for. How can I get the right-pane doc preview to appear more quickly? -- Paul MS Office Pro 2003 XP Home Dell Inspiron 1501

Upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows Mojave! Geekzone, New Zealand - 12 hours ago By Peter Haigh, in Windows Vista, posted: 5-AUG-2008 22:29 Please note: comments that are inappropriate or promotional in nature will be deleted. ... More...

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:32:49 -0700 (PDT), Psyc Geek (TAB) wrote: > On Aug 5, 10:38 am, ray <r...@zianet.com> wrote: >> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:51:21 -0700, Psyc Geek (TAB) wrote: >>> Users want a Mac. >>> Apple spends a lot of time of the user experience. >> >>> Users want Microsoft. >>> That is where the jobs are. >> >> Interesting. I worked a 30 year career of scientific software support and >> development without MS. Last 15 was entirely Unix and Linux. >> >> >> >>> Users don't want Linux. >>> NOBODY wants to terminal but geeks. >> >&…

Gurus, Is this the right group for C&A remediation questions? OR is there an NG dedicated to questions on the C&A process (which covers a range of OSes beyond just Microsoft). -- Spin

Gurus, Is this the right group for C&A remediation questions? OR is there an NG dedicated to questions on the C&A process (which covers a range of OSes beyond just Microsoft). -- Spin

Microsoft launching two security initiatives at Black Hat conference VentureBeat, CA - 6 hours ago Reavey noted that there are 60 percent fewer infections cleaned off machines with Windows Vista, compared with those with Windows XP Service Pack 2. ... More...

ZDNet How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Windows Vista. NOT! ZDNet - 20 hours ago Naturally, I carried forward the same methodology to mom’s Windows Vista laptop. Click on the “Read the rest of this entry†link below for more. ... Microsoft claims 64-bit Windows is finally taking off TechSpot all 2 news articles More...

Report: Jobs admits Apple bungled MobileMe Computerworld, MA - 44 minutes ago Their OS is flipping amazing but their customer service runs like [Windows] Vista." At least one analyst, however, thought that MobileMe's problems wouldn't ... More...

I'm running Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition SP1 on an HP ProLiant DL380 server with 4 GB of RAM and an array of four 72GB hard drives. About two weeks ago, our server started randomly rebooting itself with the following message: "This system is shutting down. Please save all work in progress and log off.." etc. Shutdown initiated by NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. The specific error mentioned is: "Windows must now restart because the service services.svc terminated unexpectedly." Sometimes, the server does not actually reboot, but the services all abort, anyway. The only change to the server, apart from regular system updates, was the installation of Office 200…

Vista gets crammed onto a PS3. It's as bad as you think. engadget, CA - 15 minutes ago Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments. ... More...

I am having trouble with a laptop not remembering the list of stored users and passwords after a reboot. I am able to add new entries to the Stored Users and Passwords and they work fine but after a reboot all entries are lost and need to be recreated. Does anyone have any possible solutions?

The Mojave experiment: is Windows Vista as bad as we think it is? The Moderate Voice - 12 minutes ago In mid-July, representatives of Microsoft traveled to San Francisco in search of people who hated Windows Vista. The company recruited 140 Mac and PC users ... More...

Right now if I double click the drive letter of one of my CD/DVD drives, autoplay kicks in. If I right click the drive letter, "AutoPlay" appears as the top menu item and default action. How can I change this to something else, such as "Explore" or "Open", which was the default previously? Note to the many people who copy/paste replies without bothering to read: I'm not asking how to disable autoplay itself. That IS disabled. Discs do not autoplay when inserted--only when I double click the drive letter.

Testing CreateThread() on windows XP x64 to see how it differed from windows XP 32bit. Well on the 32bit version I created about 3100 threads and then what happened what I was able create more but they just never seemed to get serviced. Now on windows XP x64 here is the surprise...I create 1562 threads successfully. After that I get a GetLastError() value of 8 out of memory. I tried moving the stack down to 4096 where somone else had a tested CreateThread result of 13000 threads on some version fo windows. But I got the same 1562. What might be up? Thanks, David

Many years ago, when I installed Windows XP Pro onto my desktop PC, I had downloaded some online desktop theme(s) and have been using it since. Now, I have a laptop with Windows XP Pro too, and I would like to have the same desktop appearance--especially the font used. I can no longer remember where or which theme I'd downloaded from previously for the desktop. Is there a way to copy and transfer the desktop theme or font over to the laptop? TIA!

Could 64-bit Windows finally be taking off? CNET News, CA - Aug 4, 2008 In a blog post this week, Microsoft's Chris Flores noted that 20 percent of new Windows Vista PCs in the US that connected to Windows Update in June were ... More...

Is there a simple way of monitoring the bandwidth usage by individual IPs on a LAN via the proxy server? The proxy used is Freeproxy on XP SP2. I could not find a way of configuring Freeproxy to do this. Mohan -- Message posted via WindowsKB.com http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/windowsxp/200808/1

How to “safely†update (not restore) your unlocked iPhone 2G to OS ... iTWire, Australia - 12 minutes ago Since then, the WinPwn tool has been released, giving Windows users an easy way to upgrade their iPhone 2G’s to an unlocked and jailbroken status on iPhone ... More...

Upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows Mojave! Geekzone, New Zealand - 46 minutes ago By Peter Haigh, in Windows Vista, posted: 5-AUG-2008 22:29 Please note: comments that are inappropriate or promotional in nature will be deleted. ... More...

Good morning! We have a WIN2003 R2 member server running Terminal Services about ready to go into production but my testing has unfortunately provided a little surprise: I can not run any scripts on this box. Specifically, I have a .vbs script for all of the users (logon.vbs) and it will not run. I can log on as me to the other TS and logon.vbs works (I get all of the mapped network drivers). However, when I log on as me to this one I get nada! We also have management software on all of the machines that we manage and my "Managed Services" colleague can not run any of his scripts. So, something is preventing this from happening on this "new box".…

You’ve got Vista x64 questions, I’ve got answers ZDNet - 11 hours ago How (and why) do 64-bit Windows versions use memory differently? Rather than try to explain that here, I’m going to refer you to a very crisply written blog ... More...