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Microsoft's Xbox 360 offers first-rate Media Center Extender functionality, but do its many faults undermine the experience? Find out in Part 2 of my Windows Media Center Extender review! More...

Linux Needs More Haters Slashdot - 47 minutes ago Virtual desktops, I dunno about OS X, but he suggests VirtuaWin for windows. UGH! It's incredibly slow, it doesn't guarantee the order of windows after a ... More...

I recently had to reinstall windows xp, now the add/remove programs and hardware won't work. It just sits there and says please wait while the list is being populated. I have let it sit for like 20 minutes but it does nothing. Is there a way to fix this? TIA

Linux Needs More Haters Slashdot - 16 minutes ago Virtual desktops, I dunno about OS X, but he suggests VirtuaWin for windows. UGH! It's incredibly slow, it doesn't guarantee the order of windows after a ... More...

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What computer preparations are needed before installing Vista SP1? I have... Vista Business Office 2007 Norton Internet Security 2007 TIA Ron

OCZ Core SSD vs WD VelociRaptor: the early performance numbers are in engadget, CA - 1 hour ago In Windows Defender, gaming, photo import, and Vista startup tests, the SSD was getting things done at as much as 5 times the speed of the VelociRaptor. ... More...

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:21:07 +0100, Homer wrote: > Verily I say unto thee, that Phil Da Lick! spake thusly: >> Moshe Goldfarb. wrote: > >>> You Linux loons are the ones who think you are doing something that >>> matters. >>> >>> LIEing for LIEnix it's called. >>> >> >> I'll take that as a "no" then. And yet here you still are. I wonder >> why. > > At a wild guess I'd say it's because he's paid by Microsoft to sabotage > COLA, just as he has been for years, just as Microsoft paid Munchkins to > sabotage OS/2 years ago. Prove anyone is being paid by Microsoft to …

Hi please can some one help me I have had a new lap top for a couple of month now and all of a sudden when i download a file, the window pops up asking where i want to save the file. then the downloads goes and once it reaches the end (finished) the window disappears and the file hasnt been downloaded. this happens irrespective of where i save it or whether i press save or run. please can someone smarter than me help? -- Geemansa

Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I've only just joined this group. I have a problem on two different PCs running XP home with the latest patches and updates, but with quite different specifications and different software in daily use, by and large. On boot-up, XP runs as far as the splash screen. The progress indicator runs for a while and then XP locks up. The only thing that will clear it is turning off the power and re-starting. The machines then show the page offering to start from safe mode etc. - if I select start in normal mode, the machine takes the last good configuration and starts just fine. I've done this countless times, and…

I have some other problems associated with the screen blacking out after I've typed in my password on the welcome screen and entered it. It then brings me to my account, but if I don't start clicking on icons (I usually click on Mozilla Firefox) to get the computer going, the screen blacks out on me. Why does this happen? It's not a hibernation problem, I don't think, because I've set up the power options so that the computer hibernates after 15 min of idleness, but I haven't even been on the computer for 15 min, and the computer shuts off. The screen goes black, but the light bulb and battery meter lights are still on green. Another problem I have is that i…

Hello, how does the Desktop Cleanup wizzard in Windows work? I don't mean how to use it or what its function is. I mean how does it know when I used the shortcuts the last time? Where does it store that information? Thank you. Regards. Uwe Braunholz

Can anyone tell what is the MD5 Checksum of Original DELL vista ultimate x86 sp1 Post Originated from http://www.VistaForums.com Vista Support Forums

I am using Dell Inspiron 1300 with XP Professional. Anytime am shutting my pc there is a message it is installing update KB948109 but when I review my update history it failed to install. The error code is 0xCoooooo5. Please can anyone help? -- 1222

for some reason this seems to be a recurring problem throughout the Windows' world - i've installed Acrobat Pro and the installer is messed up - this time it's when i right-click that's calling "Windows Installer" configuring Acrobat Installation. i've downloaded the Installer Cleanup utility, but the last few times it hasn't done any good. This has even occurred on a brand new reinstall of Vista Ultimate. as well, Itunes has created the same problem. nothing has helped, and i don't know what else to do. can someone tell me WHAT is causing this clearly not-uncommon problem (there seems to be many people who encounter this annoyance)??? is there another…

Just uninstall and then reinstall windows defender and everything will go back to normal. Come on people we are all using windows here....having software issues is part of the expirience lol...............

I cannot install Microsoft Updates since the Active X frame keeps popping up, and although I click on "allow Active X" and "run", it pops up again when the page refreshes automatically. What can I do to stop this?

I put the "weather show" gadget on my side bar. It shows Munich temperature and when I click to change or add locations it shows it will delete and add locations, I click the apply or change and it once again just shows Munich. How can I get it to delete, and apply various locations? I had this function working well several months ago and now it will not function correctly. Any ideas?

"LINEAR" wrote: > I tried your solution of stopping automatic update then typing in > regsvr32.exewuapi.dll and all the other dll's, but it comes up file cannot be > found! Any answers?

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Hi, I had a total hd breakdown on my laptop this morning. Under normal circumstances I would have had hours of restore work after I had installed a new drive. I would have had to first install Vista, then go through tons of backups to get my user files back, and finally I would have to reinstall all my programs. It would have been a weekend dedicated to disaster recovery. Since I have Vista Ultimate I've been creating complete disk image backups on an external USB drive. But to be honest, I didn't expect the restore to work. But it did! I made sure I purchased the exact same drive I had before, put it in the laptop, booted from the install CD and got the th…

I have windows xp and my computer has been trying to install a security update for sql server 2000 sp4. every night it tries to install it but it wont install anyone know why?

During installation on my OQO 1+, running Win XP Home, the installation freezes shortly after beginning. There is no error message. (The download was apparently OK. Any Suggestions? Thanks, James Cabaniss