Microsoft Support & Discussions

My Vista on a Gateway GT5422E was working great on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007. On Friday, I had no sound at all. I had a few other minor errors also, i.e. ATI Radeon x1550 Catalyst Center will not work. My I-tunes, Windows Media Player or any sound do not work. I re-installed the Realtek Sound Drivers with no luck. I checked all Windows updates. I did notice that there was Windows Updates on Friday Morning (3 a.m.) which I cannot roll back. My restore does not work at all...says error 0X81000202 "cannot restore to an earlier date". I uninstalled with McAfees Tech support the entire virus/firewall suite, in case this was the problem, also with no luck. An…

Hi, I am on windowsxp, using IE version 6 on a compaq laptop. I have a problem that has always bugged me since I got this machine and it is getting to be really irritating. The scrollbar on the right side is unstable as hell. If i am reading something and want to scroll down and click the down arrow it will close the window or the window may close and pop back up. Yeh, really irritating. I can overcome this by making sure that the mouse arrow is absolutely, absolutely on target with no wiggle room whatsover but if it just appears that the mouse arrow is over the down arrow on the scroll bar that is usually not enough. I have worked with lots and lots of m…

Hi, I am on windowsxp, using IE version 6 on a compaq laptop. I have a problem that has always bugged me since I got this machine and it is getting to be really irritating. The scrollbar on the right side is unstable as hell. If i am reading something and want to scroll down and click the down arrow it will close the window or the window may close and pop back up. Yeh, really irritating. I can overcome this by making sure that the mouse arrow is absolutely, absolutely on target with no wiggle room whatsover but if it just appears that the mouse arrow is over the down arrow on the scroll bar that is usually not enough. I have worked with lots and lots of m…

I have been having this problem for a couple of days now, everytime i plug in some new hardare (it can be anything USB Drive, Mouse etc) I get the following message http://craig.shroodoo.co.uk/dim.png I was wondering if there is any fix?

[/url]AP - Can't get to Milan to see Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper?" As of Saturday, all you need is an Internet connection. Officials put online an image of the "Last Supper" at 16 billion pixels — 1,600 times stronger than the images taken with the typical 10 million pixel digital camera. Link To Original Article

AP - AT&T Inc. has scaled back its plan to blanket the city's 62 square miles with Wi-Fi signals, the wireless Internet service now found in airports and coffee shops. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Two Senators on Friday called for a congressional hearing to investigate reports that phone and cable companies are unfairly stifling communications over the Internet and on cell phones. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Alibaba.com Ltd., one of China's fastest-growing technology companies, reached its goal of raising $1.5 billion in its initial public offering Saturday, people close to the deal said. Link To Original Article

[/url]AFP - In a normal working day, US criminal investigator Flint Waters will surf the Internet, chat online with someone whose acquaintance he made a few weeks earlier, and exchange photos and videos. Link To Original Article

PC World - The One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) is toying with a novel source of power for its low-cost XO laptops: cows. Link To Original Article

PC World - China will put its homegrown 3G (third-generation) mobile technology to use during the 2008 Olympic Games, the country's state-owned broadcaster said in a news report. Link To Original Article

PC World - Asian governments are pivotal to Red Hat Inc.'s goal of earning 60 percent of its revenue from outside the US by the end of 2009, said Matthew Szulik, the company's chairman, chief executive officer, and president, in a conference call on Thursday. Link To Original Article

PC World - Opera Software ASA has released a beta of its upcoming desktop browser, code-named Kestrel, which can synchronize bookmarks between a PC and a mobile device. Link To Original Article

PC World - Users of the MySpace.com social networking Website will be able to add multiplayer games to their personal profile pages, and play them for free, from next year. MySpace has struck a deal with Oberon Media Inc. to make available hundreds of casual games from its portfolio, the companies said Tuesday. Link To Original Article

Hi, I have a problem with my logon time for windows xp pro sp2. Recently i noticed a huge increase in logon time while starting up windows. When i load my pc, the "loading your personal settings" screen is taking about 40 secs to complete. Bootvis shows that SVChost (or anything else) basically does nothing for these 40 secs and that svchost is the service that's causing the delay. I am thinking it is a bug or a setting in the registry or something, but have been unable to locate the problem. All patches are applied, no virusses or other mischivous malware detected (running nod32). Also not sure what cause it. Didn't do anything special, like installing things …

Hi, I have a problem with my logon time for windows xp pro sp2. Recently i noticed a huge increase in logon time while starting up windows. When i load my pc, the "loading your personal settings" screen is taking about 40 secs to complete. Bootvis shows that SVChost (or anything else) basically does nothing for these 40 secs and that svchost is the service that's causing the delay. I am thinking it is a bug or a setting in the registry or something, but have been unable to locate the problem. All patches are applied, no virusses or other mischivous malware detected (running nod32). Also not sure what cause it. Didn't do anything special, like installing…

Whenever I need to download a large EXE file (e.g. 20MB ), the IE tries to OPEN the file .. (or Viewing the contents of the EXE file as gibberish) and I CAN-NOT save the file to the Hard Disk. Please note: I CAN download this large EXE file, by using another PC (via IE-6). Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks! My machine info: DELL Laptop 1100 Win XP SP1 IE v6 ZoneAlarm Suite v5.1 (as a FireWall)

Whenever I need to download a large EXE file (e.g. 20MB ), the IE tries to OPEN the file .. (or Viewing the contents of the EXE file as gibberish) and I CAN-NOT save the file to the Hard Disk. Please note: I CAN download this large EXE file, by using another PC (via IE-6). Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks! My machine info: DELL Laptop 1100 Win XP SP1 IE v6 ZoneAlarm Suite v5.1 (as a FireWall)

...I can use the catfix tool included in this package to repair a corrupt the master system catalog database in my Win2k Pro installation.

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When was Windows 2003 Server SP2 put out for WSUS, how does it show in the console? Rick

Hello everybody, I found something that seems to be strange with the Run dialog in Windows XP or 2003 (and maybe others, but those are the versions I checked). I think you may find it interesting. If someone have an explanation please tell me/the others about it. Here it is: Try this: Go to Start --> Run. In the Run dialog box, type homeWhatever, where instead of "Whatever" you can type whatever you want, but don't use spaces between them. Your default browser will open, with some search result for this string. If such a web site exist, it will probably open. For example: typing homeMicrosoft opens the http://www.homemicrosoft.com/ w…

Hello everybody, I found something that seems to be strange with the Run dialog in Windows XP or 2003 (and maybe others, but those are the versions I checked). I think you may find it interesting. If someone have an explanation please tell me/the others about it. Here it is: Try this: Go to Start --> Run. In the Run dialog box, type homeWhatever, where instead of "Whatever" you can type whatever you want, but don't use spaces between them. Your default browser will open, with some search result for this string. If such a web site exist, it will probably open. For example: typing homeMicrosoft opens the http://www.homemicrosoft.com/ w…

When I boot my XP it tries to run Chkdsk because 'The file of directory C:\$Etend\$ObjId id corrupt. Unfortunately Chkdsk never completes. If I cancel disc checking the PC boots as per normal. Chkdsk wont complete within Windows either. Can any one advise on any way to fix this perhaps with a third party untility? Thanks.

When I boot my XP it tries to run Chkdsk because 'The file of directory C:\$Etend\$ObjId id corrupt. Unfortunately Chkdsk never completes. If I cancel disc checking the PC boots as per normal. Chkdsk wont complete within Windows either. Can any one advise on any way to fix this perhaps with a third party untility? Thanks.