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During the Microsoft antitrust trial, one of the company's PR execs named Mark Murray would dutifully approach the press microphone on the courthouse steps in Washington, D.C., each afternoon to declare: "It was another good day for Microsoft." That was called playing the part of loyal soldier in ... Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Emails containing malicious PDF files have been putting computers at risk since Friday, Finnish security software firm F-Secure said on Saturday. Link To Original Article

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A few years ago market share data clearly demonstrated Linux server growth outpacing Windows server growth. Today, Linux server growth has apparently slowed while Windows is picking up, according to IDC. Why? The rate of migration from Unix to Linux has slowed. In other words, Linux may have hit the end of Unix's low-hanging fruit (which also might mean that Sun's OpenSolaris has picked up...?). Linux growth in the U.S. x86 server market has, over the past six quarters, started to falter and reverse its positive course relative to Windows Server and the market as a whole. The annual rate at which Linux is growing in the x86 server space has fallen from aro…

InfoWorld - Taking a page from major enterprise software providers like Oracle and SAP, Microsoft announced this week Business Ready Customer Care, an initiative that includes major enhancements to its maintenance and support program for Microsoft Dynamics, ERP and CRM, applications. Link To Original Article

U.S. sends about 28 percent of the world's spam--more than five times as much as second-place South Korea, says security firm. Link To Original Article

Microsoft sure is taking its time dying. What with open-source cutting it off at the knees and all, I would have expected it to be packing its bags and heading home. But no, the company continues to frustrate my prophecies with great earnings. Microsoft's only weak area was online. Everything else is booming to the tune of $4.29 billion in profit. Which begs the question: who wins in the standoff between open source and proprietary software? And when? In the short term, the answer is clearly that open source and proprietary vendors will coexist relatively peacefully because there's still plenty of room for Oracle's consolidation play, Microsoft's ecosystem play,…

[/url]Reuters - Sony Corp (6758.T) said the operating margin at its electronics operations is expected to beat its target for the year to March, but operating loss at its videogame unit will likely be double its initial forecast. Link To Original Article

My reg entries were same as suggested, but still I could not see edit on .bat file right click context menu. then I Downloaded "Context Menu Editor" from http://www.bartdart.com/ tried deleting some context menu (one by one {delete one and refresh asnd see if Context repaied?) you dont use. e.g. acrobat..,Stuffit (depending upon what you have installed) All 3(open Edit Print) showed up as soon I deleted the "Stuffit". Now It could be limits the no. of prgrams you can have in context menu. Not sure. Satish "Wesley Vogel" wrote: > Kevin, > > These are the batfile context menu options: > Open > Edit > Print > There is no Run. Open per…

My reg entries were same as suggested, but still I could not see edit on .bat file right click context menu. then I Downloaded "Context Menu Editor" from http://www.bartdart.com/ tried deleting some context menu (one by one {delete one and refresh asnd see if Context repaied?) you dont use. e.g. acrobat..,Stuffit (depending upon what you have installed) All 3(open Edit Print) showed up as soon I deleted the "Stuffit". Now It could be limits the no. of prgrams you can have in context menu. Not sure. Satish "Wesley Vogel" wrote: > Kevin, > > These are the batfile context menu options: > Open > Edit > Print > There is no Run. …

I needed to move new files into a compressed folder, so I copied the files, opened the compressed folder and pasted them there. An error message was generated that 'the compressed folder is invalid or corrupt' and all existing files in the compressed folder disappeared and were replaced by the new files I was trying to add in! I tried recovering the compressed folder using 'Restoration' version 2.5.14 & 'PC Inspector File Recovery' version 4.0, but I was only able to recover a compressed folder with a $ for the first letter of the file name (e.g. $older instead of folder) which on opening generated the error message 'Cannot open file: it appears to be an inval…

I found these two articles explaining fixes for SATA related issues. #1 SATA CD/DVD-ROM Optical Drive Disappears After Enabling AHCI Mode in Vista http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/23/sata-cddvd-rom-optical-drive-disappears-after-enabling-ahci-mode-in-vista/ #2 Stop 0×0000007B Inaccessable_Boot_Device Error After Enable AHCI Mode on SATA Drive in Vista http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/23/stop-0x0000007b-inaccessable_boot_device-error-after-enable-ahci-mode-on-sata-drive-in-vista/ Carlos

I just recently did a clean install of Windows XP on a new harddrive. In the process of bringing it up to "speed" with all of the updates, etc. I find that the computer will simply reset for no apparent reason. I have install Service Pak 2 and it did a few updates, before I encountered this problem. It will also not allow me to intall Windows Defender nor Norton AV. While in Windows Explore, Explore will just quit and ask me to send an error message, which of course, never gives me any clues at to what to do. Short of wiping out the hard drive and starting over, does anyone have any suggestions of what to try. It is a Western Digital 120G HD. I did…

when im listening to sports radio, and i try to click on other site the audio skips repeating over and over any help would very welcome

Suddenly when I insert a CD or a DVD into either of my CD/DVD drives the CD or DVD is not recognized. When I open "my computer" the icon for either drive doesn't show a disc name. Then when I click on the drive icon to launch the CD the "my computer" window goes blank and freezes. I start task manager and it tells me that "my computer" is not responding. If I click end task the computer freezes. Any suggestions? Everything else seems to work fine on the computer and the only action I can associate with this trouble is that it seemed to start after a "windows update". I have tried to restore the computer to an earlier config but "restore process" gives me a message…

Suddenly when I insert a CD or a DVD into either of my CD/DVD drives the CD or DVD is not recognized. When I open "my computer" the icon for either drive doesn't show a disc name. Then when I click on the drive icon to launch the CD the "my computer" window goes blank and freezes. I start task manager and it tells me that "my computer" is not responding. If I click end task the computer freezes. Any suggestions? Everything else seems to work fine on the computer and the only action I can associate with this trouble is that it seemed to start after a "windows update". I have tried to restore the computer to an earlier config but "restore process" gives me a…

If I logoff and log back on it mounts the drives!

this sound like my what can i do sorry to take so long to respond i have done this before Is there any suggestion -- mactee "aloweryrn" wrote: > I turn on the computer, Dell screen starts, then Windows XP screen starts > loading, then a black screen with white type shows telling me that if my last > shut down was interrupted, if escape key was unintenionally hit or if I'm > unsure what happened, choose from the list below. Then gives options to...... > Start in......safe mode > safe mode with command prompts > safe mode with networking > Or start to last known good configuration. > Or start W…

I have a small home network. I have mapped the network drives. I checked the box "Reconnect at logon". The drives DO NOT reconnect at logon. Any help? Don

I'm not sure if I'm in the right place to ask this.. from what I have gathered so far from searching online two things went on with my computer. I'm not sure if they are related or not. I believe there was a windows messenger live upgrade? Right when that happened I started getting connectivity issues. Connectivity is sporadically up and down. At around the same time my MSN sypsweepr discovered an LDLINCH trojan. I went ahead and deleted it. When I was researching to make sure all traces were gone, I found out from differnet forums that spysweeper was notifed of problem and came back with the fact that the trojan was a false positive. Apparantly it …

ForceWare Release 169 BETA Version: 169.01 Release Date: October 26, 2007 Operating System: Windows Vista 64-bit Language: U.S. English File Size: 48.6 MB http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_169.01.html

I've found stumbleupon.com which seems ok,,,but on some sites it recommends will be a page of a url with swf at the end...the page will be blank...i'm not sure but swf stands for shockwave flash?? In any case i went to adobe.com and made sure i had downloads of what i thought i needed....halfway done a search on google that recommended a fix but seemed to be a little advanced for my pea brain...Is there any info you good ppl could give that will help this prob??? thanks -- I find that most opinions suck....might as well add mine..

I am looking for information on how to disable volume automounting in XP / W2003 / Vista. Disks (IDE/USB....) added to a computer should not be automatically mounted to a drive letter and made visible to the user. Mounting a volume should need an explicit administrator action in e.g. DiskMgmt.msc. I know about "diskpart.exe automount disable scrub" and "volmount /n" on W2003, but cannot find similar utilities on XP / Vista. I guess this kind of functionality resides in the Windows Volume Manager, or perhaps the PnP Manager. Please point me to APIs and utilities for controlling this. Audun GJERKEN PS. This message was previously posted to microsoft.pl…

I'm using robocopy to do some backups on our servers. It fails randomly. Note that the amount of data is close to 1TB and takes about 2 days to complete. I had heard there was a new version of robocopy for Vista so I figured I'd copy that into %SystemRoot%\System32 and try that one. It fails right out of the gates with the typical "not a valid win32 app..." error. What is so different in that newer version that won't allow WinXP and 2003 use it? 10-26-07 1508 EDT

Hi When I go to control panel and open the Sound program, then click on the (recording tab) the programme stops responding I then have to open Task manager to end task. There is no problem when I click on the (Playback tab) or the (Sounds tab), can any one tell me why this should happen -- Billy