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I recently had my hard drive replaced. Previous to that, I was able to download my Big Fish games with no problems. Now when I attempt to download any of my games from Game Fish, a Spy Sweeper message pops up with "File System Shield has quarantined a potential threat that was trying to install itself." I am not real versed in this sort of thing, but I did try to go into the Spy Sweeper program and check off some of the files such as BFservices, BFclient, etc. and see if that would work but to no avail. I did contact BF and they stated that they had tried recently to get BF to stop blocking their site but they have had no luck. Not sure if that is tr…

Is there any way to change the background color of the 3D Text screen saver? You can set it in the Marque screen saver, but I have a user that REALLY wants to use the 3D Text, but also REALLY wants a different background color. Thanks in advance!

Is there any way to change the background color of the 3D Text screen saver? You can set it in the Marque screen saver, but I have a user that REALLY wants to use the 3D Text, but also REALLY wants a different background color. Thanks in advance!

Hi all! How to detect is it localized and if Yes can I reinstall (transform) it in international (english) version? Thank You

When I Exported Windows Mail to Outlook 2003 I exported a bunch of files with inserted pictures. I was able to open all of them in Outlook ok but all pictures came in as attachments rather than inserted. I must have them inserted or the mail looks rediculous when I go to resend it. Does anyone have any ideas? thanx!! pat

Why does "Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor 1.0" not have a valid Digital Signature? Call me paranoid, but I've been around too long to not sit blindly when it comes to downloading software without digital signatures. Please advise - - -- Huh? Just enough knowledge to be terminally ill!

Hi, My Vista drive has a master boot record problem. I want to copy the files from the drive (I can see them) to a new drive, Can anyone help me?? Please!!??

we have a classroom with few dozens of xp/sp2 computers. it is localized [an east european region] version problem is [not a realy big problem, but more the dumb one], that keyboard shortcuts [it is a letter with underscore under it] to shut-down the computer are not he same at all of them it is even more strange, on some of them the keyboard shortcut for "all programs" is the **same** like the shortcut for shut-down [in this particular regional language setting]. in that case it is **impossible** to perform shut-down with keyboard shortcut! is there some way to adjust it, and to select-fix what will be the shortcut key for what start menu item? or is it com…

we have a classroom with few dozens of xp/sp2 computers. it is localized [an east european region] version problem is [not a realy big problem, but more the dumb one], that keyboard shortcuts [it is a letter with underscore under it] to shut-down the computer are not he same at all of them it is even more strange, on some of them the keyboard shortcut for "all programs" is the **same** like the shortcut for shut-down [in this particular regional language setting]. in that case it is **impossible** to perform shut-down with keyboard shortcut! is there some way to adjust it, and to select-fix what will be the shortcut key for what start menu item? or is…

When I double click on a file in a folder I get the error message "cannot find the specific file please make sure you typed the name correctly and please try again". I can open the file when the shell of that program is open but cannot open the program associated with that file and the file at the same time by clicking on the file. I have unistalled and reinstalled Vista as well as Office 2007. I have disabled all firewalls and spyware. I have read every post to date on the web as well as Microsoft and have found no solutions except to wait for Vista SP 1 to be released. There are many of us with this same problem. Is there anyone that has the …

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InfoWorld - NTT DoCoMo engineers are tinkering with the use of e-paper for cell phones, hoping to develop a keypad that changes icons depending on which application is being used. Link To Original Article

BusinessWeek Online - Imagine charging your car the way you do your cell phone. Or software replacing oil in automobiles. The revolution that will come with these advances is quickly approaching, says Vijay Vaitheeswaran, a correspondent at The Economist and co-author of Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future. Link To Original Article

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InfoWorld - IBM is announcing on Friday software and resources for smaller businesses to manage software quality and network infrastructure like their counterparts in large enterprises use. Link To Original Article

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Microsoft has been notoriously anti-open source in the past, so today's announcement that it will be releasing the source code for its .Net Framework comes as a bit of a surprise. The source code will be released under Microsoft's Reference License. This means that you can only use ... Link To Original Article

Investor's Business Daily - In its quest to become the top video game company in the world, software leader Microsoft has embraced the emerging competitive video game leagues in a big way. Link To Original Article

I have a new Lenovo Notebook - XP Pro SP2 and am in the process of setting it up and some of the files that I want are on my old Dell Inspiron (also XP Pro SP2). Some files, thus far all executables, will not copy. They are located under the "Shareddocs" folder on the Dell. Other executables copy with no problem. If I make a copy of the "offending" folder on the Dell then that new folder will copy which seems to indicate that it is a permissions issue. The Dell has never been joined to a domain though it may have some files on it from another machine that was a member of a domain at the time those copies were done. Note that I can Push the files from…

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I have a USB memory stick (Kingston DataTraveler 1GB) that I use for moving files between my work and home computers. At work I run Windows XP Professional and at home Windows XP Home, both kept up-to-date with updates. Ideally, when I plug it into either computer I want nothing to happen - I will run my file synchronization program when I am ready. This is what happens at work. However, at home plugging it in sometimes causes My Computer to open. I have tried to disable all autoplay by right-clicking on the drive in My Computer, selecting Properties and on the Autoplay tab selecting Take no action. Several times when My Computer opened unexpectedly, I checked …