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AP - The SCO Group Inc., licenser of the Unix operating system, filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, drained by unsuccessfully filing lawsuits claiming its software code was misappropriated by developers of the open-source Linux operating system. Link To Original Article

Reuters - Intel Corp said on Friday it would buy Havok Inc, a provider of software and services to the games and movie industries, as the world's top chipmaker seeks to beef up its visual computing and graphics efforts. Link To Original Article

Plus: The one-world video game challenge. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra. Link To Original Article

TechWeb - The new server expected on Monday is built for companies who need an entry-level single processor server as a building block for high-performance computing clusters and applications. Link To Original Article

Customers are getting more demanding, while security market is seeing a gradual consolidation around fewer players. Link To Original Article

Reuters - Japan's Sony Corp (6758.T) is in talks to sell its production facilities for advanced microchips used in its PlayStation 3 game console to Toshiba Corp (6502.T), sources close to the matter said. Link To Original Article

This is for anyone who's having trouble with WU (BITS/AU): http://castlecops.com/t106642-How_To_Fix_Windows_Update_BITS_Newly_Edited..html -or- http://www.castlecops.com/postlite106642-.html [i wrote it -- I would have posted the entire set of instructions here, but I wasn't sure if I could upload the Zip file with the Registry fixes on this N.G., so anyone could subsequently download it. However, the necessary File ready for downloading, along with the lengthy instructions, are all located at the above link.] If the above link doesn't work, go to: http://castlecops.com/ Click "Forums" right below the Castlecops logo, then go to the "General Computer Proble…

I'm having an irritating problem where my computer locks-up during a Firefox session; mouse is locked, keyboard unresponsive (ctrl-alt-del does nothing) and I have to hit reset. Thought it was a video driver problem - I installed the latest driver but it's still happening. It could be a Firefox bug and I may try reinstalling it. I noticed when I inserted a DVD both the DVD-writer and HD lights came on for a few seconds. I tried inserting the WinXP install disk, the lights flashed but nothing happened. My question: Is there a way to create a CD/DVD that would force the system to bring up the task manager, or reboot the system, without having to hit reset? -- B…

Hi I recently accepted a friend of mines hp pavillion ze5700 notebook to try and fix for him, well I got it home and started it up and first it said that the ntldr file is missing so I got my windows XP Pro disk out and tryed to get the computer to boot from the disk so windows would come on but it always says setup could not complete and finally it is saying "the session manager initialization system process terminated unexpectidly with a status of 0Xc0000034 (0x00000000 0x00000000) Fatal system error! I have tryed to get it to the bios setup when it boots but nothing ever happens and I can't ever get to that point I have tryed to do the R for the recovery conso…

Hi I recently accepted a friend of mines hp pavillion ze5700 notebook to try and fix for him, well I got it home and started it up and first it said that the ntldr file is missing so I got my windows XP Pro disk out and tryed to get the computer to boot from the disk so windows would come on but it always says setup could not complete and finally it is saying "the session manager initialization system process terminated unexpectidly with a status of 0Xc0000034 (0x00000000 0x00000000) Fatal system error! I have tryed to get it to the bios setup when it boots but nothing ever happens and I can't ever get to that point I have tryed to do the R for the recovery conso…

The scrapfilter and security updates of Outlook 2003 resp. Office 2003 (KB936643, KB936048) fail. Security update for Excel Office 2003 fails (KB940602) Anyone knows why. Greatful for your assistance -- gullberg

hi.i hvae the same problem and i had asked alot of Expert ppl but no one can help me so please is there anybody who had fixed the prblem before to help us?? "lidarmap" wrote: > I am having a similar problem. Although all my permissions are there > (Computer, users etc) but Im getting an error saying "An error occurred > applying attributes to the file: (then its lists the file patch)" > > I dont think its a security issue as it is more of somekind of file problem? > > "Lasse" wrote: > > > I did save all data deliberately. All personal datafiles are there - > > encrypted, unfortunately. So in which folder is the old key …

hi.i hvae the same problem and i had asked alot of Expert ppl but no one can help me so please is there anybody who had fixed the prblem before to help us?? "lidarmap" wrote: > I am having a similar problem. Although all my permissions are there > (Computer, users etc) but Im getting an error saying "An error occurred > applying attributes to the file: (then its lists the file patch)" > > I dont think its a security issue as it is more of somekind of file problem? > > "Lasse" wrote: > > > I did save all data deliberately. All personal datafiles are there - > > encrypted, unfortunately. So in which folder is the …

OS Windows XP Pro, SP2. Unintentionally I installed the East Asian Fonts on my PC and now when I am in some of my graphic programmes choosing a font to use, when I stand on one of these fonts it causes my pc to freeze and I have to go out of the programme I am in. When I look at these fonts through a font viewer I see that they have a @ sign in front of their name? I would like to uninstall/delete these fonts but haven't found a way to do so since they don't appear in the Windows Font file. Can anybody help me here, it's driving me crazy? Thanks so much.

I have been used the normal windows update site located at http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en-us to update my Windows XP Professional SP2 and noticed that even on a clean DSL link that is normally around 1.6 mbps, that this takes about 3-4 mins just to let me know if any updates are available. Is this normal these days ? Seemed that it was far faster before. Time does not seem to vary based on time of day or amount of updates that it has. Thanks !

Apparently I, logged in as administrator don't have the authority to copy and paste files from one hard drive to another locally on my computer. I have a dual boot system with vista home premium 64 on c: and xp home on E: and I use D: for data files. I have 3 wd raptors in a raid 0 array partitioned roughly in half with vista on one and xp on the other and a separate hd for the data. Vista bsod'd and crashed and corrupted ntldr and xp will no longer boot up. I had my email set up on xp. Lots of email. From vista I tried to copy and paste the email data from where it is stored on the partition with xp on it to my data drive to no avail. PERMISSION DENIED.…

I have brand new Laptop with Vista. My Office 2K Professional does not run on Vista so I bought Home and Student Office for our PC's on our home intranet. So, I have no Outlook, but others still have Ourlook 2000. I can not afford to buy the latest Outlook for all. I have Windows Calender and latest version of MS Works Calendar that came with laptop. When you export or publish, both give the option of using the iCalendar (.ics) format. However if you try to import iCalendar from each other the Import Result error of "could not import calendar" message comes up referring to file versions, etc.. I opened both export .ics files using notepad from each app…

I am running Home Premium as a Standard User, and have set Windows Update to "check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them" I have found that Windows Update does automatically check for updates, but it doesn't notify me of new updates as it does when I am logged in as an Administrator. I would like to know if this behavior is by design, and if not, what do I need to do to get it to work correctly.

I don't know why this is happening with like the microsoft Internet explorer and some applications I have. It is not letting me open it, so I can't do anything about it. Can some one please help know take care of this problem?

not sure why this is now in my tool tray: mac bridge miniport, network bridge. would windows update have installed this for some reason? i disabled it, and email, internet still ok ... so ... how would this have materialized? thanks for any thoughts on this ...

not sure why this is now in my tool tray: mac bridge miniport, network bridge. would windows update have installed this for some reason? i disabled it, and email, internet still ok ... so ... how would this have materialized? thanks for any thoughts on this ...

Hi, my PC run windows vista premium. It does not have remote desktop server,so noone able to remote desktop to my computer. I have to use Windows Live messenger to request for a remote assistance. However, It seems not working with user outside my network. Is it possible to work over internet without the same network and not same domain? Thank you very much.

tried to update hpw2207 wide lcd monitor, keeps failing and cannot determine why

Do you know if the remote assistant workable with between user in different network? Thank

Hi All, I have a customer with XP-Pro,sp2 that gets a print spooler error and looses all her printers from her control panel, printers window. To fix her problem, I erased all the files (they were considerable) from her C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS directory. Then, restarted the print spooler in services. Problem: worked from two days, now she is back to her spooler errors again. (Sorry, I don't remember the error, just that it was something about the print spooler being crashed.) Anyone have any suggestions as to how to permanently fix her problem? I was thinking of erasing her spool cache again and reinstalling here print driver. Any o…