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TechWeb - Linux community breathes a sigh of relief, while SCO considers an appeal. Link To Original Article
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PC World - Software as a service is forecast by Gartner to grow at 22.1 percent until 2011 for the aggregate enterprise application software markets-- more than double the 9 percent growth rate expected in the market as a whole. Link To Original Article
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PC World - IBM Corp. could establish a strong presence in the market for embedded operating systems with the acquisition of financially ailing Wind River Systems Inc., a deal that is reportedly in the works. Link To Original Article
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error2738/dmld BizForm
by Guest nenebra- 0 replies
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When I try to download Microsoft Biz Form-Just before complete loading I get error mess. 2738. (Setup.exe)
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Gadget Always On Top Problem
by Guest Mr LoverboY- 0 replies
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when i deattach a gadget from the sidebar and set it to always on top, it used to alwas saty on top, normally !! but lately this has changed!! by time and strangely it satrted to go behind other windows. well it happens sometimes when i pen my computer, sometimes when i open the internet explorer. then i have to deativate the always on top option and then reactivate it, and this doesn't stay forever too, after a while it sinks back again!!! i tried multiple gadgets and yet the same problem!!! what could this be???? help me coz it's really annoying!! thxxxxx
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How and where can I install direct draw from?
by Guest Robert James- 0 replies
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How and where can I install direct draw from? When ever I try to play a mp3 file I get this error. Thanks
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read only on Longhorn Beta
by Guest Greg O- 0 replies
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Hello, On the Longhorn Beta when I share a folder it seems to revert to read only. I think it still allows files to be changed in it from across the network, but when I look at the folder on the local server it has read only ticked. I untick it and hit apply, it is then unticked. If I close the properties window of the folder and immediately reopen it the read only box is ticked again. I'm getting ticked off by this, pardon the pun. For example if I back up into this folder from another server the size of the file does not grow when I look in this folder in Windows Explorer. Then if I untick read only the size of the backup file suddenly jumps to the righ…
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read only on Longhorn Beta
by Guest Greg O- 0 replies
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Hello, On the Longhorn Beta when I share a folder it seems to revert to read only. I think it still allows files to be changed in it from across the network, but when I look at the folder on the local server it has read only ticked. I untick it and hit apply, it is then unticked. If I close the properties window of the folder and immediately reopen it the read only box is ticked again. I'm getting ticked off by this, pardon the pun. For example if I back up into this folder from another server the size of the file does not grow when I look in this folder in Windows Explorer. Then if I untick read only the size of the backup file suddenly jumps to the right si…
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Speech Recognition limited to commands...
by Guest DrakeG4- 0 replies
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For some reason my Speech Recognition only seems to work with commands, when i open up wordpad or notepad (or any other program I'm supposed to dictate in) All I get is "What was that?" from the speech bar. I can control my computer all da long with commands so I know it is'nt my mic. Also I know that it is capable of dictation because if I use the How Do I... command, I can say "How Do I Eat A Pizza", sure enough, on cue the Windows Help and Support window pops up with Best results for "Eat A Pizza". But it does not work with any kind of dictation, I've tried enabling "enable dictation anywhere", I have done about 4 training sessions with it and the tut…
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remote assistance logic
by Guest Mario- 0 replies
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I open port 3389 and connected with the local machine local IP but still didn't have control until I edit the file and change the line with the IP which I got from my provider because remote assistance wizard create the file with the local IP. So, how to help someone when I must explain that relative complicated procedure, someone who didn't computer freak ? Btw, MS don't even mention that procedure?
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remote assistance logic
by Guest Mario- 0 replies
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I open port 3389 and connected with the local machine local IP but still didn't have control until I edit the file and change the line with the IP which I got from my provider because remote assistance wizard create the file with the local IP. So, how to help someone when I must explain that relative complicated procedure, someone who didn't computer freak ? Btw, MS don't even mention that procedure?
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Found New Hardware Wizzard
by Guest Warrren- 0 replies
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I have two (2) dvd writers both from the same manufacturer, they come up as cd drives d & e which is fine. The problem I am having is that the found new hardware keeps wanting to install drivers for one of the drives on each reboot. The dvd's are configured as primary master and primary slave. Any help would be appreciated thanks
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Found New Hardware Wizzard
by Guest Warrren- 0 replies
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I have two (2) dvd writers both from the same manufacturer, they come up as cd drives d & e which is fine. The problem I am having is that the found new hardware keeps wanting to install drivers for one of the drives on each reboot. The dvd's are configured as primary master and primary slave. Any help would be appreciated thanks
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test
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Dynamic hard drive
by Guest JT- 0 replies
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We had to format our hard drive that had the OS on it. After re-installing everything we discovered that another hard drive (200 GB) did not show in My Computer but can be seen in the Bios and Device Manager. It is listed in Disk Management as unreadable and Dynamic. The problem is it was placed in another computer and listed the same way in Disk Management but we were able to Rescan the disk and then everything worked fine. We tried the same process in the first computer and it still was shown in Disk Management or My Computer. Any suggestions? thanks
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Hi, I applied couple of critical patches from April till now as the previous admins did not install any of these patches. But, one of my domain controller (which holds the Global Catalog) was rebooted after the patch install. Reboot command got issued, but it did not time out when I tried pinging with a -t for almost 30 minutes. So, I thought something is wrong. I tried RDP in again and could not. I have noticed this RDP problem cropping up from sometime in October of last year, when I applied patches and after that I could not RDP onto the server. I will have to reboot the server twice to get in through RDP again. Well this is not my main concern, b…
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Re: KB896344 fails to install
by Guest el damo- 0 replies
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The solution provided by tta1989 works perfectly for installing KB914440 as well, this optional update returning the same 0x8007F0EA error upon install. "tta1989" wrote: > This is the solution that worked for me. I used information posted in 2 > different topics for this problem. > > This was one - But I had to change a couple things. I listed step-by-step > instructions below. > "All you need to do is go into your windows\system32 folder and find the file > xpsp3res.dll file and add a .bak at the end of it. Now try running windows > update and it should update fine and add a new xpsp3res.dll file to your > windows\syste…
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Escape Key Cancels File Download
by Guest HTFiddler- 0 replies
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This is really frustrating. I start a long file download ... say 30 minutes to an hour, and I accidentally tap the Esc (escape) key and the "File Download" dialog disappears without warning! I might be 55 minutes into a 1 hr. download, and then, bingo ... it's gone! I would expect a courtesy "Do you really want to cancel the download? [Cancel] [Continue]" at that point. I'm wondering if perhaps there is a checkbox hidden on some tab of some Control Panel dialog in Windows XP that can be set to avoid this problem. Anyone aware of such, or any other workaround??? Many thanks, <<Henry>>
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default search page dilemma
by Guest Starvoyager- 0 replies
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win xp home sp2 alienware notebook. EI 7 I use alta vista as my home page but, when I search in the address bar of the browser I get directed to ask.com it used to be MSN. How can I change it back? or is it in the registry? Greg
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default search page dilemma
by Guest Starvoyager- 0 replies
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win xp home sp2 alienware notebook. EI 7 I use alta vista as my home page but, when I search in the address bar of the browser I get directed to ask.com it used to be MSN. How can I change it back? or is it in the registry? Greg
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Re: KB896344 fails to install
by Guest el damo- 0 replies
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"tta1989" wrote: > This is the solution that worked for me. I used information posted in 2 > different topics for this problem. > > This was one - But I had to change a couple things. I listed step-by-step > instructions below. > "All you need to do is go into your windows\system32 folder and find the file > xpsp3res.dll file and add a .bak at the end of it. Now try running windows > update and it should update fine and add a new xpsp3res.dll file to your > windows\system32 folder." > > Follow this exactly and it should get you up and going. - Execute this in > order. > 1.) do as listed above - Go to the win…
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Windows XP upgrade
by Guest Rick J.- 0 replies
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Trying to upgrade from Win98 SE to WinXP Home. While the computer is prepairing to install the new OS I get an error message that it can't find the file "ftdisk.sys" on the CD. I get the option to retry but I get the same results. The CD is not running when it's attempting to copy the file. The CD ROM does work. Any help would be appriciated. Rick J.
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Windows XP upgrade
by Guest Rick J.- 0 replies
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Trying to upgrade from Win98 SE to WinXP Home. While the computer is prepairing to install the new OS I get an error message that it can't find the file "ftdisk.sys" on the CD. I get the option to retry but I get the same results. The CD is not running when it's attempting to copy the file. The CD ROM does work. Any help would be appriciated. Rick J.
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stablizing High MEM usage 32 bit apps on 64bit server
by Guest Malboeuf- 0 replies
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I have 5 win2k3 32bit enterprise dual core servers with 2GB of ram but on my one test win2k3 64bit enterprise quad core with 4GB of ram server I have notice that my four 32bit Apps using 600MB each randomly fail every day while the 32bit servers run them stable for months does any one have any idea how to get these 32bit aps to run better on the win2k3 64bit Enterprise server, I know it must be the RAM I tried the 32bit server with 4GB of ram and PAE and they are nothing but a waste of time as they crash the apps hourly (two high memory usage apps will try to use the same memory location and crash constantlly - microsoft hides this information really …