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Everybody has the same question. Who does the answering???? SAW "David Webb" wrote: > Hi I keep trying to update Vista But I get an error code 800B0100. Does > anyone know what this means?

I am having the exact same problem...can't find anyone that has any answers. i have narrowed it down to sp2 but can't figure it out from there....any advice would be much appreciated.. -- hammi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hammi's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=30260 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=259040 http://forums.techarena.in

AP - Nokia Corp. unveiled new services and cell phones Wednesday that customers can use to download music and play games, a bid by the world's largest mobile phone maker to challenge Apple Inc.'s higher-end iPhone, as well as iTunes and the iPod. Link To Original Article

AP - Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it will release a major package of updates and fixes for the Windows Vista operating system in the first half of 2008. Link To Original Article

AP - EarthLink Inc. will refocus on its core business of supplying Internet access to consumers and businesses, its new chief executive said a day after announcing the company was slashing nearly half its work force. Link To Original Article

Reuters - The U.S. Justice Department and other authorities have stepped up investigations into several large European banks for violating sanctions against Iran, Libya, Cuba and Sudan, the Financial Times reported in its online edition. Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - NEW YORK - NEW YORK - TiVo's failure to anticipate how quickly consumers and retailers would fall in love with HDTV products added static to a fuzzy financial picture. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Taiwan's High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) has taken the wraps off a thinner, faster version of its Touch smartphone. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Red Hat said this week it had spruced up its Red Hat Command Center server- and application-monitoring service, eliminating the need for users to maintain a Red Hat-prescribed hardware appliance to collect monitoring data. Link To Original Article

AutoPatcher project "probably history," its project manager says, leaving Microsoft to be sole distributor of its software updates. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it will acquire a Chicago-based provider of enterprise group chat software to bolster the messaging capabilities of its Office Communications Server and Office Communicator products. Link To Original Article

Following disclosure of an eavesdropping vulnerability, the Jericho Forum says VoIP tech is not ready for business deployment. Link To Original Article

Windows Server 2008 is apparently going to live up to its name, with Microsoft acknowledging Wednesday that it won't be able to finish work on the product this year, as scheduled. "Windows Server 2008, which we have been saying would Release to Manufacturing (RTM) by the end of the ... Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - LG Electronics Inc.'s battle to beat the iPhone is far from over. The South Korean electronics company has unveiled its second iPhone-like handset and this one packs several important features the iPhone doesn't: 3G and high-speed cellular data networking. Link To Original Article

Plus: Orkut: Google's secret society. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra. Link To Original Article

Microsoft's planned Vista Service Pack 1 may not be adding many features, but it sure does take up a lot of space. Based on current test versions, the operating system update will be a 1GB file when uncompressed. By way of comparison, Windows XP--the whole thing--shipped on a CD, ... Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - The summer dry spell for video games came to an end last week with the arrival of "BioShock," the creepy underwater shooter that has won rave reviews and flown off store shelves. Link To Original Article

Hi there, i have an issues regarding Remote Assistance: When i (working in IT-Supoprt) try to remotely Assist our Domain Users, i use the built-in remote assistance by Microsoft. Everything is working fine when i remote assist from Windows XP (german or english) to Windows XP (german or english) or from Windows Vista (German) to Windows XP (German). But when i try to remote assist an english XP from german Vista, i'm told that the HelpAssistant User has a wrong password. The same remote Computer is assistable from a german xp ... Thanks, MM

Hello group, I am working on a performance issue. This is on a Windows 2003 Standard server SP1 with Office 2003. The hardware is a 2 dual-core 32- bit system with 4 GB of memory. There are several legacy applications that send data to Excel using DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange). The apps run under terminal services, with multiple users running multiple copies. If two or users pull data into Excel at the same time, it overloads the server. Let us look at a single user. CPU utilization shows at 40-50% for Excel. Context switches are around 5,000 to 6,000 per second. The total system page fault/sec shows around 9,000-10,000. It appears that each data point has …

After installing an update for Photoshop CS3 (GRRRRR!), I have lost permissions for a number of folders - most of an entire drive! I can obviously get them back individually, but how do I get them back as a group? I can't find the inherit option. Also, the nice default icons from my USERNAME folder on the Start Menu have gone. How do I get them back (I've tried clicking Default)? -- Nigel M

"Lori" wrote: > I have Micorsoft Works Suite 2005, recently I have been having problems with > it. First I couldn't use the "making a card feature" when I tried it said > to insert Disk #2 and that wouldn't run. So now I have uninstalled it, then > reinstalled it. Now when I try to open Microsoft Word I get this message: > This patch pakage could not be opened. > Verify that the patch package exists and > that you can access it, or contact the > application vendor to verify this is a > valid Windows Installer patch pakage. > I don't know where to go I tried to find a patch to no avail, I did do the > Service Pack 3…

I'm having a problem with the VPN connection on my PC. I'm running XP-Pro and I am connected to the internet via my home lan, to a cable router. I have also recently installed a new network connection to my workplace using a VPN. Clearly I go over the same physical lan connection to my router. My problem is this. Whenever I come out of hibernation, e.g. I put the PC into sleep mode when I leave the room for an extended period, when I take it out of sleep mode, the VPN connection dialogue box comes up if I fire up IE or Outlook Express. I still connect via my router to ISP but the dialogue box continues to appear when I navigate between pages. The only way to …

I'm having a problem with the VPN connection on my PC. I'm running XP-Pro and I am connected to the internet via my home lan, to a cable router. I have also recently installed a new network connection to my workplace using a VPN. Clearly I go over the same physical lan connection to my router. My problem is this. Whenever I come out of hibernation, e.g. I put the PC into sleep mode when I leave the room for an extended period, when I take it out of sleep mode, the VPN connection dialogue box comes up if I fire up IE or Outlook Express. I still connect via my router to ISP but the dialogue box continues to appear when I navigate between pages. The only …

Once you have used RD to logon to a computer the IP address can be viewed by anyone who gets access to your desktop. Is there a way to not have these addresses remain in the LogOn settings screen of remote desktop. Also is there a way to clear all "history" from this screen? Just curious. I find a HowTo Microsoft whith the possible solution for the question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312169/en-us Its possible that RD dont keep these settings? IP or hostname. Sorry for my english Thanks! -- Si no le gustan mis principios, tengo otros.. (Groucho Marx)

Once you have used RD to logon to a computer the IP address can be viewed by anyone who gets access to your desktop. Is there a way to not have these addresses remain in the LogOn settings screen of remote desktop. Also is there a way to clear all "history" from this screen? Just curious. I find a HowTo Microsoft whith the possible solution for the question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312169/en-us Its possible that RD dont keep these settings? IP or hostname. Sorry for my english Thanks! -- Si no le gustan mis principios, tengo otros.. (Groucho Marx)