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I have problem with SP2 that failed on initial installation and currently cannot be reinstalled or uninstalled. I have tried all steps in KB822798 with no success. This is the end of the uninstall log-spuninst.log: 88.015: PFE1: Failed to CreateRemoteThread error=0x8 88.015: PFE2: PFE1 failed. 88.015: PFE2: Not avoiding Per File Exceptions. 1013.859: InstallSingleCatalogFile: MyInstallCatalog failed for Tmp.2.sp2.cat error=0xfffffbfe. 1013.859: DoPreUninstallWrapper: InstallCatalogFiles failed 1013.969: CreateProgressWizardAndDoUninstall: Uninstall Failure 0x2 Researching the error I found the KB925931. I contacted Microsoft support but the response time…

I have a remote domain controller that has been in place for around 2 1/2 years that suddently a little after midnight this morning started coming up with this error. It is installed with a volume license media, with the same product key as around 60 other servers on the same network. I don't want to jump in doing stuff as the server is a fair distance to get to if I do something to trully stuff it up. Not excluding the fact that there is around 500 GB of user data to restore if it goes wrong. Does anyone know what causes this kind of issue? Event Type: Error Event Source: Windows Product Activation Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date: 21/08/2007 T…

I have a remote domain controller that has been in place for around 2 1/2 years that suddently a little after midnight this morning started coming up with this error. It is installed with a volume license media, with the same product key as around 60 other servers on the same network. I don't want to jump in doing stuff as the server is a fair distance to get to if I do something to trully stuff it up. Not excluding the fact that there is around 500 GB of user data to restore if it goes wrong. Does anyone know what causes this kind of issue? Event Type: Error Event Source: Windows Product Activation Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date: 21/08/20…

I'm experiencing problems with Movie Maker (and DVD) maker in Vista Premium. I've recently upgraded from XP (on a new machine) - I've been using Movie Maker on XP for ages. My main problems with this version are: I can only add transitions in Storyboard view (in timeline view wmm closes) I cannot expand the Video Track to mute audio (again the programme closes) I cannot save as an AVI file (again programme closes down) I can only save best fit for my computer I cannot publish directly to DVD (DVD maker will also not work with AVI files - it closes down!) Does anyone have any suggestions? If so, I'd be grateful - I'm finding it frustrating that I cannot pr…

Afew days ago I was able to set the DPI as high as I wanted to (approx 150) but now there seems to be an internal maximum of 144 set. How do I override this or is there something else I need to not use at the same time?

AP - Online measurement company comScore Inc. is refining how it presents data on search market share to reflect changes in user behavior. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - As many techies know, getting in on a hot new startup's invite-only "beta" test can be tough. Link To Original Article

AP - A two-day outage that left millions of Skype users unable to use the popular Internet phone service was caused by an abnormally high number of restarts after people had downloaded a Windows security update, the company said Monday. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - The situation that prevented millions of people from accessing Skype's Internet telephony service late last week was a "perfect storm" and should not reoccur, the company said Tuesday. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Toshiba will start producing a 320GB hard-disk drive for laptop computers before the end of this year, the company said Tuesday. Link To Original Article

This is the fourth in a series of posts from the Hot Chips conference at Stanford. The previous installments are here, here, and here. Other CNET coverage may be found here. This is sort of an experiment for me; I usually prefer to have time to review my work before ... Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Chip maker LSI has agreed to sell its mobility products division to Infineon Technologies for $450 million in cash, plus a possible additional $50 million if the unit meets certain performance goals. Link To Original Article

Welcome back to the ongoing Speeds and Feeds coverage of Hot Chips 19 at Stanford. They give us comfy chairs and free Wi-Fi, so blogging about it is the least I can do. By the way, Dean Takahashi of the San Jose Mercury News is also blogging from Hot Chips, ... Link To Original Article

TechWeb - The revised version of the Linux Weekly News includes information about changes to security, virtualization, and hardware support. Link To Original Article

(This is the second post in a series written "live" from Hot Chips 19 at Stanford University.) Vernor Vinge is best known as a science-fiction writer, but he's also a computer scientist; he retired from his professorship at San Diego State University five years ago. (I mentioned his participation ... Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Staples Inc , the largest U.S. office supplies retailer, posted an 11 percent rise in quarterly profit on Tuesday, helped by higher sales of laptop computers and software. Link To Original Article

The "complicated" design that AMD chose for Barcelona, its first quad-core server processor, caused more than six months of delays before the chip was ready, CEO Hector Ruiz told the San Jose Mercury News. In an interview published in Sunday's Mercury News (the excerpts don't seem to be ... Link To Original Article

When I first read the headline, I was shocked. I thought, "Wow! Skype runs on Windows servers???" But no. Skype blamed its outage over the weekend on a different kind of Windows problem. It turns out that when you have millions of Windows machines restarting at the same time (getting their weekly doses of patches because, um, the system is rock solid), it can cause all sorts of problems for others. Like Skype: ... Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - From top-level execs to workers in the field, enterprise end-users are growing increasingly dependent on anywhere, anytime access to essential corporate data and apps. As such, the call for an effective, business-critical mobile initiative is fast becoming the norm for organizations of all sizes. Link To Original Article

I'm blogging today from Hot Chips 19, the annual chip technology conference hosted by Stanford University. I'm planning to summarize each session as it happens. Before the sessions began, there were some announcements--expected attendance, for example, is about 600 people. Famed computer architect John Mashey spoke on behalf ... Link To Original Article

Also: Security violation scorecard: Military: 3,900; milbloggers: 30. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra. Link To Original Article

It's very hard to earn billions of revenue and profit each year. Painful, even! Or so the San Jose Mercury News would have us think about Google. It's hard to be successful! I assume that Google would rather be in this position than in the alternative position: no one cares about your product/service enough to sue you, reverse engineer you or bother in any way with you. Google, being successful, has the opposite problem: ... Link To Original Article

[/url]AFP - A fantasy plague that accidentally ran amok in the Internet's most popular game world, populated by nine million flesh-and-blood players, may help scientists predict the impact of genuine epidemics, according to a study released Tuesday. Link To Original Article

I hate the fact that Explorer is set up so that after Sunday, all the site visit history of the previous days get lumped into 'last week' visit history, which is absolutely useless! Is there any way to keep it from doing this (it didn't used to be the case - at least not in IE6) so that it always shows individual days? I have it set to only hold the past 5 days of history. Thanks!

Printer works OK for text etc. decided to print photos, excellent print quality but it prints slowly and in hesitations. You get, just seen, bands running down a 6 X 4 as where the print joins Any solutions. 43322