Microsoft Support & Discussions

I have encoded HDV video using Adobe Premiere CS3 / Windows Media 9, in a HD 720p format on a pc running Win XP. When playing the file on the original XP pc the picture and the sound is fine. But when playing the wmv file on my HTPC running Vista, using either Media Player 11 or the Media Center application there is picture but no sound. When playing the file using WinDVD 8 on the same Vista pc the sound is fine. Can anyone help me with this problem?

Is there anyone who has tried (with success) another software that can do pretty much the same tasks as the Volume Shadow Copy, but without the $%&* 64 snapshot limit? Or is it possible for MS to unlock the 64 limit?

Is there anyone who has tried (with success) another software that can do pretty much the same tasks as the Volume Shadow Copy, but without the $%&* 64 snapshot limit? Or is it possible for MS to unlock the 64 limit?

[/url]AP - Rapidly growing software maker VMware Inc. priced its initial public offering at $29 per share Monday, setting the stage for one of Silicon Valley's most anticipated stock market debuts since Google Inc. mesmerized Wall Street three years ago. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Say Madden this time of year and most everyone knows the reference is not about the Hall of Fame coach and sportscaster himself. It's about his video game. Link To Original Article

AP - Microsoft Corp. on Monday gave a simple reason why its prototype for beaming high-speed Internet service over unused television airways failed a government test: the device was broken. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - It's a battery that looks like a piece of paper and can be bent or twisted, trimmed with scissors or molded into any shape needed. While the battery is only a prototype a few inches square right now, the researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who developed it have high hopes for it in electronics and other fields that need smaller, lighter power sources. Link To Original Article

[/url]AFP - A British orchestra is to become the first to perform a professional music concert in the virtual online world of Second Life, it said Tuesday. Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - It took a couple on next-gen tries, but Madden has finally punched one across the pylons. Electronic Arts' cash cow, Madden NFL 08, returns with a fresh arsenal of weapons and gameplay as silky smooth as a LaDainian Tomlinson scamper into the end zone. Link To Original Article

It seems only fair that since the hardware side of the computing world plowed ahead with parallelized computing, they should help out the software development community. In that spirit, AMD plans to let developers take a crack at its Light-Weight Profiler Tuesday as a possible assist for the growing problem ... Link To Original Article

Also: Facebook grows up--and tries to stay relevant. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Nokia is offering to replace 46 million batteries manufactured by another company for use in its mobile phones because of a risk of overheating, Nokia said on Tuesday. Link To Original Article

Hynix is shaking things up in the memory market with its decision to license Innovative Silicon's Z-RAM technology. The two companies jointly announced the agreement on Monday. Z-RAM is a twist on the traditional makeup of a memory cell. Almost all PCs use DRAM to temporarily store information while ... Link To Original Article

Program includes filtering software for home PCs, as well as an ISP-level plan being tested in Tasmania. Link To Original Article

TechWeb - The addition of StarOffice to Google Pack shows Google confronting Microsoft more directly than before. Link To Original Article

Flash memory makers have taken over cell phones and MP3 players and want to start moving into notebooks. So what's next on the colonization roadmap? Servers, says Frankie Roohparvar, vice president of NAND development at Micron Technologies. Server makers are looking at ways of replacing drives in servers. "That ... Link To Original Article

Server was used to help track movements of terrorism suspects, although data on device is of relatively little value, police say. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - AMD is announcing plans to extend its CPU instruction set Tuesday to make it easier for software developers to exploit the power of multi-core processors when building applications. Link To Original Article

Santa Clara, Calif.--A universal form of computer memory that can replace all of the different breeds of chips in computers and electronics today--MRAM, Spintronics, ovonics, Zettacore, silicon nanocrystals--has been a holy grail for component monkeys for a long, long time. Donovan sang about it, I think. Several solutions have ... Link To Original Article

Attorney for a man accused of drunk driving predicts device maker won't turn over code, which could lead to charges being dropped. Link To Original Article

Microsoft on Monday made a series of updates to its Windows Live Hotmail service, chief among those being an increase in the size of its inboxes. Standard users now get 5GB of storage, while paid MSN Premium and Hotmail Plus accounts now get 10GB of storage. The move follows Yahoo'... Link To Original Article

Investor's Business Daily - It can be easy being green -- if you look in the right place. Link To Original Article

I have an HP laptop with XP Home and SP2. When attaching new devices via a USB port, I keep getting a message 'Cannot install this hardware - USB Device - The data is invalid'. This happens with my mobile phones and with a new Garmin Sat Nav system I have just bought. I have tried restoring my system to an earlier time but as this has happened for some time, I dont know what date this problem started happening. Also I have installed quite a bit of software in the last month and dont want to have to reinstall it all again. I am now losing my hair over this.....can anyone help me solve this problem PLEASE. Lily

I have an HP laptop with XP Home and SP2. When attaching new devices via a USB port, I keep getting a message 'Cannot install this hardware - USB Device - The data is invalid'. This happens with my mobile phones and with a new Garmin Sat Nav system I have just bought. I have tried restoring my system to an earlier time but as this has happened for some time, I dont know what date this problem started happening. Also I have installed quite a bit of software in the last month and dont want to have to reinstall it all again. I am now losing my hair over this.....can anyone help me solve this problem PLEASE. Lily

we are having one user with vista in our company . it is a ibm pc with 150 GB Hdd . recently we found out that the hdd is showing 130 gb being used and 20 gb remaining . but in fact the actual data is only 20 gb. i used kaspersky , windows onecare , adware to check if there is any virus it found some and deleted it . i then formatted the harddisk and then it was normal with proper antivirus updates . again within one week the size of the hdd started increasing . i used kaspersky online scanner 20 virus found ,so i used the trial version in the ( kaspersky anti virus )of 30 days to find if there is any virus. it didnt detect any virus.