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I have the Royal Bank of Scotland phishing spam posting itself as a Safe Sender, even though I have already designated it as Junk Mail. How is this possible? Is this a fault with Vista's Mail, or a harbinger of worse to come? Does anyone have a solution?

I have a blue screen. I read the Microsoft article at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314084/en-us The problem is that I don't have an exception code in my listing, in order to use pstat.exe afterwards. What can I do? Here is the result of my dumpchk.exe memory.dmp : ----- 32 bit Kernel Summary Dump Analysis DUMP_HEADER32: MajorVersion 0000000f MinorVersion 00000a28 DirectoryTableBase 077812a0 PfnDataBase 81f26000 PsLoadedModuleList 8055c700 PsActiveProcessHead 80562818 MachineImageType 0000014c NumberProcessors 00000002 BugCheckCode 0000008e BugCheckParameter1 c0000005 BugCheckParameter2 bf8e5f91 BugCheckParame…

I have a blue screen. I read the Microsoft article at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314084/en-us The problem is that I don't have an exception code in my listing, in order to use pstat.exe afterwards. What can I do? Here is the result of my dumpchk.exe memory.dmp : ----- 32 bit Kernel Summary Dump Analysis DUMP_HEADER32: MajorVersion 0000000f MinorVersion 00000a28 DirectoryTableBase 077812a0 PfnDataBase 81f26000 PsLoadedModuleList 8055c700 PsActiveProcessHead 80562818 MachineImageType 0000014c NumberProcessors 00000002 BugCheckCode 0000008e BugCheckParameter1 c0000005 BugCheckParameter2 bf8e5f91 BugCheckPara…

As of a few days ago, I get the following Event Viewer (Id. 3100) message every few minutes: Source: Search, Task: Gatherer Unable to initialize the filter host process. Terminating. Details: This operation returned because the timeout period expired. (0x800705b4) Anyone knows what is happening?

I had a blue screen and I want to know which driver is giving me the problem. I read the following Microsoft article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314084/en-us But when I do dumpchk.exe Memory.dmp , I don't see an exception code, which could allow me to use pstat.exe after. How can I know the exception in my case ? here is the result of my command: ----- 32 bit Kernel Summary Dump Analysis DUMP_HEADER32: MajorVersion 0000000f MinorVersion 00000a28 DirectoryTableBase 077812a0 PfnDataBase 81f26000 PsLoadedModuleList 8055c700 PsActiveProcessHead 80562818 MachineImageType 0000014c NumberProcessors 00000002 BugCheckCode …

I had a blue screen and I want to know which driver is giving me the problem. I read the following Microsoft article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314084/en-us But when I do dumpchk.exe Memory.dmp , I don't see an exception code, which could allow me to use pstat.exe after. How can I know the exception in my case ? here is the result of my command: ----- 32 bit Kernel Summary Dump Analysis DUMP_HEADER32: MajorVersion 0000000f MinorVersion 00000a28 DirectoryTableBase 077812a0 PfnDataBase 81f26000 PsLoadedModuleList 8055c700 PsActiveProcessHead 80562818 MachineImageType 0000014c NumberProcessors 00000002 BugCheckCode…

Hello everybody, I have the following problem on my AD-Domain (3 Domain Controllers with MS-PKI): all the domain controllers have recurrent errors in the Application Event Viewer that say: "Automatic Certificate Enrollment for local system could not find a valid certificate templete to match DomainControlleras specified in the group policy automatic enrollment object. Enrollment will not be performed." The "DomainController" template is the standard template, which I have removed from the "Certificta templates to issue" container. Besides, I have created a new personnalized DomainController template, called MyDomainController, which is accepted by all the CDs…

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I'm using Vista Business in my Fujitsu laptop, I ran DBxpress to recover my old outlook express mailboxes. For some problem, the application stopped responding for a long time, and I decided to terminate the process. I can't seem to use "end process" and "end task" to kill the non-responding application, while in XP, I can kill them easily. I pressed the power button to shut it down and hope it can kill the process, then computer then stays on the "shutting down" screen with the rotating donut, now it's almost 45 minutes since then and the donut is still rotating but nothing seems done. I'm going to manually power it down and hope nothing was lost. Is the…

Hello, I am an executive recruiter specializing in IT recruitment on behalf of top-tier Investment Banks. My client is looking for bright Windows admins with the following skills: -Extensive experience of the Windows platform System Administration. -Strong support experience in Windows 2000/2003 Servers & XP Desktops. -Support experience in ActiveDirectory, Distributed File Systems (DFS), System Management Server (SMS), MS SQL Server, Virtual Server and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM). -Strong technical ability in solving low-level problems. -Strong verbal & written communication skills -Strong project management skill Desired: -Microsoft Certif…

Hello, I am an executive recruiter specializing in IT recruitment on behalf of top-tier Investment Banks. My client is looking for bright Windows admins with the following skills: -Extensive experience of the Windows platform System Administration. -Strong support experience in Windows 2000/2003 Servers & XP Desktops. -Support experience in ActiveDirectory, Distributed File Systems (DFS), System Management Server (SMS), MS SQL Server, Virtual Server and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM). -Strong technical ability in solving low-level problems. -Strong verbal & written communication skills -Strong project management skill Desired: -Microsoft Certif…

After seeing all the post of people having a heck of a time with Active Sync and Vista, I'm feeling happy with 90% of what does work for me. However, please help me figure out why my PDA calendar items won't upload into my Vista PC's outlook app. Currenly all my contacts came in, Tasks came in, Emails fine, and I can enter a calendar item on my Vista PC and it will sync down to the PDA. But again NOTHING in the PDA calendar will go up to the PC? Additionally I have had this same PDA synching well with a WIN2k Laptop and I'm wondering if that might be the issue - that the old laptop is somehow the "master" and the new Vista PC is subordinate or someth…

Hello everyone, I have a middle-tier server which has quite a lot of ODBC-DSN entires, connecting to all our R&D databases. My problem is that the ODBC Administrator does not provide an option to change/update the actual ODBC driver for a connection. After upgrading, e.g. Oracle 9 to 10 i need to change all existing DSN setting to use the 10g Driver. How do i do this without removing all and re-entering? I tried changing it through the registry, but apperently this doesn't work as well as i thought. Thanks

Hello everyone, I have a middle-tier server which has quite a lot of ODBC-DSN entires, connecting to all our R&D databases. My problem is that the ODBC Administrator does not provide an option to change/update the actual ODBC driver for a connection. After upgrading, e.g. Oracle 9 to 10 i need to change all existing DSN setting to use the 10g Driver. How do i do this without removing all and re-entering? I tried changing it through the registry, but apperently this doesn't work as well as i thought. Thanks

Hi, I am running Home Basic 32-bit. Whenever I run a full-screen game or other program, for the first time after my pc is turned on, the program automatically minimizes while at the black screen with the windows circle loading icon (just before the game screen appears). Once this has happened though, it does not happen again with any other full-screen program until the computer is restarted. Several other people running the same OS experience this problem. Any insights on how to fix it or report the bug to Microsoft with paying to do so?

I have tools/internet options/connections set to always dial this connection, but clicking on IE does not dial out. (I have Google as home page) I get the message that the page is offline.

I have tools/internet options/connections set to always dial this connection, but clicking on IE does not dial out. (I have Google as home page) I get the message that the page is offline.

Hi, I have one DC and 3 member servers. I have applied service pack 2 on the three member servers and finished in less than 20 minutes. However, when I did on the Domain Controller last August 11 the installation still is for more than 24 hours. I have stopped and reverted to the old settings and did it again yesterday, August 13th. Three times it prompted me that it was not able to backup cpu.inf, xpob2k3.dll and dxdiagn.dll. After 24hours of running, it prompted me that it was not able to find adminpak.msi. Even though, I've pointed it in the right direction, it was still not able to find it. I've tried a series of retries and it push through and to date, …

Hi, I have one DC and 3 member servers. I have applied service pack 2 on the three member servers and finished in less than 20 minutes. However, when I did on the Domain Controller last August 11 the installation still is for more than 24 hours. I have stopped and reverted to the old settings and did it again yesterday, August 13th. Three times it prompted me that it was not able to backup cpu.inf, xpob2k3.dll and dxdiagn.dll. After 24hours of running, it prompted me that it was not able to find adminpak.msi. Even though, I've pointed it in the right direction, it was still not able to find it. I've tried a series of retries and it push through and to date, …

my gadgets on my sidebar all of a sudden stopped working and also my aim stopped working as in i have to download it every time i turn my comp off. any suggestions?

I've read some of the postings about this failure mode. This just recently started to happen intermittently, now it is pretty reproducible. If I put my computer 9 ( XP with the latest updates ) in Standby mode the LAN will not be functioning when I restore operation. I have to turn it off, unplug the power cord and wait 5 minutes before I can reboot it and have LAN. I saw someone posting about a bad battery. My motherboard is about 3 years old, so the battery could need replacement, but its hard to see why this would have an effect. The battery seems to be working. Any ideas would be helpful. Arnie

I've read some of the postings about this failure mode. This just recently started to happen intermittently, now it is pretty reproducible. If I put my computer 9 ( XP with the latest updates ) in Standby mode the LAN will not be functioning when I restore operation. I have to turn it off, unplug the power cord and wait 5 minutes before I can reboot it and have LAN. I saw someone posting about a bad battery. My motherboard is about 3 years old, so the battery could need replacement, but its hard to see why this would have an effect. The battery seems to be working. Any ideas would be helpful. Arnie

Maybe someone can help??? Windows update simply won't update under Windows Vista Home Premium, 32 bit. (Either automatically or manually.) When I click on 'check for updates for your computer' to manually check for updates, I receive an error message saying... WINDOWS COULD NOT SEARCH FOR NEW UPDATES Error(s) found: Code 800B0100 Get Help I click on 'get help' and error code 800B0100 is NOT listed. I have 'googled' the error code and have found some others with the same problem, but none had yet gotten results. So, I really don't expect to either, but I thought I would at least try. VERY frustrating.

Does anyone have a script that runs the Windows Wireless repair? I would like to have something on the All Users Desktop for the repair to be run. I will also need it to run without admin rights.

Does anyone have a script that runs the Windows Wireless repair? I would like to have something on the All Users Desktop for the repair to be run. I will also need it to run without admin rights.