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http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-4-home_pro-revision-history.html Changelog: infrastructure changes in the scanning engine bringing higher detection rates fixed a bug that was sometimes causing crash of the avast screensaver during its initialization improved handling of corrupted files in the SIS and CAB unpackers Standard Shield: fixed a minor memory leak in the Vista (and Vista only) driver Standard Shield: improved the "move to chest" command in Vista Standard Shield: the default scan exceptions are no valid for read/write access only (no execute) added more "installer" unpackers added more Win32 executable unpackers (Enigma etc.) for NTLM proxy …

I have read many of the articles and posts on how to change the default view for windows explorer using the command line options. I have also seen the info about updating the registry but all the ones I have seen talk about updating HKCU. The issue I have is that the default has changed for all users. I want to be able to set them all back to the original default view, which was the folder tree in the left pane and my documents open in the right pane. I am not sure how it happened but I think it was after I installed a piece of software that needed to reboot to complete the install. Is there a way to change this back for all users without doing each one at a time?

I have read many of the articles and posts on how to change the default view for windows explorer using the command line options. I have also seen the info about updating the registry but all the ones I have seen talk about updating HKCU. The issue I have is that the default has changed for all users. I want to be able to set them all back to the original default view, which was the folder tree in the left pane and my documents open in the right pane. I am not sure how it happened but I think it was after I installed a piece of software that needed to reboot to complete the install. Is there a way to change this back for all users without doing each one at…

[/url]AP - It's bad enough that a cratering housing market is leading to a slump in real estate advertising at newspapers, as a dreary series of earnings reports showed this week. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Google Inc.'s YouTube hopes recognition technology will be in place in September to stop the posting of copyrighted videos on the popular Web site, a lawyer Friday told a judge presiding over copyright lawsuits. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - EU regulators said Friday they have charged Intel Corp. with monopoly abuse for blocking rival computer chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s access to customers. Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Members of the family that controls Dow Jones & Co. Inc. jostled over their positions on News Corp.'s $5 billion bid on Friday, as a dark horse rival prepared a revised proposal. Link To Original Article

NewsFactor - While video game console makers climb over each other to show that they have the fastest or most innovative platform, a new video game report from Nielsen said that 42 percent of console playing in June was on the last generation's Sony PlayStation 2. Link To Original Article

Investor's Business Daily - Many highflying wireless phone companies in emerging markets are cruising at lower altitude after reporting lower-than-expected second-quarter earnings and sales last week, a rocky one on world stock markets. Link To Original Article

TechWeb - Jimmy Wales buys Look Smart's Grub search engine and secures it under an open source license for a public release later this year. Link To Original Article

Within the next decade, you might take calls and surf the Web on a diamond-laced handset that would put the iPhone to shame. Unlike high-end, gem-studded cell phones, no bling would sparkle on the shell. But inside, diamond-covered components would enable crisper, faster communications. Advanced Diamond Technologies is bringing diamond ... Link To Original Article

NewsFactor - At Microsoft's annual meeting with analysts, Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner announced that the software giant had sold 60 million copies of Windows Vista since the product's launch in late January. Link To Original Article

Intel's legal team will be very busy for the next 10 weeks. That's how long the world's largest chipmaker has to come up with an explanation for business practices that the European Commission has declared "abuse of a dominant market position." The Directorate-General for Competition on Thursday ... Link To Original Article

As a wise woman once said, "Socks rock." Most people never leave home without a pair of socks, at least if they're wearing shoes. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog. Link To Original Article

NewsFactor - Like team members before a big game, the players in the race for high-speed mobile networks are lining up. On Thursday, Sprint Nextel announced that it had chosen Google to provide search, interactive communications, and social networking for the portal on its upcoming mobile WiMax network. And last week, Sprint announced that it would partner with rival Clearwire to jointly create the first U.S.-wide mobile broadband WiMax network. Link To Original Article

While AMD isn't giving away any information on its future fab plans, a major chip foundry is gearing up for a big new customer. TSMC, the largest chip foundry in the world, is apparently planning to take on a new customer that wants to use the high-k dielectrics and metal gates ... Link To Original Article

Opponents of new identification card requirements say move further signals contentious Bush administration-backed plan is "dead in the water." Link To Original Article

Microsoft will offer a Windows Live "installer" that will download and install software to access multiple online services, said Kevin Johnson, the president of Microsoft's Platform and Services Division. During his presentation at Microsoft's Financial Analysts Day on Thursday, Johnson mentioned the Windows Live installer, saying that the ... Link To Original Article

TechWeb - While Microsoft's Xbox surpasses the Wii in overall sales volume, Nintendo's Wii has posted the fastest growth in market share. Link To Original Article

Can't download AFP at all. Any suggestions would be appreciated. -- Rexy

Good day, I originally posted the message below in another forum; can anyone throw some light on my problem? Cheers! Hello all, This is the first time I'm posting to a Microsoft discussion group and I'm resorting to it because I'm running out of ideas for a pointed solution to my problem. An unmanaged backup task used to run daily on an internal HP StorageWorks DAT72 drive, scheduled to run with the command: C:\WINDOWS\system32>C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntbackup.exe backup "@C:\Documents and S ettings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBac kup\data\daily.bks" /n "Daily backup" /d "Daily backup" /v:yes /r:no /rs:no …

Good day, I originally posted the message below in another forum can anyone throw some light on my problem? Cheers! Hello all, This is the first time I'm posting to a Microsoft discussion group and I'm resorting to it because I'm running out of ideas for a pointed solution to my problem. An unmanaged backup task used to run daily on an internal HP StorageWorks DAT72 drive, scheduled to run with the command: C:\WINDOWS\system32>C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntbackup.exe backup "@C:\Documents and S ettings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBac kup\data\daily.bks" /n "Daily backup" /d "Daily backup" /v:yes /r:no /r…

Hi, Instant search is not searching inside (ie contents of) pdf files - the windows desktop search (on my XP) was working GREAT, but after (a fresh, not upgrade) installation of Vista, I lost the index and needed to be rebuilt. The "pdf filter" is checked along with "Index properties and file contents" box, in "Indexing Options->Advanved option->File Types". I have rebuilt the index many times and waited long enough for "Indexing complete" to appear on the "Indexing options" tab, but still search does NOT work INSIDE the pdf documents. Any suggestions?

About the MVP program or any MVPs. Of course we all know these are peer to peer support newsgroups. Most also know because of that, there is no requirement or expectation that anyone from Microsoft see anything posted in these newsgroups. Microsoft employees may read and post here, but they do so on their own time. The Microsoft person that may see your suggestion here may not be affiliated with the appropriate Product Group and may not even know where to forward if they are so inclined. If someone wants to be sure Microsoft gets the message, these newsgroups are not the place. For MVP issues, email the MVP Global Administrator, FAQ 13: http://mvp.s…

when the error comes up take your Windows xp home out of your cd drive and reboot windows will startup with the installation again and at one point will ask you to insert the xp home cd into the cd drive at this point you will need to get your hand's on a windows XP Pro installation CD doesn't have to be a registered copy this is just for this part for repair purposes insert the cd when asked it may ask you to find the i386 dir just type in D:(or your cdrom drive)\i386 if not in there already hit ok windows will install until a certain point and ask you to insert xp home again do so and that should fix your problem wala -- Tymhunt -------------------------…