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The french guys at http://www.station-drivers.com did it again. They have a copy of the soon-to-be-released ATI 7.7's for their graphic cards. Wanna take a chance? Go here: http://www.station-drivers.com/page/ati%20catalyst.htm or get the Vista's (X86 & X64) from http://www.station-drivers.com/telechargement/ati/ati_Catalyst_7.7-Vista(www.station-drivers.com).exe or the XP's (X86 & X64) http://www.station-drivers.com/telechargement/ati/ati_Catalyst_7.7-2kxp(www.station-drivers.com).exe Carlos P.S.: Runnin' the unofficial whql NVidia 162.18's with ABSOLUTELY no problems...

The My Network Places tree does not refresh for very long intervals (hours or days sometimes). After I have shut down my laptop (which has been on wireless port to my wired network), the Laptop shared directories remain displayed in Windows Explorer for long periods (My Network Places/Entire Network/Microsof Windows Network/Workgroup/Laptop). Similarly for those Laptop directories that are listed as direct sub directory entries off of My Network Places. View/Refresh does not fix this. Also, when I again turn on the laptop, it's shared directories do not appear for some time if they were eventually removed during a long (hours or days) disconnect period. …

every time i go on to firefox or internet exp and try to download a program it takes me to the download site but when i click download it ends the session and if i go to tools on fire fox and click downloads it takes me back to my desktop my windows updates wont load or firefox can anyone help thanks nick

My file server is setup reasonably simple like this. \\server\root directory is where all permissions start. Employees are granted only Traverse Folder\Execute File and Liste Folder\Read Data permissions. This lets them get through to lower folders without being able to add/modify root level folders. At the next level folder employees have custom permissions which is Full Access checked and then edited in Advanced Security to remove Full Control, Change Permissions and Take Ownership. All other permissions are granted and nothing is denied. This gives the employees pretty much full access to that lower level folder and they can add, remove, modify...everythin…

My file server is setup reasonably simple like this. \\server\root directory is where all permissions start. Employees are granted only Traverse Folder\Execute File and Liste Folder\Read Data permissions. This lets them get through to lower folders without being able to add/modify root level folders. At the next level folder employees have custom permissions which is Full Access checked and then edited in Advanced Security to remove Full Control, Change Permissions and Take Ownership. All other permissions are granted and nothing is denied. This gives the employees pretty much full access to that lower level folder and they can add, remove, modify...ev…

Hello All. My Girlfriends mum had a problem with one of the two hard drives on her laptop. She took it to PC world who remove the Faulty hard drive and disabled the raid sata. So the laptop would only see one drive. We have now bought a new drive and want to go back to having 2 drives. Please can someone tell me how to enable sata raid again? I thought it may of been in the bios setting but I can not see it in there! Would be grateful of any help received. Laptop is a Sony Vaio, running windows vista. The bios is phoenix. Many Thanks. Paul

When trying to view WMI properties on several win 2k workstations, I get the error "Failed to connect to \\computername becase "Win32: access is denied". Any ideas as to why this would happen?

I have 2 DVD's that have data on it when you look on it you can see that the disks have been written on, but when I put them in my DVD reader, I get the message that says the drive is inaccesable. When I Try to explore the disk by right clicking the drive and choosing "Explore", The message I get is "Please insert disk into drive". I have tried disk recovery softwares "BAd cd/dvd recovery as well as Power CD/DVD recovery in order to at least access the discs but Windows doesn't recognize them. Any other discs I throw at it work fine. What I would like to do is be able to access the data so I can extract the data and reburn the files on to discs that won't have thi…

Hi 'This file does not have a programme associated with it for performing this action. Creat an association in the Set Associations control panel'. I get this message everytime I try to open 'contacts'. I have checked default programms, all seems ok there, I have tried a restore point before any recent windows updates, still the same I have tried to open this file by exploring the pc but still get the same message. I did get the same message on the Pictures and Music folders but I got around that by telling Visat that the folder contains all file types. Can any one help? Ian

In 'Authoring a Fully Verified signed Installation' from MSDN, one of the bullet items is to ensure that only custom actions stored within the package or installed with the package are used. Is this to say that having a digital signature in the installation package may not function correctly if a Custom Action calls to a target machine .exe during install (Regedit, attrib, etc.)? I'm a little confused by this?

OS is Vista Home Premium OEM by Gateway. The graphic for the buttons in most of the Help and Support panel show only a red X. "mouse over" reveals function dialog box. As I am having problems with other programs, I am wondering if there is not something fundamentaly amiss with the OEM installation. -- Life is not a banquet it is a covered dish dinner. What do you bring to the table?

Hi, I'm trying to change file properties of files stored in a network mapped drive. For example a go to file properties > summary > Title example >> Ok. Then when I'm going to see the Title (putting Windows Explorer in Details View) it appear in blank. These don't happen if I put directly the Title from the computer that I'm accessing through network. Any suggestion will be really appreciate. Working in: Windows XP SP2

Hi, I'm trying to change file properties of files stored in a network mapped drive. For example a go to file properties > summary > Title example >> Ok. Then when I'm going to see the Title (putting Windows Explorer in Details View) it appear in blank. These don't happen if I put directly the Title from the computer that I'm accessing through network. Any suggestion will be really appreciate. Working in: Windows XP SP2

Hello All. My Girlfriends mum had a problem with one of the two hard drives on her laptop. She took it to PC world who remove the Faulty hard drive and disabled the raid sata. So the laptop would only see one drive. We have now bought a new drive and want to go back to having 2 drives. Please can someone tell me how to enable sata raid again? I thought it may of been in the bios setting but I can not see it in there! Would be grateful of any help received. Laptop is a Sony Vaio, running windows vista. The bios is phoenix. Many Thanks. Paul

After looking at all of the postings, I still can't find an answer so here is the problem. I have a laptop running Vista Business, with remote turned on. I'm trying to connect to the notebook from a desktop running XP pro. I do connect to the Laptop and get the "sign on screen" but after I sign on it will give me a "Timed Out....." warning after awhile. Now the laptop is running on wireless and we are doing this on our in house network and not thru the internet. So what could be the problem on the Vista Machine? Could it be that the desktop doesn't have enough RAM in it (512MB ram) to run the remote Vista so in return I get the time out warning ? T…

If I click on Start, point to My Computer six items are displayed. One is for Bluetooth. When I click on Bluetooth it says, " short-cut can't be created her." How can I stop Blutooth from appearing here or create a connection from it to the Bluetooth menu? -- KC

If I click on Start, point to My Computer six items are displayed. One is for Bluetooth. When I click on Bluetooth it says, " short-cut can't be created her." How can I stop Blutooth from appearing here or create a connection from it to the Bluetooth menu? -- KC

this is a response to: >On Jul 15, 8:03 pm, "glee" <gle...@spamindspring.com> wrote: > Are you sure the programs are not running? Just because you do not see their icons > in the Notification Area does not mean they are not running....if explorer crashes > and restarts, the icons will disappear but the programs may still be running. Press > Ctrl+Alt+Del to open the Task Manager, and see if the Zone Alarm processes are > running, as well as whatever else is normally in your startup axis. Some things may > be listed on the Applications tab, but most will probably be on the Processes tab. > > Lose Registry Mechanic. There is no r…

Ribbons.scr seems to not leave memory when i select it for the screensaver, seems windows doesnt want to let go of it so it eats up alot of the cpu untill i kill it out of memory, it seems to be only the little preview screen that is doing this, when i select it as a screensaver it doesnt leave even if i select another screensaver. I have 8 gig of memory 2.6ghz dual core processor, 8800 gtx Ultra Video card, so i dont think its lack of hardware. Funny thing about this if i select it as the screensaver then close the screensaver screen and kill ribbons out of memory it runs and works correctly, its only the little preview screen of it that will not leave …

I have a wireless router/modem and PCs connected wirelessly to it. Sometimes it gets into a non-working state but turning the router/modem off and on again fixes it. I would like to do this once a day without having to go to other floors to find out if anyone is using it at the moment. How can I determine if the internet is in use? If anyone else is using it at the moment I would wait for a while and try again later.

I have a wireless router/modem and PCs connected wirelessly to it. Sometimes it gets into a non-working state but turning the router/modem off and on again fixes it. I would like to do this once a day without having to go to other floors to find out if anyone is using it at the moment. How can I determine if the internet is in use? If anyone else is using it at the moment I would wait for a while and try again later.

It looks like the Windows 2003 SBS is locking up files and it wont release those files when you are done. At first I thought it was Excel misbehaving < see below > but the problem still exist even tho I rebooted the server. Any Ideals? Scott Burke OK. More information. I rebooted the server. The lockes were released. However, The First person in the files lockes that file. When they leave the file stays locked. The OS will NOT release the locks. Any Ideals Scott Burke "Dave Peterson" wrote: > If that file were on a local harddrive, I'd try this: > http://contextures.com/xlfaqApp.html#ReadOnly > > Clear out c:\w…

It looks like the Windows 2003 SBS is locking up files and it wont release those files when you are done. At first I thought it was Excel misbehaving < see below > but the problem still exist even tho I rebooted the server. Any Ideals? Scott Burke OK. More information. I rebooted the server. The lockes were released. However, The First person in the files lockes that file. When they leave the file stays locked. The OS will NOT release the locks. Any Ideals Scott Burke "Dave Peterson" wrote: > If that file were on a local harddrive, I'd try this: > http://contextures.com/xlfaqApp.html#ReadOnly > > Clear ou…

I received this today. MS does not have an explanation of what it means. Can anyone help?

Update for Windows Vista (KB933928) (KB935280) (KB936357) i have many failed updates. Why is this happening?