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InfoWorld - Intel is making samples of its*Penryn server chips*widely available to computer makers ahead of a planned product launch during the fourth quarter, a company executive said Wednesday. Link To Original Article

Intel CEO Paul Otellini's 2006 cost cuts, painful as they were for Intel employees, paid off Tuesday as the company's second-quarter profits rebounded compared with last year. The chipmaker posted a 47 percent increase in net income during its second quarter, up to $1.3 billion or 22 ... Link To Original Article

The back-to-school season is always one of Apple's most important quarters of the year. Buzz is building that the company won't let the season pass by without a new iMac. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog. Link To Original Article

Note: an update to this blog includes official comment from Microsoft and comments from a Microsoft employee who attended this same meeting. A committee formed to devise the United States' position on Microsoft's Open XML document format voted against recommending it as an ISO standard on Friday, according to ... Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Sales of Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 game console surpassed one million units in Japan in about eight months after its launch, more than four times as long as it took Nintendo's hot-selling Wii to reach the same mark. Link To Original Article

I found this a start. I still continued to get the error message after activating auto updates. The problem was that i was installing from an original XP Pro install CD. I needed to also install the Windows Genuine Advantage plugin. Once that was installed Windows Update managed to complete it's checks. "PA Bear" wrote: > 0x80248008 => MISSINGDATA => The data store is in an invalid state because > data that should be present is missing. > > Source: http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/archive/windows_update_codes.htm > > Are you using WSUS? (Is this a machine at work?) > > Does Automatic Updates work? > > How to config…

This comes up in Vista when I try and download a diagnostic tools for HP. It has come up other times before and you are in a loose, loose situation. What is thye fix for this and how do you do it. Thanks alot guys

ever since I upgraded to vista whenever I plug in external speakers or headphones into the headphone jack the internal sound will cut off but nothing will come out of the external device.

I understand you KB935807 was showed as installed correctly in Windows Update history, but it still keeps popping up. Since update is very important for the security of Windows, I suggest we do not just turn it off. However as KB935807 has been installed due to the history, we can hide it in Windows Update, then it will not pop up again and we can obtain other updates to keep Vista up to date. For your convenience, I would like to give the detail way to hide KB935807. 1. Click Start, go to the Search textbox, type in "Windows Update" (without the quotation marks) and press Enter. 2. On the right, click “View available updates†under “Install upda…

I have been given pictures on a cd and can get a preview panel when using the cd. However when I copied them to my computer I can only get a thumbnail and no preview panel. I can however preview other images in my pictures it is just these particular pictures. I recently had a problem with getting a message that windows could not find a file before that window actually opened and edited the DDE setting of certain files which fixed this problem. I am not sure if they are at all related but I can only think of that recent change. Thanks for any help.

I have been given pictures on a cd and can get a preview panel when using the cd. However when I copied them to my computer I can only get a thumbnail and no preview panel. I can however preview other images in my pictures it is just these particular pictures. I recently had a problem with getting a message that windows could not find a file before that window actually opened and edited the DDE setting of certain files which fixed this problem. I am not sure if they are at all related but I can only think of that recent change. Thanks for any help.

Hi... Tried this question earlier, but didn't get any response. Please let me know, if the question is unclear.... I've made a full backup of my C: drive, using Vista's backup feature. I've saved the backup on a local disc, called my E- drive. Then I have formatted the C-drive, and reinstalled Vista. I wanted to restore some of the files from the backup, Documents etc. but now Vista is telling me that there is no backup on the selected drive. Even though I can see the backup in Explorer. It's around 90 Gb... I have changed from Vista Ultimate to Vista Business, but that shouldn't make a difference, or what ? Any other programs that can help me getting access…

How to enable affinity for application? I have dualcore processor and when I run app1.exe first CPU is 100% usage, second 10%... How to run affinity tu run application in dual core environment?

How to enable affinity for application? I have dualcore processor and when I run app1.exe first CPU is 100% usage, second 10%... How to run affinity tu run application in dual core environment?

Good Day I am running Windows Business on my Desktop Pc I have a network drive called Z: drive all the company’s users have there own folder under that drive for example Jess, Adrian and so on my folder under the drive have changed to Documents but if I have a look under a normal windows xp pc it is still Juan does any one know how I can keep that file name not from changing to documents on the new vista operating system -- Juan Bredenkamp

Hi All, unfortunely I've to restore files from CSC folder of windows XP cause of a crash of system I've new CSCCMD V 1.1 that has the /EXTRACT function for retrieve the files of offline folder. Unfortunely I've the error message System Error 31 has occured the sintax I'using is like this : csccmd /extract:\\servername\share /target:c:\docs /recurse The folder share on server servername contain the files of the CSC folder d1 to d8 and root CSC files. Anyone can help me, it's very urgent. Many thanks for attention Regards Enrico

Hi All, unfortunely I've to restore files from CSC folder of windows XP cause of a crash of system I've new CSCCMD V 1.1 that has the /EXTRACT function for retrieve the files of offline folder. Unfortunely I've the error message System Error 31 has occured the sintax I'using is like this : csccmd /extract:\\servername\share /target:c:\docs /recurse The folder share on server servername contain the files of the CSC folder d1 to d8 and root CSC files. Anyone can help me, it's very urgent. Many thanks for attention Regards Enrico

USB storage devices have gained popularity. It can be host to viruses, Trojans, hacker toolkits, worms or other forms of malicious programs. For example, when you plug your USB disk into a computer that is infected by viruses, viruses will create a file named AUTORUN.INF and malicious programs on your USB disk. Then, when you plug the USB disk to another computer, the one will be at risk. Threats from USB storage devices to computer have been a huge security risk for businesses and individuals. So, how does one protect against threats from USB storage devices? Well, here are my suggestions. 1. The AUTORUN.INF file is a text file located in the root directory. I…

I see several people have same problem as I. Connected once and now is gone. Reinstall, reset and all suggestions from Help do not help! Has anybody found a workaround? M

"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote: > synapseguru wrote: > > > Every time I go to try and update my computer I get this error number. When I > > put my settings to Auto Update, the icon shows up in the bottom of my screen > > and it tells me that I have to restart my computer in order to complete my > > update. I then click on restart, my computer restarts and then the same > > message pops up. What do I do to tell windows that I restarted? > Hi > > From Igor Franchuk: > > <quote> > I've encountered the same problem as you did today. When searching > the Internet for the same error in hope fo…

I am trying to run DotNetNuke (an ASP.NET 2.0 based content management system) on a Win2003 development machine, but I think I may have some sort of problem with permissions. I'm not really sure if this is a DNN issue, but more likely something I have misconfigured in Win2003. The install of DNN went fine, but the performance of the DNN install is extremely slow on the LAN, but apparently fine from outside. When I work on the site on the Win2003 machine the performance is still slow on my user account, but it runs fine on the machine's Administrator account. I'm not really a Win2003 admin expert, so I am not really sure where to look for this. Is it possib…

I am trying to run DotNetNuke (an ASP.NET 2.0 based content management system) on a Win2003 development machine, but I think I may have some sort of problem with permissions. I'm not really sure if this is a DNN issue, but more likely something I have misconfigured in Win2003. The install of DNN went fine, but the performance of the DNN install is extremely slow on the LAN, but apparently fine from outside. When I work on the site on the Win2003 machine the performance is still slow on my user account, but it runs fine on the machine's Administrator account. I'm not really a Win2003 admin expert, so I am not really sure where to look for this. Is it…

How do I create a WIM Image format from A Windows 2003 CD. I also have a ISO version of Windows 2003 CD if that would help. Appreciate any advise

How do I create a WIM Image format from A Windows 2003 CD. I also have a ISO version of Windows 2003 CD if that would help. Appreciate any advise

This is for anyone who's having trouble with WU (BITS/AU): http://castlecops.com/t106642-How_To_Fix_Windows_Update_BITS_Newly_Edited..html -or- http://www.castlecops.com/postlite106642-.html [i wrote it -- I would have posted the entire set of instructions here, but I wasn't sure if I could upload the Zip file with the Registry fixes on this N.G., so anyone could subsequently download it. However, the necessary File ready for downloading, along with the lengthy instructions are all located at the above link.] If the above link doesn't work, go to: http://castlecops.com/ Click "Forums" right below the Castlecops logo, then go to the "General Computer Problem…