Microsoft Support & Discussions

i am only getting american content on media centre online media. i have windows vista home premium. i am thinking it must be something to do with regional settings of the laptop but i think i changed the regional settings but still cant get media centre to show uk online media content. any help would be really helpful. cheers

When an asf or wma is streamed from the net into OE6 I hear nothing. My Windows Media Play will play them fine if I double-click them in Explorer, but not in the email program. How can I fix this please?

Everytime I reboot,I get two error screens that say "savedump.exe error". What is this and how do I get rid of it or is this something I need to correct? -- n4bhk

[/url]AP - It's become routine for customers to swipe their credit or debit cards at consoles in fast-food joints, gas stations and grocery stores. So why do we still hand over the plastic at sit-down restaurants? Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Sony issued a public apology Friday for a violent video game that features a bloody shootout inside an Anglican cathedral, but it did not address the Church of England's demands that the company withdraw the game. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - For months, Shira Barlow's cell phone was flooded with wrong-number calls and text messages, mostly between 2 and 4 a.m. on weekends. Told they had reached a college student, callers refused to believe it. Link To Original Article

AP - Microsoft Corp. won't say what went wrong inside of its Xbox 360 video game consoles that could lead to $1 billion in repairs, but bloggers and their online readers seem to have their own answer: Heat stroke. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - A company that insures laptops and smartphones may save the day for iPhone owners worried about their pricey handsets getting stolen or damaged. Link To Original Article

The Financial Times is reporting that Yahoo and Microsoft will update their privacy polices within the next few weeks and publicly reveal how long they plan to keep data on consumer Web searches. The action was prompted by the work of a group called the Article 29 Working Party, which ... Link To Original Article

PC World - Third-generation (3G) network operators in the U.K. could begin testing a technology to improve indoor network coverage before the end of the year. Link To Original Article

(Credit: Microsoft)During last year's E3, Microsoft allowed Xbox 360 owners to download exclusive content from the show as a part of "Bringing it Home"--a campaign designed to get gamers as close as possible to E3 without actually being there. A great deal of buzz was generated from ... Link To Original Article

Reuters - Sun Microsystems Inc. is revamping its Solaris operating system, incorporating key pieces of rival Linux software in a move that could gain better support from developers who have massed behind Linux. Link To Original Article

Bush administration praises ruling, but Supreme Court appeal may be in future for plaintiffs who say they were illegally monitored. Link To Original Article

This post by Microsoft (disclaiming its need to adhere to GPLv3) has me depressed. Not because of what it portends for open source, but because of how dumb it makes the company look, as Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet points out. Not to mention that it makes Novell look really dumb for trusting Microsoft to play nicely. (But then, that foolishness was never in doubt.) Still, Novell has just released this response to Microsoft's position: Shortly after the GPLv3 license was released, Microsoft issued a statement in which they expressed their view that Microsoft is not a party to the GPLv3 and it is therefore not applicable to them. Yesterday, they also articulated t…

InfoWorld - OpenLogic announced Friday it has expanded its library of open-source software packages as part of its OpenLogic Enterprise 4.6 platform, adding key AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technologies. Link To Original Article

This could be almost as much fun as a blowgun and curare-laden darts. Except, of course, that the kinder, gentler weaponry from Taser International is intended to have nonlethal results. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog. Link To Original Article

Microsoft is getting renewed attention this week for LiveStation, an Internet video site co-developed by its research arm and Skinkers, a British start-up. The project, which uses Microsoft's Silverlight technology, was announced back in April and is still in limited testing. It has gotten a flurry of blog mentions ... Link To Original Article

TechWeb - Other popular software with new versions in the upgraded repository include ActiveMQ, Apache HTTP Server, AspectJ, JasperReports, Maven, Tomahawk, MySQL, PHP, PostgreSQL, Regexp and Tomcat. Link To Original Article

Founder says WabiSabiLabi will improve security by ensuring researchers get fairly compensated, but security companies are split over its value. Link To Original Article

Microsoft on Thursday began taking evasive action to avoid being pinned down by provisions in the new version 3 of the General Public License (GPL). The company issued a statement declaring itself not a party to GPL 3. And regarding coupons it sells that entitle customers to Novell's Suse ... Link To Original Article

AP - Microsoft Corp. will not say what went wrong inside of its Xbox 360 video game consoles that could lead to $1 billion (euro740 million) in repairs, but bloggers and their online readers seem to have their own answer: Link To Original Article

Hi All, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. I have installed the Evaluation version, which is fully updated. However, using a Briefcase to contain my Downloads, rather than a simple Download Folder, I can open the New Briefcase on the Desktop with no problems. With the Briefcase closed, I attempted to save a download into the Briefcase Folder, so the Briefcase is not in use, but I get that message in the Subject line. The operating system is installed in a seperate partition, by itself and is not sharing anything at this time. -- thecreator

>People usually profit from clicks and can be resolved if the amount of clicks can >be calculated and defrauded.> "anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com" wrote: > > >-----Original Message----- > >Is there any updates or security to protect my PC? > >. > >YES! >

When I login as any user (limited or admin) explorer occassionally hangs and the login only proceeds if I kill explorer using the task manager and the run explorer. I have removed as many startup programs as possible and it still does it. I don't expect anyone to diagnose my problem, but I was wondering if there is any way of trouble shooting what the problem is. The even viewer contains nothing of use and sysinternals process explorer programs don't help either. Is there some way of debugging explorer to see what is going on? Thank in advance, Tim.

When I login as any user (limited or admin) explorer occassionally hangs and the login only proceeds if I kill explorer using the task manager and the run explorer. I have removed as many startup programs as possible and it still does it. I don't expect anyone to diagnose my problem, but I was wondering if there is any way of trouble shooting what the problem is. The even viewer contains nothing of use and sysinternals process explorer programs don't help either. Is there some way of debugging explorer to see what is going on? Thank in advance, Tim.