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I buy my certs from Namecheap. They cost me $9 per domain per year. There is a bug in IIS when installing certificates. It will error after it reads the CSR. Even though it does error the cert is installed. You have to do a refresh to get it in the list.

unable to install sound blaster 5.1 vx drivers as my boot drive is H: I do not want to format my hard drive to correct this problem what else can I do ? View this thread

Problemas con discos extraibles,que enlentecen el arranque de windows 7,no se pueden encontrar los controladores View the thread

Hi My laptop is running Windows 7 professional. I have constant high cpu usage (100%) and it is very slow to log on etc. I have anti virus software and on complete scan no problems detected On trouble shooting I discovered that on "start up" my laptop is automatically running programs - how do I identify the programs that are needed to run on start up? I hope someone out there can help many thanks ada newman View the thread

when trying to install PDF Creator, I get an error message: " error 5 - unable to create directory, access denied". How can I correct this? View this thread

Hi All, I am Windows 7 user and i am a Software Developer I have damaged some of my files and my uniq cure is to turning one hour before. Because my files has been gone. I have controlled the system restore point but there is no any restore point. Please give me a solution it may be a 3d party software or other things. Thank you, Best and Kind regards View the thread

Yesterday's published cumulative IE (v9 in particular) security fixes (some critical) downloads and proceeds through installation to near completion then terminates with code 8007371c. View this thread

When I try to Check For Updates, I get a message that Windows is unable to check for updates because the service is not running. They suggest I restart my computer, which I've done several times. I am running Windows Vista. View this thread

using Vista and have been receiving auto updates for 2 years until they suddenly stopped have exhausted all posted fixes suggested in Help for this error what is my next step to resume auto updates on this computer? View this thread

kb2667402 installed on w7 professional 32bit os on the 15/5/2012 windows update is downloading a new version since12/6/2012 instilation keeps failing. A manualy download also failed to install error code 80004005 View this thread

Have had this issue for almost 2 months. Windows does not address this particular error code when I did a search for it on their website. View this thread

I have updated Java, Adobe flash. Have restarted multiple times. Please help. View this thread

Everytime I update my computer the toolbar and windows is white (classic) it says start instead of the buble. i always have to restore my computer. i think it's one of the upadates, does anyone know which one or have the same problem? View this thread

Hi, Wed 6/13, 2012...PST. Received phone call from man with East Indian accent telling me that my pc is corrupted. Said he is calling from "Win PCS"....Said he has the ID of my pc and is calling to fix the infiltrated virus.....???? Think this is bogus....but wanted Microsoft to know about this. View this thread

There’s a way to opt out of at least some of the location, gender and age-based ad-targeting that is coming tot those using for free Microsoft’s Skype for Windows. Source: All About Microsoft

Situation My company has developed a macro-enabled (VBA) Word 2007/10 template. The template includes a custom Ribbon, Autotext items, and - importantly - a custom Style Sheet. Our installer currently places the template under the end-user’s default Templates directory. Using this approach, the Template automatically loads when opening a document that was authored in it, provided that the user has it installed. Users DO NOT need to write to the template, they just need to read/load it. Difficulty The above approach, installing to end-user profiles, works great performing enterprise installations on Windows XP machines. But on Windows 7, UAC requirements mean we run into problems trying to install under the end-user profile. Our networking people say the Template really needs to be an “All Users” accessible Template so that the installation can be to a System account (e.g. All Users) rather than profile-specific. Our question What is the recommended method for making a Word Template available to All Users, without forcing every Word document for every user to load the Template for every document (e.g. a Global template would load the Template’s style sheet for every document, like it or not). There are so many Tech/Forum articles about deploying custom templates it’s hard to know which approach would be ideal in our situation. Thanks in advance View this thread

Dwnld pictures (Smilebox) to my P/C,I use Winamp for music. View the thread

Modern devices come with an address book or contact list because the people we communicate and share with are so important to how we use those devices. Email, texting, phone and video calls, social updates and comments – these are but a few of the people-based activities we do with the phones, PCs, and tablets we use every day. With Windows 8 we set out to meet this fundamental need with a new kind of contact experience: the People app. The People app in Windows 8 is a modern take on the flat contact lists of the past–it’s built for the way you communicate today, and it’s connected to the cloud services you already use. The People app connects to your email and social accounts, bringing together all your contacts (and what they’re up to) in one convenient place. Windows 8 Consumer Preview users have already used the People app millions of times and received millions of social notifications on its live tiles. We are proud of the early enthusiasm for our approach, and thankful for everyone’s helpful feedback on how we can improve this early preview version. We thought we would take some time to share more of our perspective on the modern social address book, and how our point of view is driving the evolution of the People app in Windows 8. Modern devices like Windows 8 and Windows Phone require an address book that's crafted around four simple principles: Complete & Connected – All your personal and work contacts are there, alive with their social activities and photos, letting you instantly engage and react to them. Data syncs from your email and social accounts rather than getting this info from a one-time import, and you get a simple unified contact card for each person, regardless of how many versions of their contact info you have from different accounts. Designed for Windows 8 – On modern devices the address book is a core part of the overall experience, therefore it is important to design it with the whole system in mind. The People app follows Metro style design principles so it is fast and fluid, and it works together with all your other apps through the Share and Picker contracts. Cloud-powered – your contacts and settings are effortlessly backed up, so “they just work” when you sign in from a new device, or even from the web. And when you pin a contact to your Start screen, the live tile lights up with real-time notifications about new photos, comments, and tweets. In control – you decide what you share with whom across your home, work, and social networks. And of course, those networks decide what information is shared and connected, respecting their policies and customer privacy. Here’s a short video illustrating these principles in the People app: Download this video to view it in your favorite media player: High quality MP4 | Lower quality MP4 Complete & Connected We’ve talked before about how people should be able to connect the services they already use, without needing to re-spam their friends with invitations. For many years, one of the primary ways that you got contact data into an email account or a social network was to import your contacts (and in some cases, import, and then re-invite them) from another account. This even holds true for mobile phones—how many people do you know who have delayed buying a new phone just to avoid the crazy hassle of “transferring” the contacts from the old phone to the new one? Many of us have had this problem at least partially solved with smart phones that sync our email accounts—but it should just work for everyone, with one easy place for all our contacts and all our accounts. So, the People app does this. It uses Exchange ActiveSync, as well as the secure, standards-based APIs (OAuth, REST, etc.) exposed by our partners like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to sync a copy of your contact list from the cloud. It’s always up to date with new friends you add (and respects deletions if you un-friend them :-)), so you don’t have the problems of a brittle one-time import. . Connecting accounts like Facebook, Twitter, and Exchange Once your contacts are in the People app, we give you a beautifully tailored experience where you can see and comment on their social activities and photos, view their contact details, or send them a message via whatever service you and that contact have in common. Whether you’re browsing the summary of “What’s new” across your contacts and networks, or just looking at a specific contact, it’s easy to catch up and stay connected. . Main contact list view features large tiles for your favorite contacts . Windows 8 “semantic zoom” lets you quickly pinch to navigate your contact list . Looking at a single contact gets you their contact info and what they’re up to .Tap “What’s new” for an at-a-glance summary from your social networks . Looking at a single social update lets you see all the comments and add to them One challenge that any modern address book like the People app needs to handle is duplicates—we all tend to be friends with and have info on a given person from many different accounts. For example, I have contacts for my friend Omar Shahine in Exchange and Hotmail, we’re friends on Facebook and colleagues on LinkedIn, and of course I follow him on Twitter. The People app – just like Windows Phone and Hotmail – automatically detects that all of these contacts are the same human being (my friend Omar), and presents them to me as a single “linked” contact with all the data together in one place, on one tile, etc. And very importantly, it does this without messing with any of the underlying source data. We do our best to get this “right” automatically, but recognizing that we can’t be perfect, we want users to be able to edit and add/remove their own links. We already provide this on Hotmail and Windows Phone, and we’ll be adding that to the Windows 8 version over time. By connecting multiple accounts and linking your duplicate contacts, we’re able to create a contact card for everyone in your address book, regardless of how you’re connected to them. So, at a glance I can see a quick summary, and then I’m one click away from common tasks – sending an email, starting a chat, getting map information, finding a phone number or address, or just browsing through their recent activity. Designed for Windows 8 A second principle we followed was to design the app to take advantage of the power of Windows 8. Unlike other systems, in Windows 8, apps can connect to other apps and to the OS itself through APIs that we call contracts. This means not only are the built-in applications like Mail and Messaging powered by People’s contact list – so are the other apps you install on your Windows 8 device. One of the highlights of the Metro style Start screen are all the tiles that are alive with activity and provide one-touch access to the apps and content you’re interested in. The People app takes advantage of the secondary tiles feature, which lets you have additional tiles that immediately link to that part of the underlying app. So, when I pin contacts like TechMeme, Top Chef, my wife, and my friend Omar to my Start screen, it’s just one tap to get right to their contact info and activity, and one more touch to send them mail or look at their latest photos. . Also new since the Consumer Preview is that the People app now supports the Share contract, allowing you to post to Facebook or Twitter from any Windows 8 app, including Internet Explorer. So, just by connecting your accounts to the People app, with a few quick touches you can share your latest favorite article with your friends and followers. . . Any Windows 8 app (like IE) can use the Share charm to let you post to Facebook and Twitter Lastly, another great feature is the People picker contract—with this, any Windows 8 app can speed up simple tasks like sending a package from a website or emailing a list of friends by letting you quickly select contacts from the People app. And unlike a silent, full-access API, this never happens without bringing up the system-brokered user experience that you’re in control of. . . Any app can invoke the People Picker, letting you choose contacts to use Cloud-powered None of the features we’ve talked about so far would be possible if the app and your device weren’t cloud-powered, so we can sync data from your various accounts and display it within the app. But if all of your data and settings were solely managed by the “client” app itself (like a traditional mobile phone or email app), then you’d have a few problems: (1) once you set this up on one device like your phone, you’d have to do it all over again when you got a new PC at home or at work, (2) you wouldn’t get any of the benefits of this unified experience when you were at someone else’s machine just using a web browser, and (3) when services like Facebook or LinkedIn evolve their APIs you’d have to upgrade to a new version of the app before things would work right again. Our approach is to use your Microsoft account and the cloud to safely cache your settings, so that when you go to a new device or even access your contact list from the web , things will still “just work” as you’d expect. Additionally, we make many of the API calls to networks like Facebook and Twitter from the cloud, so that we can often adjust to how those APIs evolve without making everyone update to a new version of the app. A great example of how you benefit from the cloud is that the People app remembers your connection to Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, no matter what device you sign in from. Over 50 million people have already connected social networks to their Microsoft account through their use of social features in Windows 8, Windows Phone, Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive. Every one of those people, when they sign in to a new Windows 8 PC for the very first time, will automatically have their People app populated with their complete, connected, cloud-powered address book. Being cloud-powered means that not only do you have an always up-to-date copy of your contact list on your device, but that your People app tile and tiles for your pinned contacts automatically light up with the latest notifications from your social networks. For example, when someone comments on the photos you just posted, the People app tile (and the “Me” Notifications tab in the app itself) will animate with that update and encourage you to take a look. Similarly, each time one of your pinned contacts does something new, their tile will show that activity. . In control Of course, we respect the policies of each data source we connect to – for example, the People app doesn’t currently sync any Exchange data to the cloud. This ensures that data that is governed by your employer’s policies aren’t even temporarily cached in a third-party data center, even though it also means you have to set up your Exchange accounts separately on each device and you can’t get to them from contacts.live.com. Similarly, Facebook has different policies for syncing contacts’ email addresses and phone numbers on specific mobile apps vs. other devices and the web. So, to get Facebook contacts on your Windows Phone you connect it separately in order to have that additional data available to you in the People app on Windows Phone. Twitter also has smart, specific policies regarding how tweets are displayed, which are important to get right. We also recognize that each person uses their address book and networks in slightly different ways. So we put you in control of what you share with which network and individuals on the network. For example, when you connect Facebook you can decide to connect just the address book, or additional features like instant messaging. Moving forward We’re excited to see the initial response to our point of view that modern devices should come with a complete, connected, and cloud-powered address book that you’re in control of. We hope you enjoy the key additions we’ve been able to add so far since the Consumer Preview, such as Semantic Zoom and letting you share to people you know on Facebook and Twitter from any Windows 8 app that uses the Share contract. Source: Windows 8 Blog

Received a call from company intially saying they were from Windows? Stating we have dangerous issues on our laptops that could cause them to crash,having been passed from the original female caller (had an Asian Accent but using English Names) to a tech guy again Asian but said his name was Harry Parker.Harry explained I should look in "msconfig" at the services section to see how many programmes had stopped working, stating that our access and passwords could be taken. He said it would take them about two hours to rectify the problems, he then moved on to transfer me to their website, www.smartguyssupport.com and then said he needed me to complete an application and requested a fee of £154 payable by Credit or Debit card to rectify our problems, he said the service would have 2 year tech service support. We have had similar calls like this previously, we don't trust them, can you advise if they are legitimate?I have reason to believe that although their site has UK phone numbers etc., they could well be operating from India or an Asain Country?Please can you help, we feel they have accessed our computers and are turning off and stopping programmes etc., on a regular basis I'm having to go into "msconfig" to reinstate (ENABLE) many of microsoft programmes.RegardsMike & Joy Cross View this thread

Before the latest engine update, there was an option in Real Time Protection to change the scanning mode of MSE from scanning both incoming and outgoing files to either just scanning incoming only, outgoing, and even both incoming and outgoing. I noticed an huge performance issue increase when I set it to scanning incoming files only, which is the way it should be set in my opinion. Why would anyone want to be double scanning a file after it has been scanned once as it came into the protected file system, scanning a file as it is leaving the system only takes up more resources and performace. Why could the STUPID Programer that made the program take that option away? That was the worse decision that anyone could have made on this program, since that option has been taken away the performance on my pc has gone down over 85% and all of my programs are running slow now. Will the person(s) that done that STUPID change put it back so people can get their performance back? Other than that change the MSE program has been working flawlessly and has been a great tool in the arsenal for Anti-virus, Greyware, Spyware and other protection. Just remember one thing you STUPID people, if you follow one rule you can never go wrong....KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) My motto has always been the same .... Get it right the first time and you will never have to go back to fix a STUPID mistake!!!!!!! View this thread

I am trying to install MS Project 2010 on a Windows XP SP3 box, but it keeps failing with a 1603 error. The computer did have Project 2000 installed but it was removed prior to the 2010 installation. I have tried everything I could find including the following: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/officesetupdeploy/thread/d21abe25-cd27-4609-8c10-b11107cf9059 - Registry did not exist http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/officesetupdeploy/thread/0afc585a-da9f-4faf-8f49-7765524f2945/ - Rights already applied http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sa/officesetupdeploy/thread/62a27f2d-935e-4635-b27a-9d3a0671fa60 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927153 - File did not exist Ran a registy cleaner, disabling anti-virus, and tryied installing in Safe mode, all failed with the same error. Any Suggestions? View this thread

the scroll button stopped working out of nowhere and soon after that also the right mouse button stopped working, is there anyway I could fix them? I already tried re-installing the software for it, after the scroll-button failed, that didn't help. View this thread

scan runs fine untill very near the end, then it gives me an error code 0x8050800d. and scan is aborted. what history is causing the problem ? david/wd4kpkd View this thread

Microsoft security essential is quite simple...!is it able to remove trojans,rootkits,bootkits and other dangerous worms..!!!! mse doesnt even have browser protection ,no sandboxie ,no virus chest ,will it still be able to cope with such dangerous malwares..! and neither windows update can save u from such threats cuz hackers easy fool it..!!!'[ wat r u saying about it??? View this thread

Hey fellas, Wondering if someone can help out with an answer on how to disable a prompt on safe mode when opening a Word doc. Some background.. Word 2010 Pro Plus on Windows 7 x86. Site is a school, only account doing this our locked down exam account. Pretty policied out, with a Word template launching on startup & running some macros. Occasionally, the following error comes up... "Word failed to start correctly last time. Starting Word in safe mode will help you to correct or isolate a startup problem in order to successfully start the program. Some functionality may be disabled in this mode. Do you want to start Word in safe mode?" I'm not too concerned with the 'why' part of the problem...everything functions fine apart from this prompt. Just looking for a way to disable it. I've been all over- haven't been able to find much. I did see a couple things pointing towards a policy of enabling ActiveX Control Initialization (1)...that had no effect for me. Any help would be very much appreciated. View this thread