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When I right click on the desktop to create a new Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation, the icon is incorrect. What I am expecting is: But what I get is: Despite my best efforts, (rebuiding icon cache, re-establishing file associations, etc), I just cannot get the icon to revert to the "full P". There is no problem with the similar Excel and Word icons. The weird thing is that on every re-start, the correct icon is displayed for a milli-second before it reverts to the 'wrong" image. Ideas, anyone? View this thread

I'm just a little curious to see how many files are scanned in "Quick Scan" mode. When I first scan it, it will scan about seventy thousand files but a minute later when I re-scan, it will only scan about thirteen thousand. Is this normal? View this thread

I used Pcmover to move all my programs and files from my 32 bit windows xp computer to my new windows 7 64 bit computer. Now I can't uninstall security essentials. I get error code 0x8004FF2E. how do remove the old program? View this thread

All of the blue hypertext addresses in all of my emails in Outlook Express 6 will not respond to direct left clicking. They can be right-clicked and saved to disk and then launched successfully. Any Answers? View this thread

I have it working on xp on the old computer but I need to access it on my laptop which has Windows 7. Just want to know if it is possible and how do I do it? View the thread

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While checking for an update, the error that is receive is mentioned above. Please help. View this thread

Since 16-05-2012 my Vista Home Premium laptop fails to download M.S.E.virus and spyware definition updates.Can someone help please? View this thread

t’s that time again: With the new Release Preview and the new developer tools, Windows 8 is one step closer to final release. And just like in the Consumer Preview, our engineering team has been hard at work polishing the development platform to provide you with the best possible development experience on Windows 8. In this post I highlight a few of the new features that we’ve been working on and I also help get you started on migrating your existing Consumer Preview apps to the Release Preview. But first a few insights on the Windows development process Before I jump into some of the new features in the Release Preview I’d like to give a little insight into how our team considers feature changes in the Release Preview milestone. At this point in the development process a majority the features in Windows are baked into the platform. In the Release Preview our goal is to polish these existing experiences. So what does this mean for you as a developer? It means that most of the changes you’ll find in the Release Preview are much smaller than in previous releases of Windows 8. The new features are targeted to meet specific needs. A lot of the changes simply make existing Consumer Preview scenarios work even better than before. We fixed bugs in the platform, increased its performance (we also made it easier for you to build faster apps by making only tiny changes in your code), and improved the developer experience until we were happy with the results. This is great for you because it means that all the knowledge and skills that you’ve gained from developing apps on the Consumer Preview are still fully applicable to the Release Preview. It also means that the amount of changes you’ll need to make to your existing apps is minimal. But at the same time the development platform is more polished than ever before. Take a look at the changes and you’ll get a good feel for what we’ve been up to. High priority roaming app settings Windows 8 Application Data offers you a way to easily enable a “configure once, use anywhere” behavior to your app settings with roaming app data. With very little effort on your part, your users get the same app setup on all of their Windows 8 PCs. With the Release Preview, we expanded this feature to include HighPriority roaming app settings. With high priority roaming you can create a continuous app experience across PCs by allowing a small amount of state data within your app to roam with high frequency. For example, a news reader app could use this HighPriority setting to roam the news article a user was reading. Whenever the user changes articles, the news reader app changes that setting and it roams. If that user were to switch to a different Windows 8 PC, the news reader app can display the last article that the user was reading, so that they can continue reading where they left off on their other device. Best of all, this feature is easy to implement. Simply make a setting or composite with the name “HighPriority” in the root Roaming settings container. That setting roams within a minute of being changed, which enables you to roam key pieces of state data about your app so a user can pick up where they left off across PCs. High priority roaming works only with one setting, so if you need to roam multiple pieces of data such as an article and a page number you can use a composite value. The “HighPriority” composite can’t exceed 8k. If it is larger than that, it will roam as a normal setting. To get started, check out the Application data Sample, which has been updated to include an example of High Priority roaming app settings. Improved Visual Studio templates Another area where we have made a lot of improvements is templates in Visual Studio. We’ve made lots of updates to our templates and even added a new one so that it is easier for you to start a new project and get a great app up and running in no time. Updates to the XAML templates The XAML templates received a lot of focus in the Release Preview. Here are some of the most important changes we made. We removed from the Blank app template components that are not required, for example helpers for databinding, page helpers for navigations support, process lifetime management, etc. This gives you the most flexibility to create your app from scratch. If you add an item template that needs these common components, you have an option to add them. The XAML templates now support virtualization by default. GridView and ListView now take advantage of a header region allowing the bound items to be virtualized. In addition, the landing page for the GridApp now supports only showing a subset of items rather than the entire collection, allowing for better performance. These improvements mean that your app will pan/scroll faster than before without any extra work on your part. We added entrance animations to all pages (other than the Blank Page as it still remains blank). These animations smooth the transitions between the pages in the templates and make your apps feel fast and fluid to the user. D2D Project template now supports XAML. Updates to all templates We improved navigation for all templates. In the Consumer Preview the navigation in the templates was primarily structured for touch. Now the templates fully support keyboard and mouse navigation using the back and forward buttons and keyboard shortcuts. Using the templates, your app’s navigation structure is automatically configured to support all forms of input. New template for creating a Windows Runtime component In addition to updating our existing templates we also wanted to make it easier to create your own Windows Runtime components. To do this we’ve added a new C#/VB template that does the heavy lifting for you. This template allows you to quickly create a new Windows Runtime component that you can then use in your main app. You no longer have to manually create these components from scratch because the template does all the setup work. You just need to add your custom logic and you’re done. File property and thumbnail prefetch APIs Since releasing the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, we have been taking a hard look at performance, and how to help you create apps that are fast and fluid. For apps that use the file system to display gallery views, such as photo albums, music playlists or documents hubs, one key performance bottleneck we wanted to work on was file access. Retrieving file properties and picture thumbnails can take a long time in Customer Preview builds. In particular, the property retrieval model is on-demand, so apps that access many files at a time incur a lot of overhead in the backend because of the repeated cross-process communication. Additionally, not all properties are optimized for fast access, so if you want to use uncommon properties your app is penalized. To address these gaps without forcing extensive changes to your app’s code, we added two new capabilities to the data model APIs. Windows.Storage.Search.QueryOptions.SetPropertyPrefetch This lets you provide a list of properties that Windows will optimize for fast retrieval You can then access these properties with the same async methods you used before – they just come back faster Windows.Storage.Search.QueryOptions.SetThumbnailPrefetch This tells Windows that your app needs thumbnails for the files in the query result set You can then retrieve the thumbnails with the same async method you used before – they’ll just come back faster Here is what it looks like in JavaScript: var search = Windows.Storage.Search var fileProperties = Windows.Storage.FileProperties // Create query options with common query sort order and file type filter. var fileTypeFilter = [".jpg", ".png", ".bmp", ".gif"] var queryOptions = new search.QueryOptions(search.CommonFileQuery.orderByName, fileTypeFilter) // Set up property prefetch - use the PropertyPrefetchOptions for top-level properties // and an array for additional properties. var imageProperties = fileProperties.PropertyPrefetchOptions.imageProperties var copyrightProperty = "System.Copyright" var colorSpaceProperty = "System.Image.ColorSpace" var additionalProperties = [copyrightProperty, colorSpaceProperty] queryOptions.setPropertyPrefetch(imageProperties, additionalProperties) // Set up thumbnail prefetch. var thumbnailMode = fileProperties.ThumbnailMode.picturesView var requestedSize = 190 var thumbnailOptions = fileProperties.ThumbnailOptions.useCurrentScale queryOptions.setThumbnailPrefetch(thumbnailMode, requestedSize, thumbnailOptions) // Query the Pictures library var query = Windows.Storage.KnownFolders.picturesLibrary.createFileQueryWithOptions(queryOptions) query.getFilesAsync().done(function (files) { // Output the query results files.forEach(function (file) { // getImagePropertiesAsync returns synchronously when prefetching // retrieved the properties in advance. file.properties.getImagePropertiesAsync().done(function (properties) { // Use image properties }) // Similarly, extra properties are retrieved asynchronously but may // return immediately when prefetching completed. file.properties.retrievePropertiesAsync(additionalProperties).done(function (properties) { // Use additional properties }) // You can also retrieve and use thumbnails file.getThumbnailAsync(thumbnailMode, requestedSize, thumbnailOptions).done(function (thumbnail) { // Use the thumbnail }) }) }) Similar code in C# would be as follows: const string CopyrightProperty = "System.Copyright" const string ColorSpaceProperty = "System.Image.ColorSpace" // Set up file type filter. List fileTypeFilter = new List() fileTypeFilter.Add(".jpg") fileTypeFilter.Add(".png") fileTypeFilter.Add(".bmp") fileTypeFilter.Add(".gif") // Create query options. var queryOptions = new QueryOptions(CommonFileQuery.OrderByName, fileTypeFilter) // Set up property prefetch - use the PropertyPrefetchOptions for top-level properties // and a list for additional properties. List propertyNames = new List() propertyNames.Add(CopyrightProperty) propertyNames.Add(ColorSpaceProperty) queryOptions.SetPropertyPrefetch(PropertyPrefetchOptions.ImageProperties, propertyNames) // Set up thumbnail prefetch. const uint requestedSize = 190 const ThumbnailMode thumbnailMode = ThumbnailMode.PicturesView const ThumbnailOptions thumbnailOptions = ThumbnailOptions.UseCurrentScale queryOptions.SetThumbnailPrefetch(thumbnailMode, requestedSize, thumbnailOptions) // Set up the query and retrieve files. var query = KnownFolders.PicturesLibrary.CreateFileQueryWithOptions(queryOptions) IReadOnlyList fileList = await query.GetFilesAsync() foreach (StorageFile file in fileList) { // GetImagePropertiesAsync returns synchronously after prefetching // retrieves the properties in advance. var properties = await file.Properties.GetImagePropertiesAsync() // Use image properties // similarly, extra properties are retrieved asynchronously but may // return immediately when prefetching completes. IDictionary extraProperties = await file.Properties.RetrievePropertiesAsync(propertyNames) // Use additional properties // You can also retrieve and use thumbnails. var thumbnail = await file.GetThumbnailAsync(thumbnailMode, requestedSize, thumbnailOptions) // Use thumbnail } In our testing of apps that use these new capabilities we’ve seen significant improvements: 70% improvement in the time it takes to show a view of photos from the user’s Pictures library with the StorageDataSourceAdapter, and a 400% improvement for an app that populates a database with file properties extracted from the file system. So if you are building an app that needs to access large numbers of files, take a look at these new capabilities and use them to speed up your app. For more info check out the Windows.Storage.Search.QueryOptions API documentation in the Dev Center. Blend and Visual Studio designers Since the Consumer Preview, we have continued to improve our design tools. We know that your app’s user interface is one of the key ways you can get your app noticed, so we wanted to make it as easy as possible to integrate all the new Metro style design concepts into your app. Improved view state authoring for XAML apps View states are one of the key UI concepts for Metro style apps. In the Release Preview both the VS XAML designer and Blend have been updated so that you can now preview and author pages using Visual States to tool the platform app view states (FullScreenLandscape, FullScreenPortrait, Filled, and Snapped) using the Device panel (formerly the Platform panel). The Device panel now automatically changes visual states when you change the view. Turning recording mode on enables changes you made on the Design Surface or Property Inspector to alter the currently selected visual state rather than always making changes to Base. . The new Device panel with full view state design support Additionally you can now design and preview visual states with theme animations from the Animation Library using Blend’s Visual State design feature. The Animation Library is a suite of Metro style animations that has been built specifically to take advantage of the platform’s animation capability. These animations are used throughout Windows UI and are also available for your Metro style app. Better productivity in Blend for HTML authoring In the Consumer Preview we worked to get lots of great functionality into our Blend for HTML authoring tool. In the Release Preview we focus on making it easier and more productive for you to use that functionality in Blend. We made several improvements to general HTML/CSS design in Blend that make designing apps easier in the Release Preview, for example: Blend now supports Cut, Copy & Paste of CSS properties and style rules as well as elements on the artboard and Live DOM. You can edit the CSS properties and HTML attributes of multiple elements at the same time. You can choose “Create a style rule from element class/id” and “Add/Remove class” via context menu on any element. All searchable panes better indicate when a search filter is applied. . The HTML Blend designer with new cut, copy, and paste capability We also made some more specific improvements to make you more productive while designing apps. For example it’s now easier to work with WinJS controls in Blend. Blend supports live values for control properties. Blend now shows rich error info in the results panel when a WinJS control throws an exception. We improved the UI to switch between SemanticZoom views and activating Flyout & Menu controls. We added new value editors for AppBarCommand icon property, AppBarCommand & MenuCommand Flyout. So regardless of whether you are designing in HTML/CSS or XAML you’ll find many improvements to our design tools for Metro style apps. Of course the new features we describe here are just a sampling of the work we’ve done. Check out the tools for yourself to see all the improvements. JavaScript gesture event model Another area where we have made significant improvements is in how the gesture event model works for JavaScript apps. Our goal was to give you more flexibility and power in how your app processes gestures. Specifically: The new event model supports multiple concurrent gestures. This new functionality means that you can now create a multi-gesture UX (for example, a multi-slider control, such as an audio equalizer). You now get explicit control over what elements are targeted by gestures, and over which active touch contacts feed into each gesture. In the Consumer Preview the event model had very simple and restrictive rules for determining both target and relevant contacts. In the new model, you decide when a contact comes down what other contacts to group it with, and to what element to deliver the resulting gesture events. You can enroll the contact in more than one gesture recognizer at the same time you can create more than one gesture recognizer targeting the same element in both cases your event listeners can choose programmatically which gestures to honor. It allows you to target and handle touch and gesture events independently of each other (until now it forced both touch and gesture to target the same element). This makes it much easier to implement more complex input scenarios, for example allowing the user to perform multi-touch gestures to zoom a container, while at the same time highlighting individual elements within that container that the fingers are touching. The event returns transformation data in a form that allows you to easily consume it to manipulate content in response to gestures. In the past you needed to perform a significant amount of matrix math to extract the relevant data. The new model returns transform deltas (increments) in the coordinate space of the parent. This is exactly the info you need to concatenate to the current CSS transform that positions the element within the container in order to update the position, size and orientation of the element. With these changes it’s now much easier to work with gesture input in your app. For more info, take a look at Responding to user interaction on the Dev Center and the Instantiable gesture sample. Dev Center updates In addition to all the work we’ve been doing on the development platform we spent a lot of time improving our documentation on the Dev Center. The Dev Center is your gateway for learning all there is to know about Metro style app development and we worked hard to make it as complete as possible for the Release Preview. The first way that we improved the Dev Center is by simply adding more content. In the Consumer Preview the Dev Center had the essentials you needed to get started. Now in the Release Preview it’s much easier to find guidance on the advanced topics that make great Metro style apps stand out. Here are some of the highlights: We added lots of new samples, including samples for the XAML WebView control, IndexedDB, the thread pool, JS web workers, and many more. There are now over 200 new conceptual, Quickstart, and how-to topics to help you build Metro style apps. The API reference documentation is more complete than ever. In addition to the new content we also made it easier for you to find info and get started with your app building. For example, we greatly improved cross linking between samples and their associated documentation. You can now search for a sample, take a look at the code, and then easily jump to the documentation that gives you more details on the code you’re looking at. Or if you’d like to start out in the documentation, we improved our existing Getting Started topics and added more basic tutorials to get your app building efforts off the ground. So one of the first things you’ll want to do when you install the Release Preview is to jump over to the Dev Center and take a look at all this new content for yourself. You’ll find these and other improvements to make developing Metro style apps easier. Getting your existing apps up and running on the Release Preview As we were developing the Release Preview we tried to keep the amount of breaking changes to apps minimal. We know that many of you have been working hard on apps and we wanted to minimize the amount of churn you had to go through to switch to the Release Preview. Of course getting a brand new development platform to a high level of quality always requires tweaking some of its features. Some of the biggest changes we made were to the Visual Studio projects themselves (I described some of these earlier in the post). This means that the best way to get your app up and running is to start a new project in Visual Studio, select your app’s template, and start porting your old project to your new one. The layout of the templates hasn’t changed much, so most of your existing code will fit right in. As you do this, don’t forget to port over your old manifest too. After you have your project ported, run your app and track down any errors caused by API changes. To help you we created a Migration Guide that documents most of the API changes that we made from the Consumer Preview to the Release Preview. By creating a new VS project and using the Migration Guide for API changes, you should have your app up and running on the Release Preview in no time. Wrap up I hope that you’re as excited as we are to start developing apps on the Release Preview. The changes in this post are only a sampling of the work we’ve done in this new release. The combined effect of all these changes is that Windows 8 lets you develop more powerful apps easier than ever before. With the help of the Migration Guide you can start taking advantage of these changes in both your new apps and your existing ones. So go ahead and download the Release Preview and the developer tools and get started building apps. You might also check out the Windows Store for developers blog, and don’t forget that if you have a question, the Dev Center, forums, and our blog have lots of answers for you. Happy app building! View the full article

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All other virus/malware programs are turned off so as to not inhibit the process. However, BOTH times it has crashed my puter and I can only get back on via "Safe Mode" and then have had to restore it to factory settings to get my puter back up and running. I would love to have this as it is highly recommended, but this is ridiculous! I'm not a rookie in computers, but I'm not a pro either. It shouldn't be this hard to do, and I'm assuming that it shouldn't crash my computer when I try and install it. What am I missing here? How do I get this to work without completely screwing up my computer? The computer is only about a year and half old and now after this second attempt it is running INCREDIBLY slow, and we have to keep turning it off and on to even gain access. Also, one of the questions at the bottom of this screen asks if it is Beta or not .. I have chosen "not", but really I have no clue. :( View this thread

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reinstalled wintows vista business onto my computer from original disks wiping hard drive clean. Backed up computer onto external hrd drive and now I would like to retrieve some of the old files. Is this possible? View this thread

i have same folder and really scare me, but now i know what that thing for , for those friends who say that the folder i empty ,yes it look empty but it take space ! this folder if you check it's property (by right click) you will notice it's hidden and write only folder .i delete it for several times but it generate it self immediately and that why it was scaring me .but if it's some staff for WMC ,then it' OK and i will forget about it ... View this thread

Steven Sinofsky has announced the availability of the Windows 8 Release Preview today http://freepchelp.forum/data/MetaMirrorCache/6cc095dee2c6becf5a2b39488bce4a39._.gif[/img] Source: Windows Team Blog

The near-final Release Previewtest build of Windows 8 is available. Here’s what’s in (and not) in the latest build. Source: All About Microsoft

Today, Windows 8 Release Preview is available for download in 14 languages. This is our final pre-release, and includes Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10, new Windows 8 apps for connecting to Hotmail, SkyDrive, and Messenger (and many more), and hundreds of new and updated apps in the Windows Store. Since our first preview release last September, millions of people now use the pre-release product on a daily basis and millions more have been taking it through its paces, totaling hundreds of millions of hours of testing. We genuinely appreciate the effort that so many have put into pre-release testing, and of course, we appreciate the feedback too. Direct feedback and feedback through usage contributed to hundreds of visible changes in the product and tens of thousands of under-the-hood changes. Just nine months ago, we kicked off this blog as a dialog about the design and development of Windows 8. We’ve talked in depth about building Windows 8, including the features, the designs, and the background behind these. We’ve done so in over 70 posts totaling over 500 pages if printed out and 34 videos totaling over 90 minutes, all coming directly from engineers of the product. We’ve had about 18,000 comments from approximately 7,000 people. Over 170 Windows engineers contributed to the dialog, including over 200 comments I posted (though I was out-commented by one other pretty active reader!). Of course, we’ve been carefully watching the telemetry of the millions of tech enthusiasts using the product at each milestone. Windows is unique in this way. No other product used by so many provides such an inside view of the choices and development of the product as it evolves—and sometimes we forget that we are talking about a product still under active development even while we are discussing the designs and actively using it. The affirmations, debates, and even disagreements play a crucial role in the development of Windows. This has never been truer, as we reimagine Windows from the chipset to the experience—new hardware support, new user interaction models, new scenarios, new APIs and more, are all enabled with Windows 8, while we bring forward and improve the way Windows 7 has been used on over 550 million PCs around the world. Coming soon, we will see a new wave of PCs designed for Windows 8, along with new apps powered by the new Windows 8 platform. The team has the deepest respect for, and is always humbled by the responses on the blog and in the stories about the posts. Thank you! Our next milestone is traditionally called RTM, Release to Manufacturing, and from today until RTM, we will still be changing Windows 8, as we have done in past releases of Windows. We thought it would be a good idea to outline the kinds of feedback we are acting on as millions download and use the Windows 8 Release Preview. Our focus from now until RTM is on continuing to maintain a quality level higher than Windows 7 in all the measures we focus on, including reliability over time security to the core PC, software, and peripheral compatibility and resource utilization. We will rely heavily on the telemetry built into the product from setup through usage to inform us of the real world experience over time of the Release Preview. In addition, we carefully monitor our forums for reproducible reports relative to PC, software, and peripheral compatibility. We’ll be looking hard at every aspect of Windows 8 as we complete the work on the product, but we want to highlight the following: Installation – We have significant telemetry in the setup process and also significant logging. Of course, if you can’t set up Windows 8 at all, that is something we are interested in, and the same holds for upgrades from Windows 7. Please note the specifics regarding installation requirements and cautions found on the download page. Security and privacy – Obviously, any vulnerability is a something we would want to address. We will use the same criteria to address these issues as we would for any in-market product. Reliability and responsiveness – We are monitoring the “crash” reports for issues that impact broad sets of people. These could be caused by Windows code, Microsoft or third-party drivers, or third-party apps. Information about crashes streams in “real time” to Microsoft, and we watch it very carefully. We also have a lot of new data coming on the hundreds of new apps in the Windows Store. Device installation and compatibility – When you download a driver from Windows Update or install a driver via a manufacturer’s setup program, we collect data about that download via the Plug and Play (PnP) ID program. We’ve seen millions of unique PnP IDs through the Consumer Preview. We also receive the IDs for devices that failed to locate drivers. We are constantly updating the Plug and Play web service with pointers to information about each device (driver availability, instructions, etc.) We actively monitor the use of the compatibility modes required when the first installation of a Windows 7 based product does not succeed. Software compatibility – Similar to device compatibility, we are also monitoring the installation process for software, and noting programs that do not install successfully. Again, we have the mechanism to help move that forward, and/or introduce compatibility work in the RTM milestone. Here too, we actively monitor the use of compatibility modes required when the first installation of a Windows 7-based product does not succeed. We have tested thousands of complex commercial products from around the world in preparation for the Release Preview. Servicing – We will continue to test the servicing of Windows 8 so everyone should expect updates to be made available via Windows Update. This will include new drivers and updates to Windows 8, some arriving very soon as part of a planned rollout. Test updates will be labeled as such. We might also fix any significant issue with new code. All of this effort serves to validate the servicing pipeline, and to maintain the quality of the Release Preview. New hardware – Perhaps the most important category for potential fixes comes from making sure that we work with all the new hardware being made as we all use build 8400. Our PC manufacturing partners and hardware partners are engineering new PCs, and these include hardware combinations that are new to the market and new to the OS. We’re working together to make sure Windows 8 has great support for these new PCs and hardware. In fact, as some have noted, the RP itself was compiled over a week ago (build 8400). It takes time to complete the localized builds, validate the download images and process, as well as gear up all along the network edge for a fairly significant download event. The path to RTM is well defined and critical to the careful and high quality landing of Windows 8 for our PC manufacturing partners. The changes we make to the product from RP to RTM are all carefully considered and deliberate, including some specific feature changes we plan on making to the user experience (as we talked about in previous posts). This is a routine part of the late stages of bringing a complex product like Windows to market. Throughout this process, every change to the code is looked at by many people across development and test, and across many different teams. We have a lot of engineers changing a very little bit of code. We often say that shipping a major product means “slowing everything down.” Right now we’re being very deliberate with every change we make and ensuring our quality is higher than ever as we progress towards RTM. The product is final when it is loaded on new PCs or broadly available for purchase. RTM itself is a product development phase, rather than a moment in time. We continue to roll out Windows 8 in over 100 different languages and we are preparing final products for different markets around the world. As that process concludes, we are done changing the code and are officially “servicing” Windows 8. That means any subsequent changes are delivered as fixes (KB articles) or subsequent servicing via Windows Update. Obviously, our ability to deliver fixes via Windows Update has substantially changed the way we release to manufacturing, and so it is not unreasonable to expect updates soon after the product is complete, as occurred for Windows 7. There are no surprises here, but we’re making sure readers of this blog know what is coming down the road. Once we have entered the RTM stage, our partners will begin making their final images and manufacturing PCs, and hardware and software vendors will ready their Windows 8 support and new products. We will also begin to manufacture retail boxes for shipment around the world. We will continue to work with our enterprise customers as well, as we ensure availability of the volume license tools and products. Remember, if you buy a new PC running Windows 7 today, with the great support from our PC partners, you will be ready for Windows 8. Delivering the highest quality Windows 8 is the most important criteria for us at this point—quality in every dimension. The RTM process is designed to be deliberate and maintain the overall engineering integrity of the system. Ultimately, our partners will determine when their PCs are available in market. If the feedback and telemetry on Windows 8 and Windows RT match our expectations, then we will enter the final phases of the RTM process in about 2 months. If we are successful in that, then we are tracking to our shared goal of having PCs with Windows 8 and Windows RT available for the holidays. Source: Windows 8 Blog

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Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.2 Locale ID: 16393 Additional information about the problem: BCCode: fe BCP1: 0000000000000008 BCP2: 0000000000000006 BCP3: 0000000000000005 BCP4: FFFFFA800281EC80 OS Version: 6_1_7601 Service Pack: 1_0 Product: 768_1 this happen many time i also shows continues message of usb drive not recognized is this relate with it? how can i stop this problem View the thread

Okay here's the deal I have ten Microsoft Visual Redistributables (2005-2010). Should I delete some of them and keep the newest one ? Look at the picture - https://secure.flickr.com/photos/79802442@N08/7309369226/in/photostream/lightbox/ View the thread

I am running Windows Vista home premium 32BIT.I have purchased the upgrade disc to install Windows 7 Home premium.Where can I find a step by step procedure for installing the upgrade? View this thread

I recently moved my operating system from a hard drive to an SSD. It seems to have moved successfully -- mostly. That is to say that Windows 7 loads. But it cannot find my desktop, and it tells me that my Windows is not genuine (but it is). Task Manager will allow me to establish a command prompt, but if I try to access any system files it tells me that it cannot find the path (even if I browse to the file). I think I either need to rename the drive from G to C (presumably by using MMC) or to activate the administrator account from the command line. Does anybody know how to do this? View the thread

For some time we are running Outlook BCM 2010 in a client-server setup: - Server has BCM server tool running the database (Server's OS (SBS-2011), BCM server tool etc. all installed in Dutch) - Clients run Outlook 2010 (in Dutch) with OUtlook BCM 2010 (in Dutch) All fine so far. The problem now is that I hired a English speaking sales guy, that has an all-English-language laptop setup (Win 7 + Office 2010). But how do I get him an English language version of Outlook BCM 2010??? I noticed that the other way around (server is English, clients's BCM is English, there is a Dutch language pack available). But that would require a full reinstall of all.... But I want it the other way around?? Or find an English BCM 2010. but MS's sites only allow me to download Dutch versions since my Office versions are all Dutch.... Who has a solution for me?? View this thread