Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working

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    - locked out computer some one has changed my password and i'm the only administrative, so i'm locked out of the computer Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56768
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    - Unauthorised Program Activities I am having an issue an application that uses FTP to connect to a site to download messages. When running the application it will only connect to the FTP site when it is ran as the local administrator despite the user being a member of the local admin group. As of yet I have not found a reason for this but think it could be related to a feature that protect unauthorised processâ??s. If I use the Run As command on the ftp program and uncheck the 'Protect my computer from unauthorised activity' the app will run otherwise it just hangs. if you choose local administrator and enter the password the program will run and download files. Does anyone have an idea of what could cause this and is there anyway of swtiching off the 'Protect my computer from unauthorised activity' feature? Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56765
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    - Filepath/Filename beyond 255 characters ? Hello, I have a console/debug project in Delphi 2007. The compiler complains it cannot find the following file: Z:\Delphi\Technology\TDataTransferCommunication\version 1.29 implement integrity method for protocol 2 and multiple integrity methods\DebugProgram\version 0.11 test improved integrity implementation and maybe even crc32 checking\unit_TdebugHash_version_001.dcu The uses clausule simply looks like: uses unit_TdebugHash_version_001 in 'unit_TdebugHash_version_001.pas'; Project is in the same folder. Files are located on a FileDisk Image. So I see a couple of possibilities: 1. Delphi 2007 IDE or the Delphi 2007 compiler is limited to 255 characters for a filepath/filename ? 2. Windows XP X64 Pro is limited to 255 characters for a filepath/filename ? 3. FileDisk Image is limited to 255 characters for a filepath/filename ? This requires further investigation. I shall make some other projects with insanely long folders and filenames to see what happens ;) STAY TUNED ! :( Bye, Skybuck. Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56762
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    - The clock is late First of all sorry if my English isn't very good as I'm not sure how I can say in English (El reloj se atrasa) so I try with the clock is late... Hi, I have one problem with Vista 64 bits. I have a Intel Quad Core CPU with ASUS P5K motherboard and 4GB of RAM. My problem is that the PC clock is late while running windows. I have a curious example: I boot my PC and sync the clock, then I play World of Warcraft and I see that the WoW in game clock goes ok or delays some minutes but when I exit the game, the clock in the sidebar is half an hour delayed for example. First I thinked it could be a hardware problem, but I think this case is a little strage for being a hw problem... so... any idea?? Thank you very much. Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56756
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    - Adobe Previewer in 64-bit? When I changed over from Vista 32 to Vista 64 one thing that doesn't work correctly in 64 that did work in 32 is the Adobe previewer that is used in Windows Explorer. Is there any way to fix this? TIA Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56741
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    - video card help please I have windows xp x64 edition I have just installed radeon 9250 Installation went smooth. Just in case I installed drivers from the website anyway. During that installation it said Missing WIA No idea as to what that is. Anyway it finished the installation without stopping so I think it's not that critical. Ok now for the biggest question of them all. When I change the monitor from the intergraded motherboard vga to the radeon my monitor stops responding. What should I do? Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56729
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    - Cumulative Security Update for IE stops IE7 from showing web pages Hello! 1. Installing Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (944533) stops IE7 (in Windows Vista x64 Ultimate) from showing web pages. Uninstalling the Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (944533) resumes IE7 showing web pages. 2. Any version of Agent mail.ru (messenger, e-mail notifier, http://agent.mail.ru) cannot connect in the Windows Vista x64 Ultimate. I checked everything the Agent mail.ru support suggested. The support does not know what to suggest any more. Best regards, Dima Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56727
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    - X64: How to prevent punkbuster from secretly installing itself ? It's getting on my tits. Bye, Skybuck :) Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56721
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    - X64: IPv6 installed/removed, without reboot, then playing BF2 and voila crash. Hello, I added IPv6 protocol support to see it in action. Then I removed it again. Then I kept on computing without a reboot. Then I play Battlefield 2 and then when the map ended the system crashed: Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 6.6.0007.5 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Loading Dump File [C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini022708-01.dmp] Mini Kernel Dump File: Only registers and stack trace are available Symbol search path is: SRV*c:\Tools\WinDbg\WebSymbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols Executable search path is: Windows Server 2003 Kernel Version 3790 (Service Pack 2) MP (2 procs) Free x64 Product: WinNt, suite: TerminalServer SingleUserTS Built by: 3790.srv03_sp2_gdr.070321-2337 Kernel base = 0xfffff800`01000000 PsLoadedModuleList = 0xfffff800`011d4140 Debug session time: Wed Feb 27 16:36:01.406 2008 (GMT+1) System Uptime: 0 days 14:30:28.339 Loading Kernel Symbols ............................................................................................................................................. Loading User Symbols Loading unloaded module list .................................................. ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information. BugCheck 19, {20, fffffa8004d58230, fffffa8004d58290, 6060403} Probably caused by : ntkrnlmp.exe ( nt!ExFreePoolWithTag+45e ) Followup: MachineOwner --------- 1: kd> !analyze -v ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* BAD_POOL_HEADER (19) The pool is already corrupt at the time of the current request. This may or may not be due to the caller. The internal pool links must be walked to figure out a possible cause of the problem, and then special pool applied to the suspect tags or the driver verifier to a suspect driver. Arguments: Arg1: 0000000000000020, a pool block header size is corrupt. Arg2: fffffa8004d58230, The pool entry we were looking for within the page. Arg3: fffffa8004d58290, The next pool entry. Arg4: 0000000006060403, (reserved) Debugging Details: ------------------ BUGCHECK_STR: 0x19_20 POOL_ADDRESS: fffffa8004d58230 CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1 DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: DRIVER_FAULT PROCESS_NAME: System CURRENT_IRQL: 0 LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from fffff800011ab36c to fffff8000102e890 STACK_TEXT: fffffadf`c909bc28 fffff800`011ab36c : 00000000`00000019 00000000`00000020 fffffa80`04d58230 fffffa80`04d58290 : nt!KeBugCheckEx fffffadf`c909bc30 fffff800`010e8b85 : fffffadf`fee16bb0 00000000`00000000 fffffadf`fee16bb0 00000000`00000000 : nt!ExFreePoolWithTag+0x45e fffffadf`c909bcf0 fffff800`0124a972 : 00000000`00000000 fffffadf`cecc6570 00000000`00000080 fffffadf`cecc6570 : nt!MiDereferenceSegmentThread+0x259 fffffadf`c909bd70 fffff800`01020226 : fffffadf`c8c7b180 fffffadf`cecc6570 fffffadf`c8c83680 00000000`00000000 : nt!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x3e fffffadf`c909bdd0 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KxStartSystemThread+0x16 STACK_COMMAND: kb FOLLOWUP_IP: nt!ExFreePoolWithTag+45e fffff800`011ab36c cc int 3 SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 1 FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner MODULE_NAME: nt IMAGE_NAME: ntkrnlmp.exe DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 460280f7 SYMBOL_NAME: nt!ExFreePoolWithTag+45e FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: X64_0x19_20_nt!ExFreePoolWithTag+45e BUCKET_ID: X64_0x19_20_nt!ExFreePoolWithTag+45e Followup: MachineOwner --------- Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56719
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    - msscript.ocx dosen't work in x64 Hellow. I don't want to compile as x86. plz let me know replacement, If you know. Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56710
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    - Storport drivers Hi Team , We are using the Storport on windows 64 servers and we need to uninstall the drivers for the changer and drive to make the scsi pass move thorugh it and to make it work But on 32 bit servers , we need to have the drive and changer enabled and need to have drivers installed to make it work coded 64bit Windows to only support Storport With Windows 64bit the IBM tape drive driver always seems to create a problem for ARCserve. Here is the difference between 64 and 32 bit Windows. 64bit â?? IBM tape drive driver causes problems 32bit â?? IBM tape drive driver does not. So with 32bit it is possible to have the client load the driver, with 64bit it is not. The fact that IBM 64 bits drivers are unfortunately not transparent to scsi pass through commands, we experienced it in several cases and also using latest ones and latest storport.sys. Is it supported to have a device detected in windows without associated OS driver ?If no then it means there is no real 100% scsi pass through anymore, and we are anyway dependent on a device driver â?¦if you say yes then whatâ??s the official MS way to have a device detected and not uninstalled/disabled but also to have the associated driver not running thanks Santhosh Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56706
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    - Desktop Icons I wish to delete some icons from the desktop, but i receive an error message to the effect that the file was not found. If I try a right click , then delete, another error message appears "Cannot delete file. Cannot read source file or disk" Anyone have any suggestions how I can get rid of the icons? maclas@telus.net Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56698
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    - modify "Close Group" behavoir in X64? When I choose Close Group in X64 it makes me manually open each window and choose whether to save or close. If I have 20 instances of Notepad open this takes forever as you can imagine. Is there anyway to change the behaviour so it pops up the next instance after I've decided what to do? I believe this was default behaviour of Close Group in all other versions of Windows. Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56682
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    - modify "Close Group" behavoir in X64? When I choose Close Group in X64 it makes me manually open each window and choose whether to save or close. If I have 20 instances of Notepad open this takes forever as you can imagine. Is there anyway to change the behaviour so it pops up the next instance after I've decided what to do? I believe this was default behaviour of Close Group in all other versions of Windows. Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56681
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    - Attn: Charlie. . . This is O.T., but I just recieved my MSDN mail with a notice of upcoming events that apparently includes a promotional kit, of which the VS would interest me a great deal. Now, these kits being promotional - does that hold any limitations appart from the standard 'non disclosure agreement' - or whatever, could one expect to be allowed to publish software in various ways, and for any lenght of time? Not that I am thinking of being able to sell, or actually build a profitable business around it - just showing off, you know! Creativity needs an outlet! Tony. . . Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56675
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    - My first impressions - Vista 64 bit Ultimate Hey gang, Ok, so's I purchased Vista Ultimate 64 bit full retail version, and installed on a new hard drive of it's own, to boot along with my current XP Pro 32 bit install, to mainly play around with it. With the exception of my previously mentioned problems of not getting a choice upon startup which OS to boot into, have to use the bios boot menu to choose the drive to boot from, installation went flawless. Got all my needed drivers, and they installed just fine. My system boots into XP Pro by default, which is really what I want for now, and I can choose myself when to boot into Vista. My wife will not be using Vista for now, so this scenario works pretty good. Anyway, when I first started playing around with Vista Saturday afternoon, I first thought, oh my gosh, what have I gotten myself into? It was so different, and really was not sure I liked some of the differences and way it was layed out. Since then, I have spent some time with it, getting windows mail set up for my newsgroups and email, getting a game installed that I really like, and surprisingly it ran it very well, and just tinkering with it a bit. I have to admit, the more I use it, the more I really like it. My system, is fairly current by today's standards, and I am sure that has a lot to do with it - Vista 64 seems to really be very robust on my hardware. I was hesitant in purchasing Vista, mainly due to what I have read for the past year or so, but for now I am pleasantly surprised. I knew when I did purchase it , it would mainly be to finally get a 64 bit OS, and I am glad I did. I am already finding myself wanting to boot into Vista more than into XP. I have a long way to go before Vista might become my main OS, due to all my critical things I have running on XP, but I can see at some point in the future, it just might be. I am sure I will run across more things I like, and am sure will run across more things I dislike, but I am impressed so far. Thanks to everyone so far, for their help, I am sure I will have more questions as I go, but hopefully they will get fewer as time goes on. -- Don EVGA 780i MB Intel Core2 Duo E6600 @ 3.3 ghz Zalman 9700 NT Heatsink/Fan 4 gb PC 8500 Corsair Dominator Ram BFG 8800 GTS 640 mb video card Soundblaster XFi Extreme Music Platinum CoolerMaster 830e Case Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56672
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    - establish raid 1 on a notebook I just purchased an HP HDX notebook with two 120 GB drives and Vista 64-bit ultimate. One of the 120 GB drives is empty, and I would like to convert the drives into a RAID 1 array. I have no idea on how to do this. Can anyone help? Thank you. -Mike Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56659
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    - Windows Vista SP1 Friendly Advice I was one of the people who got SP1 for Vista x64 through Windows Update the other day. The install went fine and my computer came back afterwards without any trouble. However, in the days that followed, I noticed that one of my Excel files was corrupted and I had to restore it from backup. I also noticed that I had a USB hardware error in Device Manager and once while installed Call of Duty 4, I had a BSOD. Also, I noticed that sometimes my system would take a longer-than-usual time to read files from my second and third hard drives. I checked into it and came to the conclusion that my INF drivers were not properly reinstalled during the SP1 changes. I have an intel P35 chipset. I got the inf auto-installer, ran it with the command-line switch "-overall" in order to force it to redo the drivers, and it seems like everything is back to normal. I just hope maybe this helps someone else out there who has these problems too. - John Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56640
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    - Upgrade! I am using Vista premium 32 bit. I have latest high configured 64 bit system and in order to get full performance for my 3d softwares, I need to upgrade to 64 bit. Hw can I get it upgraded? Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56632
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    - Vista Defrag Hey gang, Have been messing around with Vista 64 bit Ultimate since getting installed yesterday to dual boot with XP Pro. Parts of it are pretty neat, parts will take me some getting used to. I use Executive Software Diskeeper, in my XP Pro install. I can use it to defrage the drive my Vista install is on as well. I am curious about the Vista built in defragger, when I go into " computer", and right click a hard drive, click on tools, then defrag, it states it is defragging " disks " , ie plural. Is it defragging just the drive I selected, or is it defragging all my partitions? Thanks, Don Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56583
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    - Vista 64 wont recignize flash drive or camera Vista 64 didn't recignize my Panasonic camera, so I removed the sd card and used a card reader which vista64 couldnt find a driver for either. How do I make this work? Is microsoft putting any real effort into their 64bit os or am I waisting my time? Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56576
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    - Windows Explorer crashes when copieing/renaming folders with short filenames in them.. Windows Explorer crashes when copieing/renaming folders with short filenames in them.. Bye, Skybuck. Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56573
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    - Leaning out Vista 64 a little? Hey gang, Ok , now that I have Vista Ultimate 64 bit installed and running good, on a different hard drive, are there any tips for leaning it out a little? I am new to Vista, and have heard it has some bloat , are there any services , background things going on, that I can disable to get it a littler leaner and meaner so to speak? I have disabled indexing to allow for faster searching, so far that is all I have done. Thanks for any tips, -- Don Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56566
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    - Convert new HP 32bit Vista home premium to Vista 64bit Ultimate I just bought a new HP a6350z AMD dual-core computer with 32bit Vista Home Premium. I own a full retail license for Ultimate which is installed on an older computer. I plan to remove it (or whatever's necessary to free the license) so I can install the 64bit ultimate license on the new HP. How disruptive is that? The new computer is almost unchanged from getting it out of the box. I uninstalled Symantec AV and installed Windows OneCare for which I already have a license. I installed the driver for my wireless HP AIO c7820 which HP describes as being compatible with Vista 64. Not much else is personalized and I haven't invested much time in it. Am I basically starting from scratch? Or will existing programs that are compatible simply work after the 64bit installation? Thanks in advance for your time. Chris Cowles Gainesville, FL Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56562
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    - Static IP address on Windows 2003 Can anyone tell me why I can't statically assign an IP address to our Exchange 2007 server running Windows 2003 Std 64bit? I installed Exchange 2007 with DHCP enabled and want to change it over to static but it won't stick. Is there a simple way of doing this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Larry Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56534
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    - Vista SP1 no longer available to install? Need help! I originally went to install SP1 for x64 Vista, but canceled the install programt before even starting due to other programs running on my machine at the same time. Upon canceling the installation I ended up getting error code Code4C7. I closed the update window thinking that I would go back and run windows update after I was done using my other programs. But now, when I go into windows update, it doesn't even give me the option to install SP1. I check the Update history and it has on there the failed attempt to install SP1, but does not give me the little check box in order to install it. Is there somewhere that I can download SP1 and bypass windows update, or a way that I can try to display the option back in windows update program? Thanks for the help! Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56527
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    - Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up! Hey gang, I think I have messed up here. I just installed 64 bit Vista Ultimate, retail full version, in what I thought was a dual boot environment. I added a new sata hard drive, and installed Vista on it. Now, I do not get an option when I boot to choose wich OS to boot to, it only boots into Vista. Under Vista, it shows as my C drive, I see the partion on the other hard drive my XP Pro is on, however under Vista it shows as drive E? Dangit, I thought I had read enough to know what I was doing here, but apparently I did something I should not have. I would sure appreciate any help here, my XP Pro is my main OS and I desperately need to be able to get back to it. Thanks, Don Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56509
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    - Setting up Vista Ultimate 64 bit do dual boot with XP Pro 32 bit Hey gang, I have just received Vista Ultimate, along with a new hard drive to put it on, to dual boot with my current XP Pro 32 bit. I did a google search to try and do some reading on this. I have read , of an issue with restore points being deleted with this configuration, but believe there is a way to edit the boot file to keep this from happening? I have also read there is a program, Vista BootPro, that would be good to use for this, rather than the built in Vista boot manager? Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Don EVGA 780i MB Intel Core2 Duo E6600@ 3.24 ghz Zalman 9700 NT heatsink/fan BFG 8800 GTS 640 mb CoolerMaster 830 Evolution Case 4 gb Corsair Dominator PC8500 DDR2 Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56489
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    - Upgrading to 64-bit Vista I currently have 32-bit Home Premium. I'm just wondering what my options are for upgrading to a 64-bit version of either Home Premium or Ultimate. Any and all information would be appreciated. Thanks! Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56486
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    - XP 64 and Audio Issues Hope someone can help. On my new system I have a problem with audio distortion under XP64. I set up a dual boot with XP 32 and I don't have any problems with the audio on that OS. The device manufacturer says that there are no driver issues and they have been thoroughly tested under XP64 and Vista64. Microsoft won't help with the problem and I'm running out of time before getting hardware replacements. One of those deals where everyone is pointing at someone else. One other thing I noticed under XP64 is that when it's detecting a device that's been added, or anything plugged into the USB or Firewire port, the mouse freezes or operates erratically until it's done working in the background. I didn't think that going 64 bit meant ending multitasking so I thought this behaviour to be strange. The IRQ's are assigned almost identical to the XP32 OS on the same machine and that behaviour is not showing up on that OS. I have 8 GB ram so I really want the 64 Bit OS to work and I've heard horror stories relating to Vista 64 and performance issues when dealing with audio/video work compared to XP. Any help or direction would sure be appreciated. I'm running the trial version of XP64 with SP2 and all updates. I need to try and get this resolved to decide if I'm going to purchase XP64 or start returning hardware. System Info: My system is an Intel Quad 6600, Gigabyte x38 DQ6 motherboard, 8 GB OCZ Reaper ram, Nvidia 8600GT, (6) RaptorX 150 drives (2 individuals for OS and programs and 2 pair for Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56479
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    - Vista SP1 Disk Version Will MS be offering the Vista SP1 on disk at all? And if not why not? Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56477
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    - Vista SP1 destroys certain apps Vista SP1 kills and maims security apps, utilitiesCheck security software before installing By Kelly Fiveash â?? More by this author Published Friday 22nd February 2008 14:51 GMT Green Computing - Where do you stand? Microsoft has admitted that Windows Vista service pack one (SP1) renders useless a number of well-known third party security products. Redmond said in a knowledge base article yesterday that due to "reliability" issues with Vista SP1, it has been forced to prevent some security products from running after the service pack is installed. So, customers who currently have versions of Jiangmin KV Antivirus or Trend Micro's Internet Security on their Vista computers will no longer be able to use the software, which are suppose to safeguard their machines against hackers and malware, after SP1 is installed. The two other security products deemed by Microsoft to make Vista SP1 "unreliable" are versions of BitDefender AV and Zone Alarm Security Suite. It added that it has put a block on Fujitsu's Shock Sensor utility, which protects laptop hard-drives against sudden shocks. Microsoft also pinpointed a number of products that simply won't work after the service pack, which is expected to be available for download to everyone by the middle of next month, has been installed. Versions of Iron Speed Designer, Xheo Licensing, and Free Allegiance software are on that particular blacklist. Meanwhile, Novell's ZCM Agent and the New York Times reader software are among the products listed as having severely reduced functionality post Vista-SP1. Microsoft said in the article: "A program may experience a loss of functionality after you install Windows Vista SP1. However, most programs will continue to work as expected after you install Windows Vista SP1." This latest embarrassing cock-up comes just days after Microsoft snatched back a key pre-requisite update for Vista SP1 from its Windows Update website. It was forced to suspend distribution of its servicing stack KB937287 update after customers complained that their PCs wouldn't boot up properly once it had been applied. Â® Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56471
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    - RDP through VPN printing problems I have set up an RDP via VPN connection. When i select Printers under local resources the printer is not showing up on the host computer to print locally. It's an XP Pro connecting to an XP Pro machine. Could someone please recommend some trouble shooting steps? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56466
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    - I Believe You Are Getting RC1Refresh1 Confused With RC1Refresh2, Just FYI. Colin, I Believe You Are Getting RC1Refresh1 Confused With RC1Refresh2 (The Latter Was Not Released 2 The General Public, It Was Released 2 Beta Tester's Only), Just FYI. Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56465
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    - No X64 SP1 for RC1 Refresh? I have RC1 Refresh and cannot get the final SP1 on WU. Will it not work with RC1 installed? I'm going to do a clean install for the final anyway but I want to be sure it's avalible. -- Sam Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56457
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    - X64 SP1 not for Refresh RC1 I have RC1 Refresh and cannot seem to get the final SP1 on the WU site. I have everything updated. -- Sam Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56456
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    - 64-bit drivers for PCI wireless adapters Do any vendors have 64-bit drivers for PCI wireless adapters? That may prevent me from going to 64-bit. I think most of my other stuff is ready. -- Chris Cowles Gainesville, FL Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56438
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    - Ribbons Screensaver has stopped working Hello, I have a very odd problem. I love the Ribbons screensaver but since installing Vista x64, any time it kicks in and is removed by a mouse move or a key press, Vista says the "ribbons screensaver has stopped working" but has no solutions for it. I've tried to google for answers but only found a few links to others with the same problem with no apparent solution available. My PC is.. Vista Ultimate x64 Asus P5K-E Wifi Intel Core 2 Duo 8400 EVGA 8800GT 512mb not sure what else might be relevant. all drivers current as of the date of this post. Here's the info I got about it from the Problem Reports and Solutions control panel... Product Ribbons Screen Saver Problem Stopped working Date 2/21/2008 6:51 PM Status Report Sent Problem signature Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: Ribbons.scr Application Version: 6.0.6000.16386 Application Timestamp: 4549bb4a Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll Fault Module Version: 6.0.6000.16386 Fault Module Timestamp: 4549d372 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 0000000000053809 OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: 6ccb Additional Information 2: d70b554a667f5d3274c86becb8627281 Additional Information 3: b267 Additional Information 4: 2a20c5e696c99db183736948d45868ba Extra information about the problem Bucket ID: 206143 thank you for any help, Ryan Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56429
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    - Vista x64 SP1 is now on WU for some users Vista x64 SP1 just went live on WU. If you see any optional device driver updates for your system on WU you may have to complete the device driver update(s) before WU offers you SP1. I did. Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56424
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    - vista ultimate x64 install I keep getting an error while trying to install vista x64. This is a new system and I'm installing xp pro w/sp2 x32 then upgrading to vista x64. Things go well until the first system restart (the first time it boots from hd) then I get a stop error message 0x0000007e. I've tried updating sata controllers, but it didn't help. system specs asus m2n32-sli delux nvidia 590i amd x2 6400+ 2 seagate 500 gb sata hd (not in raid array) 2x2mb corsair 800mhz ddr2 xfx geforce 8800gt 512 mb thanks for the help Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56414
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    - IMPORTANT: READ Before WU SP1 (KB937287) http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/02/19/update-on-windows-vista-sp1-prerequisite-kb937287.aspx We've heard a few reports about problems customers may be experiencing as a result of KB937287, the servicing stack update for Vista SP1. Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56406
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    - Vista slower than XP February 20, 2008 Despite SP1, Vista is still slower than XP Filed under: Hardware , Productivity , Windows Vista So here I am, sitting in the main terminal at Dubai International, killing time during my six hour layover by sifting through the headlines surrounding the release Vista SP1. Over at a competitor's site, two prominent bloggers are really going at it, posting contradictory benchmark results that show Vista to be either a) on par with Windows XP or b) much slower than XP on the same hardware. In each case, the bloggers are focusing on areas in which Microsoft claims to have improved Vista performance with SP1: file copies, network transfers, etc. However, neither author seems be paying attention to the myriad other areas -- productivity applications, services, multimedia tasks -- where Vista is an absolute dog compared to Windows XP. Did they not read my previous postings on the subject? I made it pretty clear last year that Vista was struggling big time vs. XP on comparable hardware, and that SP1 would be no panacea. It's like the Microsoft PR machine flipped a switch somewhere and instantly reframed the entire discussion of Vista performance around just those areas it improved on in SP1. News flash, people: File copying is the least of the problems affecting Windows Vista. Test after test shows that the new OS is a performance slug across the board. Even when you disable all of the bells and whistles (Aero, Search) and turn-off every conceivable background service (Superfetch, ReadyBoost, etc) -- in other words, strip it down to something comparable to XP in terms of underlying OS footprint -- Vista is still a good 40 percent slower than XP on a variety of basic productivity tasks. The only solution to this generalized performance malaise is to throw hardware at it: Vista performs quite tolerably on state-of-the-art hardware. Unfortunately for Microsoft, so does XP SP3. In fact, it absolutely screams on today's high-end, multi-core desktops and laptops, which puts customers in the position of having to choose between functionality and raw performance. In conclusion: Don't be confused by all of these headline-grabbing "performance tests." They're focusing almost exclusively on areas that Microsoft tweaked with SP1. The fact remains that Vista will always require roughly 2X the hardware performance to deliver an end-user experience on par with Windows XP. And when you finally do give in and buy that new "Designed for Vista" PC, do yourself a favor and provision yourself a small XP partition, just as an experiment. Don't settle for Vista until you've seen how much performance you're trading for that shiny new UI and whatever other bells and whistles you find so irresistible. You may be surprise at just how fast your new PC really is - once it's no longer encumbered by the bloat and sluggishness of "Windows 6.x." Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56403
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    - Vista SP1 oh no... Microsoft pulls Vista update By INQUIRER Newsdesk: Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 6:57 PM AFTER AN UPDATE to Vista sent some PCs bananas, Microsoft pulled it, although it hasn't yet produced code to fix those bananas PCs. "Immediately after receiving reports of this error, we made the decision to temporarily suspend automatic distribution of the update to avoid further customer impact while we investigate possible causes," said Volish Vista bogger Nick White, yesterday. White said the bananas PCs belonged to "a small number of customers in unique circumstances". He added: "We are working to identify possible solutions and will make the update available again shortly after we address the issue." The update number 937287 is designed as a prelude to Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). Unfortunately, it sent some PCs into an eternal cycle of reboots that only ceased when the plug was pulled. Whether the balls-up will delay SP1 is unclear. You'd have to say it doesn't look good, however. µ Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56402
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    - .net login Runningn Vista 64 business and have a problem that a recent upgrade to an application (Nikon ViewNX) installed an updated version of .net version2 - now everytime that app runs it causes .net to prompt fior ALL my remote logins. Why!? The app ran fine before updating - have truied restore to set p[oint before update and no joy - need help fas as scheduled for a public screening tonight. Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56401
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    - Is Ubuntu better than Vista? Dell charges more for Ubuntu than Vista Open sorcery By INQUIRER Newsdesk: Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 1:09 PM DELL HAPPILY ANNOUNCED a new Ubuntu-powered system a couple of days ago. The penguin posse was delighted, of course, until it found that the once-direct only seller seems to be charging more for machines sporting the open source OS than for those sporting Vista. As far as we can tell, on Dell's cumbersome UK website the price of the cheapest Inspiron 1525 with Vista home premium is £359. The same specification machine with Ubuntu is £379. There is a cheaper version of the Ubuntu system but it has a lower specification. Here are some URLs for you to fiddle with: Ubuntu Vista No wonder Dell loves Ubuntu. µ Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56400
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    - Windows Live Messenger 8.5 No Longer Supported On Windows XP 64 Bit Edition, Just FYI. http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/02/20/live-messenger-85-update-no-longer-supported-on-xp-x64 Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56399
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    - Let's hope this is not the beginning of the end for XP64 :-( : Live Messenger 8.5 update no longer supported on XP x64 http://messengersays.spaces.live.com/ Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56397
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    - Vista 64 and Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS has been disspeared from services Does anybody know how to install it again? many thank's /kostas Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56392
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    - Boot freezes My, and many others, computer freezes during the scroll portion of the boot. It only does it if the computer was shut down normally. If restarted or forced to boot from boot menu it will boot normally. I have eliminated any chance of a heating or warm up parts failure. 1. What difference is there in the start up files? 2. if exact same boot files then what is the diff. in the process? Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56381
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    - Windows Vista 64-bit Help and Support Center Every time I try opening the Help and Support Center, I receive an error message Saying "Internet Expllorer cannot download / from help. Internet Explorer was not able to open this internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later." I am connected to the internet via wireless broadband at the time this happens. Can anyone help me on this issue to resolve it? Tag: Vista SP1 Tips and Tricks for Effective and Securely Working Tag: 56373

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