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    - The idiot Kevpan promises not to talk off topic but lies So idiot, I guess what you wrote on August 26th at 8:12 is pure bullshit? <kevpan815@comcast.net> wrote in message news:OrY9%238%23BJHA.3392@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > P.P.S. Effective Immediately, I Promise 2 Not Ever Talk About The Weather, > Politics, And Religion, Ever Again In This News Group, Just FYI. What a retard you are. Maybe a note to comcast is in order. Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422655
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    - Can't Delete a Task in Task Scheduler I'm unable to delete a task in the Task Scheduler (which I ran as administrator). There is no option in the Actions pane to Delete, nor is there a Properties option. How do I get rid of unwanted tasks? Thanks. Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422654
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    - Announcement: John McCain Chooses A Woman 2 Be His V.P., Just FYI. Announcement: John McCain Chooses A Woman 2 Be His V.P., Just FYI. Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422649
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    - He calls others Frank calls other mentally ill. Here is proof. When Frank looks in the mirror he calls the mirror image mentally ill. He does not realize that it is him. Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422641
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    - Media Player stops working when I plug in a mp3 device -My windows media player stops working when I plug in my mp3 player . I says that media player has stopped working and is working on soloution. -- problem event name: appcras application name: wmpnetwk.ex application version: 11.0.6001.700 application timestamp: 4791937 fault module name: indiv01.ke fault module version: 11.0.6000.632 fault module timestamp: 47e32e5 exception code: c000000 exception offset: 000ff9a os version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768. locale id: 410 additional information 1: 375 additional information 2: b609c209d0d5efeb3cfcb425b7f8434 additional information 3: 375 additional information 4: b609c209d0d5efeb3cfcb425b7f8434 *files that help describe the proble *version.tx appcompat.tx memory.hdm minidump.mdm -::this is what comes up when i go under problems and solutions. -::Please can someone help me as to what I should do to end thi problem it really has become quite frustrating to me. :: -::I don't really want to uninstall media player.( not that I know ho to do that on wondows vista ) :: -::I just want to be able to syn my device to media player. :: : -- Wisteria Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422638
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    - Protected Process I would like to change the CPU scheduling priority of a protected process. To be specific: Windows Audio Service (the isolated process), to Real-time. Is this possible and how? If necessary, I can program a custom service or modify any registry setting if any available related to the CPU priority. Or is it possible to completely disable the isolation - I don't care if this will break any advanced audio functionality - If I can play MP3's, that would be enough for me. The reason for this is because my computer drops audio samples when I move windows or start programs (especially Task Manager or any other programs using high CPU priority). Thank You for any help, web links and great ides! George Valkov Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422625
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    - Cannot delete certain files I have a problem thats only getting worse on my computer... It wont let me delete certain files.... its on my desktop and a couple other folders. when i try to delete i it wont let me saying the file is in use by another program but i check tasks and I dont se wich one... It seems to be all files that are when organized by type ar application.. but its only the applications that when i right click go to properties then program tab it shows a ms dos icon most applications i right click go to properties dont even have program tab but these select few that do i cant delete. Ive tried deleting them in safe mode and i get the same problem. Can someone please help me Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422577
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    - Vista Gray screen. so idk what i did to my laptop but when i turn it on, it loads for a little then goes to a gray screen and nothing happens. PLEASE HELP ME! -- Warrior 3000 Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422559
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    - Security Issue with Vista's 'Audio Endpoint builder' Hello. I was tracking down why my *svhost.exe* (used for internet & network Connections) was being used to access a whole bunch of Picture files in one of my folders. Files that were not being used by any other program or service at the time (not even the File Manager). It was running _under_LocalSystemNetworkRestricted_mode_ and i tracked the PID to the "'-Windows Audio Endpoint builder-' (http://tinyurl.com/6nbez6)" Service. I used the resource monitor to see that the WAEB was accessing numerous files in various folders. _What_stood_out_was_my_personal_pictures_it_was_accessing_. I looked the service up and in no way is it dependant on or is depended on by any system except AUDIO on the computer. However according to a company that deals in computer security (and Microsoft) it is a service launched by the legitimate 'C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe' program. The actual executable file for the Windows Audio Endpoint Builder service is 'C:\Windows\System32\audiosrv.dll'. Now this 'service' was reading my picture (JPG) files in the Public folder that has no system files in it. *Can anyone explain why an Audio Support DLL is interested in my Pictures?* As well as other files. I saw mention of this service having something to do with the System Indexing Serice as well in my search results when trying to find information. If it is related to indexing then why is it interested in NON-AUDIO files at all? if the indexer uses 'Associated With' executables to 'read' files for indexing then it should be using an audio processor to deal with audio files and an image processor for pictures, etc -- right? My concern is that it is being used as a backdoor or such to _grab_files_for_a_third_party_. Though I cannot find that this file sends data beyond my machine, it may process it for another program which would. As yet i cannot find anything suspicious on the outgoing side. Any Thoughts or comments would be appreciated. THANK YOU -- Nobias Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422555
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    - Lost in the Wilderness Whither Microsoft? Office 2007. Vista. IE8. What has happened to Microsoft? Microsoft user interfaces may not have been the best possible but they were at least serviceable. Now they are worse than I could ever imagine any company with the resources of Microsoft producing. Truly horrible and nearly unusable. Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422550
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    - Black Screen When Resuming Hi, I'm having an intermittent problem where upon resuming after a sleep or hibernate, the computer is displaying a black screen. Fortunately, the field where I need to type my password is visible with a white background and the cursor is also visible in it, but everything else is black. After I type in the password and press Enter, the horizontal middle third of the screen gets the Windows login background while the rest is still black. The problem disappears once my wallpaper is displayed. Any idea what might be causing that? I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 and all available updates have been installed. Thanks Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422544
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    - Illegal Alien Stripper Uliana Abramova get out of NY out of ILLEGAL ULIANA GET OUT OF NY OUT OF USA!!!!! GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Illegal Alien Stripper Uliana Abramova Get Out of NY Out of USA!!!! She Brake any marriage try & marry stupid fat American guy She make false papers get into university too ..................................................................... * From: bbloulou <luis.rivera56@xxxxxxxxx> * Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:26:41 -0800 Look at weseal face picture of Illegal Uliana!!!! yo can see in bad face that she is bad person have no soul any place. Have no heart. Perdon. Craiglist take my phot o off so no body can look at weseal face ahora mismo. I find new way to show this. Very wrong what this illegal did, she brake visa, brake family!!! Make sex with stupid American guy he father of 4 year son!!! She have no soul care for no body!!! Only want American $$$$$$ & Green Card!!! Now little boy doesnt see his papa!!! Wife is very sad!!!! Family is all broke!!! Illegal Uliana try for blackmail wife!!!! Make lies and get into university allso!!! She does all crimes, she is laugher & do what she want. What person does this??? This criminlal illegal is psycho for sure!!!! ILLEGAL ULIANA GET OUT OF NY OUT OF USA!!!!! Sometime soon they deport to her I hope! But here is info for you to think about so protext self, family job & country. YO See picture of weseal face stripper. She make change nose she try and fix face for may be 5 to 10 hour put on dress cloth but STILL yo can see she have no soul!!! Face is like some bad animal she only want some thing kill & eat. http://jerseyshore.craigslist.org/rnr/790411969.html Perdon. Craiglist take my phot o off so no body can look at weseal face ahora mismo. I find new way to show this. Chat of stripper EXACT PLAN to get into US illegal http://www.site2date.com/chat/data/23597_35806.txt For Report Illegal Aliens http://www.reportillegals.com/ More criminal like Stripper http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/10/23/080527.php ........................ ILLEGAL ULIANA GET OUT OF NY OUT OF USA!!!!! We are laugher allso. Illegal Uliana never get Green Card!!!! Immigration & goverment people knows to her now for sure!!! They say she need to go home. Louie (I am Puerto Rican American Patriot& family guy) ................. Look at this Mr Sanjay post I put up again. Read & find all info about Illegal Uliana & what she plan & what she do. This is true case de veras not some story. .................. To Whom it May Concern: Please be advised that Uliana Abramova, recently dismissed from Scores NY West Side, is in flagrant violation of her Non-Immigrant J-1 Visa. She is presently based in New York City, and it is likely that she will at some point seek employment at your New York City location. It has come to our attention that Abramova has attempted to prevent widespread knowledge of her illegal status She has attempted to coerce several American men into marriage, in order to derive immigration benefits. Abramova has in fact made serious threats against the wife of one of the men she seduced, the father of a four year old child. Please see the original email she sent to this poor woman, directly following this email. I must state unequivocally that all of the statements contained herein are factual and verifiable. It is also true that the removal from the USA of Uliana Abramova would not normally be a matter of such urgency, except that she is a person who enjoys creating mischief and havoc. She is therefore a liability to anyone who may employ her, and a public nuisance in general. Abramova effects an innocent, naive demeanor but is predatory, unpredictable and dangerous. She is a Russian national and speaks with an accent, is 5'5" tall, with an extremely slight build and thin wispy hair dyed red or blond. She has altered her appearance considerably in the past few years (several surgeries to eliminate a bulbous nose), and may continue to do so. Our documentation indicates that Abramova came to the USA with the definite intention of violating the conditions of her temporary, Non- Immigrant, nonrenewable J-1 Visa. Entry into the USA was granted to her under the stipulation that she work as a camp counselor at CCUSA from 5/06 until 10/06. Abramova never showed up to work at the camp and she also remained in the USA past the term of her temporary visa, 10/06. She is therefore both in violation of her visa and in overstay. The word is lately that Abramova has been admitted to university, possibly one of those in the CUNY system. She has accomplished this by failing to disclose her illegal status. This will not stand. She is going to be deported. Abramova is not legally allowed to work or live or do anything anywhere in the USA. She in fact was recently refused a student visa on the basis of her intentional violation of the J-1 Visa. Contact has been made with ICE and with the Compliance Unit, Department of State. Representative Jerrold Nadler of Manhattan Congressional District 8 has offered to be of assistance, and the process of having her removed from the USA is well under way. Please be good enough to take this information seriously. It should serve as a warning to avoid employing or associating with persons of this description. I will not post the relevant law here, but suffice it to say that anyone who employs Abramova or otherwise acts in any manner than enables her to stay in the USA is guilty of "harboring," an offense punishable by 5 years in jail. If you consider posting this warning on the internet to be excessively inflammatory, please be good enough to advise your colleagues of this matter privately. Thus informed, they can act according to their own best judgement. Sincerely yours, Sanjay Karam, Esq. cc: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Department of Homeland Security) United States Department of State (Compliance Unit) ................. ILLEGAL ULIANA GET OUT OF NY OUT OF USA!!!!! Yo read this Illegal Stripper send to wife Mrs Lena!!! She try and blackmail to her!!! Police need put her in jail now!!!! .................. From: ulechka_2...@xxxxxxxxx To: Lena...@xxxxxxx Cc: Arthur...@xxxxxxx Sent: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 4:34 PM Subject: =EF=D4=D7=C5=D4: Fwd: arthur L...@xxxxxxx wrote: Arthur's wife here. I will get you out of the country, you whore. I am writing to immigration. You bet, you lost your job because of me. Ha-ha. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lena I was not aware Arthur was married for 4 month , only after 4 month I found out he is married and has a son. I tried to brake it off, and he was the one calling me and insisting on seeing me all the time, although i asked him to break it off. He loves me and if he wants to be with me, I cant stop him. The only person who can stop it, is Arthur himself. When i type my first and last name in google, this what comes up: http://www.google.com/search?hl=3Den&q=3Duliana+abramova&btnG=3DGoogle+Sear= ch and when I click on the first link that what i see: http://www3.stripclublist.com/image?refno=3D1553170&record=3D18518 U have much more to loose then i am. U have friends , family, and U go to hunter college. I will post your husbands naked pictures all over the net as well as russianny.com. I have naked pictures, videos of him, making love to me, etc... I don't want to hurt your feeling and send u these pictures, unless U want me to, but if wont remove the link, I will post it in the internet next week. All of them... and I have more then 10. If U don't belief me , I send them to U. Don't go there, its up to him to make a decision. I didn't take him away from U, he did it all himself. Its the softest one. .............. ILLEGAL ULIANA GET OUT OF NY OUT OF USA!!!!! Yo cant belief this Illegal Stripper do all crimes & still is here!!!! Seguro que si they deport to her soon. Yo look again at weseal face of Illegal STripper. Ojala que yo run fast & far if yo see to her!!!!! Only some stupid guy go to her like jump ofo bridge. http://jerseyshore.craigslist.org/rnr/790411969.html Perdon. Craiglist take my phot o off so no body can look at weseal face ahora mismo. I find new way to show this. Please for all yo report to illegal live near yo if yo know. Stop for these crime!!!! Stop for more psycho stripper come to USA!!! Yo do this yo pretect self & family. Every body stay more save. We are laugher allso. Illegal Uliana never get Green Card!!!! Immigration & goverment people knows to her now for sure!!! They say she need to go home. ILLEGAL ULIANA GET OUT OF NY OUT OF USA!!!!! GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Louie (I am Puerto Rican American patriot & family guy) Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422542
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    - Left panel on start menu blank? I do not know why all the items on left panel on start menu missing, i is blank My OS Vista U +SP1, thank you -- yxq Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422540
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    - Customize Explorer Initialization Hi experts, Hope someone out there can help me with this one... I am using Vista and this question is about the Windows Explorer (NOT IE)... I work in my Windows Explorer a lot. Normally, I access my Explorer by: Right Click Start>Explorer. That's just fine. But, when my Explorer opens, it ALWAYS opens to a file drilled way down into the system. I don't want that. I have a file directly on my Cdrive that I always want it to (default) open up to... not to some extraneous file Windows think I should be in. So, in summary, when I open my Explorer, I want it to open/show C:\avi's files. NOT some Windows thing like Users\Files\blah\blah\Start... etc etc. Some time ago, I was sure I remember SOMEWHERE in Windows you can set the default view or default opening-folder in your Explorer (and it wasn't a difficult or technical task). But, that was in XP (and I can't remember where to do that now). Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks, avi Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422534
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    - Windows Office 2007 and Vista Is it possible to install only 2 or 3 of the prgms without installing them all? tia for your time... Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422504
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    - Power Management/Power Options in Vista System: 3.4 GHZ Pentium Desktop Motherboard: DFI Lanparty 875P-T BIOS: Award v6.00PG (3/25/05) Display Adapter: NVidia GeForce 7600 GS Monitor: Dell 2407 WFP-HC Router: Linksys BEFW11S4 v4 OS: Windows Vista Premium SP1 wireless mouse, wired usb keyboard I can set the Advanced Power Options so that the ON/OFF button or selection of "hibernate" in the start menu will put the computer into hibernation and it works OK. When I configure the advanced settings to make the computer go into either the hibernate, hybrid sleep or sleep mode automatically after the number of minutes designated in the "settings", the computer remains in the full powered up mode after the number of minutes designated. My BIOS allows for two ACPI global states: S1 or S3. I have tried both settings and neither seems to correct the problem. Any suggestions on how I can get my computer to go into a reduced power state automatically after a designated number of minutes? Thank you Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422498
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    - The Weather Outside Is Anything But Perfect, Just FYI I Was Looking Outside, Just FYI, And I Saw Weather Going By And I Said To My Right Wing Self That There Is Weather Going By And It Is Anything But Perfect. Just FYI. I Was Alias #2 And Ringmaster #4 But I Assigned measekite Alias #3 And Ringmaster Alias #2. Just FYI Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422493
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    - What is stopping me from accessing Showflick.com? When I enter www.showflick.com into IE it immediately changes back to my default which is www.google.co.uk. If I search for showflick.com it shows all the entries but will not connect. Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422473
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    - Drive invisible After I resume from a Power Down (Hibernate), one of my SATA drives is not visible anymore, I have to Re-start to see it. Does anyone know a cure for this please Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422466
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    - Microsoft Word Viewer 2003 on Vista 64? Can anyone confirm whether Microsoft Word Viewer 2003 is compatible with Vista 64? The "Supported Operating Systems" don't list Vista at all and Microsoft's Compatibility Site makes no mention of the viewer. I hesitate to download and install until I'm sure. Thanks! L. MacLean Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422442
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    - Vista Destop Background! I run a double monitor setup side-side. What would really give me some Wow about Vista is having the ability to mirror the image on the second monitor about the vertical axis. This would make all of my cool background images I have taken with my camera look so much more professional. The mountain on the edge of one monitor would have the exact mirrored mountian on the edge of the next monitor. Cool! Cool! Please! You could probably do it under Display Settings with another checkbox under each monitor. That way I might be able to flip it again if I ever get a third or fourth monitor. The other option is letting us set a different background for each monitor. Then I could flip it myself under some other software. That would be cool too! Better yet, just give us both options! ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?mid=cdc9747a-dd60-4059-956f-91ad9eb6479b&dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.general Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422435
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    - IE7 - Vista - Java Snot OK Now Folks... this is the most peculiar situation I've encountered to date with Visa/IE... Here's what I've done and here's what's going on... I'm trying to access NOAA radars with IE7. NOAA radars are Java applets... An example can be found here: http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=PBZ&product=NCR&overlay=11101111&loop=yes I updated Java to 1.6U7 and applets have subsequently failed... so I... Uninstalled all versions of Java Deleted the Java folder under Program Files Reset ALL of IE7 to defaults... inlcuding the master reset to defaults (made sure activex controls, jre, etc. we're reenabled) Rebooted Downloaded and installed JRE 1.6U7 using the manual java installer (with AV disabled and run as administrator) NOW... Java applets (including NOAA radars) work fine in FireFox for ALL USERS Java applets (including NOAA radars) work fine in IE7 in ANOTHER USER (not admin) on this same computer Java applets (including NOAA radars) DO NOT WORK in IE7 for MY (admin) user on this computer CONCLUSION... there is something "user specific" in either IE or VISTA or JAVA that's blocking this funtionality... If I only knew what !!!!! AND BY THE WAY... if I turn of User Account Control (UAC)... the problem goes away... Where's the bug ?? Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422424
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    - error 1920 & 1921 Hi Hope someone can help. Trying to install Panit Shop Pro X2 but at the very end it comes up with "starting services failed error 1921 & sometimes 1920. What does this mean and is there a fix. I have Vista Home Premium Thanks in advance for any help Sue Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422422
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    - re-installing vista hi, i bought a vista-ready PC 18 months ago, and have been using XP since then. but when vista came out, as part of agreement when i bought my PC i was sent a vista CD. i upgraded to vista a few weeks ago, but i've been having problems with anti-virus softwares, i've tried about 5 now (separately) and they all create problems with IE anyway, since then i keep now getting error messages, things like "host process not responding so it is shutting down" and lots of other things not responding so shutting down. so i wanna reset my PC to way it was a few weeks ago when i had fresh installed vista... can i do that with these upgrade CD's? (they sent me 2, 1 with drivers and 1 from MS with vista on it). thanks Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422410
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    - The Weather Looks Perfect Tonight In Denver, Just FYI. The Weather Looks Perfect Tonight In Denver, Just FYI. Looks Like My Rain Dance Is Not Working, Just FYI. Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422409
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    - MS is learning to avoid mistakes like VISTA in the future So they had to make a super flop bloated piece of shit (aka vista) to realize that bloat and bad code is something that people will absolutely hate? So everyone had to hate vista and corporations had to avoid it like the plague for them to start thinking that "HEY PERHAPS CRAP IS NOT WHAT THE CONSUMERS NEED" Gesh vista is crap and it deserves all the bashing its receiving world wide!! At least windows 7 seems that it will be better and ie8 beta 2 is faster (faster than the crap ie7).... perhaps the newbie programmers that made CRAPISTA are starting to learn... with the world as guinea pigs! Article>>>>>>>>>>>> http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/08/27/windows-7-approach-to-system-performance.aspx Engineering Windows 7 Welcome to our blog dedicated to the engineering of Microsoft Windows 7 Windows 7 -- Approach to System Performance Many folks have commented and written email about the topic of performance of Windows. The dialog has been wide ranging-folks consistently want performance to improve (of course). As with many topics we will discuss, performance, as absolute and measurable as it might seem, also has a lot of subtlety. There are many elements and many tradeoffs involved in achieving performance that meets everyone's expectations. We know that even meeting expectations, folks will want even more out of their Windows PCs (and that's expected). We've re-dedicated ourselves to work in this area in Windows 7 (and IE 8). This is a major initiative across each of our feature teams as well as the primary mission of one of our feature teams (Fundamentals). For this post, I just wanted to frame the discussion as we dig into the topic of performance in subsequent posts. Folks might find this post on IE8 performance relevant along with the beta 2 release of IE 8. Performance is made up of many different elements. We could be talking about response time to a specific request. It might mean how much RAM is "typical" or what CPU customers need. We could be talking about the clock time to launch a program. It could mean boot or standby/resume. It could mean watching CPU activity or disk I/O activity (or lack disk activity). It could mean battery life. It might even mean something as mundane as typical disk footprint after installation. All of these are measures of performance. All of these are systematically tracked during the course of development. We track performance by running a known set of scenarios (there are thousands of these) and developers can run specific scenarios based on exercising more depth or breadth. The following represent some (this is just a partial list) of the metrics we are tracking and while developing Windows 7: Memory usage - How much memory a given scenario allocates during a run. As you know, there is a classic tradeoff in time v. space in computer science and we're not exempt. We see this tradeoff quite a bit in caches where you can use more memory (or disk space) in order to improve performance or to avoid re-computing something. CPU utilization - Clearly, modern microprocessors offer enormous processing power and with the advent of multiple cores we see the opportunity for more parallelism than ever before. Of course these resources are not free so we measure the CPU utilization across benchmark runs as well. In general, the goal should be to keep the CPU utilization low as that improves multi-user scenarios as well as reduces power consumption. Disk I/O - While hard drives have improved substantially in performance we still must do everything we can do minimize the amount that Windows itself does in terms of reading and writing to disk (including paging of course). This is an area receiving special attention for Windows 7 with the advent of solid state storage devices that have dramatically different "characteristics". Boot, Shutdown, Standby/Resume - All of these are the source of a great deal of focus for Windows 7. We recognize these can never be fast enough. For these topics the collaboration with the PC manufacturers and hardware makers plays a vital role in making sure that the times we see in a lab (or the performance you might see in a "clean install") are reflected when you buy a new PC. Base system - We do a great deal to measure and tune the base system. By this we mean the resource utilization of the base system before additional software is loaded. This system forms the "platform" that defines what all developers can count on and defines the system requirements for a reasonable experience. A common request here is to kick something out of the base system and then use it "on demand". This tradeoff is one we work on quite a bit, but we want to be careful to avoid the situation where the vast majority of customers face the "on demand" loading of something which might reduce perceived performance of common scenarios. Disk footprint - While not directly related to runtime performance, many folks see the footprint of the OS as indicative of the perceived performance. We have some specific goals around this metric and will dive into the details soon as well. We'll also take some time to explain \Windows\WinSxS as it is often the subject of much discussion on technet and msdn! Here rather than runtime tradeoffs we see convenience tradeoffs for things like on disk device drivers, assistance content, optional Windows components, as well as diagnostics and logging information. We have criteria that we apply at the end of our milestones and before we go to beta and we won't ship without broadly meeting these criteria. Sometimes these criteria are micro-benchmarks (page faults, processor utilization, working set, gamer frame rates) and other times they are more scenario based and measure time to complete a task (clock time, mouse clicks). We do these measurements on a variety of hardware platforms (32-bit or 64-bit; 1, 2, 4GB of RAM; 5400 to 7200 RPM or solid-state disks; a variety of processors, etc.) Because of the inherent tradeoffs in some architectural approaches, we often introduce conditional code that depends on the type of hardware on which Windows is running. On the one hand, performance should be straight forward-use less, do less, have less. As long as you have less of everything performance should improve. At the extreme that is certainly the case. But as we have seen from the comments, one person's must-have is another person's must-not-have. We see this a lot with what some on have called "eye candy"-we get many requests to make the base user interface "more fun" with animations and graphics ("like those found on competing products") while at the same time some say "get rid of graphics and go back to Windows 2000". Windows is enormously flexible and provides many ways to tune the experience. We heard lots on this forum about providing specific versions of Windows customized for different audiences, while we also heard quite a bit about the need to reduce the number of versions of Windows. However, there are limits to what we can provide and at the same time provide a reliable "platform" that customers and developers can count on and is robust and manageable for a broad set of customers. But of course within a known context (within your home or within a business running a known set of software) it will always be possible to take advantage of the customization and management tools Windows has to offer to tune the experience. The ability to have choice and control what goes on in your PC is of paramount importance to us and you will see us continue to focus on these attributes with Windows 7. By far the biggest challenge in delivering a great PC experience relative to performance is that customers keep using their PCs to do more and more things and rightfully expect to do these things on the PC they own by just adding more and more software. While it is definitely the case that Windows itself adds functionality, we work hard to pick features that we believe benefit the broadest set of customers. At the same time, a big part of Windows 7 will be to continue to support choice and control over what takes place in Windows with respect to the software that is provided, what the default handlers are for file types and protocols, and providing a platform that makes it easy for end-users to personalize their computing experience. Finally, it is worth considering real world versus idealized settings. In order to develop Windows we run our benchmarks in a lab setting that allows us to track specifically the code we add and the impact that has. We also work closely with the PC Manufacturers and assist them in benchmarking their systems as they leave the factory. And for true real-world performance, the Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program provides us (anonymous, private, opt-in) data on how machines are really doing. We will refer to this data quite a bit over the next months as it forms a basis for us to talk about how things are really working, rather than using anecdotes or less reliable forms of information. In our next post we will look at startup and boot performance, and given the interest we will certainly have more to say about the topic of performance. --Steven Published Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:00 by e7blog Filed under: Perf Comments Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422407
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    - New Laptop to set up with Vista I just received my HP laptop,with Vista Home Premier 32bit, with no security on it (as I ordered it. So the first thing I want to do is get Avast and spybot on it,......right? I have a Dell XPS420 desktop with Vista Ultimate, 32 bit, and a Dell (10 year old)XPST 450, with Windows 98se on it networked together on a Linksys N Router. I have Cable connection. This morning I tried to add a Netgear server to share my old printer (HP) or my HP (2 years old) Photosmart. It didn't work. I removed the software from the Netgear . I am just about to remove the software from the HP Photosmart. 1st question - before I network in the Vista Home Priumum should I take the Windows 98se off the network or doesn't it matter? 2nd question - Is Vista Home Premium security good enough for me to connect to the internet and download Avast antivirus or should I download onto disc and install via disc? 3rd question - Should I put a firewire cord on it before I do anything and back the whole system up on to my 1 TB backup drive? .........or onto disc??? I have never worked with a laptop or a network before so any suggestions or tips would be appreciated before I plug it in. Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422396
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    - IE BETA 2 V E R Y N I C E ! Lots of bells and whistles, very little in the way of cosmetic changes. No stability problem so far and it's quite speedy. I've only found one problem while making my usual web rounds: it has some serious problems with Google Groups. First: GG has to be run in "compatibility mode" or it won't even load (an IE popup tells the user to switch to that mode). but after that it's quite crippled once the tree view of a thread is shown. My browser of choice has been FF3 since it was first released and I hoped that IE8 would handle address bar history like FF3 does, but it doesn't ;-( Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422394
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    - LinuxInsider Editor Didn't Even Use Linux....... .....until now. http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/64306.html It took him over a year working as an editor for LinuxInsider to make the move to Linux? How on earth did this guy even get the job? Maybe there is hope for Roy Schestowitz to find a real job after all. You have to read the article to see what a nightmare this guy went through getting Linux installed. Notice how he justifies all the difficult parts........ This guy would be more at home as a *Fresher Fluffer* at University of Manchester GB. Hey maybe Roy Schestowitz can put in a good word for him? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/97bd639f8de08108 "..... No real interferences on the horizon, but the volume will be hard to sustain when the undergrads return next week (Freshers' Week). I need to help getting newcomers connected (my daytime job). Best wishes, Roy "" -- Moshe Goldfarb Collector of soaps from around the globe. Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots: http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/ Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422380
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    - Put a quotation on my desktop How do I put a famous quote, which I have, on my desktop so that I can see it every time I start my computer? Thanks. Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422372
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    - Can i able to install another os along with windows vista home bas Hi, This is vinay from visakhapatnam. I have a bought a hp pavillion desktop installed with "windows vista home basic". I created a new drive and installed another operating system. After the installation i restarted my computer. To my surprice windows xp has been started with showing the list operating systems in my pc. As i was given with the recovery disks i could able to restore my original factory condition. Now, i want to install another operating system in my computer. Is it possible to install another operating system keeping my "windows vista home basic" in another drive? If so please give me your valuable suggestions. Can i use "windows virtual pc 2007" keeping "windows vista home basic" as the host? please feel free to reply me soon. waiting for your reply. thank you vinay kumar. Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422357
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    - Personal Web Server in Vista Does Vista Premium have the Personal Web Server available. I can not find it. Thanks Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422350
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    - SQL 2005 compatible with Windows Vista SQL Server 2005 (Query Analyzer) is not compatible with Windows Vista? Where the information SQL 2005 for compatibility with Windows Vista? Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422349
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    - Various ways to escalate to admin I am confused as to when to use which method of privilege escalation and when. For example, there are at least 4 different ways to perform escalation and they seem to produce different results. I have an admin account defined and a regular user account that I do 99% of my work in. I am using Vista Home Premium, by the way. I have used the following methods at one time or another: 1) regular user executes a setup.exe program (for example) and receives a request to provide admin credentials 2) regular user executes a setup.exe program (for example) with 'run as administrator' and receives a request to provide admin credentials 3) admin user executes a setup.exe program (for example) and receives a prompt to approve escalation 4) admin user executes a setup.exe program (for example) with 'run as administrator' and receives a prompt to approve escalation The problem is, many times the results are different. Some program will work with one method but not another. I am not limiting this to just installs: it could be copying files or making directories, etc, etc. I would like to remain a regular user and supply admin credentials as required. But that doesn't always work. How does one know which method to use? I can't believe it's a trial and error procedure. Am I the only one confused here? What am I missing? What am I not getting? Thanks in advance... Dick Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422331
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    - windows firewall http://www.getamused.com/photos/windowsfirewall.html Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422323
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    - Shut Down message http://www.getamused.com/photos/windowsrebootmessage.html Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422311
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    - IE8 Beta2 ready for download http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/ Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422302
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    - 56K modem settings I tried using TCP Optimizer to change the MTU setting for a Vista computer I was working on, but the modem did not appear in the drop down list of adapters. Only listed were the wireless and ethernet connectors. I moved the slider switch from 3000 to 56K and went to Optimal settings and saved, but the MTU of 576 did not take after the reboot. Where do I go in Vista to optimize the internet connection for a computer that most of the time uses the 56K modem to access the internet? Thanks Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422295
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    - Accidentally uninstalled sound, how to reinstall? for some reason the sound button wasn't in the right corner so I opened control panel/sound and sound and tried to turn it off by deenabling sound. for some dumb reason, without warning this seems to have uninstalled the driver so now I have no sound. How can I reinstall it? Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422293
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    - Serial Port Most of the laptops do not come with serial port. I need serial port to connect to the Console port on the Cisco router. Is there a way to purchase an adapter to convert to serial port? Thanks. Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422275
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    - updates and driver problem I'm using vista business edition and I have three problems that have developed. 1) Updates automatically install in my computer. Recently my computer was on overnight with word 2007 (?most recent office version) open. Updates were installed and computer shut down and restarted automatically to install updates now I cannot open word files from e-mails attachments (excell, PP, etc are ok) and I cannot use my cursor on any word documents to jump the cursor to a particular point I have to use the up/down arrows...any thoughts on the cause? 2) Everytime I close Word I get a message saying "the program has stopped working, a problem has caused it to not work", essentially causing a crash but no fixes are recommended when the program searches for causes...?? 3) On a regular basis I receive a blue screen with the following error..."Bugcode_usb_driver" listed with STOP: oxooooooFE (oxooooooo8, oxooooooo6, oxooooooo6, ox8A3A5000, ox8A393000)...I searched microsoft and applied a patch for the problem that did not fix the problem..?? -- gjl Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422273
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    - Windows Aero Not Working! I purchased an HP Pavillion Media Center m8120n last September with Windows Vista Premium pre-installed. Everything including Windows Aero was working perfectly fine. Last Sunday, for some reason, my Windows Aero no longer work. I've tried looking for a solution ever since with no luck. Any suggestions in how I could resolve this? Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422260
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    - Vista can't find a user file Hi all, After typing c:\ in the search box, various dead user files appear, but when i press "Enter" it says that the file can't be found. Also, there is no right click facility to be able to delete them. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Cheers, Phil. -- saxplayerphil Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422259
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    - Windows wont start! please help! so the other night i was messing around with my friends laptop that has vista on it, idk what kind of laptop or if its x64 or not, but im guessing it is cause its like 3 months old. so i was messing around in the network settings trying to change the router that it was hooked up to. the next day he goes to turn it on and it just doesn't start, like it brings you to that black screen like saying what way you want to start it like in safe mode, CMD or like normally. EVERYONE of them you press it takes you to like a loading system files screen, looks like the matrix, idk how to describe it, then it loads like the screen but its just gray and the mouse is there. im guessing like a system file was corrupted or something, how can i fix this? windows vista repair disk? i need to fix this VERY fast before its too late and his parents find out. please help!!! -- Warrior 3000 Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422255
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    - Compatibility I am running Vista on a new computer. I used several home publishing programs on my XP, including MS Home Publishing Express 2000. I cannot get it to install even under the compatibility utility. It says I am missing WMF filter. By not being able to install program, I have lost access to all the projects which I created on my XP computer. I cannot install any of the other programs either. They start, but then hang up and I have to end the installation. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422251
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    - Red Button disappeared from Vista logon/welcome screen I don't know how or when it happened, but my restart/shutown option button in the lower right hand corner of my Welcome screen disappeared? -- Retired Boeing Bill Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422231
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    - External Drive Problem I just bought a new Samsung HD753LJ and placed it in an Antec MX-1 case. At this stage I do not have my notebook eSATA ExpressCard so I hooked it up using the USB connection. The device drivers installed fine and it shows up as working in Device Manager, but it does not show at Start > Computer. I have rebooted and I get the same issue. If anyone can tell me how I can access this drive, I would be truely grateful. Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422223
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    - Enable shutdown button on rdp session! Is it possible to enable the shutdown button on a terminal session like rdp? Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422214
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    - Window Sizes This must have been asked a lot of times, but with VISTA Ultimate, when I open and close windows, they lose their settings and appear in all different sizes and positions and views. Is there any way I can get the windows to appear as I last left them? Thanks in advance. Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422213
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    - Z-order? issue taskbar dissapears My taskbar keeps getting caught behind my windows. So I have to go into taskbar properties, check and uncheck "keep the taskbar on top of other windows", then hit apply. What is causing this and what do I do to fix it for good? Tag: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder Tag: 422197

I wonder where the imposters are? Just FYI

Re: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder by Paul

Paul
Fri Aug 29 12:38:03 PDT 2008

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:40:28 -0700, <kevpan815@comcase.com> wrote:

>I wonder where the imposters are? Just FYI

Someone is having fun at Mick Murphy's expense. He must've pissed one
of them off.

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Re: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder by Bill

Bill
Fri Aug 29 12:53:00 PDT 2008

"Paul Montgomery" <i.m.nonnymous@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message
news:dvjgb4td0es1lpt0sfrtivrakqg3vrlfob@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:40:28 -0700, <kevpan815@comcase.com> wrote:
>
>>I wonder where the imposters are? Just FYI
>
> Someone is having fun at Mick Murphy's expense. He must've pissed one
> of them off.

Probably called someone a cockhead to many times. :-)

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Re: I don't see any imposters. Maybe I should look harder by MickMurphy

MickMurphy
Fri Aug 29 22:25:01 PDT 2008

If I call them a cockhead; that's what they are.
Truth hurts
--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia

"Bill Yanaire" wrote:

>
> "Paul Montgomery" <i.m.nonnymous@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message
> news:dvjgb4td0es1lpt0sfrtivrakqg3vrlfob@4ax.com...
> > On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:40:28 -0700, <kevpan815@comcase.com> wrote:
> >
> >>I wonder where the imposters are? Just FYI
> >
> > Someone is having fun at Mick Murphy's expense. He must've pissed one
> > of them off.
>
> Probably called someone a cockhead to many times. :-)
>
>
>
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