Study sees Microsoft brand in sharp decline
MY COMMENT>
Of course I predicted all this the very moment I set my eyes on an early
beta of Vista. I knew this was very bad news for MS.
If vista was good, then it would have saved MS, but vista has been
Microsoft's worst product EVER (and Im not joking when I say that).
Companies don't go near it, any respected IT person would never tell a
business to install Vista...
Vista has been hated and kicked around all over the internet... the
blogosphere and videoshpere is full of vista jokes and bashes...
And now MS is without inspiration, windows7 seems too much like vista... and
that's a big problem.
They need some new brilliant minds and to open their ears to what people
really need, but is the time enough to change the course of things?
ARTICLE>
http://www.activewin.com/awin/comments.asp?HeadlineIndex=43229
Microsoft's brand power has been in sharp decline over the past four years,
an indication the company is losing credibility and mindshare with U.S.
business users, according to a recent study by market research firm
CoreBrand.According to the CoreBrand Power 100 2007 study , which polled
about 12,000 U.S. business decision-makers, Microsoft dropped from number 12
in the ranking of the most powerful U.S. company brands in 2004 to number 59
last year. In 1996, the company ranked number 1 in brand power among 1,200
top companies in about 50 industries, said James Gregory, CEO of CoreBrand. Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887483
Print photos using photo printing wizard
Have several photos, in several folders. Infact, ~ 2500 in 30 folders for
our local Historical Society.
We want to print out a thumbnail of each photo, burn them to CD/DVD for
storage.
We started out using PaintShop Pro but the problem is it doesn't label the
photos meaning we have to handwrite definition of each pics or capture
screen with list of pics. Either way not good.
It does give you 18 pics per page (3 across-6 down). This is a good size.
Here's where we're at this point using winxp photo printing wizard.
opened folder, selected 'print pictures' and wizard opens.
Following direction we get to point of selecting how many photos per page.
Of the several selections only 2 are close to what we would like. One being
'Wallet Prints' which give you 9 pics per page or 'Contact Sheets' which
gives you 35 per sheet. One is too large, (9) wasted space and the other
(35) to small to really see pics.
What we'd like is something in between these, say 18-24 per page.
Are the print selections mentioned above(not PSP) a template? If they are,
is there a way to change one of them to increase or decrease the number of
pics per page? Or create a custom print selection.
any suggestion please,
thanks Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887477
String of Numbers and Letters In Windows Explorer, Windows XP Home,
This is a list of 4 groups of numbers and letters under my (C:)
1. {00003A04-0000-0000-E66D-B6B7F1786819}
2. {90000046-0000-0000-A147-5AF86B43D1E2]
3. 8ff9f5ebce54b1f75693d6877e2eb329
4. 9dd8f660b12312edc83b0a384fc8
These groups are in the left pane and in the right pane are from top to
bottom : 1. DATA Manifest Configuration Settings
2. " " " " Manifest.orm ORM
3. msxml6-KB927977-enu-x86 Text Document
4. msxml4-KB927978-enu Text Document
Can they be safely deleted or are they integral to the health of
programs, applications and/or my computer. I have seen this question
long ago, but not recently. If I should not be here, please re-direct.
Thank you for any response.....Uly Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887471
help
I bought the Defener Pro 5-in-1 security program, installed it but it had
expired license key. Cotacted company I bought it from and they said to
uninstall program and bring it back for a refund. But when I unistalled it I
got a message that said the program had also unistalled components that were
required to run my windows xp. Ibought my computer from Tiger Direct fully
loaded with everything already installed, so I don't have the Windows xp
disc. How do I fix this? Help please. Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887469
Can't display cetain http - PDF pages?
Hello folks,
Just got a new job and have to read their training manuals. Only problemis I
can't get them to display! All I get is a small square with a red "x" in it.
Please help.
TIA
Windows XP tablet
IE
Tring to open pages like this.
http://www.(company site
name).com/Manual/Sec.%204%20Building%20Construction%204-03-06.pdf Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887468
access denied
I have recently purchased a Maxtor 500 gb One Touch 4 external hard drive. I
formated it to my computer and it worked fine for a couple of days but now
when I try to access the hard drive from my start menu, it tells me access
denied. I can unplug it and get in to via auto run. How can I resolve the
issue of having to unplug the external to gain access to my files? I'm trying
to run this on a Sony VAIO laptop with Windows XP pro. Any suggestions will
be greatly appreciated! Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887466
Product Activation
When I turned on the computer a notice popped up saying I needed to activate
WindowsXP Home.I have not changed or added any hardware that would require
reactivation? Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887464
Odd Windows Explorer behavior
I have a user experiencing a very strange problem with Explorer
which started out of the blue a few weeks ago. He has a relatively new
HP XW4400 workstation running XP Pro SP2. The issue is intermittent
and only occurs on one folder which is on a mapped network drive. The
user has folder view open so he can see the folder tree on the left.
When he clicks on any subfolder within this folder, the
contents of the selected folder appear in the main frame and the
correct path appear in the address bar. The weird bit happens in the
folder tree, which jumps to the folder above and tries to find the
subfolder inside that folder and then brings up an error similar to 'K:
\Engineering\Folder_Above_The_One_I_Was_In\Subfolder_I_Clicked_On
refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on...'. The
error is correct, the folder isn't there because it's not looking in
the place I clicked.
This issue does not occur on any other computer in the building
and there is nothing different about either of these folders. I
haven't checked to see if this happens for other users logged on to
the computer or for the same user logged on to other computers, but I
will check it out when I get the chance. It's not user error and
nothing has changed on his system (according to the user and my
inventory reports).
Anybody have an idea? I appreciate any suggestions you've got. Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887463
Windows XP USB Drive Letter Assignment Problem
I've been browsing for a fix, and yet to find one. Hopefully someone here can
help.
Our enterprise is running Win Xp Sp2 and users do not have permissions to
diskmngt. We're running MS and Novell network shares. When the user plugs
their usb drive in, Windows automatically assigns it the first available
drive letter, which in this case is a network share.
I've tried putting in trash binary data for \dosdevices\drive: under
mounteddevices, but Win just overwrites it. I cannot force windows to use
select approved drive letters. So then I thought I would script something
using subst or mountvol, but WMI will not report the removalable media,
instead it sees it as a network drive.
Then I tried to use mountvol drive: /l to return the volume info, but once
again, it doesn't work for network shares. Mountvol /l works, but not
specifying the drive letter to search.
Basically I need a free solution to fix this. I'm out of options looking for
help.
Summary:
Novell mapped drive F:
Plug usb drive in, assigns drive letter F:
USB does not show up for user
User cannot change letter because they don't have rights
WMI doesn't see removalable media correctly if it's already reporting as a
network share
Mountvol F: /l doesn't work because F: isn't a physical drive
Subst doesn't work because it just remaps the share, not the USB device Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887441
Run as... msi Windows Installer Packages
Hello all,
Can .msi Windows Installer Packages be Run As... an admin?
I just had a situation where a co-worker needed an msi package ran. I'm not
a domain admin, but my domain login is part of the admin group on her
computer. I right-clicked the package, but i didn't see any "Run as..."
Thanks for any help anyone can provide,
Conan Kelly Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887440
Error messgae
Hello, wonder if anyone can help.
Recently my PC has been displaying an error message and not performing as
well as previously. I get this message, and wonder if anyone can provide a
solution?:
"Unable to initialize internal Com library. Error code: 0x800401f3"
Thank you in anticipation Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887433
setup cannot continue because the version of windows on your compu
I have two dell GX280's and BOTH of them are giving me this message
"setup cannot continue because the version of windows on your computer is
newer than the version on the cd"
I have changed my boot order to start from CD. I am using the restoration
CDs that came with each pc, (I have even tried a stand alone cd), however,
once prompted to press any key to boot from CD, Windows just starts up again.
I have reformatted many machines in the past and this has NEVER happened
before (oddly I get two in the same day).
HOW can I get these machines to boot from the CD in order to delete the
partition and do a clean install??
Laurie Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887431
mobo spoilt
The sympton is when I power on the pc, it goes to desktop and when I click
ctart> get a dialogue box where you will be able to highlight and pick the
items you want. My problem is that the hightligher will not stop moving and
it will goes on in cycles. Sometimes it will stop momentarily and continue
again. So thinking that it was the keyboard, I got it change. But the
situation remains the same. So I reformat my hAarddisk, huess what its still
the same. Is it that I did not install the XP properly or is my motherboard
fired? Is there anywhere I can try and check that its not due to the xp?
Thanks a lot. Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887425
Wallpaper
I had a .jpg photograph as my wallpaper. Today I went to change the
wallpaper to a different photograph, and windows won't let me now select any
photograph as wallpaper, other than the wallpaper images that came with
windows xp.
Any ideas as to why? And how I can fix this so I can use photographs as my
wallpaper again? Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887411
What is Windows registry (Registry Keys)
Find this tutorial and more on http://thedotnetsource.blogspot.com
Reason of this project:
I wrote this tutorial in order to help the hundred of programers
searching on the web for Windows registry.
This is an like introduction, if you are seeking how to use and deploy
the registry keys with Vb.net, just see the next tutorial (It'll be
tutorial 6).
In this tutorial I'll show what is the windows registry system and why
use it.
Project details:
1- What is Windows registry and why use it
2- How to read, write and change the registry
3- HIVES and their use
4- Definition of registry values
1- What is Windows registry and why use it.
You can compare the Windows registry to a database. It stores
informations related to Windows and other installed application on
your system, but also Hardware.
Think now if someone need to change the computer name via programming.
How can he do this?
Programmers can think of files (text files) to store the computer and
windows information. But when file get big and heavy, Database will be
more secure. And then they had (Windows builder) the choice of a
database "Windows Registry".
Microsoft Dot Net Frame 1.1 and higher have implemented a great
solution for registry on their classes. This will replace the hard
work and long lines of code that programmers have to write if they are
using Visual Studio 6.0 for example.
2- How to read, write and change the registry
Windows has a wonderful tool on it, named "Registry Editor". But you
won't find it, unless you open the System32 folder on the Windows
folder.
But we can easily run it through the execute command it the start
menu. Just type "regedit" (without quotes).
Now the registry editor will open.
Please before doing any changes on your registry make a backup.
To do a windows registry backup: File > Export > Give a name for the
file and select the All option box.
The backup may block your pc from working for a short period of time.
You'll see that there are 5 folder. Those are the main folder (named
hives) and you can't add another main folder.
Now you can select any folder and right click on it, then add a new
sub-folder or value.
By selecting any folder and right clicking, you'll find a list of
action that you can do.
If the action is blended (made not selectable), then either it's
impossible or you don't have the rights to do this action.
You need administrator rights to change registry keys.
3- HIVES (main registry folders) and their use
The registry is split into a number of logical sections named "hives",
those are the top main folder that can added, edited or renamed.
They all start with "HKEY" prefix.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
Stores information about registered applications, such as Associations
from File Extensions and OLE Object Class ID's tying them to the
applications used to handle these items.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Stores settings that are specific to the currently logged-in user. The
HKCU key is a link to the subkey of HKEY_USERS that corresponds to the
user; the same information is reflected in both locations. On Windows-
NT based systems, each users' settings are stored in their own files
called NTUSER.DAT and USRCLASS.DAT inside their own documents and
settings subfolder.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Abbreviated HKLM, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE stores settings that are general
to all users on the computer. On NT-based versions of Windows, HKLM
contains four subkeys, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE and SYSTEM, that are
found within their respective files located in the %SystemRoot%
\System32\Config folder. A fifth subkey, HARDWARE, is volatile and is
created dynamically, and as such is not stored in a file. Information
about system hardware drivers and services are located under the
SYSTEM subkey, whilst the SOFTWARE subkey contains software and
windows settings.
HKEY_USERS
Contains subkeys corresponding to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER keys for each
user registered on the machine.
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
Contains information gathered at runtime; information stored in this
key is not permanently stored on disk, but rather regenerated at boot
time.
4- Definition of registry values
Binary Value
REG_BINARY
Raw binary data. Most hardware component information is stored as
binary data and is displayed in Registry Editor in hexadecimal
format.
DWORD Value
REG_DWORD
Data represented by a number that is 4 bytes long (a 32-bit integer).
Many parameters for device drivers and services are this type and are
displayed in Registry Editor in binary, hexadecimal, or decimal
format. Related values are DWORD_LITTLE_ENDIAN (least significant byte
is at the lowest address) and REG_DWORD_BIG_ENDIAN (least significant
byte is at the highest address).
Expandable String Value
REG_EXPAND_SZ
A variable-length data string. This data type includes variables that
are resolved when a program or service uses the data.
Multi-String Value
REG_MULTI_SZ
A multiple string. Values that contain lists or multiple values in a
form that people can read are generally this type. Entries are
separated by spaces, commas, or other marks.
String Value
REG_SZ
A fixed-length text string.
Binary Value
REG_RESOURCE_LIST
A series of nested arrays that is designed to store a resource list
that is used by a hardware device driver or one of the physical
devices it controls. This data is detected and written in the
\ResourceMap tree by the system and is displayed in Registry Editor in
hexadecimal format as a Binary Value.
Binary Value
REG_RESOURCE_REQUIREMENTS_LIST
A series of nested arrays that is designed to store a device driver's
list of possible hardware resources the driver or one of the physical
devices it controls can use. The system writes a subset of this list
in the \ResourceMap tree. This data is detected by the system and is
displayed in Registry Editor in hexadecimal format as a Binary Value.
Binary Value
REG_FULL_RESOURCE_DESCRIPTOR
A series of nested arrays that is designed to store a resource list
that is used by a physical hardware device. This data is detected and
written in the \HardwareDescription tree by the system and is
displayed in Registry Editor in hexadecimal format as a Binary Value.
None
REG_NONE
Data without any particular type. This data is written to the registry
by the system or applications and is displayed in Registry Editor in
hexadecimal format as a Binary Value
Link
REG_LINK
A Unicode string naming a symbolic link.
QWORD Value
REG_QWORD
Data represented by a number that is a 64-bit integer. This data is
displayed in Registry Editor as a Binary Value and was introduced in
Windows 2000.
This tutorial doesn't contain any source.
See http://thedotnetsource.blogspot.com for the latset tutorials and
updates.
The Zip file contains:
-The readme.txt file
-The tutorial.txt file
Still have question:
Go to our blog (http://thedotnetsource.blogspot.com). Select the
tutorial post. Post a comment describing your problem. Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887409
How safe is my BIOS Power-on Password?
Hi -
A short while ago I learnt that if I transfer my data from an NTFS to a
FAT32 harddrive I lose all my security features on the files.
Since I use a BIOS power-on password to protect the data on my laptop I
am now wondering if there is any point to doing so at all. Could an
unauthorised person not simply access my PC with a bootable Linux CD
such as Knoppix and copy all of my files over to a FAT32 external
drive?
Or will BIOS be smart enough and prevent the evil-doer from doing this?
If yes, how? If no, is there anything else I can do to be safe against
data theft in case of laptop theft?
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Pat
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pat_mc Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887408
Device Unit Letter?
How can I determine the device unit letter independently?
When I connect a flash memory, it persists to use a reserved letter (G:),
not next available. The device is then not visible. Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887369
error VsTskMgr.exe
I have been tidying up a friends laptop,now when the laptop is started the
following error comes up.
VsTskMgr.exe Encountered a problem and needed to close.
This error occurred on 27/03/2008 at 12:50
it may have something to do with Mcafee, Which is one of the things that I
uninstalled by means of add/remove then used the Mcafee Uninstalling Tool.
Advice Needed on how to cure this error please.
If you think this question should have been posted in a different Group
please advise.
--
Regards tonyq Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887360
Win XP upgrade and OEM limitiations
I have a Dell and accompanying XP disc from Dell. It's limited to being
reinstalled on my Dell.
I have another computer, a non-Dell, I'd like to install XP on. My question
is, if I buy a Windows Xp Pro Upgrade CD, is that install limited to my
Dell, or can I use it to install on another computer? is the upgrade limited
to my Dell?
(This is the only kind of XP disc I can get through schoo.)
Many thanks
Ben Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887350
Tell XP to use the wifi card NOT the lan card?
I have both an wifi PCI card, and an onboard 10/100 rj45 network
port.
I have the wifi card getting internet just fine from my neighbor.
I have my rj45 port connected to my router, so that I can connect to
other pc's on my router too. But the router isn't connected to the
internet, nor do I want it to be. It's just internal only LAN.
The problem is- if I plug my pc into the router, then internet
explorer (and every other network needy app) tries to connect to the
internet using my router, instead of my wifi card. I can see that by
pinging an ip, I can see that it's trying to use my router for DNS,
which of course fails. When I unplug my PC from the router, I can get
on the web, because it uses my wifi card since there's no router.
How do I tell windows "Use the wifi card for the web, please, not the
rj45 port, even when I'm connected to a router." ?
I have Winxp sp2. Thanks. Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887347
Which for Ad-Aware & SpyBot, safe or normal mode?
I need an option on which is the best Windows ZP home mode to run Ad-Aware and SpyBot full scan in
safe mode, safe mode without network, or normal mode. Any information would be useful.
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To reply to this email please remove the AT
after the kGb in the reply to address as shown above. Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887331
Can I build a stand-alone system?
I want to set up a system that will never be on-line and would like some
advice on how to do this.
The advantages that I think apply are:
1. No malware will ever infect the system
2. I will not need a firewall, any internet-security software or
anti-virus software, meaning that few resident security routines, loaded
at start-up, will be required leading to greater system performance.
3. I will not need to continually install security updates to system and
application software, again resulting in better performance as well as
easier set-up
4. I will not be tempted to load on the latest level of software
'enhancements', most of which are really not useful additions to
software which is already seriously over-bloated to start with (for
example, I doubt whether there are many things in PS CS3 which were not
in PS 6.5 and which are critical to my work). This will mean I spend far
less time maintaining my system, learning new software and battling with
system instabilities.
5. I don't need to move inexorably to newer hardware every 12 months, as
I have been doing for the past 10 years. Ms Word and/or competitive
equivalents ran with acceptable performance and acceptable function 15
years ago on my 120 Mhz, 32 Mb RAM Pentium system.
But there are problems I can foresee:
A. Windows XP will not work without an on-line activation (I suppose I
could revert to Win 2K - that was equally stable, but some of my
software is XP (and later) only). Some apps. are moving (or have moved)
to a similar requirement.
B. I fear some, as yet unspecified, problems with web-browsers (which
are required accessing html help files for example).
C. Some major apps. (like those in MS Office) require on-line
connectivity to provide help support.
D. There is the obvious problem of getting data into and out of this
system. Yes, I could use R/W CD media (a throw back to the old pre-LAN
days of 'sneaker-ware') - but it's not really attractive. IF I have any
LAN connectivity, there is always the risk that malware will migrate
across the LAN - isn't there?
E. I can't do LAN printing or back up data to my in-house 'server'.
I'm sure there must be a smart way of meeting my objectives. Can
somebody point me in the right direction?
Thanks. Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887330
Can Not Display Control Panel Properly
I have recently re-installed Windows XP. Now, when I select Start - >
Control Panel the panel is not displayed. Instead, The Control Panel folder
appears. Also, should an item labelled something like Settings be displayed ?
Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
John E Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887311
File Types not showing proper icon for html / htm
Running Window XP MCE SP2
HTML and HTM are configured to show Firefox icon for all modes, edit /
print / open
I've even hit advanced and checked to make sure the icon is set right.
Yet in windows explorer I still don't get the icon. I get a generic
window looking icon. Not the fireball.
I googled and found reference to shelliconcache errors, but can't find
the file and the help is old like this is a win98 issue.
Tried Tweak UI -> repair.
Changed the icons to IE then back to firefox and still no good. Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887309
Re: "Convert" NTFS to FAT32 after Saving HDD Contents
Hi,
I do have a very good reason for doing this, in order to access the HDD
contents without launching WinXP, using a bootable CD rom (created using a
bootable floppy disk on a Windows 98 computer).
Why would I want to access the HDD without Windows "running"? For
matters of security (out of "reach" of all types of spyware) in order to view
(and/or edit) sensitive personal information that is scrambled/encrypted. The
program I use will not run unless in real Dos mode. A NTFS HDD is not
accessible after booting via bootable CD rom.
However, you may know something that I don't know regarding access to the
NTFS HDD without WinXP "running"?
Brad
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:51:24 -0400, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general you
wrote:
>Only with 3rd-Party Disk Management tools, such as Acronis Disk
>Director or others. Is there a particular reason why you want to use
>FAT32 instead of NTFS ?
>
>Doing a non-destructive format conversion has some risk involved
>so you wouldn't want to attempt this without a verified image to use
>if something fails.
>
>"Brad" <bpetria@verizon.net> wrote in message
>news:47eb95d2.888439@news.verizon.net...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to save WinXP HDD (NTFS) contents such as "WINDOWS",
>> "Program Files", "Documents and Settings", (etc.) folder "trees", format
>> the
>> HDD as FAT32, then transfer saved contents back to HDD without causing
>> problems?
>>
>> Thanks in advance, Brad
>>
>> Before you type your password, credit card number, etc.,
>> be sure there is no active keystroke logger (spyware) in your PC.
>>
> Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887306
Send Fax Wizard no longer able to queue multiple recipients
I used to be able to queue an arbitrary number of fax recipients with the
Send Fax Wizard. Now it still lets me make a long list of recipients, but
no more than one or two recipients actually appear in the fax queue.
Sometime I get the following application event error entry (but most of the
time none):
>
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: Microsoft Fax
> Event Category: Outbound
> Event ID: 32090
> Date: 3/26/2008
> Time: 10:09:15 AM
> User: N/A
> Computer: HP119NASHUA
> Description:
> The Fax service print monitor has failed to submit the fax.
>
> The following error occurred: 4.
> This error code indicates the cause of the error.
>
> Sender Machine Name: \\HP119NASHUA.
> Sender User Name: fleischer.
> Sender Name: <sender>
> Subject: .
> Recipient name: <name>
> Recipient number: <number>
> Number of Recipients: 15.
>
> For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
(The Help and Support Center offers no help, by the way.)
The net effect seems to be that I can submit a fax to one or two recipient
destinations at a time, but the rest if there are more do not show up in the
fax queue.
I have removed and re-installed the XP fax service; I have deleted and
re-created the fax printer and queue; I have re-installed the modem.
Everything was working fine on this system with no changes and then this
happened.
My guess is that on this multi-core system there is some sort of
synchronization failure with a long list of recipients. Even so, it used to
work on this system.
Thanks,
Bob Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887305
Announcing the Windows Search 4.0 Preview
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/03/27/announcing-the-windows-search-4-0-preview.aspx
Notice that they acknowledge the bugs, that the vista fanboys claim didn't
exist? LOL idiots...
lets hope this one will be better than the extremely bad designed and
implemented CRAP search of vista
(this installs on non vista OS too, like XP) Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887299
Large files
I am running out of disk space. Is there some easy way to list the largest
files on the disk?
Bob Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887292
Registry data shared between partitions.
Hi,
I copied mu OS XP to a new primary partition. Now I have 2 primary
partition with the same XP installation. I did all that through
PartitionMagic 8.0. From the new partition I tried to uninstall
Office2003 and... almost magically I unistalled it also in the old
partition!!! It is as the registry shares data among partition
(primary, only 1 per time is visible and active). How does it could be
possible? Is there a way to hide totally this registry information
among partition?
Camelot Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887289
Process state information in winXP
Hi,
Is there any tool/MFC API available in windows XP to know precisely
how much time a process spent in wait queue and how much time it spent
in the "Ready to Run" Queue. I need the two times individually
wheareas GetProcessTime gives the total wait time which is teh sum of
both.
Thanks in advance Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887287
Hotmail
Hello,
This may be a strange question on this newsgroup, but I am trying to find a
newsgroup for Hotmail users (I cannot find one). I need to find a way to
transfer all folders (and the emails stored in them) from a yahoo account to
a Hotmail account. Thank you. Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887179
VIDEO DELETION
Hi,
I have an iPod Nano 3rd gen and it shows on the 'summary' screen that
there is space being used up by videos. There aren't any video on my
iPod. I've deleted any video podcasts and it still shows space used
up by videos.
Is there a way to find out what is taking up this space?
Thanks,
MKO Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887157
Missing services
I'm missing my smart card helper service and the smart card resource manager
service. I can no longer use my smart card reader. Can I re install the
service? Thanks Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887156
not require password upon bootup
Task Scheduler required me to enter a password so I could have a
schedule task run. I only have one account on this computer and I
think the guest account is disabled. Is there a way to bypass the
password prompt and have the user be logged into windows upon it
booting up.
Thanks,
Pete Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887152
Any way to escape parenthesis characters in a batch file?
if "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%"=="x86" (
set PROGNAME=Program Files
) else if "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%"=="AMD64" (
set PROGNAME=Program Files (x86)
)
This fails because of the parenthesis in (x86). I have a workaround already,
but I'd prefer using the method above for readability. Any way to escape the
parenthesis characters so this will work?
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Bill Baker Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887142
Calc.exe digit grouping doesn't work
Does anyone have any ideas why digit grouping isn't working in the
Windows Calculator (Calc.exe and CalcPlus.exe)? Even though digit
grouping is checked in the calculators on my work computer and my home
computer, the calculator won't display commas. I'm running XPSP2.
Thanks,
Kirt Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887128
cache of unwanted photos
Unwanted photos (JPEG) are cached to Photo Shop from my home page and sites
visited on the net. How do I stop this,turn it off? Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887125
is my hyperthreading working ?
My XP Home ...all up to date, ...Task manager | Performance shows two graphs
:-)
Device Manager says that "ACPI Multiprocessor PC" is working properly.
http://www.intel.com/support/processors/tools/htu/ test utility reports that
my cpu, bios and chipset failed the test !
Well, my motherboard, cpu and bios are all acceptable for hyperthreading,
according to Intel's specification requirements.
...I patched with KB896256 ages ago, ...can't remember why !
...could it just be that Intels test utility *.exe is a pile of c**p ?
any thoughts appreciated,
regards, Richard Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887122
Rename destination file with Robocopy
Is there any way to have robocopy name a destination file different from the
source? For example, if I want to copy c:\Temp\temp.log to c:\Temp\temp.bak.
So far I can't see any way of performing this simple operation. Does
robocopy actually not allow this?
Thanks,
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Bill Baker Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887117
Recent Folder Files
Is there any limit to the number of files that can be accumulated in
the Recent folder?
What are the files in the Recent folder used for? Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887113
BSOD ?
I get a blue screen of death shortly after inputting my password, it reboots
my PC way too fast for me to read the text. How can I determine the cause of
the BSOD and fix it?
TIA...Les Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887106
System Time Issue
I have one XP SP3 system that will not display the correct time. The clock
setting is set to Mountain Time (-7:00) with the Automatically adjust DST box
checked, but for some reason is always displaying one hour earlier (like the
box is in Central Time.) The box is part of an AD domain and all systems are
syncing with the DC but this is the only one that is off. When I run the
command net time \\domaincontroller /set /y from a command line, the system
shows -6:00 Central Time in the output line. I have no idea where this is
coming from.
Has anyone else seen this? I checked the BIOS system time and that seems
fine. We are well past the original DST date and the system has been fully
patch with even the optional patches. Any thoughts? Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887102
BSOD
I get a blue screen of death shortly after inputting my password, it reboots
my PC way too fast for me to read the text. How can I determine the cause of
the BSOD and fix it?
TIA...Les Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887082
Point DVD-RAM Drive Letter To Hard Drive?
I have a proprietary backup system that backs up it's data to a dvd-
ram drive formatted as ntfs and the system sees it as a large floppy/
superdisk-type drive. This system is wasting a lot of disks, and, to
make a long story short, I want to force the backup software to write
to a hard drive instead of the dvd-ram disk. I've heard this is
possible by editing the registry. Can anyone point me to some
information on this?
I know I'm on my own and unsupported by MS by doing registry-editing. Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887079
Korean Languange Issues ...
Hello,
I am having peculiar issues with configuring a Windows XP SP2 system to use
the Korean language.
The original install was in English and Korean input works well. However,
certain programs do not show up in Korean; they show up as processed
Unicode. But Office XP and Internet Explorer shows Korean text just fine.
I have enabled support for East Asian and checked out all of the options
listed in "Regional and Language Options" in the Control Panel to no avail.
Any other places I should check? Anything I need to download?
Thanks for your time.
Regards,
Christopher Koeber Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887077
Windows Installer
When Windows starts, Installer automatically kicks in, but gives me the
following error message : "Unexpected termination". I have already tried the
Installer Cleanup utility to no avail...
Can you help? Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887065
450MB for ".NET" runtimes?????
Control Panel Add/Remove Applications says I have two big apps on my PC:
.NET Framework 2.0 SP1 (185MB)
.NET Framework 3.0 SP1 (245MB)
Is this really just 245MB with a confusing report or is it really a
total of 430MB? Wow.
I didn't need any .NET until recently when I installed two small-ish
open source apps; CDBurnerXP Pro 3 and Filezilla (ftp).
Can I uninstall 3.0 and see if these apps work with 2.0?
Can I uninstall e 2.0 and get 185MB back?
This is an old laptop that needs the disk space.
Thanks
--
Al Dykes
News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising.
- Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887040
Cookies
Where are cookies stored in XP Pro & IE7? Tag: Date Visible-Narrow Taskbar Tag: 1887037
I am wondering if there is any way to make the day's date visible on the
narrow task bar (i.e. without having to double the task bar in vertical
height in order to see it). Thanks.
"PeeDee" <PeeDee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F762FE77-3882-417A-ABB0-F13CE7F588E2@microsoft.com...
>I am wondering if there is any way to make the day's date visible on the
> narrow task bar (i.e. without having to double the task bar in vertical
> height in order to see it). Thanks.
> No.
>
> "PeeDee" <PeeDee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F762FE77-3882-417A-ABB0-F13CE7F588E2@microsoft.com...
> >I am wondering if there is any way to make the day's date visible on the
> > narrow task bar (i.e. without having to double the task bar in vertical
> > height in order to see it). Thanks.
>