Archive for July 6th, 2009


Jul 6

Office 2007 + your success story = Free Microsoft PR!

Office 2007 was released concomitantly with Windows Vista at the end of January 2007. Have you got an Office 2007 success story you'd like to share? Perhaps an illustration of how Office 2007 has helped your small business in a very specific or innovative way? We're looking for examples we can use in our marketing literature -
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Jul 6

Windows Server 2008 R2: Installation & configuration of Remote Desktop Services – Video tutorials

This video walk through the initial installation and configuration of the RDS Session Host (traditional Terminal Server) in a Windows Server 2008 R2 environment.
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Jul 6

London Stock Exchange (LSE) drops TradElect – Microsoft Windows-based System

In September the LSE (London Stock Exchange)'s Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day, due to a fault in TradElect. The CEO reported to have immediately decided to put an end to TradElectm that runs on HP ProLiant servers running Windows Server 2003. The TradElect software itself is a custom blend of C# and .NET programs, created
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Jul 6

Hotfix for Windows XP SP3 TIFF images issue (KB970922)

Considering the following scenario: you‘ve a computer running Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3). When you open a TIFF document by using Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, and rotate the TIFF document either clockwise or counterclockwise. In this scenario, the TIFF image becomes a garbage image on the screen, and the file is corrupted on the hard disk. “This
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Jul 6

Hotfix for Windows Movie Maker crash on XP SP3 with over 100 video transitions or effects (KB969395)

You install more than 100 video transitions or video effects to be used by Windows Movie Maker on a computer that is running Windows XP. When you try to run Windows Movie Maker, the application crashes. This problem occurs because the maximum number of video transitions or video effects that Windows Movie Maker can handle is
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Jul 6

Windows 7 ISO Verifier Applet

If you happens to download Windows 7 builds leaked around torrents or other sources on the internet, you might like to verify the integrity of files to ensure files are as described and have not been tampered with, however not everyone does this. Long Zheng with Sven Groot have created a little applet for Windows
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Jul 6

Revert default Acer Aspire easyStore H340 Home Server Home Page

Windows Home Server includes a built-in web server so you can remotely access your server and files. For this the default home page is typically a friendly splash screen with a simple link to a logon page where anyone with a valid account can logon and view/access the files they have permission to access.  Through the home server settings, you
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Jul 6

Microsoft’s Rogue DHCP Server detection Utility

Rogue DHCP servers are those DHCP servers that are misconfigured or unauthorized unknowingly or those that are configured with a malicious intent for network attacks. Either be the case the impact on clients that are serviced by the rogue DHCP servers are critical. That is the clients would experience network access problems due to rogue DHCP
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Jul 6

Google Images Search places SafeSearch switch repositioned

Google image search made toggling the SafeSearch option a bit easier, by including the “SafeSearch” menu, right under the search box on the results page. The SafeSearch has three modes: “Off, Moderate and strick” with moderate as deafault. SafeSearch is Google’s adult content filter that can be turned off in most countries, though interestingly enough not in (at least)
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Jul 6

Windows Server 2008 SP2 Multilingual User Interface Language Packs

Grouped Language Pack Media (Windows Server 2008 SP2 Language Packs) enables a multilingual user interface in a Windows Server 2008 SP2 environment. Adding one or more language packs to a Windows Server 2008 SP2 image enables one or more languages in the installed Windows Server 2008 SP2 operating system. This enables corporations to deploy the same
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Jul 6

Windows Vista SP2 Management Tools for Hyper-V

This update package includes fixes for the Hyper-V Management Tools on systems that are running Windows Vista Service Pack 2,” Microsoft explained. “The Hyper-V Management Tools must be installed in order to install this update.”  This update fixes the following issues: The Japanese version of the Hyper-V Manager Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in contains text
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Jul 6

Mysteries of MSI Compatibility Modes in Windows 7

If you right click on an executable in Windows Vista, you’ll find a Compatibility Tab, where you can set compatibility modes (layers) for that executable file. These compatibility layers are collections of shims and loader flags (depending on whether they affect the loader or if they have to intercept Windows API calls throughout the lifetime of
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Jul 6

KOMO radio’s makeshift newsroom after Fisherfire

KOMO radio, along with KOMO TV, were among the many media, telecommunications and Internet companies knocked offline by the Seattle's fire. Here's what life was like inside the temporary newsroom that KOMO Newsradio slapped together on Friday after an electrical fire knocked out power to the Fisher Plaza data center.
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Jul 6

First Microsoft UltraCamX soled to Foto Havicilik in Turkey

Foto Havicilik becomes the first company to ink a purchase agreement for UltraCamX with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft company producing large-format digital aerial camera systems. According to Microsoft, with the new UltraCamX, Foto Havicilik will expand its aerial coverage on top of the large-scale photogrammetric map and orthophoto content it has produced so far for Istanbul,
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Jul 6

Windows Vista, Server 2008 to XP file copying performance slower with Intel I/OAT enabled (KB968991)

Consider the following scenario: you have a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008. Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT) is enabled on the computer. You copy files to this computer from another computer that is running a down-level operating system, such as Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. In this scenario, the file
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