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I have a laptop that I purchased about 8 months ago. (it came installed with word for home and students) When trying to access Word, I am requested to give the "Product Code". I found the code on the bottom of my laptop, and I have entered it SEVERAL times and it continues to give me an error message that it is not correct. I can no longer use the word on my computer. Does anyone have a resolution to this issue? Thanks..... John

Hello all -- I have a Windows 2008 Std installation with Terminal Services installed. The server is a member server of an Active Directory domain. I initially installed and used the Terminal Server on the 2008 machine during the trial period. I setup Remote Apps and had copied the .rdp files to my local workstation. Everything was working fine and life was good. I really enjoy the RemoteApp feature. I later activated Windows and soon thereafter ran VMware's CONVERT to P2V the machine to an ESX 3.5 host. No issues here. When I logged into the machine for the first time under ESX, it deteched that the hardware had changed and I needed to re-ac…

I have 2 identical computers and I have the same problem with both. I have ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 socket 775 motherboard. I have a Seagate 80GB SATA/8MB 7200RPM OEM hard drive. I have an LG GSA-H55N 20X Dual Layer DVD burner (OEM). My DVD burner is hooked to an IDE cable. When I try to hook up a slave hard drive to the IDE cable, it does not see the drive unless I unhook the DVD burner. I cannot see both the slave drive and the DVD burner at the same time. I tried different combination of slave and master configurations but I still cannot see both devices. I tied with 2 different know good hard drives that worked on other computers bot…

I am referring to PCR and the "So-Called" XP radiation and how the effects of Vista radiation appear to be even stronger in making people mean to each other. Here is a recent example: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.general&tid=ca9f815c-3652-4563-a0e4-4c4f5a4467ea&cat=&lang=&cr=&sloc=en-us&p=1 There are a lot of posts here that were deleted so the effects of Vista radiation are clear. Do you agree, PCR? <Smile>

For some media files I am receiving the message {(The instruction at "0x00000000" referenced at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program Click on CANCEL to debug the program)} When i click on OK, all open windows colsed automatically. How I solve the problem?

Ok so I have a game called "Re-Volt"!! Its a car racing game its very old and it has never failed to work untail now!!!!!!! Ok so i double click on it and it goes to the reagular black screen telling its counpany and all ofthat other junk but then it says "Error no Zbuffer available" then I press ok then it goes back to my desktop and it wont let me play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So if any one knows how to fix it please tell me!!!

Hi, I'm having a problem with my windows explorer. Every time I try to open the "My Pictures" folder and look at the pictures therein, the Windows Explorer suddenly quits. If I have an MSIE page open, that also quits. It gives me the choices to debug, send error message and cancel. I've tried to debug, but it has not helped, so sent several error messages, but nothing has helped. I've not noticed this problem in any other part of my computer, just when trying to look at pictures. I want to be able to put pics of my family on the computer and print them out, but it won't let me. I have run several scans from several different programs - several …

I have been running my system with 4GB of memory and my Windows Experience Index sore for the memory was 5.3, I have added another 4GB, total 8GB and ran the index score again and still getting a sub score of 5.3 for the memory, you think the score would be more?

I just installed my printer after restoring my system. Now the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon is in my system tray. It wasn't there before I restored the system unless I had something plugged in obviously. Did I plug my printer into the wrong USB port? If I did, how do I move it? Additionally, I now have new "Removeable Disk" drive in my drive locations and nothing is plugged in. I want to remove that so I don't get confused when I DO have a removeable drive/device plugged in. Should I just remove the device? The printer is listed under printers. Thank you.

Hi Guys, Is there a newsgroup dedicated for x64 software development? Thanks a lot. Best regards, Onega

i started getting the error message exception processing message c0000013 parameters 75b6bf9c 4 75b6bf9c 75b6bf9c after i plugged in my friends usbthis is what exactly happened: i plugged in the usb my pc installed it then it asked me to restart i clicked no. then when i opened the usb windows defender detected a trojan/win32/shipup virus there were many i removed them when i was getting these warnings from windows defender i also got the error message as shown above. it had 3 buttons cancel, try again, continue only cancel worked i ad to press it alot of times to get rid of the message. Then i unpluged the usb and uninstalled it to stop the message but…

Anyone can tell is there any software to detect a desk top RAM.

Group, I have an problem with logging in to Google websites, it includes like google mail, orkut, groups, googlepages, google talk.... Everything was woking fine one sudden day i lost the access... I tried with Mozilla, didnt help, i have IE7...changed all the settings still no go.... Then i used a proxy program called Ultrasurf, which one of my friend suggested... oh it worked.... so everytime i have to run the proxy software to access google. This proble started when i had a dial-up connection, last week my area got the DSL line so i switched to DSL. Even i DSL i have the same problem... I didnt expect the problem will be solved by the DSL line, as i kn…

I occasionally get e mail attachments with file types that I cannot open. I get the message that I must creat a file association in Folder Options. The ones that I seek now are .zmc and .wps. How do I create these so that I can view the e mail attachments? Thanks -- Roger

Recently I’ve noticed when I bring up Google I lose my cursor. I have to move my mouse to the query line and click on it to get the cursor back and enter a query, which is something new. Has anyone else noticed this, and if so were they able to get around the extra mouse click?

I'm running XP Home SP2 after upgrading from ME. 1. The disk clean-up utility has the option of getting rid of the over 900 mb worth of ME files. Is that the best way of doing that or is there a different way? 2. In the control panel while view it in classic mode, I cannot see the add/remove programs applet. Switching it to category view shows it though. How do I make it show in the classic mode?

I've got a nephew who had come up with a copy of XP Black. He is after me and his dad to install that on our computers. I've done a Google search, and one here in the XP newsgroups, and cannot find out exactly what it is.......or isn't. Just discussions as to whether it's bogus or not. Even in this newsgroup area there's an argument about the "bogus" issue. :-( Bogus or not, what *IS* it? This is what I want to know. If it is bogus, I might make a separate boot partition (have to learn how to do that! LOL) to experiment with XP Black. But I've no intention to use is as the regular OS. Too damn many problems with the real thing, I'm not mas…

Regardless of however I try to update my installation files with the SP4 "-s" switch all I get is the dialog box displaying the various update switches. Then the program just quits. I know there's not supposed to be a space between the switch and directory with the install files. Any advice on what I may be doing wrong?

I am looking into using thin clients for internet kiosk's and would like to know if there is a clear document that tells me how to lock down each users terminal service session to only one app (IE) with little or no permissions on the TS file system? Just to make sure my question is clear here is the scenerio. There will be multiple thin client computers (Wyse) that will automatically login to a windows 2008 terminal server. Upon login IE needs to run and open to a specific web page. No other access to the file system is needed. Other users will approach the thin client and be prompted to login with thier AD account. They will login and I would like …

When an XP SP2 or SP3 client logs into a 2008 terminal server with TSFarm, users are required to enter their login password twice. On the first login, Users are required to enter both User Name and Password. Once that is done, the next login screen only requests the password. Normally, the MSRDPCLNT passes auth to the server but for some reason, this server is not reciving or accepting the auth. Any ideas? Thanks Robert

Hi everybody, I am thinking about ServerBackup in Server2008 again. Since I have problems with my Promise RAID controller, I would like to switch to an LSI. All these controllers need special drivers to works with Windows. ServerBackup2008 provides the opportunity to install drivers during the restore process. Does anybody know if these drivers are integrated in the OS to be recovered? If not, I would have to instal the drivers first (before backing up) or else I could restore the system but it would not boot because it does not find the HD, right? Or are there any other ways to swich from one RAID controller to another? Thank you Ole

This is an expensive book but might be worth it, if it comes through with the goods. Anyone familiar with it? I see it on Barnes & Noble for $199/179 but there are no reviews of it. Looks good! Any ideas on it? Windows Server 2008 Resource Kit by Windows Server Team at Microsoft, Microsoft MVPs and Partners, Microsoft Press Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: April 2008 ISBN-13: 9780735623613 Sales Rank: 11,534 4480pp Edition Description: REV Mike

I adjusted the time of my DC by a few minutes. How long will it take the rest of the workstations to adjust to the new time. Carl

I'm trying to set up a backup strategy in a small business environment and feel that virtual machine may be the way to go but am having a heck of a hard time tying together new hardware, OSs, possible virtual environment etc. -- Regards Tom

I've just been given a computer loaded with Windows 2000. Is it true that MS has stopped supporting this OS? I was also told that support for XP had stopped has well. -- { : [|]=( DaffyD® If I knew where I was I'd be there now.