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Hi all, I am having real difficulties with Vista Ultimate. Its such a POS. I am using*Vista SP1 running on an Acer Travel mate 8200 something or other. Damn I am so sick of this crappy os I am so close to going back to XP. Whenever you think its working fine you get yet another*problem. This is a fairly recent install I have the following installed on it: VS2008, VS2005, SQL developer edition, Adobe Fireworks, MS office 2007, Firefox and FTP voyager. I have ran anti virus scans etc Happens about 70% of the time after initial bootup immediatly I have turned indexing off I used sys internals process monitor to narrow this down to a service called WLAN autoconfig if I stop this it runs at about 50-60% cpu usage (which still seems high but at least is usuable) I looked this up and there is a setting you can click to turn off searching for better networks which can cause issues but this didnt seem to work for me. Any ideas or*shall I just junk this rubbish OS? Alex More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

just one day left... did you all made some space on your hard drives for it already? :s More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

This is the second time I've gotten this in ~ a month. What the hell causes this? http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii240/trix_1520/WHY.png Event viewer says. Faulting application lsass.exe, version 6.0.6001.18000, time stamp 0x479195b7, faulting module msvcrt.dll, version 7.0.6001.18000, time stamp 0x4791ad6b, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x0000000000003206, process id 0x25c, application start time 0x01c8a1dcb97cffce. A critical system process, C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe, failed with status code c0000005.* The machine must now be restarted. Is there a holy Microsoft guru here that knows why? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows XP Embedded chat Thurs. WindowsForDevices, CA - 7 minutes ago It will still be Windows XP-based, but will also include "the most-requested Vista technologies," such as a new version of Internet Explorer, a revised RDP ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hey folks, I'm working on a very dynamic system that I'm not sure how to implement in the best manner possible.* Basically, the idea is this: Users have their own domain that is parked as an addon domain to mine, thus I am able to access their domain, and, more importantly, they are able to access certain centralized files in mine.* All of these domains aren't really accessible to the user themselves, that is the files aren't; I set the domain up for them, and I put all of the files needed for their site up for them.* Whenever I release an update, however, I can't deploy to all of the user's simultaneously, so I take a different approach.* Everything up to this point works fine and there are no problems. Here's where things start to get tricky.* On my centralized area that all of these domains have access to, I put a zip file with updated files, and I extract the files via PHP and overwrite their site's files with the files in the zip file as appropriate.* There are no problems with this method and it seems to work fine.* The problem is that each of these domains ALSO has a MySQL database instance and the tables on all of them are ALSO the same across the board.* When I need to make updates to their database, obviously I need that to be done automatically also, or I'll spend the rest of my natural life updating databases. The question I am trying laboriously to get to is as follows: The update files they get and I extract behind the scenes are always the most up-to-date.* However, the database changes are incremental and I can't always tell what state their database is in for the update script.* Thus the database updates can be done in one of two ways: 1) For every new "version" I release, I save record of that in the database, and there is a corresponding update file for the database for each version.* If someone's updating their site and it's 3 or 4 versions old, it loops through all of the updates since their version until they're up to date. 2) There is one update file that gets updated each release.* Somehow or another, we put appropriate "IF NOT EXISTS"-type checks into the update scripts so any new tables are created, and alterations to the tables needed are performed, and in the end their database is always completely up to date with the latest changes. Can method 2 work?* When you do an ALTER TABLE and specify all of the columns and the modifications you want, does it simply skip that "alteration" if it already exists?* Is there a way to check if an alteration exists without having to parse DESCRIBE TABLE output and determine if it's of the right data type and such? Sorry for the long-windedness, and thanks for reading if you got this far ;) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In my new .NET CF (3.5 WinMo 6 Pro) application, I am referincing a DLL. When I deploy it to my physical device, the program won't start. I get a .NET CF Initialization Error. "The application failed to load required components. If the .NET Compact Framework is installed on a storage card, please ensure that this card is in place and launch the application. If this fails, a re-installation of the .NET Compact Framework is recommended". It only happens when I try to intialize an object whose class is that DLL. If I remove the object initialization and remove the reference it works fine. I've tried adding the DLL to the solution and placing the DLL in the application's startup dir on my device. I did some web-searching on the issue and it appears that it was a bug in the .NET CF 2.0. The man said that it should be fixed in .NET CF SP2. I am running 3.5 http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif Dan Elliott - MSFT wrote: We've confirmed that this is a bug in CF.* Whenan app is launched, we use the app path in the class name. Our singleinstance detection logic is broken if an app is launched with differentslashes in the path. This repros on the Blackjack, as its task managerlaunches apps using forward slashes and the OS preserves them. So if auser launches an app normally from the start menu (back slashes) andthen tries to get to it using the task manager, they will get a newinstance instead of the old one. Unfortunately it is too late to get the fix into Beta 2, but*we plan to get it into RTM. * Dan -J.Lebowski More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7360871.stm "A man posing as Darth Vader attacked a Star Wars fan, who had founded a Jedi Church, a court has heard." "Earlier, when Hughes failed to arrive on time, District Judge Andrew Shaw issued an arrest warrant, adding: "I hope the force will soon be with him."" yukayukayuka.... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft finishes big XP update CNET News.com, CA - 3 minutes ago The product was planned to be released as early as 2006, but was pushed back several times as Microsoft focused on developing and updating Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista suit: Appeals court denies Microsoft Seattle Post Intelligencer - Apr 21, 2008 Microsoft's attempt to overturn a key ruling in the "Windows Vista Capable" lawsuit has been denied by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, according to a ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> TechNet subscribers rip Microsoft over XP SP3 'farce' Computerworld, MA - 13 minutes ago April 22, 2008 (Computerworld) In a repeat of a February donnybrook over Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista, IT professionals and developers are blasting ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I vote for this screencast about Windows PNRP and PNM. I can't believe this escaped my attention for so long. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

A way to open windows explorer with a shortcut and just type in the path I want. ???????? I'm sure this already exists. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi, am using NTFS hard links to do Lucene index replication.* I'm not sure why, but seems like if I make a hard link to a file with CreateHardLink API (from kernel32), then if I subsequently open the original file for reading, I cannot delete the hard link with DeleteFile or with File.Delete from .NET.* It fails with "file is locked by another process" error.* But according to MSDN, DeleteFile should work since it is just decrementing count of hard links not actually deleting the file. Here is code to reproduce... Assume test.txt exists already... // create new hard link "testHL.txt" pointing to original file... CreateHardLink("testHL.txt","test.txt",IntPtr.Zero); // open text.txt for reading, but now I cannot delete hard link... using(StreamReader r=new StreamReader("test.txt")) { * *** string c=r.ReadLine(); *** * File.Delete("testHL.txt");

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1705 Great news for people who (like me) who still have Windows XP boxen to take care of. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> TechNet subscribers rip Microsoft over XP SP3 'farce' Computerworld, MA - 21 minutes ago By Gregg Keizer April 22, 2008 (Computerworld) In a repeat of a February donnybrook over Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Vista, IT professionals and ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Learn how Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager can extend the capabilities of the Network Access Protection (NAP) feature in Windows Server 2008.* Jeff Wettlaufer, System Center technical product manager, interviews Jeff Sigman, senior program manager for NAP, in this episode of TechNet Radio. Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer Jeff Wettlaufer - Technical Product Manager* - System Center Jeff Sigman - Senior Program Manager - NAP Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I made a rare appearance this week on the This Week in Tech (TWiT) podcast with Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Veronica Belmont, and Roger McGuinn! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

In my latest commentary, I examine how software distribution will evolve into software subscriptions before making the move to cloud computing! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Issues Server Flaw Advisory Web Host Industry Review - 33 minutes ago According to Microsoft's security advisory on the vulnerability, the bug affects Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Why Windows 7 won't save Microsoft Computerworld, MA - 1 hour ago Microsoft is most likely banking on being saved by Windows 7, after its stumble with Vista. But there are early indications that Windows 7 won't be the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Back again asking for your all professional tips and advices. ;) I'm looking for ways how can I do some scripts / powershell ones or whatever in Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7 + FTP 7 which does the following: - create a subdomain to an existing one - create a FTP site to the above subdomain there a few other things to do but not now. for the first one I have some like domain.com and I want to do a domain.com/site1 which has it's own ftp site as well. I'm looking at appcmd now but can't find how/if I can create those types of subdomains with it. Any help is greatly appreciated. tks! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Why Windows 7 won't save Microsoft Computerworld, MA - 18 minutes ago Microsoft is most likely banking on being saved by Windows 7, after its stumble with Vista. But there are early indications that Windows 7 won't be the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have a set of records (in the 10's or so) that I don't want to loop over each record & do an INSERT individually (to minimize network calls). Is there a way to tell SQL Server that... hey, here's a set of records, put these in the table for me? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds