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We have WIndows 2000 Pro SP4 installed.* We will not be u[grading.* We've installed a new DVDRW into the system but find that the autoplay abilities when inserting the DVD into the drive isnt consistently working and the video player we want set isnt being autoloaded when it does autoplay. What tool can i use or the location i can go to to definitiuvely set the autoplay ability of the DVDRW for DVD movies and where can i set it so that Media Player Classic (the hacked better Media Player) can play them?* Again the system is Windows 2000 Pro SP4. I've already tried installed Windows Media Player 9 and even Media Player Classic (ste to play DVD videos) but everytime the default(?) win2k dvd player seems to popup.* Thats if autoplay even kicks in. Tx More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm leaning towards disasters, Hindenburg for 1.0, Titanic for 1.1 etc. As you can imagine it's a cardspace related project. Anyone else got any ideas? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista SP1 can be officially downloaded NOW – but don’t do it! iTWire, Australia - 1 hour ago Windows news website WinBeta has posted information on how Vista SP1 can be legally downloaded right now to ‘anyone that registers’, but the latest post ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista SP1 can be officially downloaded NOW – but don’t do it! iTWire, Australia - 18 minutes ago Windows news website WinBeta has posted information on how Vista SP1 can be legally downloaded right now to ‘anyone that registers’, but the latest post ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.wincert.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2809 Microsoft has posted the final Vista SP1 to their OEM site. The file is a 1.13GB .img which combines the 32-bit and 64-bit update executables into one image: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available for download. Windows Vista SP1 will deliver improvements and enhancements to existing features that significantly impact customers, but it does not deliver substantial new operating system features. The download contains Window Vista SP1 for five languages: English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. Note Additional languages will be available soon. Once you download the Windows Vista SP1 package, you will need to extract the appropriate .exe file for the language you wish to install. Download:Windows Vista SP1 Update Image (32-Bit & 64-Bit) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Sony Ericsson Unveil Surprise QWERTY Touchscreen Phone At 3GSM Dialaphone, UK - 34 minutes ago ... the X1 runs on Windows Mobile 6, so it offers a typical range of application access and control, but the defining feature is surely the Windows Vista ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ bit-tech.net <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 delayed by drivers bit-tech.net, UK - 6 minutes ago Although Vista SP1 was officially released to manufacturing last week, Microsoft is not allowing a general release just yet. In a post to the Vista Blog ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista update coming soon Deseret News, UT - 23 minutes ago By James Derk Microsoft has shipped the "RTM" build of Service Pack 1 of Windows Vista, meaning that those of us running this operating system soon will ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Whether this will be the de facto method to implement this remains to be seen. Astoria will be available as an add on to Visual Studio later this year, for now you have; http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/multitierlinqtosql More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Once again, we catch up with Bill Gates on Channel 9. This time we talk to Bill at the Office Developer Conference and he shares the history of Office as a developer platform, some hints on the future of Access, how he personally uses Office 2007, if he still writes code, and his view on whether Office has hit the productivity plateau. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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http://i32.tinypic.com/11l341f.jpg Sony Ericsson XPERIATM X1 – At a Glance Camera- Auto focus 3.2 megapixel camera Photo light Video recording Music- Bluetooth stereo (A2DP) Media player Music tones Windows Media Player Mobile PlayNow 3D games FM radio Java Video streaming Video viewing Internet- Internet Explorer Mobile RSS feeds Communication and Messaging- Polyphonic ringtones Speakerphone Vibrating alert Video calling Email Picture messaging (MMS) Predictive text input Text messaging (SMS) Design- XPERIA panels Optical joystick navigation Navigation key Picture wallpaper Touch navigation Organizer- Alarm clock Calculator Calendar Document editors Document readers Flight mode Handwriting recognition Notes Phone book Tasks Touchscreen Connectivity- aGPS Bluetooth technology Modem Synchronization USB support WLAN Windows Mobile Operating System- Microsoft Outlook Mobile: email, contacts, calendar, tasks Microsoft Office Mobile: Word, Excel, PowerPoint Internet Explorer Mobile Windows Media Player Mobile Windows Live Exchange ActiveSync Voice control Utility Applications: file explorer, calculator, pictures & video, notes Facts and Figures Size: 110 x 53 x 16.7 mm (approx.) Weight: 145 grams (approx.) Available colors: Black and Silver Main screen: 65,536 color TFT Resolution: 800 X 480 pixels Size: 3 inches Phone memory: up to 400 MB microSD memory card support Availability and versions Networks: GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA 900/1700/1900/2100 MHz UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA 850/1700/1900/2100 MHz Sony and Microsoft destroy Iphone?? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

could we please have that feature? due to server errors (server too busy,internal server error,et.) sometimes it happens that people post twice and it also happens that when you answer to somebody else's post in the meanwhile it could been changed making your answer become no longer valid. being able to delete your post would be much more elegant than just having to replacing your post with empty text also being able to delete your own threads could be useful when you post something about a news that has been already posted by someone else, which happens quite often here on c9, or when you realize you posted a question of which you already found the answer. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi all.* I was wondering if any of you were unlucky enough to have had this problem, but lucky enough to find a way to fix it.* First, a little background, I have VS05, SP1, VSTO, and Office 2003 successfully deployed on my laptop with XP sp2.* so.. I let curiosity get the better of me and built a fresh Vista machine (business standard), and started the long process of installing the development platform on the vista box - overcoming the hurdles of service packs and patches and updates, etc., etc. The problem is that now that everything seems to be up and running fine, but the Windows Automatic Update service keeps trying to install the last update for VS05, even though it says in the history that it has installed successfully (I think its "kb932232").* I have tried turning off the UAC, downloading the file and installing manually with elevated priveleges ("run as..."), I even tried running it in safe mode with elevated priveleges and it wouldn't work since it needs the networking or access to the web or something. I don't mind installing updates, but after 18 installs of the same thing (with some reboots, even though it's not asking for them), it's getting a little tedious.* Especially when it totally consumes all the available resources to do it.* I've tried scouring the web and bugging my co-workers, but to no avail. you are my last hope, obi-wan More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Blog: New mobiles - evolution not revolution (+photos) New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 1 hour ago The Shift has a seven-inch screen, 40GB hard drive, runs Windows Vista, has Wi-Fi and HSDPA connectivity and acts as a quad-band mobile phone. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft backpedals, moves up Vista SP1 release dates Computerworld Singapore, Singapore - 17 minutes ago Nash addressed the speculation in his blog, writing, "Windows Vista SP1 is final. It has been fully released to manufacturing, and we do not plan to make ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> New variants of Trojan.Mebroot rootkit emerge in the wild SC Magazine US - 4 hours ago The malware affects Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and 2000, according to Symantec. Researchers said the emergence of a rootkit trojan was particularly ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It is now more annoying then the runonce.aspx.*I don't understand the need to shove silverlight down peoples throats. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

like here: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/12/ricavision_vista_mce_bluetooth_remote-copy.jpg http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/21/ricavisions-vista-mce-sideshow-remote-does-bluetooth-at-100-met/ I want it, please.* I thought there were supposed to be a lot of these devices floating about, but I have never seen any in the wild. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/15257368/detail.html http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif Some Clueless Lady wrote: "I know before you used to be able to just get directions (on the Internet)," Rizkallah said. "That kind of creep me out, too, but then when I actually saw pictures of my minor children ... I was blown away." Rizkallah has no idea where the picture came from and is worried about who might see it. "Anybody who knows my address can Google this and this is what they will see - three young ladies playing in the pool. So they know there's girls at this house." Shame on you Google, you're map satellites are smart enough to even label pictures of people. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Whilst choosing a Calendar/Date picker for a webapp I'm writing, I stumbled upon this nicity. Granted, it's not as powerful as ASP.NET AJAX's Calendar picker, it's a lot simpler and easier to work with, and doesn't involve gutting your project to get ASP.NET AJAX to work. ...plus it fits in with my Mootools libraries (strongly recommended if you've already written Adapters for all the controls already). My app uses the user's selected culture for every occasion it handles dates, which is useful. So date filtering and dates in forms all use the user's selected ShortDateFormat string. ...but shock-horror! The picker I've selected can only parse PHP's date format strings. For the record, PHP's date strings are just as flexible as .NET's, but use one character per token, making them easier to parse. That said, I took it upon myself to write a converter class so I can use the current user's format settings with this calendar picker. ...I get it to use it by writing the current culture's date format string in a block on the page itself. Anyway, voila (and thanks to Maurits with devising the algo to work with edge conditions). using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using DictSS = System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary; namespace W3b.MortCal { public static class DateFormatConverter { public static String ToPhPString(String s) { // tokenize string // split the string into tokens whereever there's a character delta // or where the string is List tokens = new List(); StringBuilder currentToken = new StringBuilder(); for(int i=0;i

What is the general consensus around certifications? I have recently gotten my MCPD Windows Developer cert. With plans to go for EAD. What certs do you have or do you think they amount to anything? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good book to cover the new bits of the framework (less important) and the new features of the language (more important)? I already have a book by Jess Liberty on C# so I don't need a complete reference over again, just the newer features. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-C-4e-J-Liberty/dp/0596006993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202773152&sr=1-1 Thanks, Kevin More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> New variants of Trojan.Mebroot rootkit emerge in the wild Secure Computing, Australia - 20 minutes ago The malware affects Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and 2000, according to Symantec. Researchers said the emergence of a rootkit trojan was particularly ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> First Vista update: the missing link Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 1 hour ago Local IT integrators are perplexed over the "missing in action" status of Microsoft's first major update to its Windows Vista operating system. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds