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http://ms-os.com/ CNET Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Clear space on your hard drive by deleting old Windows uninstall ... CNET Blogs, CA - 35 minutes ago I found only two of these patch-uninstall folders in the C:Windows folder on my Vista PC, both of which were empty. I don't know if that means Microsoft ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

case one: 1. click search 2. click to view the next page of results or any other page result number 3. error page!!! * case two: 1. check the videos for tag vb.net 2. receive i have 30 something or 40 something matches 3. click to view the next page of results 4. get go to a page where there is thousands of results far beyon the vb.net tag I am using ie 6 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Blog: Yahoo no answer to Microsoft's woes New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - Feb 1, 2008 By Peter Griffin US$44.6 billion offer by Microsoft for Yahoo comes as Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system reaches its first birthday. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

As you know from my recent computer problems thread, I updated my system. Part of the reason for this was so that I could check out Flight Simulator X with DirectX 10. I did, and it's a disaster. Phil Taylor's blog (PM on the Flight Simulator team)*said that FSX would be faster with the DX10 renderer, but it's not, it's considerably slower. It also looks worse. Exhibit A This is a screenshot taken with the regular DirectX 9 renderer. All settings are on ultra-high (global settings, I didn't set all the custom sliders to max)*with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing enabled. Notice it's hitting the target framerate of 30fps. Exhibit B The same screenshot, taken with the DirectX 10 renderer, with the exact same settings otherwise. Notice how the framerate is now only 15fps. Also notice how the aircraft's shadow is not anti-aliased! Here's a side-by-side comparison.*The shadows in DX10 look considerably worse than in DX9. Exhibit C This screenshot demonstrates the DX10 virtual cockpit shadows feature. DX9 doesn't have this feature at all. While the idea of cockpit shadows sounds very good, it looks horrible. Look at how jagged those shadows are! I thought this was 2008, not 1998. It's rediculous. I'm also not th only one who's reported this behaviour. Maybe it's all much better on nVidia cards and ACES didn't test it on ATI or something. Note that because of the incorrect DDI version in dxdiag on Vista 64 bit I also tried this with Vista 32 bit. Although the DDI version is reported correctly in Vista 32 bit, the results with FSX are exactly the same (and in fact, those shots were taken on Vista 32 bit). On a positive note, the hardware upgrade did improve performance significantly. This screenshot (DX9) shows I get good performance even with rediculous amounts of scenery on screen. I'd be lucky to get 5fps with those settings on the old config. It still struggles with the PMDG 747-400X*because that plane is a real CPU killer, so I still need to reduce settings to fly with that, although no as much as before. Interestingly, it's mainly the virtual cockpit that's trouble on that plane, in outside views I can get 30fps fairly easily (with slightly reduced scenery and water effects) but in the cockpit it's much harder to get decent performance. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I just noticed that the ActiveX Test Container (tstcon32.exe) was missing from Visual Studio 2008, and it's not in the latest Windows SDK. Is this an oversight, or does Microsoft just think that no one is building ActiveX controls anymore? :P It's not a big deal, since I have a copy of it with Visual Studio 2005, but it is handy for testing them in the debugger, particularly when using scripts. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Feb. Launch Now Set for Windows Vista SP1 PC World - Jan 31, 2008 The tool is for users planning migrations to Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Microsoft Virtualization technologies (Virtual Server 2005 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Is there a push RSS system available? Google isn't very fruitful. I'm looking for something that syncs a WM6 phone and Outlook 2007. Thanks. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Blog: Is Vista's first birthday worth celebrating? New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 1 hour ago So what then of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system? It turned one last Wednesday. The software, five years in the making before its January 30 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=104164 http://beta.channel9.msdn.com/Forums/CoffeeHouse/98933 http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/exhibits/684.pdf Did Beer28 edit this post years after he was banned? If not then who did, and why? http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2255089,00.asp Lawmakers on Capitol Hill havepromised to examine Microsoft's $46.6 billion bid for Yahoo forpotential antitrust violations, they said Friday. http://www.themoviemuseum.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=74&g2_serialNumber=2 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Blog: Is Vista's first birthday worth celebrating? New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 8 minutes ago By Peter Griffin How have you found Windows Vista's first year? Click on the Your Comments link at the bottom of the page to tell us. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

After googling around I came to this: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=928547&SiteID=1 which was pretty sketchy as to what it was, but led to this: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/khbh432d(VS.80).aspx I was worried because it popped up in my* :\Downloads folder, where I put *everything* I download ready to filter into other files. Made me wonder whether I'd been hit by something :P What I want to know is why have they suddenly popped up in my R-Click New menu, and why have they been created in some folders, without my knowledge? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Adds More Security APIs To Windows InformationWeek, NY - Feb 1, 2008 By Thomas Claburn Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3, and Windows Server 2008 will include new security APIs to ... Toward Buffer Overflow Extinction InformationWeek all 3 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Feb. Launch Now Set for Windows Vista SP1 PC World - Jan 31, 2008 The tool is for users planning migrations to Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Microsoft Virtualization technologies (Virtual Server 2005 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm running Windows Vista 64-bit on an AMD 64-bit duo processor system.* I tried installing RealPlayer, the free version, onto my system, but that failed.* Now I cannot run it, uninstall it, or attempt to install a new version.* Whenever I try to call it I get the following error message: This application has failed to start because MSVCP71.DLL was not found.* Re-installing the application may fix this problem. I've been looking around for help on this and it has been suggested that this DLL is a part of VS 2003.* That may be the case, I did not install VS 2003 onto my system, as I just want to go with VS 2005 and VS 2008.* Anyway, what is the cause of this error and what can I do to remedy it? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ SYS-CON Media <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> iPhone Web Development: ASP.NET Inside VMware Fusion on a Mac SYS-CON Media, NJ - 36 minutes ago The problem is that I've been pulling out my few remaining hairs trying to figure out how I can point my iPhone at my Windows Vista IIS residing inside a ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ SYS-CON Media <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> iPhone Web Development: ASP.NET Inside VMware Fusion on a Mac SYS-CON Media, NJ - 46 minutes ago The problem is that I've been pulling out my few remaining hairs trying to figure out how I can point my iPhone at my Windows Vista IIS residing inside a ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Feb. Launch Now Set for Windows Vista SP1 PC World - Jan 31, 2008 The tool is for users planning migrations to Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Microsoft Virtualization technologies (Virtual Server 2005 ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ SYS-CON Media <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> iPhone Web Development: ASP.NET Inside VMware Fusion on a Mac SYS-CON Media, NJ - 14 minutes ago The problem is that I've been pulling out my few remaining hairs trying to figure out how I can point my iPhone at my Windows Vista IIS residing inside a ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/4759/onlinegamingmk2.th.png Well, if I can do it online I have absolutely no reason to go out and buy Vista now :p More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I just found some time to install VS2008 at Home, as well as running WindowsUpdate etc. After a few restart, install is done and I run services.msc just to make sure everything is alright. At there, I found that "Windows Event Log"* is not starting. I started to start it manually, and got error message "Error 5: Access is denied." I fired up Sysinternals' Procmon.exe to check, and found it have trouble opening "%windir%\System32\winevt\Logs\System.evtx". Having checked the service runs in "Local Service" account, I granted read/write access to files in this folder, and the service started successfully. Checked G**gle and see there's other people experienced similar problem but cannot find a solution, I decided to post it here. And also hope the others see if there's other consequence on granting the access to the account. P.S.: I compared the folder to the raw installation(Jan 2007 DVD only, patches not applied) image of Vista (I created one immediately after installation after my last reinstall) and found this folder does not exist on that copy. So this ought to be something new. P.S.2: After successfully started the service, the system seems runs significantly faster. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Why save XP? Readers answer petition poll Computerworld New Zealand, New Zealand - 14 minutes ago This is not supported, and doesn't work, on Windows Vista. Even where the customer has upgraded some devices, a move to Visual Studio 2005 native device ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I was just messing around in Paint.NET and came up with the following sketch of a C9 figure: http://files.myopera.com/TommyCarlier/albums/150463/C9-Sketch.png Instead of just throwing it away, I decided to put it online and start a thread here to invite other people to show their C9-inspired doodles. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

dear all, requiredfieldvalidator doesn't work properly within updatepanel, when i use it outside of the updatepanel it works, but within the updatepanel and with the validatorcalloutextender it doen't work properly, can u help me please More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Energy efficiency CNET Blogs, CA - Jan 29, 2008 "Windows Vista is Microsoft's most energy efficient operating system to date with its power management system, functionality, reliability and default ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds