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Hello, I have discovered, that Windows 7 Pro doesn't support multiple monitor for remote desktop service, as it is featured only for Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise editions. See this article http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Remote-Desktop-Connection-frequently-asked-questions I wonder, if this feature is now supported in Windows 8 Pro or does Remote Desktop work the same way as in Windows 7 Pro ? I need to connect to my computer using Remote Desktop Client and use extended desktop on multiple monitors. However current Windows 7 Pro support only desktop spanning ( /span), which is not that useful. Thanks for your reply. View the full article

Even though I have tested them successfully through both Windows and Creative's own console, the rear speakers have suddenly stopped playing sound when playing music or any media either from the Media Player or the Internet. I've pulled out all of the cables and put them back in. All the tests for the separate speakers work, including the rear ones, and I've checked all of the settings, but the rear ones fail during playback. Any suggestions please? A system restore didn't resolve it. View this thread

Ok, this one's super frustrating. When I do Win -> 'mstsc' -> Enter the first time, a new instance of mstsc.exe is launched. All subsequent times, all this sequence does is change focus to the last instance opened. This behavior is different from Windows 7 where Win -> 'mstsc' -> Enter will always launch a new instance of mstsc.exe. Is this behavior configurable? All I can do right now is the relatively long mouse/keyboard dance or the absurd Menu, Right, Right, Right, Enter sequence. Notice, there's no single letter shortcuts on the context menu. I use mstsc as an example since I use it a lot, but Windows 7 consistently opens new instances for any application while Windows 8 only switches focus. View the full article

Hello, I am running Windows 8 Professional 64-bit and encounter the following error when booting: System: Windows 8 Professional x86_64 Intel Core i7 3770K (Ivy Bridge) 4 x 4 GB Corsair Vengeance 4 random SATA2 HDDs and a Corsair Force Series 2 SSD ASRock Z77 Pro3 (Mainboard) Before the error ocurred I was attempting to launch The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim which failed to start properly and I had to force a reboot on my computer Windows was stuck for 10 minutes and i forced another reboot to find the automatic repair screen. The automatic repair failed and when I rebooted I had this new problem. Error Your PC needs to be repaired The application or operating system couldn't be loaded because a required file is missing or contains errors. File: Windowssystem32winload.efi Error code: 0xc0000225 You'll need to use the recovery tools on your installation media. If you don't have any installation media (like a disc or USB device), contact your system administrator or PC manufacturer Press Enter to try again Press F8 for Startup Settings Attempted fixes 1 - Press F8 Screen flashes quickly but nothing else happens 2 - Reboot computer with installation media (USB 3 stick) Computer failed to get past POST check Moved USB stick to another port and booted from it and followed this procedure: Automatic System Repair - Didn't work System Restore - Didn't work BootRec /RebuildBCD, BootRec /FixBoot, BootRec /FixMBR - No difference here either Refresh PC from repair DVD - "An error ocurred while refreshing your PC, no changes were made" 3 - Check for faulty hardware Running chkdsk on system drive Tried booting using nothing but the system drive attached Tested all RAM sticks Checked with another graphics card Tried CMOS reset Flashed newer BIOS Tried alternative installation media (DVD) 4 - Google the issue Only to find the same solutions as the ones I already tried on instinct. I am completely lost... What else could possibly be wrong? How can I fix it? View the full article

We’ve a fresh installed Windows 8 Pro and Office 2013. Printing works correctly in every application but Office 2013. Word, Excel, Outlook … printing causes the application to crash. Any idea if this is a known issue? Regards. PeterPeter Van Keymeulen, IT Infrastructure Solution Architect, www.edeconsulting.be View this thread

Hi, my live tiles do not work. the ones that show some information (e.g. weather), show the information but when I click on them or when I click on other Microsoft tile such as music, maps, photos etc, the icon plays the animation to go to full screen and then simply disappears and I see the Metro interface. this happens both with local account or microsoft account. I have created another profile and they do work with this profile, nevertheless I need them working in my profile. Can you pls help me? thanks View the full article

Is there any known intent to support modern-ui apps such as Xbox Music in the Volume Mixer (or adding a modern-ui specific volume mixer)? This lack of independent volume control for the Xbox Music app has resulted in my resorting to the Zune software for accessing my Xbox Music Pass content on Windows 8. View the full article

Hello, I have started using windows 8 RC enterprise and all is working well until i get to outlook 2010. i am running an exchange 2003 server offsite. When i setup outlook to connect to the exchange server all is well until it tries to sync. The authentication works fine but it will sit and try to sync for 10 or so minutes and then disconnect and reconnect immediately. I have 5 other windows 7 machines with outlook 2010 that work fine. Another possibly related problem is that the OWA will not load. I can log in but all I end up with is empty frames. i have tried resetting IE 10 to defaults and made sure windows is up to date. On the outlook 2010 side of things i have uninstalled and reinstalled and repairs. I have tried the registry entry's that fixed windows 7 but nothing works. The upgrade to windows 8 would be nice other than this. Help is appreciated. Cheers, View the full article

Hi, Im running Windows 8 Pro from a Technet subscription, it works "fine" when using a local account but if I use my domain joined account everything in the start menu is gone except for IE, File Explorer, Desktop and the Store The store will try to open but it will close right away, also none of my network drives show ( the network drives are mapped via login script) When I go into manage to try to add my domain account to the administrators group all of the account that our GPO adds show with an interrogation sign and when I click add the only location showed is the local machine not my DC Any help with this???? View the full article

Does Windows7 and windows8 support Storport ETW trace? I follow the link http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2010/04/22/etw-storport.aspx but it does not work. please MSFT help on this. View the full article

Hi I'm running a fresh install of windows 8 (x86) and I'm trying to install the RSAT but after the install RSAT doesn't appear in "Turn Windows features on or off" and doesn't show as installed in "Uninstall or change a program" or "Uninstall an update" The install looks like it’s working fine until I press "Ï accept" and the install finishes in about 3 seconds. I have tried extracting and installing it manually through CMD but still im having no luck. (pkgmgr /ip /m:Windows6.2-KB2693643-x86.xml) Any help would be appreciated. View the full article

Hello, when i try to install free apps from windows store, it shows "installing..." for long time, after that it says, "Your purchased could not be completed, something happened and purchased can't be completed" Now, how can i use apps?? View the full article

We have just installed a new 2008 R2 Terminal session host server with Office 2013 for test. Until now we have 2 issue regarding this. 1. Everytime we start Outlook 2013, it runs an installation (Microsoft Office 64-bit Components 2013). Is this a bug? (Office was installed in install mode) 2. All Office 2013 application started from the RDWEB, starts in full screen, so you cannot see the taskbar on a local Windows 7 pc? Someone please advise me what to do? View this thread

Hello I'm having this issue with windows 8 pro taskbar and I had it on the release preview I move the cursor away from the taskbar When I point at an icon there "Pinned shortcuts" but the taskbar doesn't recognize that I moved the cursor out of there instead it just shows me The info or the name of the pinned item The problem gets fixed sometimes and sometimes starts again.. Cheers! View the full article

Can't remember when it started, but it's getting really annoying recently. Info from event viewer shows that the crash always happens in one of the following 4 DLLs:ntdll.dll, combase.dll, RPCRT4.dll, KERNELBASE.dll. Error off-sets are often different between crashes(even when crashing in the same DLL file), but the error codes are always the same: 0xc00000fd (which means stack overflow I guess?) So-far I've tried the following fixes to no avail： Reboot into safe-mode. Run SFC /SCANNOW Use ShellExView to disable any 3rd party shell extensions Turning off Windows Defender(MS Security Essential) and Windows Firewall I've gathered some error off-sets from event viewer: ntdll.dll: 0x0000000000005ff1, 0x0000000000004db4, 0x0000000000004e55, 0x00000000000066eb combase.dll: 0x00000000001683de, 0x0000000000008958, 0x000000000015381c, 0x0000000000008995 RPCRT4.dll: 0x0000000000010480, 0x000000000000f129, 0x000000000000f165, 0x000000000004c446 KERNELBASE.dll: 0x0000000000001327, 0x000000000002decc, 0x0000000000001327, View the full article

hi, i just recently clean installed windows 8 pro and tried to install a game which because of compatibilty issues and anti-piracy security issues crashed the system, so i had to clean install windows 8. im now recieving an error message in iobit disk doctor that errors are found, and after running chdsk i am informed my volume bitmap is not correct, i have windows 7 and manufacturers disks backup, but i preffer windows 8. if there is any advice or help you could possibly share i would be greatful, thanks. jamie hadaway View the full article

One of my Word documents I uploaded to SkyDrive seems to have been corrupted. When trying to open it in Word, the system erroneously tries to invoke "Rights Management". The doc is not worth protecting, in fact I don't use this feature at all. What causes this, and how can I retrieve the doc? PS: I continued to follow the wizard and ultimately the Rights Management part failed with a "AD RMS data didn't match the expected format" message. But as I said above, the real problem is that "Right Management" gets invoked at all. ChrisB View the full article

Hi All, Does anybody know where are the Windows 8 Pro Start-up and Shutdown Sounds? Is there is anyway to enable them? I am using MS Windows 8 Pro x64 Thanks. Best regards, A AECode View the full article

Hi In Outlook 2013 you can enable the Calendar View on the right side of the Mail View: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Outlook-2013-Mail-.jpg Here you can see the calendar and the (cut off) text (on top of People panel) "You have nothing else scheduled today". This calendar panel shows only appointments for today. If I have an appointment tomorrow, the panel doesn't show it. In Outlook 2007 I could see all appointments in near future. Is there a possibility to show more appointments from the future in this view, not only from today? Thanks View this thread

OK I've gotten myself into a bit of trouble. I did my second Win 8 upgrade tonight, paying $40 for a 2nd upgrade key. Everything went great and then I remembered I could install Windows Media Center for free until January. I already had a key from my first upgrade and stupid me, figured "since they give these things away maybe I can just reuse this key." So I entered the key and Windows accepted it and did the upgrade, but of course when the system rebooted I had an activation error since the key was being used elsewhere (my other machine). OK, so I grabbed the key from my Win 8 upgrade receipt but that's no longer valid because it's a Win 8 Pro key and I now have Win 8 Pro With Media Center which is a different edition. So now I have a machine that isn't activated. I can't figure out how to "roll back" to Windows 8 Pro so that I can use the key from my order receipt. I tried requesting another free Media Center Key but no joy there, maybe because I used the same email address for both upgrades? I can't find a place to buy a Media Center Key since MS is giving them away. And obviously I don't want to spend $40 for another upgrade fee. Is there any way out of this mess? I can live without Media Center...I mostly was installing it because it was free. I'm just not sure how to uninstall it in such a way that it changes the edition of my OS to Windows 8 Pro again. TIA for advice...my first post here and you folks seem like you know what you're talking about. View the full article

So, we obtained our VL Office 2013 installation .iso file. My Windows 8 image currently has Office 2010 installed. If I run the Office 2013 "setup.exe", it prompts for an "Upgrade" installation (and the "Customize" options indicate it's supposed to remove all other versions). Yet, after installing the Office 2013 upgrade, I am still left with "Office 14" folders in the Microsoft Office folders C:Program Files and C:Program Files (x86) -- and "Programs and Features" says I still have Office Professional Plus 2010 still installed. Is this unique to upgrading Office in Windows 8? Or are Office 2010 bits still left behind after an Office 2013 "Upgrade" installation? View this thread

Hi, How does this command: manage-bde.exe -tpm -TakeOwnership SomePassword looks like in Windows 8 (e.g. using powershell, since the "TakeOwnership" parameter is obsolete) ? regards, Martin View the full article

I'm trying to play vídeos on my Windows 8 and all I can see is a black screen and I can only hear the sound. This happens everywhere. Youtube, video apps, media player. I can't understand why. I've installed already the K-Lite Codec pack and I've upgraded my AMD video card. But still no luck. Only sound , no video. Also, if it helps, I have a Vaio J Series (all-in-one) also know as VPCJ215FB. Could you please help me? Thanks in advance View the full article

Issue: Explorer.exe crashes and restarts every 1-2 minutes. It doesn't matter if I'm in the start screen or in the desktop. Applications that depend on the explorer crash or hang as well. Background: Machine was upgraded from Windows 7 to the RTM build of Windows 8. This problem did not show up immediately, after a day it happened once and I rebooted which seemed to help. Now the problem shows up immediately after rebooting. Steps: 1. Ran "sfc /scannow". It completed successfully and fixed a few corruption issues. 2. Booted into Safe Mode and the problem still exists. 3. Ran windbg.exe, attached to explorer.exe process to capture crash information. Machine Information: Host Name: SCOTT-PC OS Name: Microsoft Windows 8 Pro with Media Center OS Version: 6.2.9200 N/A Build 9200 OS Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation OS Configuration: Standalone Workstation OS Build Type: Multiprocessor Free Registered Owner: Scott Registered Organization: Product ID: 00181-00002-32492-AB350 Original Install Date: 10/27/2012, 6:26:41 AM System Boot Time: 10/29/2012, 10:57:33 PM System Manufacturer: System manufacturer System Model: System Product Name System Type: x64-based PC Processor(s): 1 Processor(s) Installed. [01]: Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 2 GenuineIntel ~1867 Mhz BIOS Version: Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS P5N-D ACPI BIOS Revision 1101, 5/18/2009 Windows Directory: C:WINDOWS System Directory: C:WINDOWSsystem32 Boot Device: DeviceHarddiskVolume1 System Locale: en-us;English (United States) Input Locale: en-us;English (United States) Time Zone: (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) Total Physical Memory: 6,143 MB Available Physical Memory: 2,216 MB Crash Information: 0:036> !analyze -v ******************************************************************************* * * * Exception Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* *** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for C:Program FilesBonjourmdnsNSP.dll - *** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for C:Program FilesMozyHomemozyshell.dll - *** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for C:Program Files (x86)GoogleDrivegoogledrivesync64.dll - *** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for C:UsersScottAppDataLocalMicrosoftSkyDrive16.4.6013.0910amd64SkyDriveShell64.dll - *** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32sppc.dll - *** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32nvwgf2umx.dll - ************************************************************************* *** *** *** *** *** Your debugger is not using the correct symbols *** *** *** *** In order for this command to work properly, your symbol path *** *** must point to .pdb files that have full type information. *** *** *** *** Certain .pdb files (such as the public OS symbols) do not *** *** contain the required information. Contact the group that *** *** provided you with these symbols if you need this command to *** *** work. *** *** *** *** Type referenced: kernel32!pNlsUserInfo *** *** *** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* *** *** *** *** *** Your debugger is not using the correct symbols *** *** *** *** In order for this command to work properly, your symbol path *** *** must point to .pdb files that have full type information. *** *** *** *** Certain .pdb files (such as the public OS symbols) do not *** *** contain the required information. Contact the group that *** *** provided you with these symbols if you need this command to *** *** work. *** *** *** *** Type referenced: kernel32!pNlsUserInfo *** *** *** ************************************************************************* FAULTING_IP: ntdll! ?? ::FNODOBFM::`string'+22acc 000007f9`06f4808f 90 nop EXCEPTION_RECORD: ffffffffffffffff -- (.exr 0xffffffffffffffff) ExceptionAddress: 000007f906f4808f (ntdll! ?? ::FNODOBFM::`string'+0x0000000000022acc) ExceptionCode: c000071f ExceptionFlags: 00000000 NumberParameters: 0 FAULTING_THREAD: 0000000000001810 BUGCHECK_STR: c000071f DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: APPLICATION_FAULT PROCESS_NAME: explorer.exe ERROR_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc000071f - A threadpool worker thread enter a callback, which left with preferred languages set. This is unexpected, indicating that the callback missed clearing them. EXCEPTION_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc000071f - A threadpool worker thread enter a callback, which left with preferred languages set. This is unexpected, indicating that the callback missed clearing them. NTGLOBALFLAG: 0 APPLICATION_VERIFIER_FLAGS: 0 LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 000007f906e38d64 to 000007f906f4808f STACK_TEXT: 00000000`0b66f2c0 000007f9`06e38d64 : 00000000`7ffe03b0 00000000`0b66f618 00000000`00000000 000007f9`06e3fb12 : ntdll! ?? ::FNODOBFM::`string'+0x22acc 00000000`0b66f3c0 000007f9`06e38617 : 00000001`0001fffe 00000000`00000000 00000000`00e86e90 00000000`08c6d230 : ntdll!TppCallbackEpilog+0xb4 00000000`0b66f510 000007f9`0668167e : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : ntdll!TppWorkerThread+0x3d9 00000000`0b66f7b0 000007f9`06e53501 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : KERNEL32!BaseThreadInitThunk+0x1a 00000000`0b66f7e0 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : ntdll!RtlUserThreadStart+0x1d FOLLOWUP_IP: ntdll! ?? ::FNODOBFM::`string'+22acc 000007f9`06f4808f 90 nop SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 0 SYMBOL_NAME: ntdll! ?? ::FNODOBFM::`string'+22acc FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner MODULE_NAME: ntdll IMAGE_NAME: ntdll.dll DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 505ab405 STACK_COMMAND: ~36s ; kb BUCKET_ID: X64_c000071f_ntdll!_??_::FNODOBFM::_string_+22acc FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: APPLICATION_FAULT_c000071f_ntdll.dll!_??_::FNODOBFM::_string_ WATSON_STAGEONE_URL: http://watson.microsoft.com/StageOne/explorer_exe/6_2_9200_16384/50107dbc/ntdll_dll/6_2_9200_16420/505ab405/c000071f/0011808f.htm?Retriage=1 Followup: MachineOwner View the full article

Hey all, The RuntimeBroker.exe process is new for Windows 8 that is a "middleman" type process for new Win8 type apps. I read somewhere that it should be a very small footprint. Looking at my Win8 Pro system (RTM code) my RuntimeBroker.exe is taking > 500MB of Memory, and I have seen it larger than this. Is this a problem? What are you all seeing? Thanks! View the full article