Ran across these couple of tips on the Internet the other day, and thought I would pass them along... First, my own tip, make sure you have the latest video driver installed... chances are pretty good that your video card is the lowest ranked item in
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The current installer locks access to the disk open, so if you did something, like asked it to "format" your disk prior to installing Windows Server 2008, the format process will silently fail, the copy files will silently fail, and you will get a x8007045d
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So Gartner says windows is dead, don't even get me started, I would need a better sense of humor in order to print their latest "predictions" on my toiletries. Earlier this month, Microsoft closed down the Enormous Windows Vista Beta program over at connect,
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Get your download while its hot, I was able to average about 650K, its about 2gb, took me just over an hour to pull it down. https://msdn.one.microsoft.com/home.aspx Dont forget to pick up Office 2007 while you are there (if you missed it earlier this
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Just for laughs, I downloaded the pif attached to a graphic link from an infected MSN file, I saved the file to the hard drive, and scanned with OneCare (with 10/20/2006 virus defs) .... " OneCare found no potentially harmful or unwanted software on your
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Vista is set to RTM this month (October) but as a tester, I find myself wondering if its really ready; my initial reaction was a quick "no way". Upon further reflection though I see the need for this move. I am using Vista on my main systems, and have
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The new Longhorn Server build 5600 (RC1) does not offer an upgrade path from 5384 (Beta2)... Now it might just be my configuration (this particular server is a domain controller) but I sort of doubt it... Its just disappointing since the Vista (Client)
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So I guess Microsoft figured out how to solve my suspend / resume problems... They put a BIOS version check into the new Vista RC1 setup... which specifies: Windows cannot be installed on this computer with the current system BIOS version. Contact your
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Microsoft has just release the RC1 build of windows vista build 5600 to Windows Beta testers. I would guess that MSDN will get this build soon too. I am downloading it now, it will be interesting to see if they took care of my pre -rc1 issues (most annoying
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Yahoo recently updated it Yahoo Music client application... The current version (at the time of this writing) is 2.0.0.127. With the release of this version, Yahoo has resolved the major compatability problems between its client software and Windows Vista
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On my notebook I have two primary partitions... one for XP and the other for vista... I switch boots by flipping which partition is active... From time to time, I have had to create partitions and redistribute free space to update to new betas... Sounds
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So if you install the Yahoo Music Engine on your Vista Beta 2 x64 (5384); make sure you have your Vista install DVD handy... After the Yahoo installer finishes installing, and you reboot your computer... you will be looking at a "Windows Boot Manager"
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As far as I can tell, it is safe to install the aspnet framework 1.1 on a vista beta 2 machine... I havent tried VS2003 or using it to power a website in IIS7; but I had an app that wouldnt install without the 1.1 framework, I installed it, and my system
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With the new user security in vista, installing applications can be downright frustrating... All of those security popups and alerts and firewall warnings... but To make matters worse, sometimes the installs still dont seem to have enough permissions
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I am a Yahoo Music Subscriber; I was excited about the thought of getting all my same services through windows media player ll, using Microsoft's new music service URGE. Seeing that both of these services are powered my Music Net, I had expected the catalogs
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