Why do I get updates (in Windows Update) for Office components that are not installed?
E.g. I have not installed InfoPath or Publisher but Windows Update lists updates for them.
Should I ignore them (will it waste space?) or do I need to install them?
I purchased a license and used Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit OS for a while. But recently I bought a 64 bit version to take advantage of the larger RAM the machine had and hence reinstalled the OS and activated a new license for the 64-bit version. Now, I am in a need to install the 32 bit version on another machine.
How do I go about reactivating a license on another machine? (again the license currently is not used) Am I going to have issues with Microsoft not letting me reactivate that license on a different machine?
Thank you.
We noticed that on W7 with DPI set to 125% or to 100% with ("Use windows xp style dpi scaling") turned off, our fullscreen mode (which sets the client rect of our window = desktop rect of the main monitor) no longer hides the task bar like it does for other settings.
(The setting can be found in the Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display section after clicking on the "Set custom text size (DPI)" link)
I found the following interesting article:
http://www.mathies.com/weblog/?p=908
So I set out to try to work around the bug in other means than manually hiding/restoring the taskbar visibility but so far I've failed and currently believe it's a bug in W7 (and possibly vista).
The following applications also fail to work properly in fullscreen mode (the taskbar is still visible):
* Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
* Microsoft Word 2007
* Adobe Reader 9.1.3
These apps work (probably by hiding the task bar through the WIN32 API):
* Powerpoint Slide Show
I also tried creating a brand new MFC-based app and use its "SetFullScreenMode()" functionality but it fails in the same way as all other apps on the list.
Does anyone know of a workaround?
Thanks,
Per
I get this error when installing any network adapter on my computer:
The device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)
I have tried many different adapters and many different drivers. Any ideas?
OS: Windows XP Home SP3
Here is the Hardware IDs for the onboard NIC:
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1050&SUBSYS_2019107B&REV_02
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1050&SUBSYS_2019107B
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1050&CC_020000
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1050&CC_0200
Device Manager Screenshot
Good afternoon
I'm having too many intermittent problems with my DLINK DIR 400 router:
Wireless connection is lost with no reason.
Perhaps the current router is incompatible with this Scientific Atlanta cable modem DPC 2100R2.
Scientific Atlanta is a Cisco company, but I'm really worried about this combination DLink - Cisco.
Could anyone recommend me a good wireless router for Windows Vista / Windows 7?
Thank you
When my new Dell laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium and 4GB RAM sleeps (not when it hibernates), it will drain the battery overnight.
My old Dell laptop with XP Pro (2 GB RAM) could sleep for days without running out of battery.
Is it normal that Windows 7 sleep is this power-hungry or should I troubleshoot my new machine?
Edit: I know how to set the different sleep/hibernate settings. That is not what I'm asking.
Is it possible to have more than two active VPN connections on Windows XP?
I have a customer with three VPN client connections on Windows XP Professional. I can connect to any two sites at the same time, but the third connection always fails. Is this a limit within the operating system?
On Windows Vista, I right-click on a folder, Properties, Sharing tab, and either "Advanced Sharing" or "Share"-"Share" causes an error:
Windows File Sharing
This program will not run
Access is denied.
Close
My user account is an "administrator" on this machine.
I think this behavior changed since my computer was added to the new domain recently. I have other folders shared (from long ago), and they continue to be shared just fine.
I have a batch file that changes a few registry files, and then restarts explorer.exe so that they take effect. I'm using the command taskkill /f /im explorer.exe and then explorer.exe which of course kills all the explorer.exe processes, including the explorer windows I have open.
Obviously, I am using the option to Launch folder windows in a separate process.
Is there any way I can determine which instance of explorer.exe is the main one, and just kill that?
Good afternoon
I'm having too many intermittent problems with my DLINK DIR 400 router:
Wireless connection is lost with no reason.
Perhaps the current router is incompatible with this Scientific Atlanta cable modem DPC 2100R2.
Scientific Atlanta is a Cisco company, but I'm really worried about this combination DLink - Cisco.
Could anyone recommend me a good wireless router for Windows Vista / Windows 7?
Thank you
I was trying to put the Windows 8 Consumer Preview onto a thumb drive, when I was asked if I was OK with wiping it (I said yes I as it was blank).
I had to sleep my computer during the wiping, and now I can't do anything with my dive.
When I put it into my computer:
When I click format disk:
In short, the disk never reformats (I get an error message letting me know that Windows was unable to format the drive). Whats going on, and how do I fix it?
A Windows service has 4 different startup types that can be configured: Automatic, Automatic (delayed), Manual and Disabled.
I have a service running on a combination of Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 Desktops that I need to set as 'Automatic (delayed)' using a GPO setting, but from what I can see in the GPO editor, the delayed option is missing:
Have I missed something obvious, or is this a rather basic omission from Microsoft?
Microsoft offers the standalone Hyper-V server for free. I'm wondering if I can install roles other than the Hyper-V role on this? I know installing other roles alongside Hyper-V is a bad practice, but what I'm trying to ask is if the Hyper-V Server edition of Windows Server allows installation of other roles, like DNS server, File Server etc. Infact I'm not interested in running Hyper-V, just looking for a free windows server to install some roles on.
Thanks
I have installed Windows Server 2008 on the latest version of Sun Virtual box. I have some web sites hosted in the Windows Server virtual machine. How can I access the websites hosted on the virtual machine from the host machine. Currently, the network adapter is set to work in NAT mode.
Thanks in advance.
I need to make my client talk to a XML-RPC service. I found a couple of interesting ones on the web like android-xmlrpc. Have you used any such libraries in your code? Which library do you recommend?
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What do green folders mean in Windows 7 Explorer?
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I downloaded a .zip file the other day and extracted it using 7zip from my desktop to my laptop over my home network, when it finished, its filename and the filename of its contents was green.
What does this mean, can i revert it to normal, has anything been modified and is there a list somewhere of color codes for windows file names.. ? (I can recall seeing blue somewhere before).
I have one Dropbox (I suppose) shared between my business account / PC and my wife's account / PC running Windows XP and a laptop with Windows 7.
I created a folder and shared this one with both (or three) accounts.
I created an underlying folder (no need to share, says the help) but it is not visible on the other PCs, so I've shared it to both accounts.
Is this sharing necessary for every simple new folder?
I have a Windows 7 machine and XP machine on the same router. If someone is using the XP machine, how can I see what they're doing from my Windows 7 machine?
I have created a small game in Java and I would like to add the ability for a player to publish his highscores online.
I'm willing to write the server software myself (it's easy these days with Ruby Mongrel, or even C++). All I just need to have some sort hosting. One solution that immediately comes to mind is Amazon EC2. But that's kind of expensive for my needs. Since the requirements are very minimal (I don't even need a website, just a web service) I think there may be a cheaper solution out there.
Does anyone know of a free or cheap provider for this kind of thing?
Since people are getting unauthorized access to my Windows Server (bruteforced over several months..), I'd like to set up a whitelist for RDP access.
I have tried the following with Windows Firewall inbound rules:
This still allows other users to connect through RDP. Is there any way to block such unauthorized access through a whitelist?
EDIT: The firewall is enabled, and it's the only firewall running on the machine. Rules like allowing port 80 traffic behave correctly.
I need the laptops at my office to have a static IP for security purposes and identification. However, some employees take their laptops home in the evening. If I have the wifi config set to use a static IP, how can they have a dynamic IP at home?
the laptops are using Windows Vista and Windows 7.
I need the laptops at my office to have a static IP for security purposes and identification. However, some employees take their laptops home in the evening. If I have the Wi-Fi configuration set to use a static IP, how can they have a dynamic IP at home?
The laptops are using Windows Vista and Windows 7.
I have my desktop PC running Windows 7 and Acer netbook running Windows XP and I want to use its screen as second monitor for my desktop via LAN. Are there any software to do that?
I have a Windows network with a 2003 server as the PDC, and a 2008R2 server as a DC. We have used GPO sparsely when the majority of our workstations were WinXP, but now we have Windows 7 clients and we're having some issues with printer mapping.
I'm not quite sure how I would go about taking up GPP, would it involve shifting the PDC over to the 2008R2 server?
Any advice on what to do, and how to accomplish it would be very much appreciated.