Retrieve CD Key/Product Key From Windows Registry with Product Key Finder
You must keep CD Key/Product key of any software or application at handy place since you may not know when you will need that key again.
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9.7.2009 Disable and Remove Half-Open TCP Connections Limit (to Unlimited) in Windows 7 and Vista SP2 with EnableConnectionRateLimitin Registry Key
Officially, the incomplete half-open outbound TCP connection attempts allowed at any one time is now unlimited by default in Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP2 (Service Pack 2), and Windows 7. Actually, the ability to limit or restrict number of half-open outgoing TCP connections system can create or establish is built into Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7, however its disabled by default.
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8.6.2009 Windows 7 Office 14 - Happy together?
Now that the Windows 7 Beta and Office 14 alpha are both out there, word is beginning to trickle out about some of the ways the two are being designed to work better together.
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15.1.2009 Office 14 crawls toward beta
Just because Office 14 won't be fully released until next year doesn't mean consumers will have to wait that long to try out the products.
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4.3.2009 Windows Seven and Office 14 Just as Big as Windows Vista and Office 2007
Microsoft has reiterated its commitment to the desktop. Building on its co-founder Bill Gates' vision of a PC on every desk in every home, Microsoft will continue to focus on delivering desktop products. And in this context, nothing will change when it comes down to the development of the company's main cash cows.
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12.7.2007 Microsoft Not Discussing Windows 7, Office 14
Now that Vista and Office 2007 are officially out the door, Windows enthusiasts have been busy scrounging up what they can about the next versions of both products. Not much has turned up besides code-names and potential features, but a number of blog posts prompted Microsoft to say publicly that it's not saying anything.
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16.2.2007 A new hint about whats coming in Microsoft Office 14
Master data management will be part of Office 14, a first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of which is due in the first quarter of 2008.
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22.9.2007 Ballmer: Office 14 will not be released in 2009
During his annual Strategic Update briefing with Wall Street analysts on February 24, CEO Steve Ballmer said Office 14 wont be shipping in 2009.
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24.2.2009 Office 14 slated for a 2009/2010 Release
The codename for the upcoming release of Office, currently slated for a 2009/2010 release timeframe, is Office 14.
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15.2.2007 Office 14 to add more online document sharing
Microsoft wont be turning Office 14 into a completely Web-ified productivity suite, a la Google Docs.
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13.2.2008 Microsoft to Increasingly Open up on Office 14 and Windows 7
There is a time for translucency, and there is also a time for transparency.
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11.7.2008 Office 14 heads into external alpha testing
Microsoft has begun providing external companies with early access to alpha versions of its Office 14 server components.
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14.1.2009 Office 2010 Build 14.0.4417.1000
Just about a week ago, WZOR leaked screenshots of Office 2010 build 14.0.4417.1000, which they managed to get their hands on.
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5.9.2009 Microsoft Lets Windows 7 Rest and Talks Office 14
Just as Windows 7 will succeed Windows Vista, so will Office 14 be the next version of the Office System, designed to replace Office 2007. And just as Windows 7 is a product version rather than a codename, the same is the case for Office 14.
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21.1.2008 Microsoft to alpha test Office 14 before end of year
Microsoft will begin alpha testing the next version of Office in November or December, according to a blog posting by a Microsoft employee that was later pulled from the Web.
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20.8.2008 Microsoft parking structure will hold 5,000 vehicles
Microsoft is digging for a solution to the parking crunch on its growing Redmond campus.
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25.6.2007 Office 2010 Build 14.0.4417.1000 Leaked and Available for Download
A new development milestone of the next iteration of the Office System has been leaked and made available for download in the wild. Microsoft is currently making its way to the first Beta of office 2011, a release slated to be available to all users as a public testing build.
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31.8.2009 Change Office 2007 Product Key
When Office 2007 was RTM'ed and downloadable on MSDN I used Office Professional 2007. For my new course, SharePoint BI, which I'm writing at the moment I needed InfoPath as well.
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1.1.2007 Windows XP & Office 2003 mainstream support ends April 14
Just a quick reminder to Neowin users, both Windows XP and Office 2003 will leave mainstream support and enter extended support on April 14, 2009. This applies to the following Windows XP editions:
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5.4.2009 Microsoft Office 2010 Mondo Build 14.0.4417.1000 Screenshots Leaked
After Windows 7 RTM final leak its been big gap in leaking of under development product from Microsoft lab.
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30.8.2009 Office 2010 Beta Build 14.0.4536.1000 75-Screenshot Gallery
The first public testing milestone of Office 2010 is now available for download, with Microsoft imposing no limitations on the number of users that can grab the bits, or on the period of availability.
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22.11.2009 Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2 Build 14.0.4514.1007 Download with Project and Visio
Another new build of Microsoft Office 2010 from beta branch has been compiled by Microsoft mid October, and had since leaked to Internet. The Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2 with build version 14.0.4514.1009.
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12.11.2009 Microsoft Office 2010 Volume License Product Key (VLK) Requires KMS or MAK for Activation
Volume licensing customers for Microsoft Office 2010 suites and applications who install volume editions of Office client software will require activation, even with a volume license key (VLK).
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26.8.2009 Windows 7 Product Key Checker to Verify Windows 7 Product Key
Windows 7 official release is set on October 23 and soon you will be able buy your own copy of Windows 7.
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9.9.2009 Wise Registry Cleaner 1.9
Wise Registry Cleaner is one of the safest Registry cleaning tools available in the market today.
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8.4.2007 Two Vista Registry Hacks
Thanks to rzalonis for this post in our forum. Here are two easy registry hacks for minor performance gains.
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17.4.2007 Wise Registry Cleaner 2.9.4
Wise Registry Cleaner is one of the safest Registry cleaning tools available in the market today.
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27.10.2007 Auslogics Registry Defrag 4.1.6.75
Auslogics Registry Defrag is an extremely useful program to keep your registry as compact as possible. As a result of keeping the registry defragmented and as small as possible, your computer performance will be much improved.
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18.1.2008 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience
You may ask yourselves, why should this article be any different from all those tweaking tutorials around the Internet or, better yet, why should you read this when you can install a program that does it all for you?
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23.10.2008 No More Registry from Vista SP1 and XP SP3 to Windows 7?
Windows 7 is the next iteration of the Windows operating system that will succeed Windows Vista. Following the availability of the latest Windows Client, Windows Vienna was the codename for the next version of Windows.
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16.1.2008New WMV PowerToy & registry key documentation
The birth of the VC-1 Encoder SDKs will reduce the need for these over the next few months, but Alex has updated his WMV PowerToy and also revised our
documentation about the registry key options.
Here's the
new PowerToy. It mainly removes a few options that we determined weren't in the Format SDK 11 implementation, particularly
adaptive chroma search and default adaptive deadzone.
And here's the new, hopefully final
registry key documentation,
reflecting the above and other useful tidbits we've learned.
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09.09.2007Office 14 Alpha screenshots leak
Russian site Wzor has leaked some screenshots of the Office 14 alpha build that was handed out to select testers this week. The build is pictured
below installed onto Windows 7 and it doesn't appear like the UI has been overhauled yet and remains very similar to Office 2007. We revealed a
possible Office 14 concept screenshot earlier this week before alpha testers received the official build. According to Alpha testers Microsoft is
targeting a 2009 release and Office 14 could possibly be named Office System 2009. Below you can see Word 14 in the first screenshot (click to
expand): Excel 14 (click to expand): About Office 14 (click to expand):
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15.01.2009Office 14: New details surface
TechARP has come up with the preliminary dates planned for the program milestones of Office 14, the latest version of Microsoft's Office
productivity suite. Accoring to this latest schedule: Office 14 SKU lineup will be announced in Q2, 2009Office 14 OEM royalty rates will be announced
in Q3, 2009Office 14 marketing strategy and opportunities for OEM partners is scheduled for Q4, 2009 Neowin earlier cited that Office 14 beta 1 would
be released in early July and Office 14 beta 2 in early November. The RTM release could happen as early as March 2010 and could arrive in 32 bit and
64 bit flavors.
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26.03.2009Office 14 heads into external alpha testing
Microsoft has begun providing external companies with early access to alpha versions of its Office 14 server components. According to Mary Jo Foley
some external testers say they've now got access to documentation outlining what's coming in the imminent alpha build. Testers are expected to
receive alpha code of SharePoint Server 14 and Office for Sales 14. Microsoft also told the alpha testers to expect a "first beta"of Office 14 later
this year. Mary Jo also questioned Rajesh Jha, Corporate Vice President of Office Live and Exchange on the release schedule of Office 14, Jha said
to expect Microsoft to update customers "later this quarter" about its rollout and release plans for Office 14.
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14.01.2009Shipping Seven: The Registry
Could the registry be replaced? Sure, in software, pretty much any change is possible.
In practice though...If you were to
replace the registry, you would end up with something that pretty much looks exactly like the registry.
Go take a look at all the
programs on your hard disk that use the registry APIs in
in advapi32.dll...
winbeta.org - 16.01.2008
Office 14 to be named Microsoft Office System 2009?
Microsoft is currently developing the successor to Office 2007, Office codenamed "14". There has been little to no information on the upcoming
Office version and many have speculated we might not see the product until 2010. Microsoft failed to provide any solid information at last years PDC,
choosing to focus on its Office Live offerings. Eagled eyed Microsoft enthusiast and blogger Stephen Chapman has spotted what appears to be an
internal software roadmap from Microsoft. The roadmap reveals a milestone of year end 2009 but the dates aren't very clear: In the roadmap you
can see that Office 14 is clearly identified as Microsoft Office System 2009.
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neowin.net - 07.01.2009
Microsoft confirms Office 14 support for Windows XP
Even though the recent word that the next version of Microsoft Office, dubbed Office 14, was delayed until next year, we have good news for those of
you who are still using Windows XP. Microsoft's Chris Capossela has informed the Silicon Valley Insider that Office 14 will run on Windows XP,
Windows Vista, and Windows 7. In a statement Capossela noted: "Our install base of Office 2003 and 2007 is actually quite quite high in enterprises
even if XP is what most enterprises are still using on their PCs. We're looking at XP with some service pack.
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neowin.net - 03.03.2009
Ballmer: Office 14 will not be released in 2009
Despite Windows 7's release looming over the horizon, ZDNet has stated that Steve Ballmer himself said, "Office 14 will not be this year," in an
interview with analysts at the Wall Street Journal. Keen readers will notice that Ballmer called it Office 14, and not Office System 2009 which it
could possibly be named on release. Many people thought that Microsoft would time the new Office revision along with Windows 7's release, as many
businesses prefer to upgrade to a new OS and a new Office suite at the same time, but Ballmer has dashed all thoughts of this happening.
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neowin.net - 25.02.2009
Office 2007 Nukes the Insert
Key
Overtype mode, i.e. the way
Microsoft Office apps, in
particular Word, will
overwrite text in front of the
cursor as you type, without so
much as a beep, if you happen
to have pressed your Insert
key, has long been the scourge
of typists the world over, and
for a good long time there's
been real no reason for its
existence at all.
Finally Microsoft seems to
have realized this, as
according to Jan Miksovsky at
flow|state, Office 2007 will
have overtype mode, no matter
how many times you press the
Insert key, disabled by
default.
Of
course, there's still a
preference to re-enable the
"feature" since, as
Miksovsky says, "with a user
base the size of Microsoft's,
it's virtually guaranteed
that a large corporate
customer has a vocal
department that swears they
need Overtype mode, so
dropping the mode was probably
out of the question." Now,
can we get rid of the CAPS
LOCK key, next?
jcxp.net - 16.07.2006
First Office 14 screenshot unveiled?
Microsoft enthusiast and blogger Stephen Chapman sends word that he has discovered an early concept Office 14 screenshot from a PowerPoint
presentation hosted on Microsoft.com. The screenshot itself appears to be from a slide deck detailing Grava's intergration into Office 14. Grava
is a set of tools developed for the needs of those creating educational content. Stephen says he "noticed that instead of the Office logo in the orb,
there's a 'G' to obviously signify Grava, so does this mean we're looking at a standalone Grava application or a conceptual idea for
how the interface of Office might change to signify the user is currently using Grava?
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neowin.net - 11.01.2009
Windows XP Service Pack 3 RC2 via Windows Update (Public Availability Program)
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 is available to the public. Specific registry settings will allow you to be offered SP3 via Windows
Update.
Download the script and run it on a machine currently running Windows XP Service Pack 2. The script sets a registry key
on your system. The registry key is required for Windows Update to recognize your machine as a valid target for Windows XP Service Pack 3 RC2.
Versions of Windows XP Service Pack 3 prior to Release Candidate 2 should be removed before attempting to use the registry key.
Windows Update will not offer Release Candidate 2 to machines with previous versions of the Windows XP Service Pack 3 beta.
It is
recommended that you apply the resulting update package to an activated, genuine copy of Windows XP, in a test environment. As with any pre-release
software, it is also recommended that you back up files and settings on your machine before applying this update package.
winbeta.org - 20.02.2008
Microsoft: Office 14 Web apps should run on Macs
In a surprise correction of information BetaNews received at PDC 2008 last month, a Microsoft spokesperson now says its forthcoming Office Web apps
with Office 14 will run on platforms other than Windows...
betanews.com - 18.11.2008
Windows Vista "NoDriveTypeAutoRun" Security Issue
CERT/CC has reported a security issue in Windows Vista, which can be exploited
by malicious people to bypass certain security settings.
AutoPlay is a feature designed to immediately begin reading from a drive
(e.g. run a setup file) when a media is inserted. According to Microsoft, this feature can be disabled for all drives by setting the value of the
"HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorerNoDriveTypeAutoRun" registry key to "0xFF". However, as Windows Vista
fails to properly handle the mentioned registry key, this may still result in programs being executed automatically when a media is inserted even with
the registry key value set to "0xFF".
Successful exploitation may result in execution of arbitrary code, but requires physical
access to a vulnerable system or that a user is tricked into inserting a malicious media (e.g. USB device).
winbeta.org - 22.03.2008
Microsoft Office 14 to arrive late 2009/early 2010
The beta program for Microsoft Office 14 (likely to be named Microsoft Office 2009) may not have begun, but according to a blog post on the
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online blog, the release of Office 14 and related products is expected to occur as early as the end of next year...
winbeta.org - 31.07.2008
'Office 14' to be more Web-friendly, Gates says
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked publicly for the first time on Monday about the next big Office release, code-named Office 14, which he said will
give users new ways to access their applications online.
Microsoft won't provide the full functionality of Office online, but it
will offer limited capabilities to view and edit the data in Office applications. It already does this for its Outlook e-mail client with a product
called Outlook Web Access, and it will offer similar capabilities for other applications in Office 14, Gates said in a speech at the Microsoft Office
System Developer Conference in San Jose, California.
"Outlook Web Access is not the full version of Office, but if you want to
go into a kiosk or an Internet cafe and browse and connect, it gives you plenty of functionality," he said. "As we look at all the modules , we have in mind the equivalent of Outlook Web Access," Gates said.
winbeta.org - 12.02.2008
First Look: Office 14 for Web
Wouldn't it be cool if all the Office applications worked online, cross-browser from anywhere with AJAX and/or Silverlight? Or maybe even from your
cellphone? What would be even better is if they had real time collaboration, integrating the rich client with the web clients. Well, wish no more
because all of the above is going to be a part of the next Office Suite.
Want to see how it works? Check out this visit from
Antoine Leblong, Senior VP of Office Productivity Apps. We'll show you a little about how this works, why we're doing it, and demo working on
documents together with a co-worker.
winbeta.org - 28.10.2008
Microsoft unveils Azure pricing structure
Microsoft originally announced it's Azure cloud services and platform at last years PDC. Azure provides businesses with a set of hosted services
from Microsoft that allows developers to build rich web based applications that can scale well. Housed in Microsoft's data centers, the service
was initially released as a Community Technology Preview and free of charge during its testing phase. Today Microsoft detailed its pricing structure
on how it intends to charge customers for cloud use. Bob Muglia, president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft, announced the business and
partner model for the company's Windows Azure platform at the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans today.
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neowin.net - 14.07.2009
Windows registry forensics guide: Investigating hacker activities
When analysing a compromised Windows system, investigators and system administrators can glean enormously useful information about attackers' actions
by looking through the Windows registry, a hierarchical database storing tens of thousands of settings on a modern Windows box. Whether an outside
attacker compromised the box, an inside employee engaged in nefarious activities, or malware inexplicably infected the machine, the Windows registry
contains wonderful gems of information for investigators. In this tip, we'll look at what information investigators can gather about user activity
via the registry. Next month, we'll focus on how investigators can pull useful registry information associated with the overall operating system.
winbeta.org - 06.06.2008
Ballmer: Office 14 not this year
During his annual "Strategic Update" briefing with Wall Street analysts on February 24, CEO Steve Ballmer said Office 14 wont be shipping in
2009.
Office 14 will not be this year, Ballmer told analysts...
winbeta.org - 24.02.2009
How to change Registry Permissions with RegIni.exe (VBScript)
Alejandro Magencio: Today I'll show how we can set the following permissions on a registry key with
RegIni.exe and a VBScript :
- Creator Owner Full Control
- Users Full Control
- Power
Users Full Control
- Administrators Full Control
- System Full Control
I will set the permissions here for testing
purposes:
winbeta.org - 11.03.2008
