Fix Windows 7 Update Stopped Working with Fix WU
Often due to missing dlls or other files windows functionality like firewall, automatic updates etc stops working.
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10.11.2009 Fix for a Fix that fixes Windows Update fixes
Consider the following scenario. You apply the hotfix package that is described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 916089.
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21.2.2007 You are got Windows 7 questions, I have got answers
It’s impossible to offer a comprehensive evaluation of a product as big and sprawling as Windows 7 with just screenshots and specs.
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30.10.2008 MSN Answers a Million More Questions
The MSN Search group announced on its team blog last week that it has added "about a million" new Instant Answers (also known as "direct answers") to its service. The MSN folks are expanding MSN Instant Answer responses into new area, ranging from sports to weather to government officials.
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23.1.2006 7 Questions Microsoft Must Answer Tomorrow
It's the eve of the software giant's annual Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting, and there are a few things we—and Microsoft's customers and partners should—want to know. Thanks to pacpis for the news.
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27.7.2007 Put your questions to Bill Gate
Bill Gates is to answer your questions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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3.1.2008 Got Vista x64 questions? I've got answers
I got a lot of great questions and comments via e-mail and in the Talkback section of my previous post on the sudden surge in adoption rates for Windows Vista x64. In this follow-up, I summarize the answers I’ve found for each question.
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5.8.2008 Answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions
Every day for the past few months, I have received at least one question from readers wanting to know how the Windows 7 upgrade process will work.
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26.10.2009 Your top Windows 7 questions, answered
Since Windows 7 launched on October 22, my e-mail inbox has been deluged with questions, comments, and pleas for help.
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17.11.2009 Gates responds to questions about his stock sales
The recent jump in Microsoft's stock price was on the minds of shareholders during the company's annual meeting in Seattle this morning, but not necessarily with a sense of satisfaction. During the question-and-answer period, a couple of shareholders asked and commented about recent stock sales by Bill Gates and some other executives following the share increase.
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13.11.2007 Microsoft's Bing: 10 burning questions
Microsoft rolled out Bing sort of—it won’t be fully deployed until June 3—but questions already abound.
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29.5.2009 More information on the Open XML translator and some questions answered
There were a lot of great comments from last week's announcement about the creation of an open source project to transform between the Ecma Office Open XML formats and the OASIS OpenDocument format.
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12.7.2006 Windows Vista Content Protection - Twenty Questions (and Answers)
A conversation has cropped up since the recent publication of a paper scrutinizing how Windows handles digital rights management, especially for HD video. I've since looped back with Dave Marsh, a Lead Program Manager responsible for Windows' handling of video, to learn from him the implications involved and to learn to what extent the paper's assertions are accurate.
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23.1.2007 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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16.1.2008 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience VI
The moment has come once again to pimp your Windows XP with the skills of a power user and the tool that will always be at your disposal, Notepad. This article, along with the previous ones, will allow you to enhance and customize your operating system with advanced IT knowledge.
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29.11.2008 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part II
Allow me to start this article by recommending you read (if you haven’t already) the first part of this “tweaking series,” as it sets the ground rules that must be followed in order to get the job done right.
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24.10.2008 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part III
Welcome back to the registry optimization saga! If you’re just joining us, please start by reading at least our first episode, which describes a few rules that must be followed in order for the optimization process to take place successfully...
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25.10.2008 Symantec tool cleans up Windows XP SP3 registry corruption
Symantec Thursday released a free tool that wipes spurious entries from Windows' registry that had crippled some PCs running the company's security software after they were upgraded to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) or Vista SP1.
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9.6.2008 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part V: Desktop Icons
Once again, it's time to enhance your Windows XP operating system exactly the way you want and without paying a cent on expensive programs that do something so simple that even a kid could handle it.
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26.11.2008 Windows Registry Editor, Task Manager and Folder Options Disabled by New Infection
January 2008 comes with a new trend when talking about computer security because lots of worms, Trojan horses, viruses or other pieces of malware attempt to disable important Windows functions in order to hide their files.
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14.1.2008 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part IV: Display Properties
Welcome to yet another episode of our Microsoft Windows XP tweaking saga. If you're not familiar with the procedure, please start by reading the first article in the series, so as to fully understand how exactly you should use the lines below and how to run the tweaks.
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12.11.2008 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part VIII: Add or Remove Programs
In part eight of the our tweaking series we’ll go through a few Control Panel optimizations for Windows XP power users that may not interest most people using their operating system for basic tasks.
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26.12.2008 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 it’s disabled by default.
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8.6.2009 Microsoft: We can Fix that for you
Microsoft Windows operating systems like Windows XP and Windows Vista provide troubleshooting options for errors that occur in your PC and sometimes provide a link which can have a solution for that error.
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3.1.2009 The Growth of the Windows Registry from 16-bit Windows to XP SP3 and Vista SP1
The Windows registry has been around since the 16-bit editions of Windows, and will continue to be a key component of the operating system even after Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Widows XP Service Pack 3, and even after Windows 7.
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18.1.2008Shipping 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
Adobe Acknowledges Flaw in PDF for Windows, Urges Registry Hacks
Confirming a statement made by Petko D. Petkov on his GNUcitizen.org blog over two weeks ago, Adobe has released a security advisory warning of a
potential exploitable flaw in its Acrobat and Adobe Reader software. Adobe's suggested system registry fix suggests a maliciously crafted PDF can be
made to send e-mail undetected...
betanews.com - 09.10.2007
Fix Windows Vista Help and Support
If you have been getting the dreaded "Internet Explorer cannot download / from help" error message when attempting to open Help and Support in
Windows Vista, try this fix. It re-associates the .xml file type with its default settings. Once you've merged this into the registry, re-launch Help
and Support and it should work.
You can download the fix here.
winbeta.org - 02.01.2008
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
VeriSign Raises .com, .net Registry Fees
VeriSign said late Thursday
that it would raise the
registry fees on both .com and
.net domains October 15 by as
much as 10 percent. The
increase is the first in eight
years, the company says...
betanews.com - 06.04.2007
Microsoft: We can Fix that for you
Microsoft Windows operating systems like Windows XP and Windows Vista provide troubleshooting options for errors that occur in your PC and sometimes
provide a link which can have a solution for that error. But finding a proper fix has always been a difficult task for many. Sometimes we may think
why can't Microsoft fix this for me? The Fix-it teams' purpose is to help users fix their problems in a click of a button. The Microsoft KB
articles and the Windows Error Reporting are now fix-it enabled with a list of steps that can be followed to resolve the issue.
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neowin.net - 03.01.2009
Microsoft to issue critical patch for Office on May 12
Microsoft has issues a statement saying they will issue a "critical" patch this coming Tuesday to fix a flaw in Microsoft Office PowerPoint. The
single update is oddly timed, after Microsoft released eight patches to fix 23 vulnerabilities only days ago. Critical patches are the highest rating
Microsoft gives to updates, issuing an urgent warning to install the needed fix. The outstanding patch has been sitting idly by for almost a month
until questions were raised on why it was missed during the latest patches. The vulnerability was reported almost a month ago, back on April 2, in
Microsoft's Office PowerPoint can be triggered using rigged presentation files.
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neowin.net - 08.05.2009
New 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.
winbeta.org - 09.09.2007
Eusing Free Registry Cleaner 1.25 Final
Eusing Free Registry Cleaner
is a free registry repair
software that allows you to
safely clean and repair
registry problems with a few
simple mouse clicks. Problems
with the Windows Registry are
a common cause of Windows
crashes and error messages.
Registry problems can occur
for many reasons, including
references left behind after
uninstall; incorrect removal
of software; missing or
corrupt hardware drivers; or
orphaned start-up programs.
Eusing Free Registry Cleaner
will scans your Windows
registry for invalid or
obsolete information and
provide a list of the errors
found. After fixing the
invalid entries, your system
will be more stable and run
faster. For maximum safety,
Eusing Free Registry Cleaner
will make a backup of the
repaired entries. You will be
able to restore any changes
made using the software by
choosing Restore registry
backup. It is strongly
recommended to back up your
data before using
Eusing Free Registry Cleaner
!
Changelog:
* Add checking for
update.
* Show the
problem count after scanning
every item.
* Change
donation agent.
neowin.net - 25.12.2006
BetaNews CES 2009 'Better Questions' contest
Before CES 2008, BetaNews debuted our "Better Questions" contest, where we asked you, the reader, what questions you wanted answered from the
CES floor. This year, we're asking you again...
betanews.com - 01.01.2009
How to uninstall VS 2008 Beta 2 before installing the final version of VS 2008
Buck Hodges: There have been a few questions about how to correctly uninstall all of VS 2008 Beta 2 in order to install the final version of VS 2008.
Scott Guthrie posted the steps for doing this earlier today. A subset of this list
would apply if you have installed Team Foundation Team Explorer 2008 Beta 2, rather than the full VS 2008 with Team Explorer.
At
the end he recommends rebooting after removing everything and before installing VS 2008. From my experience, that's good advice. The only thing
additionally I've typically done after uninstalling a non-RTM build is to delete the VS 9.0 registry hives (HKLM and HKCU) and the VS 9.0 directory
under "Program Files." Of course, there are no guarantees with this, editing the registry may render your machine nonfunctional, etc., so be
careful and back up your data.
winbeta.org - 21.11.2007
Using forums to answer
questions about Windows XP
Columnist Joli Ballew explains
how to successfully search for
solutions and post questions
in non-Microsoft discussion
groups...
WindowsXP/expertzone - 04.01.2006
Fix Windows Vista Fonts
This just in from Chris
Pirillo on Windows Vista
inconsistency's, this time
it's the fonts:
I’ve been labeled a
nitipicker for seeing skipped
details that few others seem
to see on the surface of an
application’s user
interface. Guilty as charged!
Download this simple
registry patch, but please
read the entire post before
applying it?
I’m not happy that
Microsoft has added yet
another shell font to the mix
with Windows Vista: Segoe UI.
On its own, Segoe UI is an
awesome font - but when
it’s slapped up against
Tahoma, MS Sans Serif,
Microsoft Sans Serif, and/or
Arial - it’s no longer a
clean user experience. In
fact, Vista is downright messy
when it comes to shell fonts -
with some aliased faces
reaching back to the days of
Windows 3.11!
These
blatant font oversights were
shoved onto the backburner for
the sake of (a) 100% backwards
compatibility and (b) time.
However, that didn’t
stop me from diving into
REGEDIT and setting things
straight. The good news? I
believe I’ve figured out
how to make everything inside
of Windows Vista stick to
Segoe UI. It’s a subtle,
yet radical,
transformation.
neowin.net - 27.09.2006
DirecTV to pay $5.3M penalty
[b]Officials announced a $5.34
million settlement Tuesday
with satellite TV provider
DirecTV over alleged
violations of the Do Not Call
rule, the largest civil
penalty ever obtained by the
Federal Trade Commission in a
consumer protection
enforcement
case.[/b]
The
FTC's action "demonstrates
that the registry is a program
consumers can continue to
believe in," said FTC
Chairwoman Deborah Platt
Majoras at a press conference
held Tuesday morning.
"Sellers are on the hook for
calls placed on their behalf
and for their benefit," she
added. "It is not named the
Do Not Call Registry for
nothing."..
winbeta.org - 14.12.2005
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
Microsoft Halts XP SP3 Update to HP PCs Running AMD CPU's
The recent Windows XP Service Pack 3 update has left certain AMD-based PCs manufactured by Hewlett-Packard caught in an endless reboot cycle caused by
an Intel-specific disk image mistakenly being used with AMD hardware. According to the Microsoft Update Product Team Blog, "The problem is a registry
value, present on images created with Intel processors, that causes a driver (intelppm.sys) to load at boot."
In order to fix the problem,
Microsoft has temporarily blocked these AMD machines from getting the service pack while it cobbles together an alternative update. While some users
wait for Microsoft's fix to eventually be released, others have turned to a former Microsoft employee, Jesper Johansson, who coded up a free tool to detect and fix the problem and made
it available last Wednesday. Once Johansson's fix has been implemented, users can update their systems to SP3 without any problems.
neowin.net - 20.05.2008
New QuickTime exploit triggers the same old stack overflow
It would appear a January fix that supposedly protects against malformed URLs to the RTSC protocol of Apple's QuickTime wasn't a complete fix after
all...
betanews.com - 27.11.2007
Jobs: Fix for crashing iPhone apps bug en route
Apple is apparently set to release a fix for an issue which is locking some iPhone users out of their installed third-party applications...
betanews.com - 21.08.2008
CES 2008 'Better Questions' contest winners
After culling through over 300 entries, we have selected the best questions from our CES contest and attempted to find the answers...
betanews.com - 12.01.2008
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
