Xbox 360 crash fix found
A gamer fed up with his new Xbox 360 crashing every 20 minutes has fixed the problem by raising the power supply off the ground with some string.
Dan, from Duluth, or 'goldeneyemaster' as he is known, told the game spot forum here that he thinks the main reason that the xBox 360 freezes is because the power supply overheats. The solution is to lift the power supply off the floor and allow the air to circulate better around it.
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26.11.2005 Botnet Authors Crash WordPress Sites With Buggy Code
Webmasters who find an annoying error message on their sites may have caught a big break, thanks to a slip-up by the authors of the Gumblar botnet.
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7.11.2009 Windows 7 Migration Tool to Move From Windows XP to Windows 7
In past we had covered guide on upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7. Unfortunately there is no direct upgrade path from Windows Xp to Windows 7 and you have to use Windows Easy Transfer utility if you want to move your user and program files from XP to Windows 7.
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22.11.2009 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. Its about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008 Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade
Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
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9.3.2008 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008 Windows Server 2008 = Windows Vista SP1 Minus the Pain
Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is essentially intimately connected with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, to the level in which the RTM version of Microsoft's latest server operating system features the
SP1 label
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6.5.2008 Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 - Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft
The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
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16.6.2008 Free Windows for Supercomputers Available for Download - Windows HPC Server 2008
Microsoft made the latest iteration of its Windows operating system for supercomputers available as a free download.
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23.9.2008 How to Install Windows 7 or Windows Vista on Physical Machine Without DVD Media
A lot of Windows Vista and Windows 7 license has been sold media-less nowadays, where buyers only receive a piece of authenticated certificate with a genuine and legitimate product key printed on it.
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23.12.2008How to crash Chrome. Again and again.
Google is proud of a browser that apparently cannot crash. However, a TG Daily reader found a way how to crash not just tabs, but the entire browser
time and time again with two keystrokes.
We will let this pass through since Chrome is still in beta, but still: Chrome should
not crash that easily. One of our readers noticed that Chrome and all of its tabs will crash as soon as the two characters :% are entered in the URL
bar. Chromes message: Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now?
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04.09.20083rd Party Patches Critical Windows Flaw
Not content to wait for
Microsoft to remedy the issue,
independent security firm eEye
released a temporary patch for
a critical flaw affecting
Windows that can lead to a
crash-restart-crash loop. But
Microsoft does not recommend
such third-party patches...
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31.03.2007Vista Can Be Taken Down by an Animated Cursor
In what could be the most
embarrassing exploit to impact
Windows Vista since its
commercial launch in January,
security engineers at
McAfee's Avert Labs confirmed
today that the operating
system can be caused to enter
an interminable
crash-restart-crash loop, by
means of a buffer overflow
triggered by nothing more than
a malformed animated cursor
file...
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30.03.2007Expect crash recovery features in new IE8 builds
Late Wednesday, a Microsoft spokesperson told BetaNews that a TechEd session in Orlando today summarized some of Internet Explorer 8's key new
features for administrators, one of them being crash recovery...
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12.06.2008New IE Bug Can Crash Browser
A newly discovered flaw in
Internet Explorer can cause
the browser to crash when
visiting a malicious Web site,
security firm Secunia said in
an advisory Monday. The flaw
was first discovered last week
by security researcher Michal
Zalewski...
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21.03.2006Second Sample of Windows
Attack Code Posted
Hackers release software that
can cause an unpatched Windows
PC to crash...
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30.11.2005Crash course on authoring Windows 7 Troubleshooting Packs
New to Windows 7 is the Windows Troubleshooting platform. This platform allows software developers to develop Troubleshooting Packs that automate the
troubleshooting and resolution of problems without having to resort to painful technical support queues or documentation runs. In a nut shell, a
software developer writes a bunch of PowerShell scripts to identify and resolve problems then packages them up and distributes the pack to
end-users.
At the end of this step-driven course, you will have used the Microsoft Troubleshooting Pack Builder (TSPBuilder),
written some PowerShell scripts, and learned of a way to distribute your compiled pack
(hopefully).
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12.01.2009DoS Flaw Found in Windows XP,
Server
Security firm Secunia warned
Thursday of a new flaw within
Windows XP and Windows Server
2003 that could cause a denial
of service issue. The
vulnerability can be exploited
to cause a buffer overflow,
which in turn would cause
Windows to crash...
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03.06.2006Vulnerability Found in Windows Mobile
Flaws within the Windows
Mobile operating system could
cause phones to crash,
security firm Trend Micro said
in a pair of advisories. One
issue deals with Internet
Explorer, while the other
involves the Pictures &
Videos application...
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01.02.2007Report: Serious Bug Delays Vista RTM
At least two news outlets are
citing sources claiming the
final version of Windows Vista
has been delayed at least a
week due to a bug which could
crash a system that was
upgraded from Windows XP...
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26.10.2006Sony DRM Decloaking Patch
Might Crash Windows
Researcher says Sony's copy
protection software also
appears to communicate with
Sony servers...
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05.11.2005CA Antivirus Causing Windows
2003 Crashes
An error in the virus
signature files for CA's
eTrust antivirus software
caused the program to
mistakenly delete a crucial
Windows 2003 file, which in
turn caused some systems to
crash and fail to reboot...
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05.09.2006IE8 to be More Reliable
In a post on the IEBlog today, the development team announced some brand new features to IE8, which they say will improve the browser's reliability.
The most notable improvement is dubbed "Loosely-Coupled IE" (or "LCIE" for short). LCIE essentially splits the browser into several
pieces, therefore should one part of the browser crash, the rest of the browser can continue to function. So say a web page you are currently viewing
in one tab locks up, in IE7, this would mean all other tabs are locked as well, however with IE8; the remaining tabs are still accessible and fully
functional.
Another anticipated feature is the new Automatic Crash Recovery, in which IE8 is capable of recovering any tab, as well as
any unsaved form data within that tab, should it crash.
For details outlining the remaining features, continue reading at the IEBlog.
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29.07.2008MS Warns of Exploit for
Windows Flaw
Microsoft on Tuesday
acknowledged the existence of
exploit code that could crash
vulnerable Windows computers
through a flaw in image file
handling. The company had
provided a patch for the
problem as part of its
November Patch Tuesday
security update...
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30.11.2005Hubble in trouble after satellite crash
Neowin reported that two satellites had smashed into each other in space and the results are now coming into the light. The space telescope Hubble
may be in trouble because of the debris left behind from the collision. "Clearly debris from the event is going through the altitude that the
Hubble flies, so we're going to be looking at what is the new risk to Hubble," said Nicholas Johnson the chief scientist at the Orbital Debris
Office at NASA's Johnson. Over one thousand pieces of debris are now orbiting the Earth that can present many problems not only for Hubble.
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13.02.2009Sharing folders vulnerable to buffer overflow
Even though the recent webcam vulnerability in MSN/Windows Live Messenger was only just addressed, another exploitable bug has already surfaced. This
time it's a buffer overflow error that affects the Sharing folders feature in Windows Live Messenger 8.1 (and maybe other versions) running on
Windows XP.
The safety of the Sharing folder feature got questioned before, but we now have a concrete example of how it can be abused. A
Spanish security expert going by the name of Lostmon Lords has discovered that an attacker can cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) or even execute
arbitrary code in Windows Live Messenger 8.1 by means of a specially crafted jpg, wmf, gif, ico or doc-file.
The attacker can "Create a
sharing folder" for its victim and then put the malformed file into the physical location of that folder on his hard drive (My Computer > My Sharing
Folders > victim@hotmail.com). Note that if the attacker would drag & drop the file directly into the Messenger window, his own client would crash.
Considering that the victim has accepted the sharing folder, the attacker can simply click the sharing icon to crash Windows Live Messenger, or even
Windows XP entirely when the process isn't terminated in time. The victim then needs to delete the sharing folder entirely to cease the
exploitation.
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27.09.2007Patch to a patch of a Microsoft patch needs patching
In the latest incident of a now-chronic problem that has been bugging Microsoft all year, a recent security patch now causes IE6 to crash in Windows
XP...again...
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19.12.2007Attack code released for critical Windows flaw
In what may be the first step toward a major security problem, security researchers have released attack code that will crash Windows machines that
are susceptible to a recently patched bug in the operating system.
The code is not available to the general public. It was
released Thursday to security professionals who use Immunity's Canvas
computer security testing software. It causes the Windows system to crash but does not let the attacker run malicious software on the victim's
system.
"It reliably crashes Windows machines," said Dave Aitel, Immunity's CTO. "In fact, it blue-screened our print server
by accident -- this is a broadcast attack, after all."
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18.01.2008Norton Update Causes Crashes in China
An errant update for Norton
Antivirus has caused the
computers of at least 1,000
users in a China city to
crash, several Chinese news
sources reported on Monday.
According to authorities, the
problem was caused by an
update on May 18 that
accidentally flagged and
deleted two essential Windows
XP files...
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22.05.2007New attack code crashes Windows XP & Vista
Security researchers have released attack code that will crash Windows XP and Vista PCs that are susceptible to a recently patched bug in the
operating system. The code was released yesterday to security professionals who use Immunity's Canvas computer security testing software. It
causes the Windows system to crash but does not let the attacker run malicious software on the victim's system. It is not available to the general
public.
That's the biggest concern for security experts who worry that a more dangerous attack may soon follow as researchers dig
further into the vulnerability. The bug is particularly troublesome for two reasons. First, it affects a widely used Windows component that is turned
on by default. Worse, no user interaction is required to trigger the flaw, meaning that it could be exploited in a self-copying worm attack. Microsoft
patched the flaw in its MS08-001 update, released last week, but it takes time for enterprise users to test and install Microsoft's patches.
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