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Microsoft patching up Windows shortcut vulnerability today Later today, at 10 AM PDT (5 PM UTC), Microsoft is set to release an out of band update that will address the Windows Shell bug that enables malicious code to be executed when a user clicks the displayed icon of a specially crafted...

alright so i just bought a new computer from futureshop, it is gateway. It came with windows 7. i downloaded some programs and played counter strike 1.6 when i quit the game all my open windows and programs running were off my desktop when i pressed the little icon at the bottom left corner it...

Adobe says version 10.1 is a major update. Its most significant feature is perhaps the fact that it plugs a critical vulnerability that has been flapping open for a week, allowing attackers who had a mind to so, to take over your PC. Adobe recommended using the 10.1 release candidate to plug...

Using the GetRandomRgn function in windows does not work on Windows 7. The forms borders stay visible. The following code on XP clears the entire window including borders and enables you to draw on the entire window area. The code on Windows 7 clears only the client area and enables you to...

Couldn't really find anything through google, so I thought I might as well come here. It might be a little hard to explain, but... well it seems like after a Windows Update for today whenever I click any of the tabs on the menu bar (i.e. File, Edit, View, Tools, etc.) instead of normally having...

The infamous KB977074 January Update which was to solve certain "Stability And Reliability" problems is total junk for certain unlucky computer users. The update was designed for 32-and 64 bit versions of Windows 7; as well as Windows Server 2008 R2. System is described as after install and...

Hello! After upgrading to Windows 7 64bit after Vista Home Premium 32bit, every single time I visit a site, forum etc...where I have to type in my Username and Password, unfortunately Windows 7 OS does not hold in memory the Username, at least, which in many sites is my e-mail (quite long) and...

I added Speech Recognition to my Win 7 and cannot get the console off the screen. I can`t X out or minimize it. I can`t get it off the task bar. Everything seems to be stuck on "Starting Speech Recognition". Any help to alleviate will be appreciated. Thank you, Malcolm Stockman

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Hello all, I started realizing that every time I minimized or closed Firefox WLM would pop up for some strange random reason. So I changed the computability to Vista so it would sit in the icon tray but by doing that it changed my taskbar to the color blue because apparently its not compatible...

After using Windows 7 x64 beta for many months, I decided to install the Windows 7 x64 Release Candidate from MS yesterday. Everything runs fine as with the beta, but I have one annoying problem. Windows Live Messenger keeps pausing every 10 seconds, becoming unresponsive for a few seconds...

Hello! I have freezing issues with Windows Live Messenger (Version 2009 - Build 14.0.8064.206) and Google Chrome (2.0.172.28) Every time I open a conversation in WLM I just get a blank window and the whole program freezes for about 2-3 seconds before the real window appears and I'm able to...

When I first installed Windows 7, I found (as per Vista) that when a file was dropped into a folder, it was immediately ordered alphabetically. For some reason this has stopped working and the file simply drops to the bottom of the list in each folder. Can anyone tell me why this is so and what...

Microsoft is warning customers downloading the Release Candidate of its long-awaited Windows 7 operating system that its first bug has been detected, potentially causing application failures. Microsoft said the problem affects the 32-bit (x86) English-language version of Windows 7 build 7100...

I have problem with newest 7100 build after upgrading from 7057. I use to have my taskbar on top. On every other position this problem can be eliminated by changing taskbar icon size to big a than to small. But on top position there is still somthing from "big buttons". You can see it on screen...

Whenever my status is automatically set to idle after x number of minutes, I get this error "msnmsgr.exe no disc in the drive" with "Continue Retry Abort" and I must click it like 10 times for the message to go away. This happened to my friend also. I seem to recall this bug from along time ago...

Microsoft has released Version 11.32 of the free Process Explorer utility which is a more detailed version of Task Manager. The changes include a bug fix.

Microsoft have now sorted out the bug in the desktop icon for "Feedback Tool". MSDN and Technet subscribers can now submit bugs through this. You need to have activated with a key provided by either of those programs. You must sign in through Link Removed - Invalid URL You can then start to...

Autoruns 9.30 MS has released AutoRuns 9.30, updating this free startup software identification utility. This version adds support for additional shell extension points, better handles malformed paths, and fixes a bug in Vista.