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ID 2002 IIS-W3SVC-PerfCounters Setting up Web Service counters failed, please make sure your Web Service counters are registered correctly. ID 1017 Perflib Disabled performance counter data collection from the "ASP.NET_64_2.0.50727" service because the performance counter library for that...

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Fixes an issue in which it takes longer than expected to collect performance data when you use Performance Monitor or a PDH function. Additionally, CPU usage is higher than expected while Performance Monitor or the PDH function collects the data. More...

I have joined this forum in the hope i can get help and advise in deploying windows 7, I have been deploying windows 7 for the last 7 months as a contractor for two different clients. Both clients have had different ways of doing the deployment, however both have the same concerns about data and...

Have been experiencing intermittant BSODs with my laptop running windows 7. They seem to come completely randomly and event viewer has not been able to give me any useful information. I have a VAIO NW Series Notebook PC Link Removed...

How to use the Task Manager in Windows 7 Professional This is VERY troublesome. There are numerous comments and suggestions in various forums by frustrated users unable successfully to fight their way through the myriad of options that do not work seamlessly. What worked so easily under XP...

WIN 7 (64 bit) Desktop. Recently I have had a poweroutage. This didn't cause any "major" problems. I had Firefox open (.exe) and another program (.exe) open. Both of these experienced issues. Firefox I wasn't too bothered about. The other .exe program I was. I solved the problem by using the...

This article describes the information that may be collected from a computer when running Internet Explorer Diagnostics for Windows Client and Server. Link Removed

Fixes an issue in which a data collector set in Performance Monitor does not collect all required performance counter data. This issue occurs in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

Have you ever run into a scenario where a long running task causes the Visual Studio UI thread to hang or become unresponsive? The PerfWatson extension logs these issues and automatically and anonymously reports back to Microsoft. In this episode, we are joined by Cameron McColl, who explains...

Yahoo plans to extend the amount of time it retains records on what its users search for online, just two years after breaking from the other big Internet search engines and promising to delete such data promptly. The new policy brings the company in line with Google Inc., which dominates the...

French Jean Marc Batard presents his invention a vertical garden which allows elderly people to garden. It can also be used by people who love gardening but cannot bend down at the 39th International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques and Products, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, April...

Google Street View Cars Collected Emails and Passwords

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find the thread. I have directories on my computer that have thousands of files in them. In Windows 2000 (which I used until about a year ago), all directories loaded with lightening speed. But in Windows Vista and now Windows 7, I am...

Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009

Hi Guys Be careful in using W7 WMP. There's a little legal "nasty" in that it says " Usage will be sent to Microsoft" plus some discalimer saying that "Information is only collected for "Statistical Purposes". Whilst I don't believe in Microsoft "Conspoiracy" theories I just don't like the...

Hi, out of interest I'm hoping users will post the score found in the Reliability moniter. I just want to see if there is an average across the range, for example, my score is 7.83 and is usually around that figure. If other users are getting the same results then hopefully we can see a pattern...