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Why Office 2010 won't support Windows XP 64-bit When the system requirements for Microsoft Office 2010 were first posted, we noticed that Windows XP 64-bit was mysteriously absent. We contacted Microsoft, and the company explained that while deciding on which versions of Windows to support in...

Hi I think Windows 7 is really great but I miss being able to change the Start Menu to Classic View. I didnt like Vista but was still able to able to change a lot of things in the Start Menu. Are there gonig to be any service packs to add this feature back on

Hi, I'm new to this so please bear with me. I've been sucessfully playing flight sim x on windows 7 for a few days now. Since I was so anxious to start playing the missions, I didn't installed the service packs yet either, but it seems to work fine, with the exception of random crashes...

Microsoft announced today two new updates will be shipped out on Tuesday (March 9th) at 1:00 pm EST. The 1st update addresses one or more vulnerabilities in Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. And affects the most recent service packs for XP and Vista, SP3 and SP2, respectively both 32- and 64- bit...

Link Removed - Invalid URL The Internet is certainly one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind. It helped open the road to unprecedented levels of innovation and communication between people. But, life on the Internet is by no means perfect. Numerous gangs of cyber-criminals...

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1.1 (for IT Professionals) To easily assess the security state of Windows machines, Microsoft offers the free Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) scan tool. MBSA includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Microsoft is set to release six patches on December 8, 2009. Link Removed due to 404 Error are marked as "critical", Microsoft's highest rating, while the other three patches are labeled as "Important". These six patches should be the last release package of the...

The only Microsoft office programs I have are Word Viewer 2003 and Sharepoint Designer 2007. Both of them are freebies. Windows Update insisted that I install all the Microsoft Office updates and Service Packs for Office 2003 and 2007. That seems like overkill to me but I did it anyway. Why...

Few days ago installed W7 64b on my Vista Home Prem 32b laptop. Most programs seem to work ok, EXCEPT CorelDraw X4 (it worked well in Vista). MS site indicates compatibility using CorelDraw X4 in W7-64, & Corel.com has no postings about incompatibility. In W7 Corel takes forever to open the...

If Windows 7 develops a problem it can often be fixed by running this utility. The sfc /scannow command (System File Checker) scans the integrity of all protected Windows 7 system files and replaces incorrect corrupted, changed, or damaged versions with the correct versions if possible. It...

I've been using Windows 7 for a few months now, and although it started out quite stable, over the past few weeks, it's stability is progressively getting worse. Constant blue screen crashes and if Microsoft that are trying to convince me that this is the way forward, then they should think...

Hi everyone. I am still trying to get my Nvidia video card to work with the multiple display option. Do I need a service pack? I downloaded the correct drivers from the website, but it still will not show multiple displays. Do I need a .net framework version. Windows 7 is on my second...

There seems to be an issue with Flight Sim X and SQL Server. I get a fatal error whenever I try to go to any missions. In the problem reports it shows that MFC80.dll is the culprit. I'm a developer and have Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Express installed. In the problem report is says...

Just figured I'd start a little benchmarking comparison thread, see how our PCs stand up against one another. If you want to get in on the comparison, please include the following if possible; - A screen shot of your Cinebench r10 Scores - Which version (64 bit or 32 bit) of the program you ran...

I have installed windows 7 on my pc and the wireless network card and wired network portion of my motherboard do not work with any drivers currently available. When i was installing win7 off my XP partition i noticed it download updates off the web. My question, is there any way to download...

Hi everyone Just for a test I did an Upgrade from Vista X-64 and then compared with a Clean W7 X-64.install and re-loaded all the applications I'm using on VISTA X-64. Partition size I'd defined in both cases was 53.71 GB . Vista X-64 Used 42 GB Windows 7 X-64 used 17 GB. Now I...

Hi guys After testing different Windows OS'es -- I still have to say that Windows XP PRO 64 Bit edition with SP2 stiill rules the roost in speed etc by quite a large margin. Using asus P5QL -CM Mobo with 8GB RAM and Intel Quad Q9400 2.66 GHZ. Using built in video driver (Intel G45 / G43...

Judging from the comments at places like Link Removed , I somehow don't think so. The iCabbal forces won't allow it. To which mike responded quite well:

I was reading this forums news posts and followed up on one in particular, this can be found here: Link Removed The article in question discuss's how MS has dropped prices in an effort to generate more sales of Vista with the author then proposing why Vista is already a doomed os. I would be...

Does anyone experience this mysterious behaviour and have an answer to it, starting to lose the plot with it Link Removed due to 404 Error OS is Vista Business. Using IE 7 or Mozilla firefox, most pages I browse to return a "cannot display page error", hitting browser refresh button then...