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Oct 9 Thu
Fix For Error Starting Automatic Updates Service on Local Computer
Jeff Guillet writes "This can happen when Windows XP clients attempt to start the Automatic Updates service and is due to a permissions issue. The quickest and the easiest solution would be to reset the permissions for the Automatic Updates service on the client and then start the service. To display the current permissions of the Automatic Updates service and fix them:"
Oct 2 Thu
Get Switcher! Vista Tool Adding Graphical Functionality
Michael Kleef writes "...a tool that adds some really nice, almost round green fruit like, functionality to Windows Vista. It allows you to easily see graphically whats running like Alt-Tab does but a bit bigger..."
Tips Using ConfigMgr Task Sequence "Install Software"
Michael Niehaus writes "...before you can install a dynamic list of packages, you need to check this box on every program that you are planning to install this way. Depending on how many programs you have, this could be rather painful via the ConfigMgr console. So in MDT 2008 Update 1, we included a new sample script..."
Oct 1 Wed
Utility and Add-In Cleanup Tool for WHS
Philip Churchill writes "Normally the procedure would be to edit the registry and deleting a key, but now this tool from ASoft does the job for you and also creates a backup of what was deleted as well..."
Sep 29 Mon
Expand Speech Recognition with "pre-beta" Macros
Aaron Tiensivu writes "Windows Speech Recognition Macros extends the speech recognition capabilities in Windows Vista....While we have tried to make it easy to use, this release of WSR Macros is a technical preview of technology we are planning to release in the future....While creating simple macros is very straightforward, the creation and editing of more complex macro files is best suited for advanced users."
Sep 21 Sun
New Look for Windows Live Calendar
Paul Thurrott writes "
UI change over at the Windows Live Calendar Beta."
How To: Get NumLock to Stick
Jeff Guillet writes "Here's a tip on how to get the Num Lock key to stay on (or off) every time a user logs on."
Windows XP Activation Past 30 Days
Joel Oleson writes "I was activating a copy of XP that had essentially went past the 30 days, so I couldn't get past the activation screen....I found a cool workaround that I wanted to share."
Sep 19 Fri
I'm a PC - I like these ads
Chris Slemp writes "Not that I minded the Seinfeld ones--good attention-getters--but when they came out, I was hoping that we'd move to something like this quickly..."
Fix for Vista Error 2738 Installing Adventure Works BI
Darren Gosbell writes "For some reason this sounded familiar and sure enough a quick search turned up this post from Mitch...where he had the same error (with a different installer). It appears to be the same issue as the same fix worked for me..."
Sep 18 Thu
Next Phase of Ad Campaign - NYT Sheds Some Light
Windows Vista Team writes "I wouldn't count on anything being "cancelled"...Windows Consumer Campaign is moving into the next phase and we did mention previously that you should expect the campaign to evolve. I'll direct you to a post by Stuart Elliott of The New York Times to shed some light..."
Enabling Remote SQL Express 2008 Network Connections on Vista
Beth Massi writes "...what I was doing today was trying to connect a VPC to SQL 2008 Express on my host development machine in order to test some apps, simulating a network. When installing SQL 2005 or 2008 Express it locks out remote access to be on the safe side. Here's the basic steps you need to do to get it working:"
Sep 17 Wed
Best Vista Website Contest Winner Announced
Windows Vista Team writes "The website Tweaking with Vishal took the crown by a landslide, capturing 32% of the 11, 520 votes..."
Windows Home Sever Secure SSL Certificate Available
Philip Churchill writes "...obtain the custom SSL certificate and how to get into the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager on the Home Server to import the new certificate..."
Sep 16 Tue
Windows Home Server Technical Document on User Accts and Shared Folders
Philip Churchill writes "...a 22 page document... how to create, remove and configure User Accounts. Shared Folder creation, removal and how to access them is next. This is followed by a look at Shared Folder Duplication and it’s disk space usage. Finally using remote access..."
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