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Is Microsoft planning a Windows 7 Family Pack?

RichieUK — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:03:43 GMT

[quote]Microsoft is set to introduce a Windows 7 family pack, if the terms and conditions discovered in a leaked build are genuine.

Family packs allow users to install multiple instances of software on a set number of PCs in the home, instead of buying a separate licence for each PC.[/quote]
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Autoruns for Windows v9.51 released

RichieUK — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:46:59 GMT

[b]Autoruns for Windows v9.51[/b]
By Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell
Published: [b]July 1, 2009[/b]

[quote]This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more.[/quote]
[url]http://bit.ly/9DrH[/url]

Firefox 3.5 Final released

quietman7 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:39:57 GMT

[quote]* This release candidate is now available in more than 70 languages - get your local version.
* Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
* Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
* The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.
* Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
* Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
* Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 and elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.
[/quote]
Release Notes: Whats New?

Download link

Can't open any MS 2007 documents

DoubleVision19 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:11:02 GMT

I don't know what happened, but MS Office 2007 was working properly until this morning. I was working on some Word documents last night, and when I tried to open that file this morning, I get this error:

[img]http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff258/DoubleVision19/MS2007error.png[/img]

Is there a workaround/patch for this because I have lots of Word documents that I've spent hours creating and I don't wanna start over again.

CCleaner v2.21.940 released

RichieUK — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:10:23 GMT

Version History:
[url]http://www.ccleaner.com/download/version-history[/url]

Download [b]CCleaner v2.21.940[/b]:
[url]http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds[/url]

[b]Note[/b]:
Starting with v1.27.260, CCleaner started installing the [url=http://toolbar.yahoo.com/][color="red"][b]Yahoo Toolbar[/b][/color][/url] as an option which [b]IS[/b] checkmarked by default during the installation.
IF you do [b]NOT[/b] want it, REMOVE the checkmark when provided with the option OR download the 'No Toolbar' '[b]Slim[/b]' version instead of the 'Standard Build'.

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 released

RichieUK — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:47:48 GMT

Release notes:
[url]http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thun...2/releasenotes/[/url]

Download Thunderbird 2.0.0.22:
[url]http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/[/url]

Fully Localized Versions:
[url]http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/all.html[/url]

[b]**Note**[/b]
If you’re still using Thunderbird [b]1.5.0.x[/b], this version is [b][i]no longer supported and contains known security vulnerabilities[/i][/b].
Please upgrade to Thunderbird 2 by downloading Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 from the above link.

Spell check issue

bob0101 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:22:35 GMT

When I use spell check in Outlook Express it checks words based on the French Dictionary. How can I change to English?

bob0101

IrfanView Version 4.25 released

RichieUK — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:52:52 GMT

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7.

IrfanView Version 4.25
Release date: 2009-06-16

Download and details IrfanView:
[url]http://www.irfanview.com/index.htm[/url]

How to make MS products to get license from local server

Anil Kumar — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:54:20 GMT

Is it possible to make MS products to get license from local server ( Floating License ).

License should be available only when user is using particular product, once they close the application it should release the license.

Hope so you understood my requirement.

Windows volume control/mixer vanished

R BaSS — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:29:58 GMT

using windows xp pro 2002

Hi,

For some weird reason today when I turned my pc on, my volume control/mixer was not in my taskbar.

I cannot acess it through start/run &
when I go to control panel/ sounds & devices & tick the box to display the volume control in the bottom right(taskbar) I get a error messege saying,

The volume control programme has not been installed.

I do have volume control via my creative sound blaster audigy zs soundcard however I need to acess the windows volume mixer as I need to use the recording tabs, eg, mic,line in......

Ummmm, I have not recently installed any new programmes or played around with any settings, its just vanished!!

Problem authorizing a macro file in word 2003

Lior — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:26:07 GMT

Hi,
I'm trying to use a file .doc file that adds functions to Word 2003(it adds easy access to special characters instead of pressing a key combination).
When I try to use it, I get a message that Word cannot use the macro because of security reasons.
So I went to Tools, Macro, Security to downgrade the security level.
Then when I run word, it asks me to authorize the macro, which I do, but I still get the same error when trying to use it.

Any ideas?
Thanks

Windows 7 kill switch removes unwanted apps

RichieUK — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:53:41 GMT

[quote][b]Microsoft confirms tool to switch of applications[/b]
Windows 7 users will be able to remove Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), as well as several other integrated applications, from the operating system, Microsoft has confirmed.[/quote]
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Firefox v3.0.11 released

quietman7 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:34:09 GMT

Download link
The Firefox site and release notes have not been updated as of this posting.

Error Message

Russo — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:07:35 GMT

Hi all thx again for all your help in the past.

I'm getting message with Windows Picture and Fax viewer Drawing Failed on jpeg-digital camera files

But the pictures show up as thumbnails in the folder.

I have had to rescan and retrieve hundreds of thousands of pics from my cousins PC she has passed a way a few days ago.

So I have been doing what i can to try and get pics for our family

But alot of them have been damaged and not viewable and coming up with drawing failed when I try to view them

Is there any Programs and software that you can recommend, so maybe we can view them or manage to salvage something.

Thank you in advance and really do appreciate all the support and help

Thank you again

Microsoft Win 7 upgrade program, upgrade pricing

RichieUK — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:23:35 GMT

Best Buy memo details Microsoft Win 7 upgrade program, upgrade pricing:
[url]http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2985[/url]