Earlier, some of us had trouble with Avast and shuting down the machine -
not using the Welcome screen, and various other incantations helped
somewhat. All that was then taken care of and now I have a new machine and I
have started using the Welcome log-in facility for the first ...

http://blogs.technet.com/mattmcspirit/archive/2006/11/20/vista-gadgets-thick-and
-fast.aspx
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Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP

Here is why Vista can be considered considerate software:
http://varunbahl.blogspot.com/2006/11/considerate-windows-vista.html

when starting up windows the 'blue screen' keeps occurring unless the usb
dialup modem is not plugged in
after all startup routines are complete modem can be replugged.
have noticed a similar problem with plugging usb dsl modem and external usb

Every once in a while, something inappropriate and obviously SPAM slips
through the filters and gets posted on this newsgroup. Please do NOT respond
to it. I, or one of the other MVPs here, will have already reported it to
the team that handles these things, and it will be ...

..it seems to me the three operating systems wcan dual boot/triple boot - am
I allowed to say that ? ...can the 3 operating systems boot from a 64 bit
computer with a 64 bit processor ? The motherboard Bios has Enable/Disable
cpuid setting .

I think this is the right forum as I believe the issue is with the OS.  I'm
trying to access a remote Exchange server via HTTPS.  The server is my
Terminal Server.  My team needs to log in from home and once logged in to the
Terminal Server, start up Outlook.  On all of their ...

I have a new machine where i have strange behaviour. We have a SBS 2003
based network and active directory. When i connect to a fileshare of our
fileserver i see - at random moments - freezes. However; it does not occur
when i remove one GB stick of RAM (i have 4GB in the setup). ...

New to this.  Just bought my daughter a notebook that has xp media center.  
Her school requires XP Pro SP2 or better.  Not sure what to do.  Thanks.  DD

i have just bought new pc a month ago and windows 64x came with it but i was
wondering if their was an exchange available  or discounts

Hello. I recently installed Win XP x64 on a new hdd. I have all my Oblivion
folders on my old hdd under my old user name. That user profile has a
password, and I get a "access denied" whenever I try to explore any folder
under that profile name. I know my old password of course, ...

Subject says it all.
Can it be stopped, please?
Tony. . .

Had to reinstall Vista64 due to loss of CD/DVD's when I tried to install
Roxio Easy Media Creator 8.  Don't do it.  The problem is that every time I
boot up I get the message that the above file is being shared, and warns
that if I delete it it won't be shared anymore.  Heavens.  ...

Is sp2 out for win xp 64?

When installing Acrobat 8.0, I got an error warning asking me to either stop
or continue installation of some file or component.  The warning stated that
the installation could harm my Windows XP x64 OS installation.
Anybody know how to diagnose and handle such errors?