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IE, MSN Messenger Error

IE, MSN Messenger Error

After two days of testing ( When all goes ok ) Internet explorer and MSN Messenger sudennly failed to connect anywhere ( Ping and ICQ working ok ) , before this Internet explorer connects to any host only on second try ( for one run , after restart cannot connect at all ).

I don't have any idea where it can be , can anyone help me, where i may look or what to check ?

( Firewall is off all time , Running in Virtual BOX )
PS Sorry for my bad english.

EDIT: Tested Mozilla - DNS Lookup fails sequently
  • Moved by Othorvath Saturday, February 7, 2009 3:16 PM (Moved from Windows 7 Networking to Windows 7 Application Compatibility)
  • Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:24 AM

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After long long looking what happend in ( using windump ) after found that no packets from IE are send it start to work ( don't know what operation done this )

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Defender-Update

Hallo !

I have a little Problem.

I don´t can install Updates for Defender. "Code: 80070539"
And my english is not so good.

  Thanks
  • Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:17 AM no reply from OP
  • Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:17 AM no reply from OP

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If System Restore is also failing, you probably have some form of Malware running. I would go to MalwareBytes.org
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Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP

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I think that site is malware
: P
The truth is I go back to win98se because I don't have to take my computer onto the internet
 at all.
But sites are like people, they have distinctive features.

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80070539 ERROR_INVALID_SID
The security ID structure is invalid.

What is the installed antivirus/security suite and does it include an antispyware component ?

MowGreen MVP Data Center Management - Update Services Consumer Security

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Have you installed an antivirus program yourself? I havent noticed anything called anti-virus in windows 7, just the defender balloon "look for anti-virus on line." (something I would not reccommend) I have a Norton Disk ready for that.

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To whom are you addressing that question to ? If you're asking me, what does that have to do with  the Original Poster's issue ?  There are AVs available for Win7. Installing older versions of them is not recommended.
MS has this page ... Windows 7 Security Providers
Avast works well with Win7, but is not on the above page. Caveat emptor for any Norton product.

MowGreen MVP Data Center Management - Update Services Consumer Security

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DRM - Win-7 Beta - License migration? (third post attempt, first two posts by me, appears to have not posted yet)

2:20 PM 2/5/2009

 Hello Beta Team!

   I know DRM could be a sensitive and debatable issue.

    Seems after my purchase of movies from on-line services, they are not viewable with Win-7 Beta.  Appears the DRM management has changed under Win-7, (I am not sure about any changes, unable to locate a solution to this sizeable to me, concern, so far). The DRM management under XP-OS SEEMS to me, to be handled differently. 

    Searching for a way to utilize my DRM info., when upgrading from one OS to a later edition Win OS. My change currently, is from XP  to Win-7, [(with Win-XP to be removed from machine completly as possible, (with no dual OS use). An exclusive original DRM use, within Win-7 OS, (after Win-7 is released for retail purchase))]......the migration/upgrade from XP to Win-7 was not presented to me as an option during this beta trial....so I am now potientially faced with a sizeable loss of purchased movie use, on this SAME machine, while operating under the Win-7 OS, [(if my paid for XP-DRM license / info., now is not usable (yet), under Win-7 OS)].

     This post is intended to be for future consideration; "a wish-list item"; for future consideration of DRM migration during an upgrade from previous MS-OS's, due to the potential loss of movie viewing use.

   Thanks for your time and any consideration of future DRM license consideration in the future.....I do understand that this is a sensitive subject with licensing.......just do not feel an upgrade OS should affect one's purchased Digital Rights Management / licenses.

     Bye for now,  Thanks again, Jim.

Win7 64-bit issues (several)

 

A couple of things with Win7 64-bit .

Adding windows features: for every component that you remove your computer will reboot...   remove 3 features at the same time and the computer will reboot 3 times.

After the features are removed the icons are still visible in the control panel after a reboot (or a couple of reboots)

Every installation of a game/programm causes the mainscreen to turn black for a couple of seconds   (computer responds to nothing in the meanwhile?) and only after that a popupbox will pop up if you want to install it.

IE8 that comes with it (the 64-bit version) caused my system to hang several times.

Messenger8 is not a taskbaricon anymore but its showed like a normal program on the taskbar even after minimizing it.

not able to select the "run box" in the starts menu instead of the "life search box" that is there now.

The soundblaster drivers that came with the windows update program cause my microphone to stop functioning properly.
It only work with the window drivers.

I think thats the most for now.. ill come back when ill find more stuff

**edit**

During the installation i was not automaticly promped to format my HDD even tho i had a WinXP installation on it. I had to go manually into a seperate menu in the setup to be able to format my HDD.
This format question should be in the primary installation process.


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You would think with all new tec comming out M/S would make shure all the 64 bit systems would work right and give you the speed it has. Windows 7 will never be ready for realese untill 64 bit is right and dam fast. Anything else is a mistake and will hurt Windows 7 big time !!!!!

Thomas
SLI and Vista

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I can help with the run command.  Right click on the taskbar, go to Properties. select the Start Menu tab, click customize and toward the bottom you will see Run Command, put a check mark in there and that should bring it around.
I haven't really been uninstalling much of the features so haven't noticed the re-starting. 

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Home Basic ¿Really need that?

 

I think I am barely agree with the editions they will release, but at least they should fusionate the Started edition with the Home Basic edition, or the Home Basic with the Home Premium, becouse is very confussing, there's one over.

And why the started edition has such limitations, I thought the emblem was "Windows vs Walls"

Please keep listen at us and remove the Home Basic edition, I really understand the others editions and the decision of just focus on two of them is very clever, but Home Basic is just dumb and this make Home Premium more confussing (instead just Home).

I mean, two editions with extremely limitations... bad idea


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The average consumer will only see two SKUs available at retail - Home Premium and Professional. Ultimate/Enterprise will have limited availability.

Home Basic/Starter Edition is for emergering markets with low-end PCs and thus will not be sold at retail or offered when you by a Dell etc, so you will not see it.

Enterprise/Ultimate are the same thing, the only difference is Enterprise will be through Volume Licensing.

XP has 3 SKUs available at retail, Vista had 4, Windows 7 has 2.

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If you are using windows now, more then likely you will never see or have access to Starter or Basic.

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I know that, but anyway, having 2 editions with limitations is very annoying, and without the Home Basic the Home Premium would name just Home, more simple.

And the limitation of Started is really dumb, the Home Basic should be Started, cuz the current Started is nothing comparable with the real Windows-7

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Gaming

 There is hardly anything about gaming in your forums in 2 days Im going to build a quad core based gaming system and test W 7 on it ill use all of my other gear 2 but you need to make a subject for gaming. as we all know Gaming has played a major part in the advancement of PCs over the years

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Try www.xna.com for gaming development.
Mike Swaim

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Strange behavior after logon.

Hi there, I have installed Windows 7 7000 on my Vaio FS760 laptop flawlessly all drivers worked ok. After about 2 weeks of instalation a strange thing started to happen. Every time a logon in our out my domain network and with different users it just pops-up a Explorer windows like I've typed Win+E. All the screen remains black and this window stay and nothing more happens, then I type CTRL+ALT+DEL invoke the Task Manager and just a few process are running [4 process] and explorer.exe is amongst them. So I click "new task" and type explorer.exe, OK and voila. The initialization process starts like it shold be after I've logged on the machine. Does anyone saw something related to this issue. I haven't found anything that helps on the forums so far.

Thanks in advance and, i have to say it, this Windows 7 is GREAT!!!

MarckOliver
  • Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Thursday, February 12, 2009 6:36 PM thread abandoned

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Does this happen if you login/out again as the same user?  or only when you switch users?

If you run msconfig.exe,  is there anything unusual in the the Startup tab?

 

Joe


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Reply:
 

Hi,

 

Before moving on troubleshooting, could you please take the following steps?

 

1.       When the computer works fine, change the theme to a non-Aero theme, such as Windows 7 basic or Windows Classic.

2.       Restart the computer to test the issue.

 

Does the issue re-occur?

 

Thank you for your cooperation.


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Thanks for your replies guys and sorry to take so long to respond.
@Joe

This happens every time I login with any users. Now I have tryied with a user that never logged on my machine and it pops up a message saying "Location not Avaliable" and complain about a reference to a location [The profile location, I believe] that is not avaliable or is on a network share, but this user I've tested never logged on my machine and when I press OK the same Explorer window pops up. And the are no unusual processes lurking around my Startup tab.

@Robinson

I've tryied what you have suggested and it behaves the same way regardless the theme I use...

Thank you guys for trying to help me out. If you find out anything please let me know. For the time being I will just invoke the task manager and run explorer.exe manually.

[]z

MarckOliver

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Reply:
Does this happen when you logon with a local computer account? It sounds like something that is running in a logon script may be causing a problem. Logging on locally will help to determine if this is the cause.

Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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Hi Kerry.

I tryied right now what you suggested and it behaves the same way with a local account. :(

Thanks again.

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Reply:
The next step is start disabling startup programs with msconfig to see if a startup program is causing the problem.

Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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Well, that's the thing. After the password the explorer window opens and the computer doesn't run anything from the Startup Tab. The only process that are running if I do not start explorer manually are:

CSRSS.EXE
DWM.EXE
EXPLORER.EXE <- From the Window that is opened.
RUNDLL32.EXE
TASKHOST.EXE
TASKMGR.EXE <- From the task manager opened to start explorer.exe again.
WINLOGON.EXE

If I leave the computer alone it does not start anything else but these programs.

Thanks for your efforts.

MarckOliver

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Reply:
Did you already checked for possiable spyware, viruses, malware..etc?

Also try to uninstal the videocard driver / software....reboot and check

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Once Explorer is running then run msconfig and selectively disable items on the Startup tab. You'll have to reboot after disabling each item to see if that is the one causing the problem. The quickest way is to first disable everything on the Startup tab, reboot,  and see if the problem goes away. If it does then start enabling items and rebooting until you find the problem application. If disabling all the items doesn't help then re-enable them all and post back for the next troubleshooting step. It's a lengthy process but there really isn't any shortcuts.

Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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Everything that covers the basic funcionality of the computer is already checked, I'm using the videodrivers from the W7 itself  [GeForce Go 6400 prerelease WDDM 1.0], should I try the NVidia Drivers. Virus and things like that I don't think is the problem since I'm using the Kaspersky AV 8 Beta for W7. Thanks for your reply. 

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Ok Kerry, I will try that right now and post the results as soon as possible. thanks for your time.

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Yes try the original Nvidia driver for your GeForce Go 6400. supports of course windows vista but it will work fine on 7.
Its a bit painful to remove the windows 7 video driver coz you have to disable the automatic driver installation, stop the automatic search for drivers for my hardware. login into svae mode and try to uninstall all the WDDM and the controllers then restart and install the original one.
Are you not thinking about resotre point any how?
Cheers

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Networking my printer (samsung clx 3170)

It was compatible with windows vista ultimate as a network printer

but now. I lost the printer

 

I manually over rode the installer for the drivers and set it up to be compatible with vista,

and I have nothing...still

 

I am running the 64 bit edition with the 64 bit edition drivers... 


Reply:
Your drivers may not be signed. Contact the printer makers site about updates.
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Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP

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Limited Conectivity to network after any use of high bandwidth programs/sites

I am using a wierd connection on a Linksis router. If i run the troubleshooter it works fine, but will soon kick me off the internet again.
Andy help would be great :)

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Contact the Linksys site about a new driver for you Network device and Win7
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Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP

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Please make the Start menu resizable

Although I do NOT want a return to the classic Start menu, I would very much like to be able to resize the W7 Start menu, simply to reduce the amount of scrolling required in the All Programs section.

Vertical resizing would be wonderful and much appreciated.  Horizontal resizing would be handy to reduce horizontal scrolling in deeply nested folders.

I suggest resizing would be done by dragging the upper and lower borders, much like any other window, and that the size and position would then be remembered.

I know that the Start menu CAN resize, because it does so automatically if enough programs are "pinned" in the upper left section.  My suggestion is simply to put this under user control.


Reply:
If you customize the start menu and increase the "number of recent programs to display", the start menu resizes accordingly.

However, the setting maxes out at 30, which is insufficient. (There's probably a registry setting that can be tweaked to increase the limit.)


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Gary02139 said:

If you customize the start menu and increase the "number of recent programs to display", the start menu resizes accordingly.



 



Actually, I really hate having recent programs displayed, and always set it to zero.

But yes, that would be another way of forcing the Start menu to be bigger.  Personally I just want to resize it myself.


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You're right. The two settings should be independent.

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Internet Explorer Jump List ignores Internet Options History setting

Is there any way to make the Jump List for the Internet Explorer icon to NOT populate?  I'm curious because there doesn't seem to be any way to disable this feature.  I've set my Internet Explorer history setting to zero days, yet the jump list still fills with historical pages...

I know many very paranoid people that will not like this one bit... 

  • Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:13 AM no reply to suggestion

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Have you looked at PCSafeguard info from IStartedSomething.com ?  That might work for your paranoid folks.

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I can see this being used in a corporate environment, a testing lab, or a public kiosk environ, but I can't see this as a very useful option for home users.  Can you imagine the explosion of emotion you'd be subject to when your kid(s) found out the 5 hours of gameplay they just did wasn't saved because all changes and files are thrown away! wow! I feel for the poor schmoe that enables this on his kids' accounts... LOL

Anyway... Interesting suggestion, but I'm still looking for a solution to the Jump List.  Even that wouldn't prevent the list from populating while still logged in.  It may remove the entries at logoff, but they still appear...

Thanks for the tip, though... I may have to look deeper into this for my corporate users when Windows 7 comes out, or look into the current options that article mentioned that are already available for XP.  I have a few corporate machines that are used like kiosk machines that I get tired of having to "fix" because some (swear word here) decides it's suddently their personal computer...


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I've yet to find a teenager that is paranoid :-)  Windows Steady State is the name of the XP and Vista era 'freeze' program for PCs.

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My use of "In private" browsing does not add to the IE jump list.
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Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP

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Download / install Windows 7 problem

hey,

i'm trying to download the new windows 7 however, it gets to 99% and then stops. I've tried this with both 32 and 64 bit and it happens even have the 8th time ive tried to download it... help?
  • Moved by Othorvath Saturday, February 7, 2009 2:56 PM (Moved from Windows 7 Installation, Setup, and Deployment to Windows 7 Miscellaneous)
  • Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:09 AM

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Hi,

 

Which browser did you use when downloading? To download Windows 7 beta installation file we must use IE. Before downloading, Download Manager will be installed as an ActiveX and this will be the download tool.

 

If you use third party browser, please launch IE to download.

 

 


Arthur Xie - MSFT

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I have same problem I have tried downloading both files with IE 7 several times,
Every time i try it fails out at 99% or it completes and says its corrupted when it does the verify.
I then went on to use Firefox 3.0.5 and it does the same thing.

Oh and yeh I successfully downloaded the mannager on both browsers before hand .....

I am sooo anxious cause i want to get in the Windows 7 beta soooo bad and imn going to miss out just cause i am unable to download it.

I am un sure if there is an other way i can legaly get hold of this ?


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I used firefox 3 to download windows 7. I had no problems at all. I am using windows xp pro sp3 with Firefox 3 as default browser and noting special in my set up... So the issue most likely is not Firefox

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Same problem here using Firefox or IE7. I am now trying the link announced here, but I am not sure what version it is and why the file is smaller.

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[?] - Calculating time remaining...

Ok, so count me dumb, but why does file transfers still take longer even when the time remaining shows nothing?


Example:

I copy a 800MB file to an external drive, and it seems to not count the time to delete that large file, in the time left or status.

Consider this a question, feedback, bug report, all in one. :)

When you are moving a large file, please keep the status going until you have completed the transfer. Do the following:

1. Cut/Paste 1GB file from C: to D:

2. Show the window that copies the file, and after the data was copied to the other location, please indicate that the file was moved, and it is now deleting the file from the origin location.

"Now copying *.ISO (700MB)

Copy complete, now verifying the file, and removing from original location."

Possible?

Thanks,

Andrew.


Reply:
No, the default behavior cannot be changed for a drag to copy. You could create a XCopy, or RoboCopy command set to do that.
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Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP

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Mark L. Ferguson said:

No, the default behavior cannot be changed for a drag to copy. You could create a XCopy, or RoboCopy command set to do that.


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Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP

Hi Mark!

Thanks for your reply. However, it did not resolve my complaint, nor was even related. What I am asking, is why isn't the information more detailed when you are moving a file (Say, a GB of data) from one drive to another? For example, you move a 1GB image and you want to move it from your computer's C: to your External HDD. You go ahead and click cut, and then paste in the External HDD. Instead of it just showing moving, I want it to show the whole process:

Show how much longer until it has finished making a copy of the file on my External HDD;

Show how much longer until it has finished verifying that the file was accurately transferred;

And lastly, show how much longer until the original file on C: is deleted;


The reason I want this, is because it never accounts for this when it is saying Time Remaining.... It just sits there as the file is deleted, instead of showing the indicator still moving. I just want some kind of indication that the file is already on the External HDD, and then another indication when the file transfer and removal (of the original) has finished.


Does that make better sense now? It isn't one of the easiest things to describe, ;)...


Andrew,



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Your real answer is that 'it's a beta'. You should send feedback on features you want changed, and wait for a better version.
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Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP

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Explorer crashes on opening

Hi,
 
since installation the explorer crashes everytime I tried everything I know with no use. Moreover, after emptyin the bin I found that, in the 10 seconds I have before the explorere crashes, the files are still there.

Any suggestions?
  • Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:30 AM no reply from poster

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What you might try to get Win 7 to install successfully depends on what you have tried so far. Clean install? No third party software installed? Drivers and hardware for Win7?
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Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP

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FIX COPYING / SYNCING: 1) PROMPT ONLY ON CHANGED FILES; 2) track renamings; 3) parent folder mod date registers subfolder mod date changes

Dear Windows 7 team,

Vista made copying files better in some instances,

but SYNCING is as bad or worse -- there are a few changes that would make manual inspection and syncing of directories EXPONENTIALLY easier.

1. WINDOWS 7 NEEDS A "PROMPT ONLY FOR CHANGED FILES" FILE COPY OPTION

1. Let me give you the scenario I just ran into:

I copied an entire disk volume of files.

Vista prompted me that "a file already exists" in 595 cases. NIGHTMARE!

I had ONE choice. Either go individually through ALL 595 files to see which ones Vista would tell me had changed, or "do this for the next 594 files."

Can you please supply the following prompts instead:
"The following file appears not to have changed / Do this for the next X UNCHANGED files."
"The following file is newer / Do this for the next X NEWER files."
"The following file is larger / Do this for the next X LARGER files."

2. ADDITIONALLY, THE FILE COPY SHOULD TRACK RENAMED FILES & FOLDERS.

Use a hash value to compare files.
 
Prompt to rename existing files, so that duplicates don't proliferate.

Even better would be a hash comparison for the entire SET of files being copied, not just directory by directory -- so that any moves of files from one directory to another can be synced, rather than recreating duplicates.

3. SUBFOLDER CONTENTS CHANGES SHOULD CHANGE THE PARENT FOLDER MODIFIED ON DATE.

This is ANOTHER syncing problem in Vista.

Top-level folder modified dates DO NOT REGISTER changes in the subfolder contents. What's up with that?

It makes manually inspecting changes in directories with very deep folder trees EXPONENTIALLY more tedious than it should be!

Please change this feature -- or at least add it PROMINENTLY as a Folder View Option.

4. FILE NAME CHANGES CHANGE FILE MODIFIED DATE

Maybe this is the problem I'm remembering with subfolders...

Isn't it true that changing a file's name DOESN'T change the File Modified Date?

Shouldn't that be a Folder / View Option? It would be tremendously helpful.


Hope this makes sense to everyone. These are very important functionality issues that need fixing.

Thanks!

a.k.a.

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1. How would it help to have a do this for x number of files? You wont know what files will be affected.

2. I can't see people generally use such a function.

3. Why would you have copies of the files in the top level folder in sub folders? Or are you saying that you want to somehow be able to see that a file in the top folder has been changed by looking at the contents of one of the sub folders?

4. That is correct as the file content hasn't been modified the last modified date hasn't been changed.


When suggesting something take this into account:
Will this actually help?
Is there better existing ways to do what I want?
Will this be beneficial to most people?

EDIT

Re 2 It seems that what you want there is to use a backup program.

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Reply:

Dear Jens,

Thanks for the feedback.

Jens, let me spell out the rationale as to why this would be useful to a lot of people. First, I think you may need to consider that most users aren't as obsessive-compulsive as it takes to keep their entire file system tidy and synced. They get behind, develop a backlog -- forget where they filed things and when, and generally get overloaded with the amount of file info they have to contend with. In a sense, you may need to consider that half the work in getting file directories to sync up easily is putting in the time up front to make sure the contents are adequately aligned so that you can sync. That's a manual, very granular battle with file storage. The syncing part is easy. 

More specifically, consider this point: When you need to start making archives of your files, you may not have the space immediately available to keep what you need organized all in one place anymore, and actually reconstructing the filing system the way you need it may be a project that takes you more than one "session." In other words, you start disrupting your own filing process in order to free up or conserve space where you can in the interim, until you can get the hardware installed to fix the space constraint. Even then, since it takes a while to finish filing if it's a big directory, you might decide to file a lot of your newest files directly on your backup, rather than on the original directory, and then, as you move on to other things and forget what you've done, file other new files on the original directory, and not on the backup. And then, you're "hosed," as they say. You have to align the contents manually before you can do any copying -- there's no just copying in bulk that will solve your storage / archiving / backup / filing system problem.

That's a real-world user scenario. Now, to the specifics:

I offered the "do this for the next X files" strictly for the sake of parallelism. It's the current alert that Vista uses in file copying. You are correct -- you may well want to do this on a file-by-file basis. On the other hand, in Vista, as it is now, if I have to wade through 595 files just to get to the ~50 I guesstimate have been changed, then I'm stuck. Do you see? I can't accept 595, and I can't manually check 595 either!

The UI should at least break down the "do the same for the next X files" into types:

1. If no file mods have been made, then in all likelihood, the user won't want to copy them. Take the same action for all UNCHANGED files. Then you're not wading through 595, you'll be deciding on the next 50 files.

2. Chances are you won't use the "do the same for the next X files," but you might! If you are an efficient person when you are backing up a directory, you may know that all of your edits have been contributions to a few documents that make them "larger" or "newer." In that case, then you'd want to accept changes for all "larger" or "newer" documents, while rejecting changes for smaller or older documents. 

On the folder data, I'm afraid it didn't come across clearly enough. If I have a folder tree that is 3-4 levels deep, then Windows Explorer becomes an unnecessarily inefficient tool at inspecting for files that I might want to make sure I'm updating. Say a file was updated 3-4 levels down in the tree, but I haven't thought about that file for several weeks. When it comes time to manage that directory of files, I want to know what files have been modified, and I won't be able to find it from the top level directory. I'll have to use Windows Explorer -- which has a "tunnel vision" problem in this instance in ONLY being able to show one subdirectory at a time, and rendering all other info completely opaque. I'll have to burrow down into all of my 3rd or 4th level subfolders to make sure I find all of the modifications I've made to files or subdirectories. On a partition that (like my photographs, or my IT resources directory) has 80GB of files, you're talking an exhausting, tedious task, potentially taking an hour or more.

Now look at this: If the top-level folder does register a modification in a subdirectory, then you just follow the "breadcrumb trail" of the "Date modified" indicators from top level folder downwards, and you have no trouble pinpointing quickly what changes were made where. It'll save you potentially an hour of your time -- if you could just tweak an option in the Folder Options settings to have the "Date modified" give you that breadcrumb trail!

Alternately, make it easier to pull up Advanced Search -- not easy. That gives you a "Date is after" option, but that's not as useful.

I have some even simpler file management UI suggestions, but I was concentrating on things that are minor tweaks from Vista. I don't know that I should be laying them out here, since few people are taking notice.

Thanks!

a.k.a.


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Office 2007 Display Issues

In Windows 2007 you have the ability to drag a mximized window by the title bar to restore it, etc.  This feature does not work with Office 2007 applications that utilize the new Ribbon bar.  I'm guessing this is because of the way the application creates the ribbon bar, it actually overwrites and hides the real application titlebar.

Has anyone else experienced this?  Is this a Windows 7 fix or does there need to be an Office 2007 fix?

Thanks,

 


-Steven Perry
  • Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Thursday, February 5, 2009 6:31 PM bug/feature is a product team decision. send report.

Reply:
Hey, well spotted!

Interestingly, the new Paint application, which also uses a ribbon bar, doesn't suffer from this.  So it must be something to do with the way Office 2007 implements it, as you say.

My gut says it's probably a Office 2007 problem, and will be fixed in the next release.

May I suggest you use the Send Feedback facility to get this up to Microsoft?

I'll do likewise - maybe if enough of us do it, someone will notice.

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Send Feedback doesn't work for me.  Not authorized.  I will post in the General forum here.  I have been told that MS Product team does receive those posts.
-Steven Perry

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Reply:
Apparently there's a thread in the Miscellaneous forum for getting stuff back to MS.


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Yes, it's annoying.  I ran into this last week.  I sent feedback on it.  Hopefully they're keeping track of these items sent in from the Send Feedback function.  Office XP works just fine.

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Windows 7 (32-bit) + Office 2007 + VS.NET 2008: AIM 6.x crash?

I noticed the other day that my AOL Instant Messenger would no longer start after installing VS.NET 2008, but instead crash and open an AOL crash report. After checking AOL's forums, it appears the order in which these three applications are installed can cause a conflict:
(source: http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/articles.php?boardId=571317&articleId=128&func=5&channel=Beta)

Steven222:
"I recently made a very interesting discovery.

1. Perform clean install of Win7 build 6.1.7000.1400
2/ Install AIM
3. Install Office 2007.  After that install AIM still works fine.
4. Install Visual Studio 2008 Pro edition.  AIM stops working.

Thought that was interesting, so I did these steps...SLIGHTLY differently than the ones above.

1. Perform clean install
2. Install AIM
3. Install Visual Studio 2008.  AIM still works after the install.
4. Install Office 2007

Does anyone else find this interesting? 

By the way, are you guys talking about 32bit Win7 or 64bit Win7?"

Exchange Technet Documentation Error

 Hi,

Just and FYI...
 
We are looking to allow our Help Desk handle the enabling and disabling of ActiveSync with Exchange 2007.  I assumed that the Recipient Administrators role was required.  Just to verify my assumption, I went to technet to find the documentation.

In the two documents below it indicates that Exchange Organization Administrators is what is required.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124315.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996414.aspx

However since this seemed to be a bit too much authority needed to perform this task, I kept searching.  Sure enough I found the following document that indicated that only Recipient Administrators was necessary.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124809.aspx

Perhaps someone from Microsoft can fix this discrepancy.
Micah
Micah

Sidebar

What happened to the windows sidebar??  when you right click on the desktop there is a option to get gadgets, i click but nothing happens???

Reply:
RIght click on the desktop, and select "gadgets". When the gadget window opens, you can double click on any of the gadgets there (that came with the OS install), and it will appear on the right side of your desktop (or wherever you have the gadgets appearing). You can download more gadgets from the "get more gadgets online" link on that window. They say for Vista, but many will work in Win 7.

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Reply:
i did that, but when i click gadgets it does nothing, when i click get more gadgets it does nothing again.

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Reply:
Set your UAC to at least one notch up on the slider.  Disabled  UAC will disable sidebar.

GD


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Reply:
I too have been having issues with the gadgets.  I also lost my gadgets, but then I found that somehow the UAC had been changed, so if you follow the instruction here and reboot, it should solve the gadget issue.  My problem is that the sidebar never has worked, even if I go to Program files and attempt to start it there.  My gadgets always end up on the desktop and are sporatic as to how they will work.  The clock will stay on top, and the calendar will not, regardless of the settings.

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Tags with slashes don't work

I have twice tried to create a thread with the tag
C++/CLI
and the post succeeds, but I get this message:
The thread was created successfully but the tag was not created successfully.
I assume it is the slash that is doing it.

Reply:
Sounds about right. Any reason that this couldn't be 2 seperate tags (that is, use a space rather than /). As far as I know, the tagging system does not support most punctuation.
Matt Fraser, STO Forums Software Developer

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Reply:
C++/CLI is a programming language.  One of the 4 supported by Visual Studio.  C++ CLI is two tags, they each mean something completely different.  Being able to tag threads with the proper name of your programming language on a programming forum is kinda important.  Mr. O'Brian probably agrees.
Hans Passant.

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Reply:
Sorry, I haven't done any C++ in 12-13 years. I just looked it up and I see what you mean...
Matt Fraser, STO Forums Software Developer

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Reply:
Microsoft needs to at least reply to these and acknowledge that they are bugs and say they will fix it, or not.  I go out of my way to report bugs when I find them, and it is very thankless work since I usually get no reply.  At least say "yeah, sorry, thanks for the report."  Then I can walk around feeling like I made the world .00000000001% better, rather than that I just wasted my time.

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