no install from dvd

can not boot from CD .code 05
what is this?
MSI k8t-neo firs AMD 64 3000+
2gig DDR 400
ATI 9800 saffire

Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Monday, February 16, 2009 9:47 PM

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Can you boot from other CD/DVD's?
Are you sure that your copy of the Win7 beta is good? Try re-downloading it and reburning it.
If it's a torrent copy, this isn't unusual - so try it from the Microsoft site: Win7 beta download link

- John

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This has nothing to do with a bad iso or a bad download (well, it could, of course, but not necessarily).

Each and every one of my dvds (dvd+rw) that I burned with a valid windows 7 copy (I checked the md5 sum) gave me this boot error code.

But I also used those same dvds on a different computer, and they booted without any problem!

Moreover, the dvd drive in my own computer doesn't appear to be broken, because it easily boots all kinds of other dvds/cds, like windows xp, slax (a linux live DVD), a FreeBSD dvd etc.

Many, many people in many different forums experience this problem! It must be MS made or be some incompatibility with a specific chipset or BIOS version. Who knows...

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Language Bar

The language bar on the new Taskbar is not vertically centered in the Beta.

IE 8 wont remember my Passport login, or show me the window!

Since using IE8 on windows 7 (x64) it keeps forgetting my passport login (And other 'Remember me / keep me logged in' logins)! I'll log in (say to this forum), then if i close the browser next time i come back it *may* remember, maybe not. Vista always remembered. I have cookies on and all that.

Also, Vista(64, Ultimate) never remembered my network accounts, or my Outlook account (I am using outlook Anywhere (Exchange over http) mode). Windows 7 hapily remembers my accounts which is good.

O, while im on IE 8, if i show desktop (minimising my windows), and open a link, say from my desktop, it will open nav to the site but it wont show me the window, they stay minimised!

Windows Defender is turned off pops up everytime something doesn't work right.

I've been trying to install Ati Catalyst and other things on Win7 32bit and it seems like when something happens windows doesn't like the windows defender has been turned off pop up shows up.
Even though it is on when you goto security center.

Not sure if having the virus protection warning off is part of the problem. Just gets annoying.

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Do you have the latest definitions for Defender (1.49.2259.0), and is it set to start when Windows does?

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Yes it auto updates and its always on, Think both my installs do this 32bit and 64bit.
Version 1.49.2195.0

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Remote Assistance

Hi,

As part of my work these days, I've been using Remote Assistance to set up e-mail acounts for remote users in Outlook Express. However, I've come to realize that some of my users r not ablo to send me invitation. When they try to save the invitation to disk, a message appears stating that " a program could not start ". All the servers in my company are Win2k3 and all clients are Win XP Pro. I've checked their settings, and their Remote Assistance is enabled.

Has enybody encourted this problem so far? If yes, please let me know the cause and solution for this, I really need to fix this, having about 50 users more to set up, over-the-phone guiding is imposible.

Thanks,

Boro Causev

Please, don't mind me sending this post here. I really did not have any time to find the appropriate forum.

Reply:

Hi Bcausev,

As this forum mainly focuses on SteadyState specific issues, you may post to Windows XP General newsgroup to see whether they have any suggestions:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is that you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other customers who read the newsgroups regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding.

I also performed some research, the following suggestions may be helpful:

1. KB:If the Solicited Remote Assistance policy is disabled, you cannot offer assistance to a Novice computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826088/en-us

2. Run command "sessmgr –service" and restart the computer.

3.Make sure the following service are set to manual and started:

· Remote Access Auto Connection Manager

· Remote Access Connection Manager

· Remote Desktop Help Session Manager

Best Regards,

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Hi.

I used remote assistance serveral times over the last few weeks over 'msn messenger', and it worked fine each time. But this last time, I helped a friend, and while we both were chatting on his pc (i had control over it as i did with others before), and when he typed all of a sudden h1s w0rds l00k3d l1k3 th1s (his words looked like this*)!!!!

Every time he types from now on vowels gettin replaced with numbers, and other such weirdness. Even after the session was over, ITS STILL LIKE THAT. I feel so bad. He restarted his pc several times to no avail, and we even tried the remote assistance again, but it didnt help during or after. So I can here to try and help him out by finding an answer to what this bug is and how to fix it.

Any geniuses out there who know how to help us? Thanks a lot for your time, and if this is in the wrong section, I appologize. -Josh

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7 uses about the same CPU resources as XP! In some programs anyway.

I posted this in performance since that is where I started the discussion but thought it fit here too.

Some of the discussion in this forum made me question my Windows 7 setup so I started over, and in doing so found some very interesting things, as well as a new respect for Microsoft. Sorry it's so long but I wanted to make sure I covered everything.

Computer: AMD Sempron 2400+ 1.66GHz
          VIA KT-600 Chipset
          ATI 9600 video card
          512MB DDR400 RAM
          Auzentech X-Mystique soundcard

1. Clean Format and install

2. Windows Update: Installed ATI 9600 WDDM drivers and the MP3 update

3. Advanced System Settings/performance settings: adjust for best performance ie: aero off, fade, slide, etc.
   System Restore:off
   Remote Access:off
   Windows Defender:off
   Firewall:off
   No anti-virus
   UAC:off
   indexing:off
   power settings: High performance
   offline files:off
   Turn windows features on or off:all off
   Display settings 1360x768, True color:32 bit color
   Since there were no 7 drivers for my X-Mystique,I did not load the drivers for my first test.
   Did not load any codecs or any other programs at all

Task Manager Performance shows: 0% CPU usage at idle, 290MB RAM

Windows Media Player: no sound driver

Play XVID AVI movie: CPU goes to 100%, 305MB RAM, Video is slightly jerky in a window, in full screen I can't see any jerkiness at all.

Play H.264 mp4: cPU goes to 100%, 305MB RAM, video is very jerky in a window, in full screen slightly jerky depending on picture motion.

Installed the X-Mystique Vista sound drivers:Task Manager Performance shows: 0% CPU usage at idle, 290MB RAM

Windows Media Player: with sound driver

Play XVID AVI: CPU goes to 100%, 300MB RAM, in a window, video looks like slow motion it is dropping so many frames and sound is no where near in sync, in full screen the video is slightly better but sound is still nowhere near in sync.

Play H.264 mp4: cPU goes to 100%, 300MB RAM, video is very jerky in a window and sound is nowhere near in sync, in full screen still really jerky and sound is still nowhere near in sync.

VLC Player: installed with no other codecs, but soundcard drivers are still installed.

Play XVID AVI: In a window CPU goes to 30%, 300MB RAM, and video plays perfectly and sound is in sync! But here is the really strange part: Go to full screen and CPU goes to 100% and video gets jerky and sound is not in sync: UNLESS the VLC player controls are visible at the bottom of the screen. If the VLC video controls are visible at the bottom of the screen CPU goes back to 35%, video plays perfectly and sound is in sync!! Yea, there is a bug here somewhere.

Play H.264 mp4: In a window, CPU goes to 60%, video and sound plays perfectly. Full screen is the same, video and sound plays perfectly with CPU around 65% whether or not the VLC player controls are visible. Strange...

Zoom Player installed with ffdshow and Haali Media Splitter, required for mp4 and AC3 playback.

Play XVID AVI: In a window CPU goes to 100%, video is smooth but sound is way behind, in full screen it is the same, CPU at 100%, video is smooth but sound is way off.

Play H.264 mp4: In a window CPU goes to 65%, video and sound play perfectly, in full screen it is about the same, CPU at 70%, video and sound play perfectly.

Conclusion: When VLC player played the video perfectly I couldn't believe it. Something is wrong in Windows Media Player, shocking I know... But the real shocker here is that Windows 7 is running video perfectly on a machine that Vista could not!! And in fact, is running video very close to the resources used by XP running VLC Player!! Zoom Player was a mixed bag, as long as you used H.264 there would be no problem using it, but if you have XVID AVI's look towards VLC Player. My hat is off to the engineers at Microsoft, in this case anyway they have my utmost respect for the work they have done on Windows 7.

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Just an observation -- you assemble a good comparison and discussion of the effects of codecs, drivers, and performance of different apps. I personally think Media Player is a hog, so I use VLC when viewing 720p or higher video files on my outboard plasma screen. It'd be interesting to see what the relationship is between your video player's window size and CPU load -- if it's fairly linear, then I'd say that you could stand to do an upgrade or two of your hardware...

Based on a quick check, it seems that your ATI 9600 video card is a about 4 years old -- with high def so prevalent, you might get better performance from a newer (and pretty cheap) card that is more suited to your task. Of course, you'll want to balance whatever your typical needs are (gamer vs. video playing vs. office work, etc.). I spent just over $100 for a EVGA GeForce 9800GT and it's an all-around good card -- no probs with video, though when I do high-def, I still make sure that my quad-core is not busy doing too many other things....

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Battery Life

Is anyone else's battery only lasting about half as much with the same setting as Vista?

Changed type Robinson Zhang Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:18 AM comment

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Sorry, my battery life has gone up by about 30 minutes. What setting are you using?

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My battery of laptop goes %60 Better than Vista.. Already using DVD and USB devices so more .. but goes much better than Vista.. I don't know why not. :) But i like this.

At the last (about two weeks) my PC gone about 1 hour 20 mins with Vista (its last session of Vista. and i got complete backup on four DVD from my laptop) and now my PC running in last 3 hours and already working. I got one more copy of my backup DVD's by copying DVD's with Nero 9 on this machine in this time.

Anyone says SEVEN USES MORE BATTERY ?? :)

Cheers.

Dincer

Dincer

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Windows 7 BETA crashing by itself without any user interaction...

I have installed Windows 7 BETA installed and had the following software installed

Office 2007 Enterprise
SEP v11 MR4
GTALK
Live Messenger
WinRAR v3.8
Filezilla

I let the test station sit there all day, with no other user interaction, and I've observed that the test station will just reboot by itself. This would happen 3 times since morning...What the hell?

SysAdmin

Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:21 AM

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Systems Administration said:

SysAdmin

I think that you "installed" too much in your first sentence :-)))

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Nah...that's not much...that's a FRACTION of what users would use on a daily base.

Those are actually the base products we would put in for the base image.

If the OS is not stable enough with these base products...then Windows 7 really needs to work harder to make it stable.

SysAdmin

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Systems Administration said:

SysAdmin

Sorry, I have several of those programs installed and my system still works fine, could it be one of the programs thats not working well with Windows 7?

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Systems Administration said:

SysAdmin

My programs -

WinRar
office 2003
Macromedia MX suite
Adobe Reader 9
Araneae
Win Amp
AVG Free
Firefox
Paint Shop Pro
FTP Commander
Rocket Dock
Virtual Box

I had issues after the office install but they were resolved as it seems
Refer to this post, maybe it will help you as well -

Here

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Might I suggest you turn off auto-rebooting so you can see what driver or program is causing the issue? (report back on the contents of the BSOD screen). It may be as simple as the video driver or other hardware driver added...

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Jrjr2u,

thanks.

I've made the changes to the registry and I will monitor it next day or two and see how it goes.

SysAdmin

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LightningSystems,

Actually, there was no BSOD screen. It just all of a sudden rebooted...then the screen comes up that the PC was not shutdown properly then you have the option to start windows in safe mode or normal mode and so on.

This was the same PC box used for making base images for Windows XP and Vista and they had no problem whatsoever.

The box has the following:

Motherboard: Asus P5SD2-X
Video Cards: MSI NX6200TC
Modem: Aopen 56k FM
RAM: 2GB (Kingston brand)

By the way, Windows 7 BETA does not pickup the sound in this box...but Windows XP and Vista does.

SysAdmin

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If not a BSOd, this is most likely power management. Make sure your BIOS and chipset drivers are the latest offered by your manufacturers. if still having issues, temporarily disable all the power management functionality via the Control Panel and see fi the issue continues to happen (it may be trying to sleep/hibernate and running into power issues that cause it to instead restart).

Ned Pyle [MSFT] - MS Enterprise Platforms Support - Beta Team

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Check your Event Viewer...Windows Logs...Application log file and the System log file for messages around the time of the reboots.

- John

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Media Center video thumbnails, Movie Browser

The video thumbnails are all black from using the file's first frame for the thumbnail. I assume this will be fixed before RTM, since it does not happen in Vista. Not that the thumbnails help much in a situation like mine, where I have ripped my DVD collection to h.264 encoded AVIs. The video browser is not meant for this, so you can't even see the titles of the movie files until you highlight them.
I thought the new movie browser would be the end of this issue, but it only works if you rip the entire DVD contents to disk. I much prefer using 1.0-1.5 gigs of space per movie than 5-10 gigs. I wish the Media Center team would support AVI movies in addition to full discs. In the meantime, I'm going to have to see if I can install the movie browser I wrote for Vista Media Center. Hope there haven't been breaking changes!

Josh Usovsky

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I've always turned to third party extensions such as MyMovies to create preview and metadata for my backed up movies. I've been kinda dissatisfied with Media Center/Media Player's handling of this sort of thing, I suspect Microsoft is somehow concerned about creating the perception that they support movie piracy or something, else I'd have thought they'd have had a similar level of functionality built into it by now for all container formats and codecs from .mkv to .vob to .avi, along with the ability to edit things like preview frames and such.

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Skwerl said:

try this , I have found it from www.thegreenbutton.com

Prior to TV Pack '08 VMC kept a thumbnail cache for videos and pictures in video.db and image.db files stored at C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\ehome.

So if you used jpg images as artwork you might from time to time need to delete the video.db cache to force a refresh of your thumbnail artwork.

With TV Pack '08 things have changed, now C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\ehome contains a single cache file for video and pictures called ehthumbs_vista.

However, the priority of whether to use this and your chosen jpg images would appear to have been demoted to last place.... and now the media center interface will display a thumbnail from the video file instead of your prefered jpg image. But this will only happen if the video thumbnail has been created while viewing video files in WMP11 or from Windows Explorer. Basically it looks like the Windows Explorer cache takes top priority over everything else.

So if you want to restore your chosen JPG artwork you need to clear out the Explorer cache and never view your video folders from the OS in thumbnail view again... or at least if you do you will need to delete the cache again.

The Explorer cache can be found here;

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\

This will contain a number of thumbcache files, delete them and when you return to your Media Center Video folders your jpg artwork will be reinstated.

Hope it helps
T

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Installing Win-7 Beta onto Dell OEM with a 47MB HD Partition 0 size of 47 -MB - Install FAILED!

Hello Everyone:

    Dell Inspiron series in the year model I have, partitioned Disk 0 with 47MB of space, in a EISA Configuration - (whatever a "EISA" configuatrion is=??)

    Seeking to upgrade, not perform a clean / new install of Win-7-Beta.

     With the above condition, Win-7 Beta fails to setup/install/etc. win-7 is error messaging with a dialog box requesting a minimum of 655- MB of available boot disk space, (I will assume this is Partition 0 when examinging my installed with data HD). This Win-7 Beta install failure is proclaimed by the Win-7 Beta "error dialog box", as needed for temporrary file storage - (this is ONLY from what I have determined, after reading the error message in the pop-up Win-7 error dialog box).

     Guessing at this point: I may need to re-partition or re-allocate partitions my HD, in order to install Win-7 Beta - (I will have to think about this sitation a little more, for right now).

  {Re-allocation of existing partition space, even poses a loss of data is the risk, obviouly}. Update - re-partioning did solve this issue, without any loss of data - (Thanks to Symantec solutions - again!)

     Leave it to the DELL OEM groups to do there own thing, to heck with uniform disk partitioning. Seems to be the Dell way of partitioning and other configuations!  (For the record here, HP has one large partition. This HP information is for another PC OEM comparison to Dell, in the year of my Dell).

****"MY" Dell OEM and Win-7 Beta are not working as a unified team at this point time!******

    Thanks for your time in reading the above!

                                                                                    Jim.

Edited by jcinq0 Friday, February 13, 2009 11:56 PM

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The 47mb partition is most likely the custom Dell diagnostic partition used to boot to the Dell hardware diagnostics. You probably shouldn't mess with this partition, if you do you will loose access to booting to the diagnaostics (F12).

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Hello SLoweCSL:

    Thank YOU very much for your reply and suggestion. One of two things since I last posted my thread here on MS TN.

1.) If I increase the size of Partition zero, I would guess that the Dell diagnostics should still be able to use this "increase" allocated space to its thing - (who knows what Dell does with changes for sure!!). {I have the Dell recovery disk available}

2.) What I will most likely do, [(if anything to the Dell), (I am in the process of freeing up used data space on my HD)] May later consider running a dual boot windows configuration, by splitting the the second partion (which is now root C:\), to make another partition that could be used by Win-7 as a D:\ drive letter, or whatever is it winds up being, if I get that far along in this project. One nice thing about these beta's, they sure get one motivated to backup and / or clean off old HD data. Good Job Microsoft for motivatiing those of us with no recent critical data - usable backup - PC users -)! (:>)!

    Anyway, Thanks again: SLoweCSL!

        Hope Win-7 is meeting or exceeding all of your expecatations! I have only heard read about Win-7 so far.

                                                                                                  Bye for this round,

                                                                                                                                    Jim.

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FinePrint won't install

Just a note that FinePrint 5 won't install on Windows 7. In fact, out of nearly 100 programs, FinePrint 5 is the ONLY program that won't install for me.

I've heard that version 6.05 works, but it's too bad 5 won't work as it works great on Vista.

JuryDuty

duplicate guid generated by migration from sms to sccm

We are in the final stage of sccm deployment. I'm troubleshooting the clients that don't seem to work and found some with duplicate guids. I'm using tranguid.exe /r to change the guid and this works fine. So the problem is solved but I found some strange behavior.

I tried to analyze why we had duplicate guids in SCCM. I want to give some feedback to the colleagues who clone some of these machines.

It seems on some machines the duplicate guid is generated during the migration from sms 2003 tot sccm 2007. I base this on the changes I see in the ClientIDManagerStartup.log

We had two vmware servers (slidebox and slideserver) with the same guid in sccm 2007.
Slidebox seemed to be cloned from slideserver. The ClientIDManagerStartup.log for these machines starts the same, but in November 2007 slidebox gets a new GUID, probably when it was created from slideserver.

In November 2008 they got the sccm 2007 client. The log tells me that the guid from slideserver is changed to the guid from slidebox. So the original machine gets the guid from the clone which seems contrary to everything I read online and in the documentation.

An overview of different guids (represented by A, B, …):

Slideserver current Slideserver previous Slidebox current Slidebox previous

A B A B Common past

A B C A November 2007 Slidebox gets new guid

C A C A November 2008 Slideserver gets the guid from Slidebox

D C E C After using tranguid /r on both servers

I presume we did something wrong when we cloned the server. My colleagues use ccmdelcert to delete the sms certificates. I'm not sure this should be enough.

Almost all the vmware servers are cloned from a template and don't have a duplicate guid. The servers with duplicate guids seem to be cloned from living systems and maybe they did something wrong when cloning these machines.

We did a side by side migration from sms 2003 to sccm 2007 and only used sms 2003 to start the installations script. This worked well for most workstations, but most servers and some workstations didn't get the right site code. We used an extra push installation to get those in the right site. I know the overlapping boundaries causes these problems, but these problems were acceptable.

I hope this information is helpful for someone with similar problems.

Reply:

"How to Install Configuration Manager Clients Using Computer Imaging": http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb694095.aspx

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Moving Windows with the new Taskbar (on multimon)

With the old taskbar, right click always had "Move" as an option, except if the window was maximized, in which case it had "Restore" which would make "Move" visible.

On Multimon, where the second monitor isn't visible (ie. presentations, or outputting to a video feed) it is sometimes useful to put up a window on that screen and then at some point move it off (ie, I use Picassa to play photo slideshows to a video mixer, but it only plays them on the active monitor)...in Windows 7 it is impossible to right click the task bar and get the move option...which leads to the following experience...

1. Click on the taskbar icon
2. Alt-Space
3. Type 'M' for Move
4. Press the "Up Arrow"
5. Move the mouse (and now the window can be moved)

The above of course fails in the case that the window is maximized on the second display...or if the window is minimized, which requires you to of course rerun the above and choose restore instead...

In any case, very frustrating...

George

Reply:

Play with WinKEY + Arrow keys.

You could
1. Click on task bar icon for the application
2. Winkey+leftArrow (repeast until you see it.)

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Hold your mouse over the taskbar icon, when the small image of the window appears right click it (the small image) for the move option.

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Flight Simulator

Has anyone had issues installing FSX? Every time I try it immediately gives me the message "Setup Launcher has stopped working". Tried many times... run as administrator, UAC off, Vista compatibility.... nothing.

Ideas?

Eddie

Windows 7 64 bit

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Holy cow! That was quick. Saw this post and followed the registry edit - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproappcompat/thread/86e7f637-903d-430a-8b04-0b7909a9c0b9

All good! FSX installed! SO, not matter what program you are having trouble with... try this!

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I installed FSX, REX, UTX and GEX with no problems at all---Other than video drivers that are not 100% optimized yet.

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RESOLVED--OFFLINE PLAYER PROBLEMS

The team that hosts the offline player has confirmed that the offline player is no longer experiencing problems at this time. if you still continue to have problems with the offline player, please email me at learnmgr@microsoft.com

Thanks-
Alicia

Program Manager, Server and Tools Online Engineering Live Services Team

Works Suite 2003 - Activation and IE problems

I installed Works Suite 2003 which includes Word 2002.

Problem 1:
I tried to activate Word 2002 over the Internet but could not select Country because the country list was just a big blue empty rectangular box with an inactive scroll bar. Tried it a couple more times with the same result. I activated it successfully manually (the manual option allowed me to activate without having to select Country)

Problem 2:
After completing activation of Word 2002, I started IE to get updates for Word. IE went into a loop trying to load the home page (ninemsn.com.au) - it said that there was a problem loading the page - this cycle went on indefinitely. Rebooted and got the same problem.

I used System Restore to restore to before Works Suite 2003. IE then had no problems.

iFilters acting differently for Office 2007 document types

Hello,

I have a project that uses iFilters to bring the text from office documents into a column in a SQL Server table. I am in the process of doing some validation that the iFilter worked correctly and seeing that on Excel 2007 files it looks like it skipped the first line (usually column names) of a worksheet.

I did a little research and see that in some SpreadsheetML documentation that the data is stored in sheet1.xml while headings is stored in table1.xml (or in my case sharedStrings.xml). I am seeing the contents of the first row in sharedStrings.xml and only references to them in sheet1.xml.

Does this mean that the iFilter that processes XLSX files skips the sharedStrings.xml file and only processes the sheet1.xml file or is it being processed some other way?

I opened my XLSX file and saved it as an XLS file then used FiltDump.exe to see what the iFilter would output and I'm seeing everything properly in order.

I appreciate anything anyone can share.

Thank you.

Orrin Edenfield

Keypad and mouse pad freezing up shortly after booting into Win 7

Shortly after booting into Win 7 both freeze up, i strongly believe its because of the windows live installer package, and i cant seem to run the add/remove programs in safe mode (with networking).

any suggestions??

Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:39 AM

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Have you tried a restore point to before you installed Windows Live?

~Alex T.~Windows Desktop Experience MVP~

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i started to go back, slowly progessing to a restore point one back and one back and so on..... i was hoping i wouldent have to take it back that far..... but i guess i will have to, and return to this thread to let you know the results

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broadband networking issues

just so you know i might post this in post the Windows 7 hardware compatibility section and the Windows 7 networking section since it could apply to both....

anyways this issue has to do with this GSM/GPRS PCMCIA modem card i got back in 2004. interestingly enough the manufacturer never made updated drivers and software so that this device can work with Windows vista. however i use it with vista just fine.

now i am getting issues with this PCMCIA modem cards for the first time. the last time i got the BSOD from a PCMCIA card was from my USB PCMCIA card under vista SP1, but that works fine under Windows 7. odd isn't it?

anyways my PC is in a dual boot. when i tried to install the GPRS PCMCIA modem the first time i tried to use the drivers from the vista partition but that just gave me the BSOD...lol then when i restarted the PC, i used the drivers from the CD and they worked.

does anyone know what caused the crash and the architectural changes from vista to Windows 7 to vista that would do this?

and does anyone know how i can use my GSM/GPRS PCMCIA modem card from within windows to make phone calls, txt message, and use for an internet connection instead of the software it comes with? it would be so nice to be able to manage the device from Windows instead of the software that it came with. don't you agree?

Changed type Ronnie VernonMVP Wednesday, February 4, 2009 6:39 AM Duplicate post

Adobe After Effects CS4

1. Installs Fine - Running fine
2. Win7 Crashes when trying to uninstall this package (AE CS4 stand alone).

Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:46 AM
Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:46 AM

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Is this through the Adobe Uninstaller or through the Windows Add/Remove Programs?

~Alex T.~Windows Desktop Experience MVP~

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I went to the Windows Add/Remove Programs, selected AE CS4, clicked the 'Uninstall' button, than AE CS4's Uninstall package appeared, tried to uninstall few data files, and than Win7 crashed.

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