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You'll get this if you are set to "Cuba" as well (just tried it). So, this does seem deliberate.

Does the same behavior occur from a boot CD, or in the BIOS during boot? I know Dell laptops have settings for this in the BIOS as well, or at least they used to...

This is basically what I mentioned in this thread on February 3rd, except I think my approach is more "classic start-menu-like" than what the article mentioned.

Moved.

WinFS isn't technically a file system, it's a SQL-based relational engine that runs on top of an NTFS filesystem to help categorize. WinFS partially exists today in ADO.net and SQL 2008, and you can read more about it on MSDN. Also, the rumor is that the 200MB size on the EFI partition will shrink for Win7 RTM.

Sheesh. What a mess.

Unfortunately, no, you cannot make this happen due to the design of the keyboard and mouse input in Windows, and the way Virtual PC grabs that input. It's either off or on, there's no selecting which keyboard and mouse to direct the input.

It's been happening since at least August 2008 to some section of Gmail users off and on, so it's old news, yes. The fact that it's still happening is interesting, but not news.

Home server is built on Server 2003. Moving to appropriate forum. And to answer the question, yes, once an OEM-licensed product is installed on a machine, it's tied to that machine forever. You cannot legally move it to another machine and activate it there, you need a new copy. One of the many reasons OEM is cheaper than retail.

Agreed. Again, consider using MDT, as it can do this (it uses scripts to handle this), and it gives you a GUI to make it happen.

This has happened many times, it's no longer news. If you want secure email, don't use gmail.

Moved to the Poll Center.

Please post in English as per the forum rules. I've read your posts, I know you can.

Well, legality on that is dependent on country, but borrowing may be OK. Purchasing gets murky, unless Sony didn't include the disc with the license sticker. Those are generally sold as a unit in retail OEM packaging, but their royalty agreement may allow otherwise. If you can get it in writing from Sony saying that usage of a disc that didn't come with your unit is OK, then it should be OK to purchase. However, if you can borrow from someone, that'd likely be better. If you can't find one to borrow or purchase, you'll be stuck with buying a copy from a store. I'd stick with an OEM disc as it's cheaper, and you aren't going to get free support from Microsoft after April 14th of this year anyway, so don't bother paying for it (that's the cost difference between retail and OEM in the retail channel, basically).

Could be - iexplore.exe -extoff isn't completely deviod of add-ons, only add-ons that don't hook the process. I would also check safe mode w/networking and running IE as well, before doing a complete rebuild.

No, you cannot upgrade IE8 on Win7, as that's the version that ships with the OS. However, if it's all sites, and you aren't using a proxy, I might suggest trying to start IE with no add-ons to see if that's what is causing it (start > iexplore.exe -extoff) to start in safe mode.

It would appear the PDF reader installed is having trouble reading the file from cache, and is opening a new window in a medium integrity process to view the PDF. Is this Adobe's PDF reader, or another? Also, it will depend on the MIME type sent from the server to the client on what the PDF file is (application/PDF vs text/HTML). Again, the control is behaving as if it requires a medium integrity process to load, and placing the site in Trusted sites (no Protected Mode on trusted sites, so any site in trusted sites will open in medium integrity) should allow it to work. I would discuss this with Google, honestly, and have them ship a version of the control that can run as a low-rights user, rather than requiring PM to be disabled (trusted sites has no PM applied by default). Running as administrator makes the process *high* integrity, meaning it can do almost anything to the system it wants. This is not a safe way to run IE, or any browser or app that doesn't need system-level access. PM is not enabled for administrator users (local admin or the domain "administrator" account) by default, as technically you should not be using these accounts for daily work. Domain admins other than the actual "administrator" account do not have a full token, just like a regular user. You have admin access, but you don't get a full token and PM is also enabled for all users other than the local admin by default. What you see is expected behavior. See above. PM is disabled for the local admin.Honestly, I don't see anything specifically wrong, I see applications with problems at differing integrity levels. First, I would make sure that each and every security zone is set to it's default settings, as well as making sure to reset the settings on the Advanced tab in options to make sure everything is as it should be out of the box. If the issues still continue, it would seem as if you may be using things that weren't designed to run in IE on Vista with the new protected mode security mechanisms running IE as a low-integrity process, and you should be investigating whether or not the vendors of these apps and sites have made versions that work when running as a low-integrity process, or whether you need to use the Trusted Sites list to add these sites so the non-compliant apps work.

IE8 shouldn't be slow, specifically, but the build that shipped with Win7 build 7000 was not the RC1 build (it was barely past the beta build released last year). Is it one specific site that renders slowly, or a set of specific sites?

Look, eventually you have to either manage two codebases for two different start menu and shells, or you cut ties with one. Windows 7 cut the ties, as Vista did with the program manager from Win3.x. I know that Microsoft will not make some people happy with the removal of classic, but the decision was made that the superbar and searchable menu is the new "classic" going forward. I would agree that other shells are starting to go this way, the way Apple went with OS X and the dock, as a previous poster mentioned KDE has started down this path as well.

Well, for one, make sure you're using the RC1 bits and not the beta bits. Second, as to what's being deleted, you may want to contact the admins of those sites to see what is stored in the cookies, and for how long, and what privacy policy is set on them when downloaded (all of these things can affect whether or not a cookie is purged in IE8). Also, by default, no, old cookies that have expired are not overwritten, they're replaced with new cookies. Again, I would strongly suggest emails to the webmaster@ the domains you're having issues with, and also perhaps using the IE8 newsgroups to see if there's something specific that is happening in your case that should not be.

It should be relatively easy to pare down process monitor to show you just what that one process is doing. First, you need to use runas to run the process monitor binary, otherwise as you said, it won't work. Second, you need to filter down just to the file level accesses, and then filter further for only accesses made by the .exe file that you are running (use the filter dialog for filtering on the .exe, and use the buttons in the toolbar to remove everything but filesystem activity). Once you've captured your log and filtered it, save it out to a .csv file, open it in Excel or whatever you use for .csv files, and then filter on things like file not found, access denied, etc. You can find it, you just have to know how to filter.

I would suggest going to the Intel site and making sure you've got the latest WDDM driver for your NIC, either the Vista driver or any beta Win7 driver updates Intel may have. Also, you might want to consider forcing the speed and duplex of your NIC to match the switch port it's attached to, as I've seen switch ports that were poor at auto negotiation cause this behavior as well.

That sounds like potentially a network or network stack driver issue. What network card do you have in that machine, what driver is being used, and did you install any antivirus or firewall software that would install it's filter driver into the network stack? Need to start narrowing it down...

Dmitry has his Windows Internals cert, and I've enjoyed his posts over the years. I'd trust the book, although it's probably about as deep as Advanced Windows Debugging, so definitely not a good "starter" book either.