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You could consider using a tool such as Windows Updates Downloader, which was written by our own jcarle. There is a Win7 update list hosted here on MSFN for it as well.

Which version and build of Win7 are you using to find updates?/

To follow up on the previous post, get a application crash dump following these instructions for generating a dump for an application that is crashing.

Note that any binary files executed from a remote location will get the warning if the URL for the UNC path is not in the Trusted Sites zone for Internet Explorer prior to that session being started (urlmon.dll does the check on the remote location, and if the return value of urlmon's MapUrlToZone check on the URL or UNC path being passed != 2), this warning will occur for all binaries run from this location. This same issue exists for XP SP2 and newer, Windows 2003 SP1 and newer, and any Vista / 2008 machines as well.

Try the Unattended Guide linked at the top of this forum, specifically the part about Setup Billboards. And further, as I mentioned in another thread that's remarkably similar to this one, either you have a typing twin or you're also registered as the user "iNickster".

Try the Unattended Guide linked at the top of this forum, specifically the part about Setup Billboards.

Either you have a typing twin, or you're also user Irfan.

Touch isn't available on Win7 Starter or Home Basic - you must have Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate to get touch. The drivers will install, but the Windows binaries necessary for it to work aren't installed on those versions.

It could be anything, honestly - probably a site designed with a more performant javascript engine in mind, perhaps? That's something I'd take up with the webmaster of the site, honestly.

What kinds of settings are you trying to set with the .dat file? You might be able to achieve the same with the .vbs print configuration scripts inside the Printing_Admin_Scripts folder in the system32 directory.

That driver is actually not a part of Office 2000, but an OKI printer driver. I would guess you've installed an OKI printer on that machine at some point, and it's causing Office 2000 applications to crash when doing something after being loaded. Since Office 2000 officially had support ended in July of this year, before Windows 7 was released, it is not supported on that platform (you can see this in searching the Windows 7 compatibility database, here - it's also worth noting that no Office XP applications are listed as compatible, even though the only one that really fails is Outlook).

Note that shutdown.exe is already a part of the OS, and you may be using an incompatible version (since it's not the one in system32, I'm assuming it's a tool you've gotten elsewhere, like a reskit). Consider calling the one in %windir%\system32 instead.

Note Flash 9 is no longer available for ENTERPRISE DISTRIBUTION as of December 9th, it is not end of life and can still be downloaded (and is still being actively maintained, see v9.0.260 released this month). This just limits their customers who have enterprise distribution agreements to no longer being able to distribute flash 9 and expect any kind of support from Adobe - they MUST move to distribute v10 as of this date in their enterprises. Considering Flash 10 was released in October 2008, and Adobe's usual ~1 year allowance for enterprises with dist agreements to move to the newer version, this isn't unexpected. Adobe isn't like other companies when it comes to their software lifecycle. In general, they tend to require that for consumer-level applications, people upgrade to the latest version and will stop releasing patches for versions older than v.current and v.last fairly quickly after a new major version is released. Once Flash player 11 eventually becomes available, for example, patches for Flash Player 9 will stop appearing soon afterwards, even security patches. Again, this is how Adobe has worked for years, although it'd be nice if they actually had a lifecycle site we could look up like Microsoft's.

Agreed - the reason Rockstar recommends a quad-core CPU as part of it's minimum specs is because this game is *heavily* multithreaded, and the more cores you throw at it the better it runs. There's a lot going on under the hood, so to speak, that aren't graphics-related at all. As Zenskas previously pointed out, on a single-core P4 with Hyperthreading it's likely to run very poorly (I've seen this on my own P4 3GHz machine with a 9800GT - it barely gets 7FPS in normal gameplay). However, on a Core2Quad 9550 system with the exact same video card, it runs quite well at 1680x1050.

True, but supporting a vendor by buying their game doesn't mean they owe the community anything other than the game that was paid for. Ultimately, the company (in this case, InfinityWard as a subsidiary of public company Activision) has an obligation to make money as a for-profit entity, and satisfy the desires of shareholders (aka more profits and better dividends). I understand the angst that PC users have with regards to MW2, but honestly gamers don't have a "right" to anything - dedicated servers, things staying as they used to, etc. Ultimately, IW designed a game for consoles first and the PC second, and it was by all accounts a smash hit. Did they get some bad press and some folks not buying the game due to some of their decisions? No doubt. Did it matter in the grand scheme of things? Not really. What is the moral of the story? As is always the case, if there's a huge amount of money to be made doing something <way x>, and only a very small vocal minority oppose it and want things done <way y>, a for-profit company is very, very, VERY likely to do things <way x>. If you're holding your breath for IW to go back to the "old way" when the new way is at least as profitable in sales and is easier/cheaper than the old way, you probably should stop or you'll pass out from lack of oxygen.

Updates wouldn't stop the services (not even code in them to do so), although malware or other could have set them to disabled or some such and the act of rebooting triggered it. Sounds like you might want to enable some auditing on said machine if you suspect further problems.

The NT bootstrap and then the kernel are read from disk and loaded after the POST completes and the boot is handed off to read the sectors of disk containing the boot code - the behavior leads me to believe there's still some issue accessing the hard disk immediately. I would be suspicious that the PSU wasn't the only problem she had, and I would start testing all the hardware to make sure it's not the MOBO or some RAM going bad in there.

Windows server is designed as a business server, and has Windows Media Services for streaming business-class media. Streaming personal data is why WHS was designed. While you might not agree with this decision, it's not stupid by any means, Windows Server is not marketed or tested for home users as a home server, but WHS is (hence the product name).

Not only that, but it's far easier now to write for a console (specifically the 360) and port it to the PC, and then spend on dev for PS/3 (and Wii, I suppose). This saves companies in developer hours meaning less cost for a project, and expect more game developers to do this rather than less going forward. The PC market is not as large (or as lucrative) as the console market for developers, there's less piracy (and more control) over the multiplayer network and aspects on a console, and the hardware is static (meaning less developer time and less money spent to produce a product). I understand PC gamers are still a segment of the market, but it's long since time that they were a driving force in the market, and getting what they want versus the developer and distributor making more money is almost always going to have the latter win out. I don't have the 2008 numbers in front of me, but I still have my saved 2008 articles with 2007 numbers - console game sales worldwide was USD $18.1 billion, and PC game sales were USD $910 million at brick-and-mortar stores and USD $1.9 billion online sales. Even combining the PC game sales numbers, you have USD $18.1 billion in console game sales versus approximately USD $3 billion in PC game sales total. If a developer can write a game for the 360 and PC using basically the same codebase (via the XBox 360 toolkit and XBL integration via Visual Studio), and then have a separate dev team for the PS/3, they're going to save lots of money overall, thus making more profit per sale. It won't be surprising if the trend continues, honestly - there's huge money in gaming, and most of it is on the consoles, not the PC.

According to sections 4, 5, and 6 of the GPL, you do not have to license your code under the GPL if you are not modifying or using the GPL'ed code from (in this example) mkisofs, but redistributing the binary only. However, you must prominently display in the license to your software that this binary is covered by the GPL, and you must release (or offer to release, upon request) the source of the binary as well. You can read the GPL yourself if you need a little further clarification. If, however, you use the mkisofs libraries in any way, you are bound by the GPL license that covers those libraries and you must release as GPL any derivative works. In all honesty, unless you cannot reproduce the functions that mkisofs does on your own, you'd be better off doing it yourself within your program to avoid any GPL gray areas, because things like dynamic linking of GPL'ed code aren't specifically covered in the GPL itself, only inferred, and none of the cases concerning linking like this have ever gone to court (all have been settled). In fact, if this will be a Windows binary, consider using the IMAPI COM interop instead - it's inbox on Vista and 7, and is a free download for XP and 2003 users. There's even a codeproject page on it, for what it's worth.

Technically this is what Windows Home Server is for.

Looks like there's a new version of wsname available as of November 24th: http://mystuff.clarke.co.nz/MyStuff/wsname.asp

What does booting into safe mode do?

Process monitor is about as good as you'll get without actually hooking up a kernel debugger remotely from another machine.

Why is MS showing vulnerability details for both IE6 and IE6-sp1? http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/...n/MS09-072.mspx I thought that IE6 (sp0) was EOL ??? I don't quite understand how, according to that page, IE6 applies to XP-SP2 and win 2k3, yet IE6-sp1 applies to win 2k. Did they get something backwards in that list? IE6 in this scenario is actually IE6 on XPSP2 or XPSP3 - IE6 SP1 is actually the IE6 tree from the XPSP1 codebase that was used to backport IE6 to Windows 2000, and is actually at this point a fairly different browser than IE6 on XPSP2 or XPSP3 (the rendering engine is basically the same, but the rest of the browser, including the security model, is not). They denote IE6 SP1 specifically for this reason, but call IE6 on XPSP2 or SP3 just "IE6".