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Why would you enable sleep or hibernate on a Server OS? Especially if you have a RAID array... I wouldn't do that... ever.

We have another section for customizing Windows: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/40-customizing-windows/ It would be a better place to ask about where the correct animation is that you are looking for, and how to put it in your install.

This must be the link you mean! http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?c2=11732 Breakdowns of the different support policies are here: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy It would appear that Vista Home Premium is not covered under the extended support lifecycle: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=11712 But its still likely that you'd get new updates, as you'd know Ultimate, Business and HP all share updates. I can't imagine that they would make an update for Business and not let it work on HP. As far as the differences, I think that Business is just Home Premium without Media Center.

Its not deceptive really, but Apple's OS sales are in the retail space because I'm fairly certain that is the only channel they are in. Their OS can be bought on a PC they make, or the retail box at the store. A Microsoft OS can come in retail box, distribution (OEM/SB), Open (Education) license, MSDN/Technet subscription, royalty OEM, etc. So yes the numbers comparison is Retail Channel (Apple) vs all channels (Microsoft) but there is nothing to stop Apple from going into those other areas. Anyways, I'm not sold on the "XP calls home" stuff. I don't think that is true at all. The only times I've seen XP validate itself is: - Installation/activation + grace period - installing new WGA version - MSSE or Malicious Software Removal Tool update/installation - MS direct download validation I've had XP PCs off a network for years and it doesn't ever one day just become "You may be a victim of software piracy" just like that.

Go into C:\Windows\Fonts. Right-click on the font you want to remove and choose "Delete."

I get it. Those ports 21-23 are destination ports. Blocking them would stop users from accepting connections for those protocols. For example, for FTP, if you block port 21, if an FTP server is being run on the machine, other systems won't be able to connect to it. If you want to stop users from sending files from that PC to an FTP server, you'd need to block ports 6000 and 6001. As for the other protocols, you'll need to look those up to find what outbound ports they use.

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The Prodigy - Mindfields

Um... over 350 million Windows 7 licenses have been sold since launch, which includes 175 million from 09/2011 through 12/2011. I'm not too sure about exact iPad numbers, but an estimated 48 million iPads sold in 2011. So maybe you meant some other Microsoft product, let alone everything the company sells.

Your duplicate topics have been removed.

Well its normal for people to blow off steam, but they definately shouldn't be doing it when you are there!

Did you try adding one for TCP or UDP? Try adding one of the other types and see if that makes a difference.

Of course this won't make a difference if you are using an answer file with setup!

This user has posted a tool here as well (gDISM or Windows Ultimater maybe) but that topic has since been removed. Either way, this topic (although may be short lived) isn't for this forum.

I have added it to this thread: You can also subscribe to the topic with no notification set so that you can easily find it again if needed.

Well it isn't a problem if the bootmgr screen comes up. If it appears because of a problem, it would say that. For example, if it was for an improper shutdown, it would say something to that effect. Does this screen show up every time you turn on the notebook? As far as the keyboard not working at that point, it is entirely possible that the keyboard device is not enumerated at that point. Or if it is on the USB bus, the USB might not fully work at that point, but its hard to say that for sure. Does the keyboard work after going into Windows? How about the BIOS can you get to there? You may find advanced topics to change the default timeout to something shorter than the 25 seconds you're waiting at the bootmgr screen.

I can't get to that website. Are you adding a new rule to the Outbound Rules in the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security?

Bob Seger - C'est la vie

That's the thing. Social networking fools you into thinking it replaces real life. Friends on facebook, while they may be avatars of people you actually know, are just connections. They are the equivalent to acquaintances in real life. You aren't deleting a friendship, you are deleting an online connection. For example, I have IRL friends that aren't on facebook, so that they couldn't be facebook friends. They couldn't be added or deleted. So how does that non-facebook person relate to a facebook person? They are the same, but the connection they have on a website is really meaningless. I even have friends on facebook that I have not added to the list. What then?

Yes, make sure not to have duplicate entries tho. I don't know how setup will react to that.

Anonymous hasn't stopped showing their faces. Besides:

It looks like the support for either of these bills has fallen through.

I see what you mean. It may also come down to the monitor and settings I use and see it differently. But to each his own.

Sounds like you want to measure the per-interface data usage?

I don't think motherboards care what speed NIC it has in it. If you decide to get Gigabit (there is absolutely no reason why you'd want 10/100 really) then make sure the speed is the same across all NICs. Do not introduce any 10/100 into that network (especially if you want to have good performance) unless you end up getting managed switches with Link Aggregation. As far as a USB 3 comparison, I can't help you there.