Posts categorized under ‘Windows’

Microsoft Releases Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to Windows Update

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As I booted up my Windows Vista laptop today, my Automated Updates icon was trying to get my attention. There was one update waiting for me. It turned out to be Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Vista. A version of [...]

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Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta and Windows 7 Beta Are Public

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On January 8th, PCMag.com reported that Microsoft announced the public beta of Windows Server 2008 R2 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).  During the same week, Microsoft also released a public beta of Windows 7, Microsoft’s next desktop operating system.

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Live One Care Support to be Discontinued

eWeek, Redmond Magazine (and others) announced this week that Microsoft will be discontinuing support for Windows Live One Care. Although not used in the corporate setting, Live One Care is what I have been using it on my personal laptop [...]

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And The Award for the Most Helpful Event Viewer Message Goes to . . .

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The Windows Event viewer can sometimes seem like a blessing and a curse. Sometimes the messages can really help you discover what might be going wrong with the operating system or an application. Then Microsoft began to include hyperlinks that [...]

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Apache and Skype Conflict

Recently I was just trying to run XAMPP Lite on my Vista PC.  XAMPP is a cool little utility that lets you run Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl all from a USB drive and without installing anything to your windows [...]

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