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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:19:57 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>[Outlook] Outlook express</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23376135</link>
<description><![CDATA[I use Outlook Express 6 for email is there anyway, i can block someone where it will Bounce their E-mail back to them and let them know that i blocked that person.

Also is there any updates to Outlook express for free like maybe 2007 etc

Thanks]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-21 18:04:56</pubDate>
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<title>[WIN7] How To Access Bios</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23377264</link>
<description><![CDATA[I just got a new laptop (Sony Vaio/vgn-fw560f) with windows 7 and I've seen on the net that certain processors "do now" support windows 7 virtualization.  Whereas I've seen that the processor I have (Intel P7450) doesn't support virtualization via a web post, I'm trying to take a look and see what options I have in Bios.

The problem is I can't find the button to get me into the Bios.

Anyone got any clues?

Jay]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-21 22:53:11</pubDate>
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<title>How to connect to my corporate email without using BES?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23380663</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have a new Blackberry, and I would like to access my corporate email (and calendar) without upgrading to a BES plan. Is there a way to do this using the BIS offering? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-22 20:44:34</pubDate>
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<title>[Excel] Download MS Updates</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23378572</link>
<description><![CDATA[We are living with a Verizon aircard. 5 Gb/month cap.
If we were to use ONE extra Gb we would get charged $256.
$0.25 x 1024 = $256.  

Sooo:
Weekly trip to the library to download MS Updates.
RETURN trip if I didn't get the correct Updates.  2 trips so far.  
MS doesn't make it simple. It isn't usually hard, just tedious.

I have XP Pro w/SP3 and MS Office 2003 SP3 installed on this machine.  
Current updates tell me to spend $1.85 to get:

[att=1]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973704
If I do the "Home users" from there, I get NOTHING numbered 973704.    :huh:  

I usually do "IT professionals" link. 
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-067.mspx

It looks like I am supposed to do 'KB 972652'. 
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=322b24ca-aff6-4ca0-acf1-440cae0f9693&displaylang=en
...and get:  excel2007-kb973593-fullfile-x86-glb.exe  ?  
I ran that and get:
[att=3]

I did the Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (KB973475)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6a6a0f5d-17dc-4a34-b9a0-0774aa287ba5&displaylang=en
and got:  office2003-KB973475-FullFile-ENU.exe
I ran that and get:
[att=2]

I shut down and reboot and it says I still have updates to install.   :(  
Now what?  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-22 10:54:20</pubDate>
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<title>[WIN7] 32/64 and English/Chinese licenses interchangeable?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23380319</link>
<description><![CDATA[Through my grad school and MSDNAA I have access to four legitimate license keys for Windows 7 Professional:  32-bit English, 32-bit Chinese, 64-bit English, and 64-bit Chinese.  Could I theoretically use all four keys to install the 32-bit English version four times?  In other words, are the keys independent of 32/64 and/or language?  I think the 32-bit and 64-bit keys are interchangeable based on a Google search, but I'm not sure about the different languages.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-22 19:28:31</pubDate>
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<title>[XPHome] Hook up hard drive from lap top</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23380469</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hello,
  Wonder if anyone could help me. My wife's Laptop went dead. So I bought a Laptop Hard Drive USB External Enclosure/Case. I got the laptop hard drive out and hooked it up to my desk top computer. The hard drive shows up in the "my computer" of the desktop computer but I get a can not access the "G: drive", which is the lap top hard drive. Any way I can get access to the external drive? I just want to copy a few files from the external to my internal hard drive.

The lap top hard drive has XP home on it.
The desk top computer is also using XP home.

Any info anyone can provide me would be great. Any more info needed to help you help me with my problem please let me know.

Thanks]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-22 20:02:45</pubDate>
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<title>[News] Microsoft to pay News Corp not to let google search?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23380439</link>
<description><![CDATA[If I'm reading the following article correctly, it appears Microsoft may be offering News Corp money not to allow google to search its news sites. Could this make News Corp sites exclusive to Microsoft? Would it be acceptable to have some search engines (like Bing) be the only engines that can find news stories at some websites?

Story at - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a243c8b2-d79b-11de-b578-00144feabdc0.html

Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact

Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company&#146;s being paid to &#147;de-index&#148; its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry.

The impetus for the discussions came from News Corp, owner of newspapers ranging from the Wall Street Journal of the US to The Sun of the UK, said a person familiar with the situation, who warned that talks were at an early stage.

However, the Financial Times has learnt that Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites from Google&#146;s search engine.

News Corp and Microsoft, which owns the rival Bing search engine, declined to comment.

One website publisher approached by Microsoft said that the plan &#147;puts enormous value on content if search engines are prepared to pay us to index with them&#148;.

Microsoft&#146;s interest is being interpreted as a direct assault on Google because it puts pressure on the search engine to start paying for content.

&#147;This is all about Microsoft hurting Google&#146;s margins,&#148; said the web publisher who is familiar with the plan.

But the biggest beneficiary of the tussle could be the newspaper industry, which has yet to construct a reliable online business model that adequately replaces declining print and advertising revenues.

In a possible sign of negotiations to come, Google last week played down the importance of newspaper content.

Matt Brittin, Google&#146;s UK director, told a Society of Editors conference that Google did not need news content to survive. &#147;Economically it&#146;s not a big part of how we generate revenue,&#148; he said.

News Corp has been exploring online payment models for its newspapers and has taken an increasingly hard line against Google.

Rupert Murdoch, News Corp chairman, has said that he would use legal methods to prevent Google &#147;stealing stories&#148; published in his papers.

Microsoft is desperate to catch Google in search and, after five years and hundreds of millions of dollars of losses, Bing, launched in June, marks its most ambitious attempt yet.

Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, has said that the company is prepared to spend heavily for many years to make Bing a serious rival to Google.

Microsoft has sought to differentiate Bing by drawing in material not found elsewhere, though has not demanded exclusivity from content partners. Bing accounted for 9.9 per cent of searches in the US in October, up from 8.4 per cent at its launch, according to ComScore.
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<pubDate>2009-11-22 19:55:27</pubDate>
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<title>[Outlook 2007] relocating the *.pst</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23380396</link>
<description><![CDATA[Is there an approved and safe way to store emails somewhere else besides the default profile location, please?

My search of MS only gave articles on this for Office 2003. I have '07.

If Windows ever has trouble or my disk fails, having this on a DATA partition will make this a lot less catastrophic.

Thank you :)
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<pubDate>2009-11-22 19:43:33</pubDate>
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<title>[Ethics] Best approach to &#x22;fixing&#x22; someone else&#x27;s computer?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23348371</link>
<description><![CDATA[I couldn't find a suitable forum for this dilemma. Mods, move this to the proper forum if this is the wrong one.

I will be ambiguous for a reason, and leave people as anonymous. So, here's the situation:

A family member's coworker cannot use his Windows XP laptop anymore. He had taken it to the GeekSquad where they told him it is infected with viruses and needs to be cleaned. I'm not sure what the whole story is, but I believe he thought the pricing was too expensive to just "clean out" the computer.

So, this family member told him he would drop off the laptop with me, and let me take a look at it to get a "second opinion" and see what I could do or advise. No big deal, I don't mind doing favors, even though I'm not an IT guru, myself. If I can help, why not?

He drops off the laptop, and when I have free time, I go ahead and boot it up. It autologs me in to his account, and the first thing that happens is I am welcomed with a bajillion popups and startup applications. There's even a Norton alert about viruses that it detected, among many other things. This next part is what put me in a tricky situation:

Right there on the desktop, in plain view, are porn images and links to porn web sites. And I'm thinking "Hey, I can understand, we're all human here, but there's no way this guy would save them right there on his desktop for all to see, right?" I did not do anything else while in Windows XP. I simply shut down the system and then booted up from a USB stick with SystemRescueCD installed. I did a full scan on his NTFS partition with ClamAV, and it found 20+ viruses, mainly within C:\Documents and Settings\. I realize there's no point in trying to "clean out" all the viruses. Obviously, a fresh reformat/reinstall is the only practical solution, which I can show him how to do.

There is a problem though, and I'm not sure how to approach this:

If he has files, bookmarks, settings, or whatever that he needs to back up first, he'll obviously do this by booting up into Windows, where the porn is in clear view. Since I don't know the story behind it, I'm afraid I'll be used as a scapegoat.

A.) They could have been placed there by malware, and maybe he didn't notice them earlier, so what if he blames me for trying to embarrass him?

B.) Maybe they are in fact his in which I can just hand him the laptop and explain how to do a system recovery.

In other words, once you boot into Windows, it's hard to ignore it. So, I really don't know who's going to take the blame because I don't know if he has already seen them before. I can't imagine myself calling him up and asking: "Hey, um, about that porn on your desktop..."

What's the best way to approach this with the least amount of conflict? He's going to ask about it today, and of course, just like in elementary school: "You touched it last! It's your fault."]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-16 11:48:23</pubDate>
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