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September 2005 - Posts

Troubleshooting Tip: Five common sense security tips – The Kim Komando Show.

This blog entry was gleaned from The Kim Komando Show, a Featured Community Web site.

Hopefully, you have security software installed on your computer. These days, a firewall, anti-virus software and anti-spyware programs are essential. But that might not be enough to protect you from the bad guys.

by Joli Ballew

Expert Zone Columnist

 

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Forum Discussion: How to deal with “content expired” errors in MCE – The Green Button.

This blog entry was gleaned from TheGreenButton.com, a Featured Community Web site.

 

A user keeps getting an error 'this content has expired' which then 'scrambles' the rest of the program, rendering in unwatchable.

 

by Joli Ballew

Expert Zone Columnist

 

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Forum Discussion: Learn the pros and cons of DRM and share your own thoughts on the subject – Digital Media Thoughts.

This blog entry was gleaned from DigitalMediaThoughts.com, a Featured Community Web site.

 

Consumers want to be able to take their music, movies, and TV shows with them wherever they go. Corporations want to dictate what they can do with these files, how they can do it, and when they can do it. Talk about this with others at Digital Media Thoughts.

 

by Joli Ballew

Expert Zone Columnist

 

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Gaming Tip: How to build a budget gaming PC – The Firing Squad.

This blog entry was gleaned from TheFiringSquad, a Featured Community Web site.

 

Based on the enormous popularity of The Firing Squad’s Building a $1,000 Gaming PC article, they’ve decided to go back and build another system, this time targeting the $600 price point.

 

by Joli Ballew

Expert Zone Columnist

 

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Forum Discussion: Sometimes errors occur for the most unlikely reasons, this time, Windows XP Professional won’t install due to bad RAM – Software Tips and Tricks.

This blog entry was gleaned from Software Tips and Tricks, a Featured Community Web site.

 

While attempting a fresh installation of Windows XP Professional, a user gets an error that the ntfs.sys file is corrupt. Trying another installation CD, he gets an error that the setup file is not a valid Windows XP system image. Believe it or not, somehow, popping out one of the 512 MG RAM memory sticks solved the problem and the installation completed just fine.

 

Beats me how they figured that one out.

 

by Joli Ballew

Expert Zone Columnist

 

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Longhorn (Vista) News: If you’re looking for the latest news, information, and reviews on Microsoft’s upcoming Vista operating system, you can find it here – Longhorn Blogs.

This blog entry was gleaned from LonghornBlogs, a Featured Community Web site.

 

In the article “My Experience with Windows Vista Build 5219” by Brandon LeBlanc, you can learn quite a bit about Vista’s new features including the transparent taskbar, Windows sidebar, Windows Mail, Windows Address Book and Calendar, and more.

 

by Joli Ballew

Expert Zone Columnist

 

The items on this WebLog are provided as is with no warranties and confer no rights. See Microsoft Information on Terms of Use.

Forum Discussion: A user wants to change his account name in Windows XP – TweakXP Forums.

This blog entry was gleaned from TweakXP.com Forums, a Featured Community Web site.

 

Although you could delete and recreate the account, it’s simpler just to change the name in Control Panel.

 

by Joli Ballew

Expert Zone Columnist

 

The items on this WebLog are provided as is with no warranties and confer no rights. See Microsoft Information on Terms of Use.

 

Troubleshooting Tip: Disable the error prompt in Internet Explorer to debug the script of a Web page – WUGNET.

This blog entry was gleaned from WUGNET.com, a Featured Community Web site.

 

Do you sometimes navigate to a Web page only to have IE ask if you want to debug a script? If you want to rid yourself of that "debug" message, follow the link to find out how.

 

by Joli Ballew

Expert Zone Columnist

 

The items on this WebLog are provided as is with no warranties and confer no rights. See Microsoft Information on Terms of Use.
Forum Discussion: A user cannot delete a file because the computer “Cannot read from source file or disk” – Tom Coyote.

This blog entry was gleaned from Tom Coyote, a Featured Community Web site.

 

After much discussion, accessing a link from another Featured Community Web site (Software Tips and Tricks), and finally getting here: http://www.theeldergeek.com/delete_undeletable_file.htm the solution lies in deleting the file using the Command Prompt and Task Manager.

 

by Joli Ballew

Expert Zone Columnist

 

The items on this WebLog are provided as is with no warranties and confer no rights. See Microsoft Information on Terms of Use.

Tutorial: Burn a Movie Maker project to a DVD using Windows XP – Windows Movie Makers.

This blog entry was gleaned from Windows Movie Makers, a Featured Community Web site.

 

Movie Maker 2 doesn't natively burn DVDs or video CDs (VCDs), which are playable by many DVD players. Movie Maker 2 is a video editing tool that can burn videos to CDs by using the CD-burning capabilities built in to Windows XP. But CDs only hold about 700 MB of data—not enough for a high quality video. And Windows Media Video 9 files on a CD aren't playable by current DVD players. So what do you need to burn a movie to DVD?

 

by Joli Ballew

Expert Zone Columnist

 

The items on this WebLog are provided as is with no warranties and confer no rights. See Microsoft Information on Terms of Use.

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