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Sound has stopped working
My sound has stopped working, there is a red cross throught the sound icon. This has happened since my windows update has an error code and says it can’t update windows because of this. The error code is 80070490. The sound driver I have is Realtek.
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Windows 7’s new “play all” decoders, encoders and transcoding capabilities
If you have had any theories Microsoft was conspiring with the media conglomerates to protect their interests and not the user’s, throw them in the bin, pour jet fuel and remotely detonate them since Microsoft can’t be any bolder than building in DivX and Xvid native support in Windows 7. Yes, all your favorite Family [...]
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Asterisk Key
Officieel hoort u voor elke website waar u zich registreert een ander wachtwoord te kiezen zodat met één gekraakte code niet meteen al uw sites toegankelijk zijn. Meestal laten we daarbij de browser onze wachtwoorden onthouden; wel zo makkelijk. Dan komt er echter een dag waarop u geen idee meer hebt wat voor wachtwoorden schuilgaan [...]
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In tight times, Microsoft launches two new servers
It’s not a great time for a new product launch. But Microsoft officials soldiered on with the company’s planned November 12 virtual launch of its newest small and mid-size business servers: Windows Essential Business Server 2008 and Windows Small Business Server 2008.
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Microsoft’s exploit predictions are right less than half the time
Microsoft Corp. today called its first month of predicting whether hackers will create exploit code for its bugs a success — even though the company got its forecast right less than half the time.
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"I think we did really well," said Mike Reavey, group manager for the Microsoft Security Research Center (MSRC), when asked for a [...] -
Microsoft Security Patch Was Seven Years in the Making
Some security patches take time.
Seven-and-a-half years, in fact, if you count the time it’s taken Microsoft to patch a security issue in its SMB (Server Message Block) service, fixed Tuesday. This software is used by Windows to share files and print documents over a network.
In a blog posting, Microsoft acknowledged that “Public tools, including a [...] -
Prism Video Converter
Wist u dat niet alle videoformaten ook echt andere formaten zijn? Er zijn ook zogeheten ‘containers’. Avi is bijvoorbeeld een container (in goed Nederlands: verpakking) waarin verschillende bestandsformaten kunnen worden verstopt zoals video gecodeerd met DivX, Xvid en nog veel meer. Maar of u nu te maken hebt met een container of een bestandsformaat; converteren [...]
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Windows 7 M3: “Blue Badge” tool available, unlocks all known protected features
Rafael Rivera: Last week, I revealed a weird protection scheme around some unfinished features in Windows 7 (build 6801). I provided a buggy tool to enable the new Taskbar, then teased everyone with other features such as gestures, panning, and Desktop Slideshow. It wasn’t intentional, I just needed some time to rework the unlocking tool, [...]