Microsoft: Windows 7 and Office 2010 Thread
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OK I'm having a problem with IE8 in on my bosses PC running win 7. When I open IE8 it's really slow, actually the home page loads fine but everything freezes for about 30 secs and then after that everything is ok. Well I decided to open the resource monitor and see if I could see anything well I see this:
The newly opened process is in red saying not responding, if you right click on that you can choose to end the process or process tree OR analyze wait chain. Analayze wait chain will tell you what is holding the process up. In my case it's lsass.exe. After about 30s everything goes back to normal but everytime I open a new window of IE I've got to wait on lsass.exe.
I tried doing a system restore and I guess I didn't go back far enough so I tried to go back further but was greeted with this message
that's new! In 7 if system restore fails it now tells you what the problem was.
In the middle of making this thread I captured this one, it says it's waiting on other ie.exe's to finish network i/o's
my boss says it might be his account or something, he says he's had trouble with VPNs and other stuff. IDK I think it might be a Windows Update but he knows better than me.
The newly opened process is in red saying not responding, if you right click on that you can choose to end the process or process tree OR analyze wait chain. Analayze wait chain will tell you what is holding the process up. In my case it's lsass.exe. After about 30s everything goes back to normal but everytime I open a new window of IE I've got to wait on lsass.exe.
I tried doing a system restore and I guess I didn't go back far enough so I tried to go back further but was greeted with this message
that's new! In 7 if system restore fails it now tells you what the problem was.
In the middle of making this thread I captured this one, it says it's waiting on other ie.exe's to finish network i/o's
my boss says it might be his account or something, he says he's had trouble with VPNs and other stuff. IDK I think it might be a Windows Update but he knows better than me.
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Domain. I think our domain server is in downtown tampa about 10 miles away
the other machines on the office in the same domain aren't having this problem
the other machines on the office in the same domain aren't having this problem
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^AFAIK they haven't issued it. I know there was one low priority patch that affected IE8 in W7 that came out on patch tuesday this month (1/16) so I did I system restore to before then and that didn't help. Did they say it was coming out today, I know it was going to out of the normal monthly schedule...
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^AFAIK they haven't issued it. I know there was one low priority patch that affected IE8 in W7 that came out on patch tuesday this month (1/16) so I did I system restore to before then and that didn't help. Did they say it was coming out today, I know it was going to out of the normal monthly schedule...
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I checked event viewer and I didn't see anything in the security section but in system I saw a few things. Besides the fact that his hard drive is about to die and is giving bunch of bad block disk errors and your NFTS errors I saw this
I think he was right, I guess we've been having some problems with our VPNs and VOIP phone lines which I guess are all run by the servers in our downtown location.
I think he was right, I guess we've been having some problems with our VPNs and VOIP phone lines which I guess are all run by the servers in our downtown location.
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Well I get to use W7 in a few weeks just order from Dell, it should do me for about another four years. That's how old the one I have now is, if it wasn't for Photoshop and Lightroom, I wouldn't need to change.
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English
Intel® Core™ i7-860 processor(8MB Cache, 2.80GHz)
No Productivity software pre-installed
2 Year Basic Service Plan
McAfee SecurityCenter, 15-Months
8GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 4 DIMMs
750GB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW w/ dbl layer write capable
22 inch SX2210 Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor
nVidia GeForce GTS240 1024MB GDDR3
I'll sell the monitor and bring the price down to about $1150.00.
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English
Intel® Core™ i7-860 processor(8MB Cache, 2.80GHz)
No Productivity software pre-installed
2 Year Basic Service Plan
McAfee SecurityCenter, 15-Months
8GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 4 DIMMs
750GB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW w/ dbl layer write capable
22 inch SX2210 Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor
nVidia GeForce GTS240 1024MB GDDR3
I'll sell the monitor and bring the price down to about $1150.00.
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FYI - At 8 GB, you're not going to be able to run the RAM in it's fastest triple channel configuration. To do that, you need to install RAM in multiples of 3 GB so you would have been looking at either 6 GB or 12 GB. Whether or not you'd ever notice any difference with 8 GB in dual channel vs. 6 GB in triple channel, I honestly can't tell you. This all assumes, of course, the model you ordered even supports triple channel memory configurations which is likely these days.
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yeah the 860 is a P55 chipset and doesn't support triple channel. Why did you spend money to buy mcafee? You should just install MS Security Essentials, it's great, doesn't expire and it's FREE! I think most of us techie guys on here use it now. If not they should! That's a nicer system than mine, well not really I got an SSD!
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McAfee was "free". The other choice was to add more months and pay more. I have used NIS for the last I don't know how many years, never had a problem and haven't paid for it for the last five years.
IS MS SE really any good? I just scares me that MS can't keep their OS clean, how are they going to protect it with another software???
IS MS SE really any good? I just scares me that MS can't keep their OS clean, how are they going to protect it with another software???
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^There isn't any software out there that is bulletproof, they all have security holes. Don't even get me started on Apple and how little they care about security. Anyways, yes it really is THAT good.
It was recently named best FREE AV software out there
http://lifehacker.com/5433229/micros...free-antivirus
It's better than all the other free ones and performs just as good if not better than the best pay versions. Lifehacker did another article saying you don't need to pay for AV anymore just use MSE
http://lifehacker.com/5401453/stop-p...re-good-enough
All the other tech sites I know of have raved about it I won't bother linking their articles
I made a thread about it
https://acurazine.com/forums/technology-16/microsoft-security-essentials-free-antivirus-732675/
At my IT job I turned my bosses onto it and they've been using it ever since and we no longer use AVG or Avast! when putting AV on our customer PCs we use MSE. We still use the enterprise version of trend micro at some places but besides that we're using it everywhere else. It's good shit.
It was recently named best FREE AV software out there
http://lifehacker.com/5433229/micros...free-antivirus
It's better than all the other free ones and performs just as good if not better than the best pay versions. Lifehacker did another article saying you don't need to pay for AV anymore just use MSE
http://lifehacker.com/5401453/stop-p...re-good-enough
All the other tech sites I know of have raved about it I won't bother linking their articles
I made a thread about it
https://acurazine.com/forums/technology-16/microsoft-security-essentials-free-antivirus-732675/
At my IT job I turned my bosses onto it and they've been using it ever since and we no longer use AVG or Avast! when putting AV on our customer PCs we use MSE. We still use the enterprise version of trend micro at some places but besides that we're using it everywhere else. It's good shit.
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what company did they buy? You said this before. You know I remember they bought Giant Anti-spyware in like 2005, the product that is now Windows defender and I do remember using that program just before MS bought them and it was a good malware scanner. In regards to AV though not that I know of, MS has had their forefront stuff for a few years and windows live one care before MSE. Those may have been based off of another companies work but then MS has been working on this stuff themselves for years.
Kindof like how IE was purchased from another company I think Mosaic it was. And of course they took what mosaic had and made IE what it was today, I'm sure very little of what mosaic had to do with IE is still in their current version. Same with MS-DOS and probably a bunch of other things. that's what big companies do they eat up little companies. Apple bought up fingerworkx for their multi-touch, they bought up the guys who created cover flow, recently they bought Lala and before that PA Semi for their chips. Google's done it too. If you're insinuating that last year MS bought up some upstart AV company and then rebranded their shit as MSE then no, MS has been working on this stuff themselves for years.
Kindof like how IE was purchased from another company I think Mosaic it was. And of course they took what mosaic had and made IE what it was today, I'm sure very little of what mosaic had to do with IE is still in their current version. Same with MS-DOS and probably a bunch of other things. that's what big companies do they eat up little companies. Apple bought up fingerworkx for their multi-touch, they bought up the guys who created cover flow, recently they bought Lala and before that PA Semi for their chips. Google's done it too. If you're insinuating that last year MS bought up some upstart AV company and then rebranded their shit as MSE then no, MS has been working on this stuff themselves for years.
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I posted a little of this in the iPad thread but MS today announced that they have already sold over 60 million copies of Win 7 by Dec 31st. Win 7 alone since it's release in late Oct to Dec 31st has already past the entire market share of OS X in that short time.
Here's a chart of it's growth compared to Vista's initial release growth
god I hope so
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/new...kes-mac-os.ars
Compared to Oct 09 you can see OS X has lost a little and XP has lost almost 3% overall since Oct. dropping from 70% to 67%
XP
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/1...nder-two-weeks
Also looks like gamers have embraced 7 as well, according to Steam 7 has already passed Vista in users on their system
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/01...s-7-by-gamers/
Here's a chart of it's growth compared to Vista's initial release growth
Before the end of 2010, we're expecting to see Windows 7 pass Windows Vista, Windows XP to drop below the 50 percent mark
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/new...kes-mac-os.ars
Compared to Oct 09 you can see OS X has lost a little and XP has lost almost 3% overall since Oct. dropping from 70% to 67%
XPhttp://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/1...nder-two-weeks
Also looks like gamers have embraced 7 as well, according to Steam 7 has already passed Vista in users on their system
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/01...s-7-by-gamers/
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On a side note, I was getting pretty hot and bothered by that HP tm2t. Then I watched Engadget's unboxing video earlier tonight and the screen is ridiculously reflective. I really do not want to give any of my $'s toward supporting any products that continue this stupid fad.
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^yeah me too, reflective screens FTL!
Yeah I should've clarified those pie charts cause at first it threw me off and I had to do some math to make sure that statement was correct. So the numbers in the 2nd pie chart all add up to 92.21. So those %s in the 2nd graph are not the OS's % of the Windows marketshare but of the overall marketshare
5.71
17.87
67.77
+0.86
______
92.21%
So that's a breakdown of the overall marketshare, it confused me too for a minute
Yeah I should've clarified those pie charts cause at first it threw me off and I had to do some math to make sure that statement was correct. So the numbers in the 2nd pie chart all add up to 92.21. So those %s in the 2nd graph are not the OS's % of the Windows marketshare but of the overall marketshare
5.71
17.87
67.77
+0.86
______
92.21%
So that's a breakdown of the overall marketshare, it confused me too for a minute
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Oh in a follow up to my bosses PC. I mentioned in the post about disk errors in Event Viewer well I came in the next day and his machine wouldn't boot due to some corruption of the BCD file. I couldn't even load the on drive system recovery. So I popped in the 7 install disc and ran the automated recovery and that fixed it, sort of. Ended up he didn't have any data that he didn't have on the server already so we just replaced the drive. The original I guess was a refurbished drive from Seagate 
and it only last a couple months!
So I had to reinstall the OS and everything. Ends up the problem with our VoIP line, and connection to the server WAS cause of a problem with our firewall we were using so we traded it out and everything is working fine, so the problem wasn't IE8 or W7 it was the firewall.
and it only last a couple months! So I had to reinstall the OS and everything. Ends up the problem with our VoIP line, and connection to the server WAS cause of a problem with our firewall we were using so we traded it out and everything is working fine, so the problem wasn't IE8 or W7 it was the firewall.
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I'm waiting for a review on the TM2 but I probably won't end up getting it, it looks nice though (besides the screen glare). It's built like the HP Envy which is an Aluminum/Magnesium unibody much like the MBPs and just as sturdy. I want to play with the capacitive multi-touch screen I wonder if they got one at Best Buy yet, I'll try and check tomorrow.
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If you install Zune 4.2 on Windows 7, you'll discover some interesting and wide-reaching changes. Instead of manually monitoring folders for music, picture, video, and podcast content, as did all previous Zune software versions, 4.2 actually integrates with the Windows 7 Library system, much as do Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center on that OS. Even more intriguingly, Zune 4.2 actually adds a fifth Library, Podcasts, to Windows 7.
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Office 2k10 has entered the Release Candidate stage but MS will not be releasing the RC build publicly. The RTM build should be out in June. I'm really liking Outlook 2k10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4LTm9U9uOc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV_QOeA3L7g
http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archiv...look-2010.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4LTm9U9uOc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV_QOeA3L7g
Better IMAP in Outlook 2010
One of the things we have improved in Outlook 2010 is IMAP accounts. IMAP is a protocol that is used by many e-mail services, including Gmail and AOL. If your e-mail service supports IMAP, you can use Outlook to access your e-mail.
Here are some of the IMAP improvements in Outlook 2010:
Automatic configuration
If you have an e-mail account that supports IMAP, your account can be automatically configured in Outlook 2010. All you need to set up your account in Outlook 2010 is your e-mail address and password. Outlook uses the Sent Items and Deleted Items folders on the e-mail server automatically so that you can view items in those folders from other computers and devices.
Better deleting
In prior versions of Outlook, a deleted IMAP message appeared in the message list with a strikethrough to indicate that the message was marked for delete. To delete the message from the mail server required a purge command. In Outlook 2010, when you delete a message it moves to the Deleted Items folder — the same behavior as with other account types.
(For you IMAP experts out there — if your server supports UIDPLUS, the message is immediately purged from the source folder using UID EXPUNGE. Without UIDPLUS support, the message is marked for delete, hidden from view, and then purged automatically the next time you exit Outlook or switch folders.)
Full messages
Instead of initially downloading only message headers, in Outlook 2010, full messages are downloaded by default. This enables you to work with all of your mail items, even when a connection to the mail server isn’t available. For performance reasons, headers are downloaded immediately, and full messages are downloaded every 30 minutes.
Better performance
We have heard loud and clear that you want a quicker, snappier IMAP experience in Outlook. We improved IMAP performance in Outlook 2010 in several ways. For example, if you click a message header, Outlook remains responsive while the full message is downloaded. We have also optimized scenarios like marking messages as read.
We are proud of our IMAP improvements in Outlook 2010, and we want to hear what you think. If you have been using the Outlook 2010 Beta with IMAP, how has your experience been?
Andy Brauninger
Outlook Program Manager
One of the things we have improved in Outlook 2010 is IMAP accounts. IMAP is a protocol that is used by many e-mail services, including Gmail and AOL. If your e-mail service supports IMAP, you can use Outlook to access your e-mail.
Here are some of the IMAP improvements in Outlook 2010:
Automatic configuration
If you have an e-mail account that supports IMAP, your account can be automatically configured in Outlook 2010. All you need to set up your account in Outlook 2010 is your e-mail address and password. Outlook uses the Sent Items and Deleted Items folders on the e-mail server automatically so that you can view items in those folders from other computers and devices.
Better deleting
In prior versions of Outlook, a deleted IMAP message appeared in the message list with a strikethrough to indicate that the message was marked for delete. To delete the message from the mail server required a purge command. In Outlook 2010, when you delete a message it moves to the Deleted Items folder — the same behavior as with other account types.
(For you IMAP experts out there — if your server supports UIDPLUS, the message is immediately purged from the source folder using UID EXPUNGE. Without UIDPLUS support, the message is marked for delete, hidden from view, and then purged automatically the next time you exit Outlook or switch folders.)
Full messages
Instead of initially downloading only message headers, in Outlook 2010, full messages are downloaded by default. This enables you to work with all of your mail items, even when a connection to the mail server isn’t available. For performance reasons, headers are downloaded immediately, and full messages are downloaded every 30 minutes.
Better performance
We have heard loud and clear that you want a quicker, snappier IMAP experience in Outlook. We improved IMAP performance in Outlook 2010 in several ways. For example, if you click a message header, Outlook remains responsive while the full message is downloaded. We have also optimized scenarios like marking messages as read.
We are proud of our IMAP improvements in Outlook 2010, and we want to hear what you think. If you have been using the Outlook 2010 Beta with IMAP, how has your experience been?
Andy Brauninger
Outlook Program Manager
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OK I have a question. I just created a domain on my server 2008 r2 server at home and I want to join my W7 machine to it however I do not want to create a new user account. I heard there's a way to convert a local user profile to a domain profile. How do I do that?
