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Koogle said:

fabian said:

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its weak crap development on the win7 taskbar anyway....You can find extensions for the taskbar that give better improvements and workflow enhancements than Microsoft's poor efforts.

I would not go that far to call it crap or poor. I think the taskbar is a huge improvement in Windows and besides the folder / library issue i really can't think of anything else i am missing.

Why do you think the current taskbar is poor?

littleguru said:

AFAIK it is not possible. You could pin the folder in the jumplist, which won't give you the content of the folder in the jumplist but is the only thing that is possible.

ok ... would be nice feature in the next version of the taskbar

Hi all,

I am a long time user of Windows Media Center (since XP beta) and I cannot imagine watching TV without it. But I am very close to finding an alternative to MCE.

In the very heart of MCE you have the Electronic Program Guide (EPG) which is a web service that updates the program guide with program listening and allows you to browse the programs and also allows me to record TV programs.

If the information in that guide is out of date you hardly can use your TV. Programs are missing; the recorder records the wrong programs; recording ends 10 minutes before the show ends and things like that.

In Denmark it seems like the EPG has not been updated this year. I cannot find EPG information for around 30% of my channels and MCE believes that Channel A is Channel B, Channel C is Channel D. I have a standard cabel program package from the largest cabel company in Denmark ... nothing special or anything like that.

Microsoft purchases the information in the EPG from some British company. That company says that it is Microsoft problem. Microsoft says that it is that company’s problem so no one seems to care and now I have all the problems.

There are people in the forum that works for Microsoft. Isn’t there someone that would be so kind to get someone to look at this issue because the current situation has turned one of Microsoft best pieces of software in to useless “#¤#%”.

Under Windows XP it was possible to bypass Microsoft’s EPG guide and use XML TV instead (some open source EPG implementation). I Microsoft cannot handle the task of updating the EPG guide please allow us to use some other EPG source.

Kind regards

Tony

PS: Still on Vista MCE since a few of my add-ons has not been updated to win7 yet. Don't know if it has become better in Win 7 ... have my doubts.

 

Is it possible to pin a folder or a library to the taskbar in win 7 and have the content of those folders / libraries show up on the jump list?

If I try they get pinned to Windows Explorer instead.

seems to have been fixed in outlook 2010. You will automatical be removed from the recipient list. This goes for if you reply to all to a message in your sent items or from your inbox

Hi,

I am subscribing to this feed that contains all contents (forum posts and videos) across Channel 9. The feed has not been updated for a the last couple of days.

http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/rss/

Kind regards

Tony

There used to be a product named Winternals Administrator's Pak. I think i remember something about that Microsoft (when they aquired Winternals) turned that in to a product only available to select/volume licens?, or something, customers.

I cannot remember the new name of the new product. Any one knows?

Edit: Found it: Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance
 http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/4/f/64f5dc66-832a-4df3-baf4-3b4e7fb9e500/Datasheet%20-%20MDOP%20Overview.pdf

That happens sometimes. Normally you have to close all instance of Visual Studio, do an IISRESET and delete all content of "c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\". Then you should be able to compile again. While you are add it ... sometimes you have to delete all content of the bin folders as well and sometimes the obj folders under each project in your solution.

I often see this behavior if i perform a "get latest version" from the source control and the new version contains a lot a changes compared to the old version

Allso make sure that VS.net is not open in another remote desktop session. (All programs --> administrative tools --> Remote Desktop Manager)

Hope this helps

Windows 7 testers won’t be able to install Microsoft’s near-final Release Candidate (RC) test build of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 — a limitation Microsoft is acknowledging and saying is by design.

“It’s not really a ‘won’t work’ issue as much as a ‘won’t install issue’ since it is a beta and the goal is to get feedback on the Windows 7 beta itself."

More info: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1824

If true, that is very sad news, since the main issue or a major issue with the stability of Win 7 is related to IE 8.

/tony

warren said:

vesuvius said:

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The version released in december isn't "release candidate 1".  Where'd you get that idea from?

Also, don't trust Windows build numbers when judging the progress of Internet Explorer -- they aren't aligned at all.

It got the info on the Release Candidate on the Internet .. so it must be true

Jokes aside...there a number of post on the net that displays this image

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Internet-Explorer-8-IE8-Release-Candidate-1-RC1-Is-Already-Here-100216.shtml

Some says, one more public test version early 2009 and then RTM