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It appears that some Windows 7 users have come across glitches related to TIFF files, after they made the jump to the latest service pack for the operating system. Microsoft confirmed the issues officially, and also provided affected customers with a fix, which is now available for download. For the time being, a... |
10 November 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Microsoft confirmed customer reports of issues associated with the calibration of multiple touch screens connected to the same Windows 7 computer.
Essentially, the Redmond company is noting that some users might have problems properly leveraging Tablet PC Settings Control Panel with their secondary touch-capable mo... |
7 November 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is providing a fix to customers which have experienced problems when copying large amounts of data to a Blu-Ray disk on their Windows 7 computers.
According to the software giant, extremely poor performance is the indicator that users might have a problem.
The Redmond company reveals that copying over 10... |
7 November 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Some customers running Windows 7 have been experiencing intermittent crashes, and Microsoft says that the problem is because of a race condition. Threads (the smallest unit of processing, smaller than processes) can coexist and share resources, but when at least two of them attempt to change shared data at the same t... |
7 November 2011
06:46 GMT |
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An update is available for download from Microsoft, designed to resolve two incorrect 32-bit registry entries in the 64-bit flavor of Windows 7. According to information provided by the Redmond company, both Windows 7 RTM and Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) are affected by the problem. At the same time, the softwa... |
28 October 2011
07:21 GMT |
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Customers running Windows 7 RTM and Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) can have issues establishing a dial-up connection after they wake their computers from sleep or hibernation.
Microsoft has officially confirmed the issue, and published KB 2618301, offering additional details to users impacted by this problem.
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27 October 2011
08:11 GMT |
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While the default number of items which a Jump List in Windows 7 is 10, Microsoft provides users with the possibility to increase this value.
However, it appears that those customers that went over the top with the volume of items in a particular Jump List managed to lose the feature altogether.
According to the ... |
26 October 2011
07:48 GMT |
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As it does every month, Microsoft packed all of the October 2011 patches for Windows into a single package which it’s offering as a free download.
The October 2011 Security Release ISO Image will require customers to do a little planning as it weights no less than 3 GB, according to information provided by ... |
14 October 2011
12:11 GMT |
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Microsoft compared the infection rates on a number of supported Windows platforms, and unsurprisingly, the results indicate that Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is the best choice for customers looking for a secure OS. x64 (64-bit) Windows 7 SP1 along with the x86 (32-bit) flavor of the operating system have the lowest infe... |
12 October 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Microsoft is offerings customers an update designed to help them deal with x86-based applications or services being left crippled following the installation of Service Pack 1 (SP1) on computers running the 64-bit (x64) flavor of Windows 7. x64 Windows 7, as well as its 64-bit predecessors, can also run 32-bit applica... |
7 October 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Coinciding with the first day of BUILD next week, Microsoft’s monthly security bulletins will be released to customers worldwide.
According to information provided in advance by the software giant, patches will be made available for supported versions of Windows and Office.
“As we do each month,... |
9 September 2011
07:01 GMT |
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Customers that already upgraded to Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and are also using System Center Essentials for their management needs can experience issues with updating their copies of the operating system. Microsoft confirmed the problems officially, and has already tackled the glitch. Because of the presence o... |
6 September 2011
07:51 GMT |
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Some users have experiencing issues with USB audio devices connected to computers running Windows 7 RTM or Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
Microsoft confirmed the problems officially, indicating that customers will know they’re impacted by the glitch if audio stops playing when a USB audio device is in use... |
1 September 2011
08:09 GMT |
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A fix offered by Microsoft is designed to help customers deal with poor boot performance in specific scenarios involving Windows 7 and Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1).The Redmond company confirmed the issue and noted that impacted users have created a large number of restore points, a move which cause the slowing dow... |
22 August 2011
08:22 GMT |
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The search box in Windows 7 can return incorrect results when users search for programs and files, Microsoft revealed. The software giant explained that the issue has been reported by customers running Windows 7, as well as by those leveraging Windows Server 2008 R2. The Search programs and files box under the Wind... |
19 August 2011
11:50 GMT |
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Customers can experience a deterioration of network performance when the AuthNoEncap policy is switched on, Microsoft confirmed. According to the software giant IT professionals can experience network problems when AuthNoEncap is leveraged to deal with large payloads. Since AuthNoEncap was introduced in Windows 7 an... |
17 August 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Microsoft is now offering an updated collection of free Windows client offerings via its Download Center. Two free Windows 7 downloads are available directly from the Redmond company, accompanied by Windows Vista and Windows XP releases. The OSes are packed inside pre-configured virtual hard disk images, but otherwi... |
17 August 2011
03:15 GMT |
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Customers running Windows 7 and experiencing delays when shutting down, restarting, or logging off will need to deploy Service Pack 1 in order to resolve the issue. I’ll be honest, this glitch has been driving me crazy, and I don’t doubt the fact that I’m not the only one. According to Microsoft, t... |
16 August 2011
11:02 GMT |
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Microsoft has been offering an update designed to improve the compatibility of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with Advanced Format Disks for some time now, and it appears that the company is now offering something similar for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Well, not an actual update, but a hotfix desig... |
12 August 2011
16:11 GMT |
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In some scenarios users will be able to gain a boost of performance from their USB storage devices if they increase the maximum transfer size from the default, Microsoft revealed. This is why the Redmond company is now providing a hotfix designed to help customers get a bump in terms of the transfer size of their US... |
12 August 2011
13:21 GMT |
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Under specific circumstances, users running the latest versions of Windows are no longer able to access data on the DVDs they created using a decade old version of the operating system, Windows XP. Microsoft has offered official confirmation of the issue and is also providing customers affected by this problem with ... |
12 August 2011
12:11 GMT |
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A new update available from Microsoft is designed to fix the incorrect parsing of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) graphics. KB 2563227 was released earlier this week, and is available through both Windows Update and via the Microsoft Download Center. According to the software giant, in specific scenarios, SVG graphi... |
12 August 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Users of some Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) computers can experience issues related to the way in which the operating system reports the quantity of RAM installed on the machine.Microsoft has confirmed the problem, and revealed that Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 is also affected. According to the software giant, the ... |
12 August 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has acknowledged that some users running Windows 7 RTM or Windows 7 Service Pack 1 can come across issues when attempting to watch Interactive TV using the built in Windows Media Center component of the operating system. According to the software giant, the problem seems to be that customers find they&rsqu... |
12 August 2011
09:01 GMT |
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A fix from Microsoft Support is designed to resolve an issue that causes Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 computers to crash intermittently. The software giant has confirmed the problem, and revealed that affected customers get the following stop error message: "0x0000007E." Not only the plain vanilla, Windows 7... |
11 August 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed an issue impacting customers running the latest iteration of the Windows client and Server operating system, in which the platform can freeze when memory usage is high. According to the Redmond company, some customers have been complaining that their Windows 7 machine stops responding randoml... |
11 August 2011
05:15 GMT |
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Customers running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) can now download the latest cumulative time zone update from Microsoft Support. However, the August 2011 cumulative time zone update is designed to play nice with all supported Windows platforms and not just with Windows 7 SP1, according to Microsoft. The Redmond com... |
10 August 2011
09:50 GMT |
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Updated continually by Microsoft, the latest version of the System Update Readiness Tool is designed to play nice with Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1). In addition to playing nice with Windows 7 SP1, the System Update Readiness Tool also supports Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, as well as older versions of Windows, inclu... |
28 July 2011
11:36 GMT |
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In specific scenarios, customers attempting to access a USB storage device from Windows 7 will be unable to do so. In the eventuality that the process doesn’t fail, it may take a very long time before users see any results of their action. Microsoft has officially confirmed the issue and revealed that customer... |
28 July 2011
10:26 GMT |
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A few months ago Microsoft confirmed that some customers were experiencing issues when attempting to install Service Pack 1 for Windows 7.Specifically, the software giant pointed out that users were reporting coming across two error messages, namely 0x8004a029 and 0x80004005 - E_FAIL. The software giant explained a... |
26 July 2011
10:54 GMT |
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Old versions of Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) can block the installation of Service Pack 1 on top of Windows 7. It should be common knowledge by now that major operating system upgrades from Microsoft fail to play nice with security solutions already installed on the platform. Microsoft confirmed officially t... |
25 July 2011
08:46 GMT |
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It appears that some of the customers leveraging XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 have started coming across issues after they upgraded to Service Pack 1. A member of the Microsoft Reduce Customer Effort Center confirmed the problem and also offered guidance on how affected customers can deal with the gli... |
25 July 2011
06:25 GMT |
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Windows 7 customers that upgraded to Service Pack 1 (SP1) and are looking to change the language of the user interface using Multilingual User Interface (MUI) packs, will still need to be running either the Enterprise or the Ultimate editions of the operating system. Windows Language Packs are exclusive to the high ... |
22 July 2011
09:02 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to work in its adCenter Desktop client, and is providing customers with a steady flow of updates, including new Beta releases with support for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Now up at version 7.8, Microsoft adCenter Desktop Beta brings to the table a number of changes, among which the removal of... |
22 July 2011
05:27 GMT |
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The first service pack for Windows 7 will fix an issue which causes the operating system to crash with a blue screen of death (BSOD) during start-up, Microsoft confirmed. The problem impacts customers running the RTM Build of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, according to the software giant. But it appears that... |
20 July 2011
06:02 GMT |
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Customers running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 can download all of this month’s security updates from Microsoft packed inside a single ISO image. The July 2011 Patch Tuesday brought with it the release of no less than four security bulletins patching a total of 22 vulnerabilities in supported versions of Windows a... |
15 July 2011
06:16 GMT |
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Microsoft released MS11-053, a security update for a vulnerability in the Windows Bluetooth Stack which impacts Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and RTMs, along with supported versions of Windows Vista, but not Windows XP. MS11-053 is one of the security bulletins offered by the Redmond company to customers this month... |
13 July 2011
07:53 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed an issue in which customers running Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are prevented from deleting long URLs stored in Internet Explorer’s browsing history. According to the software giant, affected are not only users running the RTM Builds of the two operating systems, but also those... |
30 June 2011
04:17 GMT |
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Microsoft has released an update designed to help customers running Windows 7 deal with an issue in which driver refreshes served to the operating system fail to install. The Redmond company confirmed the problem impacts both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, including the platform version with the latest upgrad... |
29 June 2011
06:16 GMT |
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A new resource offered free of charge by Microsoft comes to lend a helping hand to customers involved in diagnosing incompatibility issues between Windows power management and software applications installed on top of the operating system. The Diagnosing Application Compatibility Issues Affecting Windows Power Manag... |
14 June 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is helping Windows 7 Service Pack 1 customers affected by stop error 0x0000007F when copying a file over a network to resolve the issue. Users will be able to download and deploy a hotfix offered by the software giant on its Support website. According to the Redmond company, the glitch impacts not only th... |
14 June 2011
05:13 GMT |
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Users running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Internet Explorer 9 will need to apply a number of Critical security bulletins which Microsoft plans to release next week as part of the company’s monthly patch cycle. There are no less than Critical six patch packages planned for Windows 7 SP1, although there a... |
10 June 2011
09:06 GMT |
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With the expansion of the number of languages supported by Internet Explorer 9 to no less than 93, Microsoft has also made available for download Language Packs designed to make it as easy as possible for users to run a variant of the browser tailored to their native tongue. Customers can head to the Microsoft Downl... |
26 May 2011
09:24 GMT |
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Some Windows 7 customers have experienced issues related to hibernation after installing Service Pack 1, Microsoft confirmed, with reports revealing that computers restart instead of hibernating.According to the Redmond company, users reported that either hibernation ends up not working at all, or a memory dump file... |
25 May 2011
05:38 GMT |
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Customers that use Windows 7 Service Pack 1 integrated installation media in order to deploy the operating system can come across an error message informing them that the computer names should contain more than just numbers. The problem only happens in the case of slipstreamed Windows 7 SP1 images, Microsoft informe... |
23 May 2011
07:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed issues in which some customers running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 have come across incorrect memory dump files on their machines.The problem also impacts Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 in addition to Windows 7 SP1, but only the 64-bit versions of the operating system when running on x64 Intel proce... |
23 May 2011
03:56 GMT |
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Users that leveraged third-party software to customize their Windows 7 installations should not be expecting Service Pack 1 to be served to them via Automatic Updates.In fact, not even when they’ll do a check for refreshes available on Windows Update will customers come across Windows 7 SP1 RTM. One example o... |
20 May 2011
03:30 GMT |
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Microsoft is not providing a free slipstreamed copy of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 for users to test, as it does for Windows 7 RTM. Still, it’s quite easy for customers to test not only the RTM Build of the platform, complete with the first upgrade, without paying a single cent. All they need is to download the f... |
13 May 2011
03:26 GMT |
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A new update offered by Microsoft resolves an issue in Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 involving binary files in some USB drivers which would no longer update. According to the software giant, customers started experiencing problems only after deploying Service Pack 1 to Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008... |
11 May 2011
08:25 GMT |
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Microsoft has released a hotfix designed to introduce three new changes in Windows Daylight Saving Time support for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1). At the same time, KB 2543367 is designed not only for Windows 7 SP1, but also for all supported versions of Windows. According to the Redmond company, customers running... |
4 May 2011
09:38 GMT |
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