Just ran an update on my favorite add on tool bar and found that it fixes the problem with Stumbleupon toolbar and the IE7 RC1. No more errors when shutting down browsers and tabs.
To update on your Stumbleupon toolbar and click on menu, select about Stumbleupon, toolbar version. It will take you to the page to download the update.
Stephen
For Sysguy clients that have MIcrosoft Open License and Software Assurance on their Windows Xp systems. There is a version of Windows Vista that will be available exclusively for them.
This version contains all the features of Windows Vista Business in addition to BitLocker Hard Drive encryption, application compatibilty and multiple language support. This version is not available for retail purchase and will only be made available to clients with current Software Assurance on their XP Pro systems.
To find out more about this new version you can go to this blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2006/09/11/749695.aspx
To see the features of Windows Vista visit Microsoft here
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/features/default.mspx
To view the editions of Windows Vista visit this site
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/editions/default.mspx
Or contact Sysguy Consulting to learn about how you can get your machines enrolled in Software Assurance. If you have purchased a PC or Laptop since October of 2005 with Windows XP Pro you can be eligible to add SA to these machines!
Stephen
A big whoops over to the people at CA (Computer Associates). In late August they released a virus signature package to their E Trust products that mistakenly flags the required LSASS.exe system file as a trojan horse/ Virus and the real time scanner would delete the file. Upon reboot the server would freeze at a grey screen. This was discovered fairly early but in some cases the damage was already done. You can read more about this error at this blog
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2006/09/01/453504.aspx
I have checked the servers of Sysguy clients that have CA ETrust 8 AV on them and all appeared to have notbeen affected by this signature update problem. However I would ask that all Sysguy Clients running this software please contact us before rebooting their servers so that we can be on standby to fix any problems.
Stephen
I have the latest RC of Internet Explorer 7 loaded on my laptop… With Beta 3 ( I skipped 2 because I was having problems), everything worked fine. After I installed RC1, I started gettting errors everytime I closed the browser, and if there are multiple tabs open I would get the error after every tab closed. Digging a little into it I discovered the problem is related to the Stumbleupon toolbar (mentioned in another post of mine). Turning off the toolbar makes the problem go away. I hope the folks at stumbleupon.com know of the issue as I enjoy “stumbling” once in a while!
I like the new release of IE, especially the tabbed browsing and the RSS feeds. Altough I use a dedicated RSS reader I may one day switch to this as well. You can download and try it out here.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx
One thing that I have heard is that IE7 when it is released will be installed automatically as a critical update to your Operating system. Microsoft has made a blocking tool available for system administrators to stop the automatic upgrade until the browser is fully tested.
Stephen
Got my email this weekend that Windows Vista RC1 has been released to the Consumer Preview Program. If you registered for the program you should be able to download and install the latest release. From what I understand this code is very close to what will be the Gold Released to Manufacturing Version. I haven’t had a chance to install the RC yet but will probably get to it in the next little while.
Stephen
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