I am Microsoftie 4 ever (18+ years) working in Windows Services and Content team in the UK, my blog is mainly focused on the Windows family of products and trying to provide help pointers and resources for customers on our products.
Found this little tip out after some tweets with @jas who was seeing IE9 beta crash at start up with a message “Internet Explorer has stopped working”.
either type the following into the run box iexplore.exe -extoff
or click all programs in the start menu and then--> accessories-->system tools-->internet explorer (no addons)
I think his problem was to do with conduit toolbar
Hope this tip is useful
Rob
4 more great images from the bing dynamic themepack. Featuring a beautiful Japanese garden, a lake scene from Pearst in Montenegro, Yellowstone National Park in the USA and a crop circle from the UK.
Japanese Garden
Pearst in Montenegro
Yellowstone National Park in the USA
Crop Circle
Featuring an island in Tuvalu in Polynesia and
and Pulpit Rock in Portland Dorset
Get the bing dynamic theme
Following on from the 4 from last week we have 2 great new images in the bing dynamic Windows 7 theme, this time featuring Zhangjiajie National Forest Park ain China and NeverSink Pit in Alabama.
Another 2 great images from the bing dynamic themepack. Featuring a beautiful cave diver and Coca Falls in Puerto Rico.
Cave Diver
Coca Falls Puerto Rico
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We have 4 more of the wonderful Taiwanese art themes for Windows 7, following on from the 4 from last week
Enter the pretty pastel world of Choobies in this Windows 7 theme by Tsai, Ya-Wen.
across 74 markets…
Middle East (Arabic) - Bulgaria (Bulgarian) - Middle East (Arabic) - Spain (Catalan) - Czech Republic (Czech) - Denmark (Danish) - Austria (German) - Switzerland (German) - Germany (German) - Greece (Greek) - Australia (English) - Canada (English) - UK (English) - Indonesia (English) - Ireland (English) - India (English) - Malaysia (English) - New Zealand (English) - Philippines (English) - Singapore (English) - US (English) - Middle East (English) - South Africa (English) - Argentina (Spanish) - Chile (Spanish) - Spain (Spanish) - Mexico (Spanish) - US (Spanish) - LATAM ROR (Spanish) - Estonia (Estonian) - Spain (Basque) - Finland (Finnish) - Belgium (French) - Canada (French) - Switzerland (French) - France (French) - India (Gujarati) - Israel (Hebrew) - India (Hindi) - Croatia (Croatian) - Hungary (Hungarian) - Indonesia (Indonesian) - Italy (Italian) - Japan (Japanese) - India (Kannada) - Korea (Korean) - Lithuania (Lithuanian) - Latvia (Latvian) - India (Malayalam) - India (Marathi) - Malaysia (Malay (Malaysia)) - Norway (Norwegian - Bokmål) - Belgium (Dutch) - Netherlands (Dutch) - Poland (Polish) - Brazil (Portuguese (Brazil)) - Portugal (Portuguese (Portugal)) - Romania (Romanian) - Russia (Russian) - Slovakia (Slovak) - Slovenia (Slovenian) - Serbia (Serbian (Cyrillic)) - Serbia (Serbian - Latin) - Sweden (Swedish) - India (Tamil) - India (Telugu) - Thailand (Thai) - Turkey (Turkish) - Ukraine (Ukrainian) - Vietnam (Vietnamese) - China (PRC) (Chinese (Simplified)) - Hong Kong (Chinese (Traditional)) - Taiwan (Chinese (Traditional))
Another great bing visual search following on from last weeks bing Visual Search to view images of Windows 7 themes is the bing laptop selector
Simply choose from the filters on the left hand side (manufacturer, ram, OS, screen size, hard disk, max resolution, processor and weight) to find a great laptop. Or select from the filters at the top (newest, most popular, top rated, lightest laptops or largest displays)
Hover over your chosen laptop to get a customer review score (from i assume ciao.co.uk), 5 star in this case for the Acer Aspire 5738
or click the laptop of your choice to see more details, images and where to buy it from, plus news…
thanks to Allister Frost for the tip off
“Windows 7 N editions offer choice Windows 7 N editions, available for customers who live in countries that are part of the European Economic Area, Croatia, and Switzerland, have been designed to give you most of the features of Windows 7—with the addition of choice. Windows 7 N editions come in five editions: Starter, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate. For detailed information about what each edition includes, see Which one is right for you? The N editions of Windows 7 allow you to choose your own media player and software required to manage and play CDs, DVDs, and other digital media files. If you choose to use Windows Media Player 12, downloading it, along with related software, is free.”
“Windows 7 N editions offer choice
Windows 7 N editions, available for customers who live in countries that are part of the European Economic Area, Croatia, and Switzerland, have been designed to give you most of the features of Windows 7—with the addition of choice.
Windows 7 N editions come in five editions: Starter, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate. For detailed information about what each edition includes, see Which one is right for you?
The N editions of Windows 7 allow you to choose your own media player and software required to manage and play CDs, DVDs, and other digital media files. If you choose to use Windows Media Player 12, downloading it, along with related software, is free.”
Read more plus our FAQ at
What is a Windows 7 N edition?