Can't run 16-bit Windows Program

When i try to run the setup.exe(One of our vendor software) from the temp folder on XP SP3 machine, it throw up the message "Can't run 16-bit program". Where as it goes well when i run from XP SP2 machine or if i run from shared drive/c ...

Message posted on the July 7th, 2009 - 9:22 AM ET

Rootkit infects 64-bit systems

Kaspersky Lab has detected a banking rootkit designed to infect 64 bit Windows systems. For the moment this only targets online banking clients in Brazil.

News published on the May 24th, 2011 - 4:15 PM ET

Is there any interest in moving from a 32 to 64 bit OS

Migrating from a 32 bit to 64 bit operating system is possible when you have an Intel64 (EM64T) or AMD64 processor with a powerful configuration. But what is the point? That’s a real question that is asked! For the users, the Microsoft Windows 64 ...

Review published on the April 15th, 2008 - 5:41 PM ET

Windows : A 17 year old vulnerability discovered !

Since 1993, all 32 bit versions of Windows have suffered from a security vulnerability which is special due to its age without ever having posed a threat.

News published on the January 21st, 2010 - 11:25 AM ET

Office 2010 and 2011 : 64-bit version not recommended (or impossible to install)

The future Office for Mac engine will only be available as a 32 bit version. The 64 bit version of Office 2010, which is available, is not recommended by Microsoft.

News published on the June 9th, 2010 - 10:15 AM ET

Comparison of free antivirus for Windows XP, Vista and 7

The arrival of Microsoft’s new 7 operating system means that it may be time to update your antivirus. In our selection we have looked at the best free antivirus programs currently available. These are Avast, AVG, Avira AntiVir Personal, Microsoft ...

Review published on the December 15th, 2009 - 11:10 AM ET

Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac Wins About.com’s 2011 Readers’ Choice Award for Best Application for Running Windows on a Mac

Parallels today announced that Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac, the No. 1 selling and best way to run Windows on a Mac without rebooting, won the About.com 2011 Readers' Choice Award for Best Application for Running ...

Press published on the March 17th, 2011 - 6:30 AM ET

Piriform: free software for cleaning and optimising Windows

Piriform is a development company founded in 2004 in London. This software editor specialises in free user utilities. Still don’t know anything about them? Not even their pear logo? (Piriform means "pear shaped")? This is highly unlikely… as the ...

Review published on the December 29th, 2010 - 4:02 AM ET

Slow text IO on 32 bit Windows 7

We have a customer reporting that our product draws text slowly on Windows 7. Upon further investigation, it appears as if 32 bit Windows 7 itself draws text slowly. I wrote a test program that uses printf to write a sentence to stdio 5000 times ...

Message posted on the March 1st, 2010 - 5:28 PM ET

Retrieving the COM class factory error in 64-bit Windows Server 20

Hello: On a 64-bit Windows Server 2003R2 box, I'm getting the following error when opening a finnancial report writer application called "FRx": Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID ...

Message posted on the August 16th, 2009 - 1:06 PM ET

PIX on 64-bit Windows 7 crashes inside Direct3DCreate9

I don't know if this is right place to ask, whether it's a Windows 7 thing or a DirectX thing, but here goes anyway :-) I've been trying to get PIX (the shader debugger) to work for me, but every program I try to run it on crashes inside ...

Message posted on the March 10th, 2009 - 10:22 PM ET

Bug#578396: qemu-kvm: After Squeeze reinstall, Studio 9.4.3 (Windows program) no longer works properly

Package: qemu-kvm Version: 0.12.3+dfsg-4 Severity: normal This is weird. I found it necessary to reinstall Debian/Squeeze. This shouldn't have affected my Windows XP/Pro VM since it was in my home directory. However, after reinstalling, Pinnacle ...

Message posted on the April 19th, 2010 - 11:30 AM ET

64 bit- Windows XP Professional

I just upgraded my O.S. to Windows XP Professional - 64 bit and have already encountered some problems. Could someone give me some sound professional advice, please! After installing the 64 bit Xp Pro O.S. onto a new hard drive I could not install ...

Message posted on the April 30th, 2010 - 10:55 AM ET

Windows Installer does not install any files

Hi, I am trying to install a VS2005 Windows Forms .Net project on a 64-bit Windows Server using Setup2.msi Setup.exe generated by Setup and Deployment project for a 64-bit operating system. The Setup runs fine and declares a successful ...

Message posted on the February 16th, 2010 - 7:39 PM ET

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