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Recent update: 2008-3-21

Can't get to the Live Expo web service

708 byte By jtallard2 at 2008-3-7
I'm sure I'm just being stupid, but can someone tell me how to get past the credentials popup when trying to create a web reference to the Live Expo service page in Visual Studio.net? The URL I enter for the page is: http://expo.live.com/API/Classifieds_Listings.asmxIn VS.net, I right-click on ...

How do you print a bird's eye view in Local Live?!

234 byte By AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH at 2008-3-6
How do you print in windows local live?! I've tried numerous times, but have come up empty! Why can't I simply do file:print? Why does windows only allow me to print an aerial or a road map? It's stupid! I'm going to Google Earth.

Live Contacts Control Japanese support

346 byte By T.Ichi at 2008-3-5
Hi,Contacts Control is available in Japanese, that's a great news!So I tried to use market="ja" as API reference says, but the control did not appear. I changed the value: market="jp", and worked fine in Japanese.Which ("ja" or "jp") is the right value? Is this a documentation bug, or an ...

free memory in windows server 2003

200 byte By setareh at 2008-3-3
hi i have program that use big text files , when i run that my computer Page File Usage is being high . If i close my application , Page File Usage won't decrese ?how can i free memory ?

After restting IE7, I can not install Live Toolbar

431 byte By texan at 2008-3-1
I had to reset my IE 7 and now I can not install Windows Live Toolbar. I have uninstalled in the Control Panel. I did not uninstall the add-ons. The program seems to install but when I look at VIEW- Toolbars, Windows Live Toolbar is greyed out. Anyone have a suggestion on how to reslove this ...

Some Favorites Suggestions

2361 byte By blistick at 2008-2-28
Hi,Over the past couple of days I've done a brief survey of online bookmarking tools, and settled on Live Favorites. I'm not so interested in sharing my links, so my needs are centered on managing my own favorites, and being able to efficiently find things later.Since I'm a Live Favorites ...

Cannot log in to Live Mail Desktop

1160 byte By eamonn79 at 2008-2-27
Hello!Ok I am having all sorts of isues with Live Mail Desktop.When I first installed it it worked fine and I was really impressed. Then I started getting sync issues and it wouldn't download messages from my hotmail account. In the end I completely uninstalled it and did a reinstall. Again it ...

Windows Live Problems, Signing in not working

185 byte By Matty1989 at 2008-2-26
When i sign in, it gives me and error message and says that the Windows Live Service is currently unavailable, i need help, is it me or is Windows Live not working at the pressent time.

login to hotmail account

202 byte By sonu83 at 2008-2-25
Hi all of u. I want to login into hotmail or yahoo & retrieve the contact list from hotmail or yahoo using my web page. help me if anyone have some idea. it's very urgent.

Where should I post questions regarding Live Mail Desktop

240 byte By Esto at 2008-2-24
Where should I post questions to find out technical details about the Live Desktop app? I would like to know, for example, if it's possible to develop plug-ins for it (like for Outlook) and if so how it should be done. Thanks!

Live Domain Error Trouble

598 byte By ProwlingTiger at 2008-2-23
Okay Im about fed up with these errors, and I cant find support for them anywhere. I keep getting: We are working to fix a temporary problem with our sign-up service.Please try again. Error code: 3And some people I know are getting "Error 1"If anyone has any information about these, ...

Windows Live Favorite SDK

143 byte By MaherK.Al-Jendasi at 2008-2-22
Hi All, Any one knows if MS plans to release an SDK for Windows Live Favorites? Thanks in Advance. Maher K. Al-Jendasi

MAC Users

82 byte By RevBoyd at 2008-2-22
How do persons using Mac machines access Microsoft Office Live Collaboration Beta?

WL Toolbar buttonwindow disappears after click

804 byte By Andy-D at 2008-2-21
I'm trying to build a button windows on my Gmail Preview button to sign into Gmail. I have the login part setup through Google's account API, and I can enter my password into it and click the sign in button and it tries to sign in to Google.The problem is that when I enter something in the ...

Windows Live Spaces Music?

72 byte By HelpPlease at 2008-2-20
How do I get media player or get to play music with Windows Live Spaces?

Live.com running at super speeds

333 byte By Hamaze at 2008-2-19
Have you guys recently changed something on live.com? I know Asp.net AJAX is continuing to grow and mature but all of a sudden, live.com is running like a champ. I have a page with a dozen or so blogs on it that used to take a minute to load and would freeze the browser until it was finished. ...

Message to Windows live developers

234 byte By yjacket2006 at 2008-2-18
Please make it easier to get a Hotmail account. The account signup page kept rejecting my zip code, even though it is a valid zip code. So I ended up having to put in a bogus one. I think you need to update your list of zip codes.

Error tryiing to change domains

208 byte By dreamsoup at 2008-2-17
the specified service does not exist as an installed service. I get this message on a couple of Windows 2000 machines when I try and join another domain. Can't find anything about it Please help

Difficulties When Signing In

393 byte By Laura06 at 2008-2-16
When i sign into Windows Live Messenger im finding that when i click on someone's name the whole page freezes and i can't click on anything, and the only way i can get out of the page is to right click on the Windows Live tab on the taskbar and go to close. I can get onto all other things ...

How to get the rss content displayed in my personalize page through Windows Live Platform?

381 byte By Bluehai at 2008-2-15
I want to get the rss content displayed in my personalize page in Windows Live in my application. However, the source contents in the web page are all javascript codes, I am not able to get the content I need(for example: the news I can read in my personalize page).Does Windows Live have some ...

Multiple problems trying to add third-party gadgets to Live

1408 byte By ArtieSluka at 2008-2-15
First of all let me say that we did not seem to have these problems as of August 29th, 2006.We are having some erratic behavior from Windows Live where we are only able to add a gadget successfully a small percentage of the time. If we call the live.com?add URL, we have found that when Live ...

Windows Live Mail: How to get my mail address book programmatically

238 byte By AndreyTagaev at 2008-2-15
Hi. I'm trying to find some .net DLL library or service to get user's address book from live mail account. I need it for importing in my application. Unfortunately could not find any :( Does Live mail have any ? Thanks in advance!

Live Alerts & Visual Basic 2005

311 byte By Sergio_CL at 2008-2-15
Hi everyone,I'd like to know if anybody has some sample code using Visual Basic 2005 to send a Live Alert to Windows Live Messenger.I'd like to do some research on this topic but am not really sure where I should start.Are Live Alerts free for business use ...

Custom Domains without support.

384 byte By Awuelo at 2008-2-15
Windows Live Custom Domains don't have support. In the WLCD spaces tell http://customdomains.spaces.live.com/ about a problem with Live Mail Invitation published Aug 28. Right now, this option not working, and any support person post any comment in 2 ...

Favorites Enhancements

292 byte By ScottKuhl at 2008-2-14
Here are a few suggestions to improve Live Favories: <ul> <li>Add an API</li> <li>Add RSS Feeds</li> <li>Remove the 1500 link capacity</li> <li>Integrate search results on Live.com with Live Favorites</li> <li>Add-on for IE7 so you can use tags instead of folders</li></ul>

Windows Live Favorite SDK

143 byte By MaherK.Al-Jendasi at 2008-2-14
Hi All, Any one knows if MS plans to release an SDK for Windows Live Favorites? Thanks in Advance. Maher K. Al-Jendasi

Windows Live Spaces Music?

72 byte By HelpPlease at 2008-2-13
How do I get media player or get to play music with Windows Live Spaces?

Live Spaces - problem uploading photos

607 byte By milservuk at 2008-2-13
Hi,I am having difficulty uploading my photos onto my Windows Live Spaces blog site. I am running IE7 with Windows Live Toolbar with the Pop Up Blocker activated. I am also trialling the Live Onecare beta 1.5.I have followed the 'Help' advice giving permission for Pop Up activity on ...

Are there RSS or other APIs available for Hotmail a-la Gmail ?

173 byte By AnuraagGodika at 2008-2-12
I am trying to write a Web 2.0 application which will aggregate mail headers from different sources for people with many mail accounts. I could not find anything on hotmail.

Live Search Mobile public API?

682 byte By thetao at 2008-2-12
Is there a public API for the Live Search Mobile mapping/routing program (written using the .NET Compact Framework)? I am hoping to do some basic "automation" with Windows Mobile 6 apps, for example, asking Live Search from a CRM application, "how do I get from my current location to...

Problem error code 1639

71 byte By Tyler123 at 2008-2-11
i get an error code 1639 and i dont know what to do while installing it

Problem with File Decryption In NTFS file system

320 byte By emadroohi at 2008-2-10
Hello Dear Friends.I have a Problem With File decryption in NTFS file system. I have an encrypted file that be encrypted with a Loss account and A have not any access to those files. too i can`t decrypt those files. please help.thanks ...

UX Patterns For Windows Live Mail Desktop and Live Messenger

330 byte By AdanBrown at 2008-2-10
Live Mail Desktop and Live Messenger are following a very structured approach at the UX level. I was wondering if this UX pattern is described in a white paper and if an example project was available for developers who are trying to build on the Live experience.I greatly appreciate your ...

Event Log file path

1134 byte By AshokVN at 2008-2-8
Hi All,If I update the value of File key in registry of Application event log (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application) to D:\ApplicationLog\Loggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg\AppEvent.Evt which has a length of 87characters, and restart the ...

Resizing Windows Live Mail

580 byte By latrekker at 2008-2-8
When I log into Windows Live Mail through IE, the paine size (not the text) is too large, I can not see the bottom of my e-mails nor can I see the far right. It will not allow me to scroll down to the bottom of my e-mails.If I compose an e-mail longer than the screen within IE, I cannot see ...

Windows Live Problems, Signing in not working

185 byte By Matty1989 at 2008-2-7
When i sign in, it gives me and error message and says that the Windows Live Service is currently unavailable, i need help, is it me or is Windows Live not working at the pressent time.

Friends List Query

506 byte By Andy01264 at 2008-2-7
Can you access Freinds Lists of Freinds etc (to the point of viewing thousands, if not millions of Freinds of Freinds of Freinds etc) ?. Have you got a limit on how many friend lists down you can go from one Freinds List.Surely if someone was to write a program that did this automatically they ...

Resizing Windows Live Mail

580 byte By latrekker at 2008-2-7
When I log into Windows Live Mail through IE, the paine size (not the text) is too large, I can not see the bottom of my e-mails nor can I see the far right. It will not allow me to scroll down to the bottom of my e-mails.If I compose an e-mail longer than the screen within IE, I cannot see ...

Where to obtain Windows Live Alerts SDK?

276 byte By SiebeTolsma at 2008-2-7
Hi all, Where can I obtain a copy of the Windows Live Alerts SDK? I've checked developer.live.com, but it is not on there, and I'm starting to wonder if the SDK has to be explicitely requested from Microsoft. Thanks, Siebe Tolsma Oberon Medialab

Multiple problems trying to add third-party gadgets to Live

1408 byte By ArtieSluka at 2008-2-6
First of all let me say that we did not seem to have these problems as of August 29th, 2006.We are having some erratic behavior from Windows Live where we are only able to add a gadget successfully a small percentage of the time. If we call the live.com?add URL, we have found that when Live ...

Event Log file path

1134 byte By AshokVN at 2008-2-6
Hi All,If I update the value of File key in registry of Application event log (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application) to D:\ApplicationLog\Loggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg\AppEvent.Evt which has a length of 87characters, and restart the ...

WSuS Deployment - SQL Error

2081 byte By Nand at 2008-2-5
Hi,This is in connection with WSUS installation.Server OS - win2k3 Ent + sp1 Sql - sqol 2000 + sp 4Once the installation is over , the update is happening the event viewer throws the following error :" Content file download failed. Reason: The server does not support the necessary HTTP ...

DNS Domain Entries

845 byte By IPInc at 2008-2-5
I have a registered domain name:www.mydomain.comUsing Windows 2003 Enterprise, with two NIC's, I generated an active directory local domain (HQ.mydomain.com) and I created DNS A records for all the computers in my local domain. I want to have an internal and an external network. My main ...

How are applications installed in Windows XP

372 byte By Beetle54 at 2008-2-4
I'm writing up a setup application, and when I install the exe file, Windows does not reconginze that I just installed a new program. Do I need to create a registry file? If I do, does anyone know how to create one and what do I need to put in there in order for Windows to reconginze that a ...

Window Live Alerts SDK

138 byte By makeer at 2008-2-4
Hi Is there any forum present where I can post all my queries regarding Windows Live Alerts SDK? Regards Makarand

Windows Live Problems, Signing in not working

185 byte By Matty1989 at 2008-2-4
When i sign in, it gives me and error message and says that the Windows Live Service is currently unavailable, i need help, is it me or is Windows Live not working at the pressent time.

Uninstall Live toolbar

275 byte By BobKnowles at 2008-2-4
Looking for instructions for removing Live Toolbar Beta version. Automatic update does not successfuly update the system. Uninstall from control panel is unsuccesful because the .msi file is missing. In a catch 22 because auto update keeps trying to upgrade the beta version.

Assigning resources to a project

477 byte By Lollie at 2008-2-3
I have a project set up on MS Project containing several different tasks and I have set up the list of resources and their availability etc. I now want to assign all my resources to all my tasks but rather than assign one to one, I want to simply assign the resources randomly across the tasks. ...

Virtual Labs and Windows Live

317 byte By LeelandClay at 2008-2-3
Hello,I've taken two Virtual Labs over the last few days and when I attempted to go to the Comment Form to get credit I received a Windows Live error. There is a statement that it's a know problem, however I was wondering how I would go about getting credit for these ...

MSWORD 2003 PRO - help locating default dictionary (not custom)

827 byte By SUPAXE at 2008-2-2
Hello out ther! I am having some trouble locating the default dictionary in MSWORD 2003 PRO Edition...I would like to be able to add and remove words in the dictionary for my permanent spell checking purposes.I would use the custom dictionary option however it will not allow me to remove words ...

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