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What if other things could get banned response to Microsoft

encript — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:37:33 +0000

Imagine for a moment if we lived in a world where other things could get banned. Where at any moment at the discretion of a corporation your device will no longer be as functional as it was when you purchased it. What level of monitoring is necessary to achieve this and is it too intrusive. Should everyone be informed that they are being monitored. Windows genuine advantage checks for guarantees that the user is definitively using a genuine copy of windows. It can be determined whether that copy of windows is genuine. If it fails such a test that person will no longer receive updates from Microsoft. In addition to not receiving updates they will get a notification at start up that warns you that this may be a pirated copy. But what if Microsoft decided instead to disable your hard drive or prevent you from playing movies or music. Perhaps they will corrupt your files. You agreed to the Terms of Agreement when you first installed it. So any subsequent changes thereafter will be the responsibility of the user. They can pretty much do what ever because you the user still want to use it.

Does this sound familiar to you? Yes I am referring to Microsoft’s banning practices for its Xbox360 game console. Fair is fair and playing pirated games on their service is prohibited and subject to violations as per the TOS. However other functionality asides from xbox live services should not be affected. For example many banned users are complaining that the HDD and all save states are corrupted and are no longer retrievable. This includes games that were installed on the hard drive whether they were legitimate or not. Playing games from the HDD was crippled. So the HDD can only be used by formatting it on another console which is not banned.

It can only be assumed that this tactic sounds as though Microsoft is taking this more personally and is angered. Thus taking more extreme measures then the usual force to counter piracy. Hence ensuring that banned customers repurchase the console to get 100% functionality again. Purchases of new consoles will boost hardware sales during this 2009 4th quarter holiday season. Which makes the timing of this all the more planned. With this said in this day and age it is eerie to know that consumers are being monitored so closely and it should be emphasized that anyone who plans on modifying anything and then using that device online should expect to be watched.

Imagine banning Other Things

Perhaps Zune users who have pirated MP3′s can no longer use the Zune Marketplace. Limited playback functionality.

Blu-ray or DVD players with network connections cannot receive updated movie content for using pirated movies.

Windows Users with out genuine copies will have their files corrupted and functionality removed.

Cellphone providers who find unlocked phones on their network that they do not sell themselves will be banned from using their service.

How to get Windows Live Mail to Work on Windows.

encript — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:11:09 +0000

Here is a fix for Windows Live Mail. If you have been having a hard time getting this to load I feel your pain. So I have been working my brains out trying to get this product to work on my computer. Previously I posted some one else’s solution and although it works its not the easiest thing to do. So I was looking for an easier solution for someone who may not be comfortable using the “regedit” command.

1. Use the official windows live download program WLinstaller.

2. Once Windows Live Mail is downloaded and installed go and browse to your Program Files\Common Files\WindowsLiveInstaller\MsiSources *Note you wont be able to even see this folder unless you unhide system protected files. So just go under your control panel browse to folder options and uncheck that so we can continue.

3. Now that you have browsed to that folder you should see a .MSI file with a pretty long file name it will be about 12.4MB. That was the size of mine it could be a big larger. You can copy this file to your desktop or somewhere else because we are going to work on it now.

4. Download Universal Extractor and go ahead and install it. Its like Winzip except it extracts everything and its free.

5. Point Universal Extractor to your MSI. Universal Extractor should have done its thing and left you with a folder with the same name as your MSI file.

6. Browse inside to a folder called “SDKComponents” and copy a file called msidcrl40.dll. Paste it in the folder called “Mail”.

To test it execute the file named “wlmail” ITS ALIVE ITS ALIVE.
**Note to clean this up a little bit I would just drag the Windows Live folder to your Program Files folder and create a shortcut from the wlmail file

Windows Live Mail Doesn’t Work on Windows.

encript — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:09:00 +0000

To be more precise it appears to be a common issue with Windows Vista. I saw that my MSN Messenger had an available upgrade so I went ahead with the upgrade procedure. I noticed Windows Live mail as an additional add on along with a toolbar and Photo Gallery. After the Install I went to launch Windows Live Mail and for some reason all I would get is “Please wait while Windows Configures Windows Live Mail”. Nothing I did got it to work uninstalling it and reinstalling it did not help the least bit. Once you start googling you will find many people have encountered this problem and here is a good solution. One would think this program would work well with Windows Vista but apparently it still is a work in progress.

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