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How to install Internet Explorer 7(IE 7) without any WGA checks
Simple steps to install Internet Explorer 7(IE 7) without any WGA checks.
1.> First Download Internet Explorer 7 installer from the Microsoft website and use Winrar to unpack the files contained in the installer to a dir on your hard drive.
2.> Next download the iecustom.dll file and replace the orginal file in the upload folder with the one you have downloaded.
3.> Next run update.exe from within the update folder and choose to restart at a later time.
4.> Download another dll normaliz.dll and copy it into your system32 directory, restart your computer afterwards.
5.> Run xmllitesetup.exe which is located in the update folder as well. Restart your computer once more, once this is done the new IE 7 is ready to use.
You might run into troubles that normaliz.exe can’t be found on your system after the first reboot. If that is the case do the following.
Press ctrl-alt-del to go to the task manager.
Go to “File -> Run” in the task manager.
Type: ‘cmd’ and push enter. The command prompt window will appear.
Type: ‘copy c:\normaliz.dll c:\windows\system32\normaliz.dll’
Avoid WGA checks to install New Microsoft Software (using MS Tool Orca)
Here is yet another way to avoid WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) checks while downloading or installing Microsoft products (E.g. Internet Explorer 7 or Windows Defender). Here is a simple process that describes an easy method to prevent WGA checks while installing .msi files.
You will first of all need a small tool named Orca which BTW is an official Microsoft tool for modifying and validating .msi installers. Microsoft delivers the tool that one needs to avoid the WGA check (Orca) as part of the Microsoft Windows Server® 2003 R2 Platform SDK Web Install.
It can be downloaded with the full package or also as a standalone from here or here.
Once you install Orca, run the software and open the installer from within Orca. Select InstallExecuteSequence from the left pane and right-click Check WGA and choose to drop it from the menu. Save the file, close Orca and wow!! run the installer without a single WGA check.This method doesnot work for other kind of Microsoft installers other than .msi. The new IE 7 for instance does not come with an msi installer but as an exe.
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IE 7 Final Version released for Download to all
The final version of Internet Explorer 7 is available for download. IE7 was introduced to the market some 20 months ago as a concept presented by Bill Gates. It has seen the release of no less then five beta variants and a release candidate version at a global level. Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft General Manager is the one that presented the news of the final build of IE7 to the world: “I want to thank everyone who provided feedback as we developed and fine-tuned Internet Explorer 7. With each release, your feedback helped us make IE7 better. Your contributions, ideas, and direct comments were crucial in helping us prioritize and focus our work. I can’t imagine delivering this product without the tremendous cooperation we enjoyed from so many of you as well as developers and partners.”
Microsoft also informed that, in addition to the Redmond Company's IE7 release, partners such as Yahoo, Weather.com and USA TODAY will make available their own customized versions of the browser, including personalized toolbars, additional search engines, favorites, and RSS feeds designed to tailor fit their content. Of course that you can, as we have accustomed you, download Internet Explorer 7 right here on Softpedia via this link, bearing in mind that the build supports Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows XP 64-bit Edition and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. Alternatively, Microsoft will push the browser as a high-priority update via Microsoft's Automatic Updates service in November.
“The Phishing Filter and the architectural work in IE7 around networking and ActiveX opt-in will help keep users more secure. IE7 also delivers a much easier browsing experience with features like tabbed browsing (especially with QuickTabs), shrink-to-fit printing, an easily customizable search box, and a new design that leaves more screen real estate for the web site you’re viewing. IE7’s CSS improvements are incredibly important for developers as many of you have made quite clear. I also think IE7’s RSS experience and platform are important, powerful, and innovative,” added Hachamovitch.
IE7 can be downloaded from this link : http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx
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"Words of kindness are more powerful than cruel swords."
- Jose B. Cabajar
Changes in Vista for EU and rest of Europe
Microsoft is reinforcing its commitment to ship Windows Vista to volume License customers in November and to the general public in January, and it's doing so by throwing a fight with the security community and the EU Commission over some features of the operating system. In this context, the Redmond Company has got not only to finish up with Windows Vista by October 25, but also to implement the announced changes by the same self-imposed deadline. Vista will suffer modifications into three aspects: security, search and the XPS format.
The security community, with little exceptions, reacted abruptly when confronted with the sight of a locked down kernel. Accusations ranged from monopoly allegations to limitations of Microsoft's view on security. Microsoft was challenged on the Patch Guard feature in Windows Vista x64 versions (but not in the more mainstream 32-bit versions) will prevent hackers, security companies, and, yes, Microsoft itself, from changing the kernel at run-time. And also Windows Security Center came into focus, the security feature front-end in Windows Vista that alerts users when security features are not present, disabled, or out of date. Security vendors want to be able to turn off Security Center and replace it with their own dashboard. In regard to both issues, Microsoft is set to deliver a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that would enable both access to Vista's kernel and third-party dashboards.
“We have agreed to create new APIs and are working on them now,” Mary Snapp, a lawyer in Microsoft's Department of Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA). “We've done a fair bit of consulting with vendors to enable them to interface with kernel in a very secure manner. As a result, their products will operate compatibly. These APIs will suppress Security Center alerts when there is comparable functionality from a third party security center. But only when there is another console doing comparable work and alerting the user.”
Another aspect of Windows Vista that will suffer alterations is Internet search. This is in a close relation with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and the concern that Microsoft will set Windows live Search to be the default search engine in IE7.
“In the end, Microsoft did something that makes sense for both users and the search providers. When a user upgrades from IE 6 to IE 7 (or from XP to Windows Vista), they will be presented with a screen that displays their current default search provider. They can choose to accept that choice or pick a new provider from a long list of choices that includes both major search services (like Google and Yahoo) and lesser-known options (such as Lycos or Ask.com). If the user skips over this screen, they will be presented with it every time they launch IE 7 until they've made a choice. No choice will be made for them if they choose to ignore it temporarily,” they added.
Furthermore, Microsoft will open up the XPS format as an international standard to respond to Adobe System's concerns over the advantage that XPS will get over PDF due to its integration in the operating system. “We've agreed to submit the fixed documentation layout format to a standards organization so that it can be broadly available and used,” explained Snapp. “It will not be included in Office 2007, however.”
Microsoft Virtual Drives are offered FREE for all
Microsoft said on Tuesday it would allow anyone to use its specifications for "virtual" drives, which enable one computer to run several operating systems, with the promise never to sue for infringement of its legal rights.
The Microsoft virtualisation software has been available for more than two years, but as computers become more powerful the use of virtualisation is expected to mushroom, the company said at a news conference.
The software permits the easy use of several operating systems on one machine. So, for example, dangerous software could be installed on a virtual machine without affecting the host computer.
The company's specifications will be made available to anyone who wants to use them under an "Open Specification Promise", introduced last month.
The company said the license was "an irrevocable promise from Microsoft to every individual and organization in the world to make use of this patented technology for free, now and forever when implementing specified open standards".
Earlier this year, Microsoft said it would team up with Linux supplier XenSource to supply the virtual specifications to permit Windows and Linux to run on the same machines.
Such virtual software is also made by VMWare, a unit of EMC Corp., which helped pioneer the market.
The question of making software open to others has been at issue in Brussels, where the European Commission has ordered Microsoft to share protocols with rival makers of servers.
Yet another way to customize the Logon Screen in SAP Enterprise Portal
Hey Folks,
Here's another way of customizing the SAP Enterprise's Portal's Logon Page. This method seems to be very simple and straight forward, but I wasn't able to implement the steps as I run one of the latest versions of EP NW2004s Portal.
This process of customization works on all SPs of EP6 though ;)
So here are the steps:
1. Place your new image files here:
\J2E\JC00\j2ee\cluster\server0
2) Log on to the Portal as administrator and go here:
System Administration -> System Configuration -> UM Configuration.
3) Click on the "Direct Editing" tab.
4) Change the parameter:
ume.logon.branding_image=
5) Change the parameter:
ume.logon.branding_text=/logon
6) Click "Save all changes"
7) Restart the Portal
