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Chris Romp marked one of norbiq's replies in Microsoft Corporation as useful. norbiq replied to the question "OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION. Is it true?". Chris Romp and 6 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Chris Romp replied on April 10, 2009 06:41 to the problem "Seems like everyone's Inbox is gone. Biggest fail in history of the Web 2.0." in Microsoft Corporation:

Huh? My inbox is just fine, thankyouverymuch. :)

Chris Romp replied on April 09, 2009 23:35 to the question "Can I change my password? If so, where can I find that?" in foursquare:

According to Support: http://playfoursquare.com/forgot_pass...

Chris Romp replied on April 09, 2009 23:34 to the problem "No way to reset password from settings screen" in foursquare:

http://playfoursquare.com/forgot_pass...

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Chris Romp replied on January 06, 2009 05:08 to the idea "let users make a custum background" in Microsoft Corporation:

You can already make any image your background.

Chris Romp replied on December 21, 2008 19:26 to the question "Tech Support?" in Microsoft Corporation:

What version of Windows? XP? Vista?

On Windows XP:

1. Right-click the desktop, and then click Properties.


2. On the Desktop tab, click Customize Desktop.


3. Under Desktop icons, click to select the check boxes of the icons you want to view.


4. Click OK two times.

More info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330170

On Windows Vista:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Wind...

Chris Romp replied on December 19, 2008 18:11 to the question "Help! i need a biztalk guru" in Microsoft Corporation:

Seeing as how this is a BizSpark (a small business program by Microsoft) forum and not really about BizTalk, I would like to point you to the BizTalk forums on MSDN.com. I would post the error you're encountering with the event log entry (full text) as well, and see what help you can find. I would start with a search before posting, however.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/defa...

Chris

Chris Romp replied on December 17, 2008 15:02 to the question "Help! i need a biztalk guru" in Microsoft Corporation:

Hi there,

I'm a BizTalk Technology Specialist in the San Francisco Bay Area. What you're asking is no small thing, and I extremely highly recommend that you contract a specialist to install and configure your BizTalk environment if this is a production environment. If your integration environment isn't set up well, I wouldn't expect your integrations to run well.

If you're simply building a sandbox with which to learn BizTalk, well, that's a different story.

First, here are the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 installation guides, which contains a lot of good information:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...

Next, here's the BizTalk Operations Guide, which is something you should review and keep as a reference:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/li...

For the hands-on approach, here are the BizTalk virtual labs on MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtu...

Finally, I have written a BizTalk Self-Study guide if you're interested:
http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisromp/archi...

Nothing will replace real training, however, and I would recommend that if possible you also check out the 2-day Microsoft course for BizTalk deployment and administration:
https://www.microsoft.com/learning/en...

Best of luck,
Chris Romp

Chris Romp replied on December 13, 2008 01:27 to the question "Add on for IE which will scan for phone numbers?" in Microsoft Corporation:

Programming language probably doesn't matter; you could write using managed or unmanaged code. Probably (guessing) a COM interface somewhere.

IE Browser Extensions:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libra...(VS.85).aspx

I would guess it would match based on a regular expression (RegEx), but I've never written one so I don't know.

It might be better if you found someone with experience to contract this sort of thing to. Elance.com might be a good place to start. Otherwise check out open source project sites (codeplex.com, sourceforge.net, Google Code, etc.) to see if there are any similar projects you could study and learn from.

That's about all the help I can give on this topic since I've never written one myself.

Good luck,
Chris

Chris Romp replied on December 12, 2008 22:47 to the problem "HIJACKED EMAIL ACCOUNT" in Microsoft Corporation:

I'm not on the Hotmail/Live team, so I can't give you any direct help. But first thing, you should probably remove your account and other personal information from the above post as this is NOT an official support forum.

First, you should go to support.live.com and click on Windows Live ID. Search for "forgot password" and click on "how can I reset my password?". At the bottom of the page there will be a link to "Get more help" which is a form for Live ID support. Using that form you can inform them of what's taken place and they may be able to at least lock the affected account until the issue can be resolved.

Other steps:

1) Run a full scan of any computers used with that account to check for malware and keyloggers, etc.
2) Think back about any public locations recently used. Have you clicked on links for or visited any suspicious web sites recently? Any Microsoft mailings the account owner may have responded to which requested the username and password?
3) Have any new applications been installed in the past few weeks?

The most frequent method of a complete stranger taking over an account is through spyware or phishing (search these terms for a more in-depth explanation).

Again this is NOT AN OFFICIAL SUPPORT FORUM (sorry about the caps; just trying to be clear).

Good luck,
Chris

Chris Romp replied on December 11, 2008 18:19 to the question "Add on for IE which will scan for phone numbers?" in Microsoft Corporation:

The new beta of Windows Live Messenger (from download.live.com) hyperlinks phone numbers in IE and links them to livecall: URIs.

I believe Skype also has a similar add-in.

What's your communication program?

Chris Romp replied on December 11, 2008 18:07 to the problem "Windows LifeCam VX 6000 picking up a huge amount of noise" in Microsoft Corporation:

Is it a "buzzing" noise or just background? If you're using Windows Live Messenger, try running the audio/video setup wizard (Tools menu). If it's another program, you can configure the sound input devices (in Vista) by right-clicking on the sound icon in the taskbar (by the clock), and choose Recording Devices.

Has the cord been punctured or frayed at all? Is the connection of the cord into the camera still solid? Cord into the plug?

If something is just plain broken with the camera, I would check to see if it's under warranty and replace it. If not, you can get another mic for relatively cheap and configure your chat program to use that mic instead of the cam's mic.

Chris Romp replied on December 02, 2008 05:38 to the question "Next Operating System" in Microsoft Corporation:

The current desktop PC operating system from Microsoft is Windows Vista, which is available in four editions.

The next version will be Windows 7.

Chris Romp replied on September 30, 2008 17:55 to the discussion "CDROM disappeared within XP" in Microsoft Corporation:

Can you post the error details or a screenshot?

Chris Romp replied on September 30, 2008 17:44 to the discussion "CDROM disappeared within XP" in Microsoft Corporation:

I've seen this happen if a cable comes loose or something happens to the driver. Does the device show up in your device manager, perhaps with an error indicator next to it?

Chris Romp replied on September 16, 2008 23:51 to the question "Zune.net availability" in Microsoft Corporation:

I just checked and it's up. I'd expect it to be a bit sluggish on the day of a major release.

Chris Romp marked one of M3 Sweatt's replies in Microsoft Corporation as useful. M3 Sweatt replied to the question "Saw your note on reactivating Microsoft Vista".

Chris Romp replied on September 11, 2008 18:53 to the problem "Office for Mac won't open!" in Microsoft Corporation:

Try running the Repair Disk Permissions tool from the Disk Utility.