A-Patch is a nice patch that remove ads and other annoying stuff from your Windows Live Messenger software.
It’s very nice! Try it now
http://apatch.org/
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Version: 1.43 (build 2)
Compatibility: Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (14.0.8064.0206, 14.0.8050.1202)

Since Microsoft’s own installer refused to acknowledge WindowsXP 64bit as an appropriate platform to install Windows Live Messenger 2009, we have to find a few tricks to get around the limitations.

Download the MSI file here
Download the Segoe UI Font here
Download Windows Live Communcations Platform here
Download Microsoft Visual Studio Runtime here
Download Microsoft Application Error Reporting (32-bit [...]

With the release of iTunes 7.6 comes official support for the 64-bit versions of Vista, a feature which has been long overdue given the rising number of 64-bit supporters out there.  Unfortunately in their infinite wisdom (and, really, a move that was sort of expected given the idiotic way they’ve handled Windows support in the [...]

From: http://blogs.technet.com/brad_rutkowski/archive/2008/01/04/systemroot-system32-rdpdd-dll-failed-to-load.aspx
This is an FYI post for an issue we’ve seen on a couple of Windows 2003 SP2 servers internally.  Hopefully if someone hits this in the wild they’ll be able to find this post on the intertubes.
Symptom:
When attempting to connect from the client via RDP,  you would click “connect” and then soon after it would [...]

Most DNS clients cache the results of name resolution requests. This speeds up name resolution if multiple lookups are done to the same address, such as is common when browsing the web.
Sometimes a bad DNS entry will be cached and you will need to either flush the DNS cache to get rid of it, or [...]