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By Mark Raby

Opinion - The beta release of a Windows version of Apple’s Safari browser made a lot of waves this week, but in the bigger picture of a software market already well defined, Safari is really more of a muted splash.

Let’s be realistic: The only real draw that Safari currently offers is faster load times for Web pages – in a market that most of the time is already fast enough. While that’s great for those who have already grown accustomed to the browser, it’s a very small incentive for Windows users, many of whom have been using the same browser since the day they bought their computer (I am leaving Netscape out of the picture here.)

Don’t get me wrong. Competition and choice are great. Firefox brought a breath of fresh air in a market segment that had become boring and stale. It brought what people were looking for at the time - not just new features - and Internet Explorer dropped from a monopolistic 95% usage share in 2004 to an estimated 77% in February 2007, according to Adtech. The increased competitive pressure eventually forced Microsoft to revamp its browser to version 7.0, after more than five years without a major overhaul.

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Microsoft Corp. has released its monthly set of security patches, fixing problems in Windows, Internet Explorer and in the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) software used for secure Web browsing.

In total, Microsoft released six sets of patches, called updates, fixing 15 flaws in its products. Four of these updates are rated critical and administrators should patch them as soon as possible, security experts said Tuesday.

Many of the flaws that Microsoft patched on Tuesday can be exploited via the Web. In particular the MS07-033 update, which fixes bugs in Internet Explorer and MS07-031, which addresses a critical flaw in the SSL libraries used by Windows.

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Bangalore: Three versions of Windows Vista confront buyers. That is not to say that PC owners — at last count there were about 50 million of them in India, 9 out of 10 being users of an earlier Windows version — know quite what to do now.

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If you get an error that NTLDR is not found during bootup,

If you have FAT32 partitions, it is much simpler than with NTFS. Just boot with a Win98 floppy and copy the NTLDR or NTDETECT.COM files from the i386 directory to the root of the C:\ drive.

For NTFS:

1. Insert and boot from your WindowsXP CD.
2. At the first R=Repair option, press the R key
3. Press the number that corresponds to the correct location for the installation of Windows you want to repair. Typically this will be #1
4. Enter in the administrator password when requested
5. Enter in the following commands (X: is replaced by the actual drive letter that is assigned to the CD ROM drive.

6. Take out the CD ROM and type exit


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If you get the error:
Windows could not start because the following files is missing or corrupt
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM or \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SOFTWARE

1. Insert and boot from your WindowsXP CD.
2. At the first R=Repair option, press the R key
3. Press the number that corresponds to the correct location for the installation of Windows you want to repair. Typically this will be #1
4. Enter in the administrator password when requested
5. cd \windows\system32\config
6. Depending on which section was corrupted:
ren software software.bad or ren system system.bad
7. Depending on which section was corrupted

8. Take out the CD ROM and type exit


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