Took ages to figure it out, but here it is for future reference  and for blog readers:

Click Start, RUN , in the run box type in:
regsvr32 MSXML3.dll

Click OK , then a box pops up, ok that box.

Restart msn messenger

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I got a few staff to try it out for over a week, the problems of hardware and VISTA being such a serious waste of memory and a lot of business software we use dont work with it and so on, it just wasnt worth it. Microsoft have forgotten that business people just dont care if something looks pretty, all a business person or staff for that matter care about it they want the software and computer to do the job and quickly. Vista even with 2gb ram and Intel XEON ….its just wasnt worth it.

It will be interesting to see sometime in 2009 , when Vienna comes out and then we more than likely will wait for everyone else to find the bugs  before we look at it again.

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I have not being posting as you readers have probably noticed for at least 2 months. The main issue there simply was a lack of time to blog.

What I have been involved with for the last two months were:

(1) Setting up a datacenter for VPS (Virtual Private Server). This is not for Protocol Solutions, this was for a client.
(2) Configuration of the management software for looking after all the containers (of the VPS)
(3) Testing and hardening down of everything

Windows SP3:

We got a test machine to install SP3 onto Windows XP Pro (corporate version). The installation went well, however this is the only thing that actually worked. There were multiple issues with the computer we installed SP3 into after a reboot:

(1) We had intermittant USB connectivity after the install of SP3
(2) Several BsoD

The installation was tested on another computer as well, the only difference between the first computer and this one was that the above testing was running an Intel processor and this computer was using an AMD AM2 chip. Both computers had 1Gb of ram as per standard staff configuration computers.

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However, as always, you can email Protocol Solutions or place comments.

Thank you

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EuroZone Clients:
LanGuard for 4 IP’s with  the first years SMA fee: Buy it here
LanGuard for 8 IP’s with  the first years SMA fee:

USA Clients:
LanGuard for 4 IP’s with  the first years SMA fee: 

All the above include:
One years free Software Maintence Agreement (SMA)
The report pack is included free by default (previously this was around £59 per year)

For more pricing please contact Protocol Solutions or use the contact form

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A few system administrators still dont know how to correctly modify the .htaccess and apply it.

I am including a working template that anybody can use, and it is commented too.

For people who want to download get it from here (view it with notepad) : http://www.mediafire.com/?49lxrdqk542

The .htaccess is also posted below for anyone to read also, and perhaps see some ideas that might be useful for their servers, or even see there are a few things that can be done without cluttering up the robots.txt. I for one perfer to put most things into the .htaccess because nobody else can see it, where with the robots.txt, anyone can see it and also because spammers and spam bots / spammer user-agents usally ignore the robots.txt file

## DISABLE HOTLINKING
RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?PUTyourDomainHERE/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)$ - [F]

## SITE REFERRER BANNING
RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} info\.biyad\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
## USER IP BANNING
<Limit GET POST>
 order allow,deny
 deny from 74.54.131.194
 allow from all
</Limit>

## AN EXAMPLE OF A REDIRECT
Options +Indexes
IndexOptions -FancyIndexing
Redirect permanent /www.PUTyourDomainHERE/oldPAGE.html http://www.PUTyourDomainHERE/newPage.html
Redirect permanent /www.PUTyourDomainHERE/OLDPage.html http://www.PUTyourDomainHERE/someNEWdirectory/NewPage.html

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP:IGNORE_INCON846393} !^Yes$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(GET|POST)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}

!.*\.(css|jpg|ai|doc|bin|ogg|mp3|pdf|rtf|ps|ppt|jpeg|png|gif|rar|zip|bz|bz2|gz|tar|iso|chm|z|cue|deb|rpm|ac3|au|snd|mid|midi|wav|bmp|jpe|psd|avi|mpg|mpeg|mpe|mp4|ico|rdf)$ [NC]

## AN EXAMPLE OF A REDIRECT OF DYNAMIC PAGES TO STATIC PAGES
RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=23$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page1? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=36$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page2? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=30$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page3? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=34$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page4? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=29$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page5? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=38$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page6? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_sefservicemap&Itemid=37$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /sitemap.html? [R=301,L]

## AN EXAMPLE OF A PERMANENT REDIRECTs AKA 301
redirect 301 /oldpage.html  http://www.yourDOMAIN/newpage.html
redirect 301 /oldpage2.html  http://www.yourDOMAIN/newpage2.html
redirect 301 /oldpage3.html  http://www.yourDOMAIN/newpage3.html
redirect 301 /oldpage4.html  http://www.yourDOMAIN/newpage4.html

## A WORKING EXAMPLE OF BLOCKING BAD BOTS OR USER AGENTS KNOWN TO BE RELATED TO SPAM
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^EmailSiphon” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^EmailWolf” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^ExtractorPro” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^CherryPicker” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^NICErsPRO” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^Teleport” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^EmailCollector” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^LinkWalker” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^Zeus” bad_bot

<Limit GET POST>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=bad_bot
</Limit>

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