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Email tip: A peer-to-peer discussion group does not come with a service level agreement

March 4, 2008 Mar 4, 2008 03/4/08
Raymond Chen
Most email discussion groups are not official support channels. There are a lot of peer-to-peer mailing lists inside Microsoft, consisting of people who are interested in a particular topic, sharing tips, providing advice, helping each other out if somebody runs into a problem, but they aren't the official support mechanism for the product ...

Why does scheduling a task require a password?

March 3, 2008 Mar 3, 2008 03/3/08
Raymond Chen
Kevin asks, "Windows XP lets me install applications, delete files, etc., so why does scheduling a task requires a password?" (I guess the answer to this question wasn't obvious since nobody answered it in the suggestion box.) Because scheduled tasks run after you have logged off. All those other operations occur while you are logged ...