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Understanding and Fixing Runtime Error 429

What are these strange numbers that keep appearing on your computer, you may ask one day as that all familiar beeping renders you at the frayed ends of sanity as you pound your intellect trying to figure out exactly what went wrong with the system. And don’t I know it. One of the more prominent ones is runtime error 429. While it may mean as much as any other three digit combinations appearing randomly during a Windows session, I am here to help, as well as explain.

Computer Slowness Explained

Did you ever notice that when you first buy a computer it’s lightning fast and then over time it slows down little by little until you can barely deal with it anymore? Most people think this is because they have too much data or because they have too many programs installed. Most of the time, these are not the reasons behind the slowness. This slowness can usually be attributed to spyware on your pc.

Spyware is similar to a virus but, not as destructive. Most spyware does just what it says, spy! Spyware infects your pc by you visiting websites and downloading free programs from the internet. Spyware almost never lets you know it’s on your pc or installing itself. It sits there, in the background and collects information from your pc such as your browsing habits, keystrokes, personal information, and even credit card or social security numbers. Spyware then communicates back to the person or site it came from, via the internet, with all the info it collected from you. As you can see this is could be devastating not only to you but, to anyone who uses that pc. All of this “spying” eats up memory, processor time, and internet bandwidth not to mention bringing your pc to a crawl. Thankfully, programs are out there to remove this spyware and even

7 M3 = Future Windows???

The Windows 7 craze is barely over, and yet the internet is already buzzing with the next big thing from Microsoft: a project called Midori. The SD Times claims to have seen internal Microsoft documents detailing what Midori actually is, and they say it’s the clean-break from Windows many of us have been waiting for. The SD Times article is heavy on the details, and quite technical, but luckily Ars Technica provides a more accessible summary of what Microsoft has in store for Midori.
Microsoft promised an operating system written in managed code a long time ago, but instead we got Vista – the managed code came with too many compatibility problems. Midori, being based on Singularity, is written entirely in managed code. In addition, it is built for a ‘cloud computing’ world. According to Ars’ Peter Bright, Microsoft is facing two major problems in its future operating systems strategy. We are all very familiar with the first problem: compatibility. The soft and hardware world is ever changing and evolving, and Microsoft’s commitment to providing as much backwards compatibility as possible is holding the development of its flagship product back. Many have advocated using a virtual machine for backwards compatibility, much like Apple did with Mac OS 9 in Mac OS X, or os/2 with DOS and Windows 3.x. This would allow Microsoft to make a clean API break, without wrecking backwards compatibility.

Windows 7 Features

Undoubtedly, the recent events focused on the next iteration of the Windows platform qualify these past days as the week of Windows 7. Make no mistake about it, even though the Redmond company started communicating Windows 7, it failed to diverge in any way from its official policy of keeping the world in the dark when it comes down to the successor of Windows Vista. Arguments that the communication strategy imposed by Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group is building frustration among both consumers and partners, have fallen on deaf ears. The Redmond giant did the exact opposite with Windows Vista, and the resulting experience did not justify the transparent tactics of Jim Allchin, (Former) Co-President, Platforms & Services Division. “Former” since his no. 1 software pet, Vista, hit the shelves on January 30, 2008.

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