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Category: Microsoft Stuff
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My biggest complaint about Windows 8 is the lack of a Start button and the associated Start Menu and its shutdown provisions. The Metro interface gets blamed, but MS could have left the Start Menu and still added the new interface. Metro, why do I hate thee? Let me count the ways… The Metro interface…
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My IT director wife showed me this one. I am often doing screen captures to illustrate blog entries, instructions manuals or support emails. I have been doing a Print Screen or Alt+Print Screen to send the entire screen or active window (respectively) to the Clipboard so I can get what I need. However, while the…
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Many years ago, customers asked us to give them an 'atta boy' for getting no errors when running Checkups. That evolved from just the Congratulations dialog box to the dialog plus the Congratulations spoken message. The voice being used depends on the version of Windows you have. On Windows XP, the voice is officially known…
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Sometimes, it seems like things take a big step back. This is a good example: try to search for text inside a file in Windows Explorer using Windows 7. It can't be done by default. There are two ways, from Wikihow: 1. In Windows Explorer, Press Alt button –> go to Tools –> Folder options…
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I have a 5 year-old machine running Windows XP 64-bit and have been quite happy with it. But, some newer things that I need to do with it require Windows 7 and I have put if off long enough. Going from Windows XP to Windows 7 requires a complete 'clean' install of Windows, as does…
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From a longtime customer – Joe O.: Here is one I just noticed in Vista and I was not sure if you knew about it… With Vista, if you highlight multiple files to change the name, the name will change but each file will retain their respective extensions. This is very handy if you…
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Just a quick note to say the following: If you have Windows XP, then you cannot 'upgrade' to Windows 7. You will have to do a full install of Windows 7 and then reinstall all your software. If you have Windows Vista, then you will be able to upgrade directly to Windows 7, no re-installation…
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I am sure everyone in the world knew this except for me, but if you want to resend an email to someone, just open it, and pick Other Actions off the Ribbon toolbar and pick Resend Message That is all
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My coworker Paul noticed yesterday that his files were not getting sorted in Explorer like he was used to seeing them. Those that started with numbers were no longer in numerical order, at least not the way he wanted them. He dug around and found a Knowledge Base article on the Microsoft website. Sort Order…
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Yep – Windows 7. Microsoft even has a web section for it: Windows 7 Vista is so popular it is already being replaced. When? Word on the street is one to three years. yay – more for all of us to have to deal with. Vista is the new Windows ME
The H-Factor 