The H-Factor

Reducing Entropy

Category: Microsoft Stuff

  • Many (most?) of you may have run into the problem where you use Windows Explorer to search a file for text the YOU KNOW IS IN THERE BUT $%^@# WINDOWS CAN’T FIND IT – grrrrrrr Here is how you get it to do that, straight from Microsoft (method 2): 1. Click Start, and then click…

  • Sorry for the lack of posting, I was on vacation last week. We are making good progress on Vista compatibility with our software, and I think you guys will really like what we have done, once we do it. That’s all I am saying about that right now. AutoCAD has announced that AutoCAD 2008 will…

  • Well, things ain’t great as far as Vista is concerned: AutoCAD 2007 will not install (message says Vista not supported)AutoCAD 2006 will install but not runAutoCAD2005 will install with errors and not run So the answer is No Vista until who knows when. Certainly not with AutoCAD 2006 or earlier. Maybe there will be a…

  • I wish I could see clearly now… But I can’t. I just ordered a Vista machine for testing out our installs. A coworker (Mike) has already installed it and found that AutoCAD 2007 will not install on it. We really do not know if Autodesk plans a patch to allow 2007 to install on Vista…

  • Microsoft tries to battle back from a diminishing market share this week after releasing Internet Explorer 7. This version is available now on Microsoft’s website at: IE7 download and will be released to the general public via a Service Pack 2 for Windows XP in November. A good review of what is in this release…

  • My co-worker George showed me this one: In Outlook 2003 you can assign colors to email addresses so you can quickly tell whether the email came from a friend or foe (or your boss!) In Outlook 2003 pick the Tools pull down then pick Organize. Pick Using Colors on the left. That’s about it –…