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Hi, What is the main Office 2007 newsgroup? My ribbon icons are fuzzy, yet Word, etc works fine and all other programs on my computer are fine. I'm not sure of the main Office newsgroup to ask some questions. If you'd point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. Thanks

23/Oct/2008 23:20 I have Windows XP with SP3. I have my windows updates set to automatic. However when the updates are done I get a CONSTANT reminder to restart my computer so that the updates can take effect. (Now I've been running personal computers for about 15 years, and rebooting for changes to take effect was one of the first things I learned. The constant reminder is pain in the butt.) The reminder message appears every 05 to 10 minutes. When the (annoying) reminder message is not appearing on screen, it sits next to the clock as a small yellow shield icon. The icon does not have a delete option, so I cannot delete it the normal way. Is there…

WinXP Home - with all latest updates installed In my user account (but not in my Admin account) I see little white boxes around the text of the main items in the menu bar of some programs (but not all - not in MSOffice for example but I do see it in Notepad Plus, and Mailwasher). I do NOT see these white boxes if I open the same programs in my Admin account. I am not aware of any program that is open in the user account that is not also in the Admin account. I use ZoneAlrm free as a firewall, Skype, Mailwasher Pro 6.3, Winzip Quickpick, Counterspy VIPRE, RealPopup, - these are all present in both admin and user accounts. Anyone any ideas please?…

On both my laptop and desktop computers, I have the screen saver set to display a slide show of the My Pictures folder. It works fine on the laptop, but on the desktop about a third of the pictures display sideways, not even all in the same direction. The folder contains the same pictures on both computers. How can I get the pictures to always display in the correct alignment on the desktop computer?

I am new to learning and getting involved with Terminal Services. I'm trying to learn this on my own. I have a few older PCs that in order to run Windows, they need a lot of upgrading which takes money and I do not want to have to deal with the basic windows maintenance, licenseing, etc. I would like to know if anyone knows of a bootable, probably linux based and free, OS that will turn an older PC into a thin client? thanks, ~alan

Router/Gateway - WinServer 2003. DHCP and WINS configured I have a client PC now on standby, and i want to wake up the client PC. It is in a workgroup and pointed towards the router above. I know we can use Wake-On-LAN to wake up the machine, but i do not have the MAC address of that client PC now (since it's alrdy on standby - running XP Pro). Is there any method of getting the MAC Address? I tried "arp -a" and it does not have the MAC Addr of that client. Thanks.

Hi all Am unable locate my cookies folder icon. Have tried - "mycomputer/documents & settings/username" - but said file no longer shows up as it previously did. I might have inadvertantly deleted it. Thanks in advance. Winxp pro.

I have changed a line in the boot.ini file, and now I cannot boot Windows Server 2003. I did save the original boot.ini file under a different name, but since I cannot get the system to boot, I can't delete the changed file and can't rename the original. Can anybody help me with this problem? Thank you -- J.Fabian

Hello all, About 3 month ago I made a new installation of WinXP SP2 on this computer. Pentium III 1.6 GHz, 768 MB RAM. All worked well until a collegue installed google desktop on this computer. I think it was since then, photo previes is extremely slow. Does not matter what program is used to view the pictures. She normally uses xnview, latest version. But als with the windows explorer the preview of picture are very slow. About same speed on local or network drives. I removed google desktop, but the speed did not change. All other seem to work with normal speed. Have anyone an idea what I could do? Thanks in advance, Siegfried

I've seen a screen in Win'XP that lists all the open programs and allows you to close any or all of them. Can't find it. Please help. Don J ---------------------------------------------------

We have a Windows 2008 Server 64-bit running Exchange 2007. No Exchange services will start as they are dependent on the event log service starting. Error message "Windows could not start the Windows Event Log Service on SERVER1." "Error 87: The parameter is incorrect."

I had to do a destructive reinstall of Win XP, from the original CD, about a year ago, with the step-by-step instruction of a MS tech support person. He had me create a "temp" login username, which happened to have an icon of a couple of horse heads. For another reason, no longer operative, I created another login username, which has an icon of a toy racecar, I think. I now wish to get rid of these surplus usernames. For one thing, a lot of hard drive space is taken up with files for one of the usernames. I could simply delete the files for the surplus identity, but that is probably not the way to do it properly. How do I get rid of Windows login u…

I am trying to disable loopback adapeter with a shutdown script. It appears that when the script is running the network adapter is not found or it doesn't even disable it. I can enable and disable the adapter without any problems when I have not requested a shutdown. It appears that the network adapter information is all "gone" and not available anymore when the OS shutdown / reboot routine has started. Is there some other place I can to get this accomplished earlier before the network information is gone? e: cd \jobs\reboot date /t >reboot.txt time /t >>reboot.txt echo disabling loopback>>reboot.txt netsh interface set interf…

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Howdy, For some reason my default search from the Windows Desktop Search now always goes to Ask.com. I have played around with the default search options and Google is set as my default (which is what I want) However, it still always goes to Ask.com. when I search the web from the desktop search option. I don't see how to get rid of this. Any help? It is annoying. Thanks in advance!

i have a pop up at start on pc, it says please re-install apc main

I have XP Home Edition. When I right click on the Start button and sselect properties a window pops up. Then I select Taskbar and click on Customize. Another window pops up called Customize Notifications. It shows 2 lists.....current items and past items. On the past items list are programs I no longer have on my computer, but they are still listed there. How do I delete them from this list? Thanks.

My C: drive is nearly full with less than 600 MB free space left. And it is all of the Windows Update downloads. I only use 2x18 GB SCSI drives mirrored for my OS and all I basically have on C: is the OS and system programs. Buy my Windows directory is using about 14 GB of the space. C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB823182$ Can I delete these? Or move them to another volume in case I need to uninstall (highly unlikely) these updates? I know I will not be able to use Add/Remove programs to remove once I get rid of these but this is my only option. thanks in advance and apprecite any quick post back.

Dear All, Every time the computer boots something in the registry causes a "My Computer" window to pop up It's not in win.ini system startup etc as I disabled all in msconfig.exe and still the "My Computer" window pops up It's not in the usual places like Run, RunServices as I searched with nothing to find. I want to track down in a log file what activity takes place in the registry as the computer is turned on so that I may find what is causing the "My Computer" window to pop up. Thanking you in advance, Carlos.

hi all, just got a new Inspiron 1525 preinstalled with Vista Home... and I need to install XP Pro however when using the Dell Reinstallation Disk for XP Pro SP2 (from previous purchases), it is not detecting the Hard Drive. I have looked around and found the setting in the BIOS set to AHCI under SATA operation.. there is an option to change to ATA, but I'm getting a warning and I just want to make sure I won't do any permanent damage. Warning says changing this "may prevent your operating system from booting or requrie a resinall." which would seem to be okay since that's what I'm doing... It also had me disable the "Flash Cache Module" before b…

Does anyone know what this is? I see it in the task manager but don't know what it is related to. Is it a Windows XP product?

I am trying to use my XP Pro disk to do an XP Repair. Below I will detail the steps I do and the problem I end up with: 1. Boot up with the XP disk in the cd rom 2. Go to the point where I get the option to “enter R for repair” 3. The PC goes into DOS mode and I get asked “which windows installation would you like to log onto”. I enter the number “1”. 4. Then I am asked to type “Administrator Password”. I have no administrator password so I leave the space blank and just hit enter. 5. I then get the prompt “C:\Windows>”. 6. At this point I am stuck. Because it does not matter what I enter, I keep getting a message that says “command …

I'm trying to automate some printer installs and capture the printer settings. I'm trying to use rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry command to capture the printer settings in a file that I can use during the installation process. The command I'm using is rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Ss /n "<printer name>" /a "<location to save .dat file>" I've tried the command with and without a "d" (no quotes) at the end and I keep getting "Printer User Interface, Printer command failed.. < the command > Operation could not be completed"

I apologize if this is here somewhere but I haven't found it. I recently installed IE7 in XP-Pro with FP3. When my screen saver (SETI) would go to the blank screen and I would awaken it I could do one or two things and then it would hang. No Ctrl>Alt>Delete, nothing. Power off and back on, it would come back. Said to heck with IE7 and installed Firefox -- same thing. I've disabled SETI but once it goes blank and I try to awaken it -- hang. I figure it must be a WIN-DOZE issue as it's doing the same thing with IE and Firefox. Suggestions appreciated!!

Hi My domain controller which is the PDC has encountered some warning and errors during NTP time synchronization. The errors are logged in this order. 1) Event 38 Source w32Time ( logged for a few times) 2) Event 47 source w32Time Time Provider NtpClient: No valid response has been received from manually configured peer <IP address> after 8 attempts to contact it. This peer will be discarded as a time source and NtpClient will attempt to discover a new peer with this DNS name. 3) Event 29 source w32Time The time provider NtpClient is configured to acquire time from one or more time sources, however none of the sources are currently ac…