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Keeping envelope fonts Times New Roman
by Guest Michael O.- 10 replies
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I want all my envelope addresses to be Times New Roman just as my writing is, but whenever I click to print an envelope I see Ariel. I have to laboriously change both the sending and return address using the options bar, then do it again for the next envelope. Naturally, I tried the format font tool on the menu bar, choosing Times New Roman and making it my default. But it doesn't work. What can I do?
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no drive icon for usb cruze drive
by Guest gary- 4 replies
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Just got a new usb 4g SanDisk Cruzer jump drive. Plugged into my desktop and it worked fine. Copied files to and from. Plugged into my laptop and Windows XP SP3 sees the new drive being installed in the tray but when I go to "My Computer" the system doesn't give me a drive icon. I can go to "CMD" prompt and change to f: and type"dir" and it sees the drive in DOS. What gives??
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Help: When surfing the internet, my Web browser hangs
by Guest Eran Karu- 1 reply
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When I surf the internet, my Web browser, Internet Explorer 7 or Opera 9.6, occasionally bombs. Only my Web browser hangs, not the entire system that crashes. I try several times to kill the process of the hanged Web browser but futile. So I have to reboot my computer system by pressing power "on/off" button. I try hard to find out what causes the problem but I can not find an answer at all. In other words, I do not know whether hardware problems, software bugs or some erroneous web sites cause my Web browser to hang. Whenever I click any link to any other web site, a web site partly appears on my computer screen then stops and the small icon at the top an…
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Getting dropped to desktop
by Guest Zendor- 2 replies
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While using any app i get randomly dropped to my desktop. Have run antivirus (2 different makes), and spyware (2 again)
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Searching for text within files
by Guest Rick- 7 replies
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I want to find files in a directory that contain the string 'syscolumns'. I know for a fact that several ordinary ASCII text files (extension .SQL) contain that string. They're not hidden or system files. I load up Search and in the 'A word or phrase in the file' edit box I enter syscolumns. My other options: 'All or Part of the File Name' is blank When Was It Modified = Don't Remember What Size Is It = Don't Remember Under 'More Advanced Options', everything is unchecked I click Search and it doesn't find any files. Same thing with several other strings I look for. Am I doing something wrong? It seems to work fine when I'm looking for a strin…
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Window close/minimise/bottom greyed
by Guest MarkThe Spark- 1 reply
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For some reason, either program installation of a Trojan (which Kaspersky dealt with successfully) my windows now have their close/minimise buttons greayed, or rather in a variety of colours and random patterns. Is there a way to repair this display arror? In all other respects, I have full functionality
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'Paint' is trying to open Word files
by Guest Trace- 1 reply
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For some reason, PAINT is the program that is trying to open all my WORD programs in my documents. Dont know how this has happened but message comes up that I can't open these files with Bitmap. Paint has obviously become my default file opener in my documents. Any idea how I can reverse this? I can press OPEN WITH word every time I click on a folder - but its a bit monotonous! Hope someone can help. Many thanks -- T
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Only 12 Days to Go!
by Guest Alias ;-)- 8 replies
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and you can download the new Ubuntu, Intrepid Ibex, from http://www.ubuntu.com/ What you can do with Ubuntu: Email Surf the web Burn CDs. Rip CDs. Listen to music. Watch vidoes/DVDs. Scan and print. Spreadsheets. Presentations Newsgroups. HTML editing. Games like Chess, Tetris, all kinds of solitaire, etc. Make videos. Download photos from a camera and organize them. Translations. Use a dictionary Learn how to touch type. Edit images. Send and receive a fax. Take screenshots. Create .PDF files. Create and use a data base. Instant messaging with over 10 different programs in one including Windows Live Messenger. IRC. Bluetooth. and much…
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What is Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post a question, which requires the full designation. Can you give an example? We are accessing these forums from the Foxfire browser. Thanks.
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CAVU software
by Guest AIANDAS- 2 replies
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I am trying to get rid of this context software, like file grabber et al and there's no uninstaller available anywhere in site to be seen. Their website is poor at best for such information and I really want to get rid of this crap. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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My ie always popup error message
by Guest vivi- 1 reply
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I don't know why when I brower the web, my ie always popup an error message. If I rely the message, my ie will be closed. ps.The information of ie is 6.0 sp2 Thanks!
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Silverlight error message
by Guest Yvonne York- 5 replies
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Please advise if this issue should be addressed in another newsgroup. My OS: WinXP Pro SP3 (fully patched and updated to current status). My Browser: IE7 (fully updated and patched). <http://*.microsoft.com/> is added to the 'Trusted Sites' zone. Some time ago (I forget when but it was after installing SP3) I downloaded/Installed: Microsoft Silverlight 1.0.21115.0 and a few weeks ago accessed: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=359 and I was able to see the video presentation without any problems. Today I wanted to see this video presentation again but wasn't able to because of this: Silverlight error message ErrorCo…
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how to get all avalavle koplete windows ?
by Guest knutsunkcost- 1 reply
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Hello there, i would like to download and install all avalabile originally desined microsoft windows xp software, which is available for my system with a download manager or something like that. Do someone understand what i am wanting to do and could give me an adress of this kind of tool. I only want all the betas, and the convience software from there site with a free to test and can be run on an windows media cent3er 2005 editon. Any help is very appriciated.
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Clipboard not copying
by Guest computerchallengedcc- 2 replies
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Pc: XP/SP3 4 G. RAM Office 2007- Internet Explorer 7.0 Something is going on with the clipboard on this pc, & I don't have a clue where to look for the problem with it. I use Photobucket to store pictures & images all the time, suddenly the Ctrl/paste will not work. Instead of pasting the url for my image, it is showing text from an old Ctrl/C text sentence, not the url. I CAN use Ctrl/c and Ctrl/V in Word, Wordpad, etc. successfully, but cannot use these fuctions to copy and then paste an image into a Forum I am a member of. I have always been able to do this easily in the recent past. This particular forum, along with Photobucket, uses Dir…
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DDE Server Window Error
by Guest styxblue- 4 replies
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I am getting a DDE Server Window:iexplore.exe - Application Error when I close out Internet Explorer. It reads The instruction at "0x77555d00" referenced memory at "0x0e2646a0". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program. I click on OK and it just goes away. It doesn't seem to be all the time, but often enough that it is annoying. Does anyone have an idea what the problem is?