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I have microsoft office 2000 standard. When using outlook, some incoming mail contains gibberish in the headings. When I go into microsoft office tools language settings I get only question marks. Help?!
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XP Issues - system doesn't see keyboard
by Guest Paul- 0 replies
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jcage@lycos.com wrote: > Something in my registry is keeping my system from seeing my keyboard > upon bootup of my XPproSP2 machine. Might be a virus or spyware but > at any rate, it boots fine and allows the mouse to work okay but the > keyboard isn't acknowledged. When I booted into safemode, the > keyboard appeared to be working all the way until it was time to enter > a password to get into Admin (when I started to type the admin > password, the num lock LED went out and for all intents and purposes, > the keyboard was dead). Aside from the keyboard not working, the > system seems to be okay. Also, I have a coup…
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Unwanted folders with graphics
by Guest JLW- 0 replies
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Why does Vista Home Premium (with SP2) on a SONY VAIO laptop automatically installs a folder with a "files" extension with two thumbnails for every graphic data file saved anywhere? For example when I save a photo abc.jpg, a new folder abc.jpg.files is automatically added. This folder contains two 4 kb thumbnails called vcm_s_kf_m160_150x150.jpg and vcm_s_kf_repr_150x150.jpg. Is this perhaps required by some graphics viewing Windows or Sony software - which I never use. John
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Crawling computer
by Guest Terry R.- 0 replies
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On 3/2/2010 6:44 AM On a whim, Ben Stevenson pounded out on the keyboard > Computer works fine on everything else, but when on internet especially > video streaming for awhile, the computer slows down to a crawl. Often the > videos hang after awhile. Have to shutdown, restart and carry on, and it'll > come back to a crawl after awhile. What could be wrong? > TIA > Hi Ben, What browser? Check to see (via browser newsgroups) if there are any issues with the browser version you're using. Also disable any add-in's to see if they might be contributing to it. Terry R. -- Anti-spam measures are includ…
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COMMON LANGUAGE RUNTIME DEBUGGER ERROR
by Guest creative- 0 replies
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"Sajana" wrote: > COMMON LANGUAGE RUNTIME DEBUGGER ERROR > > application has generated an exception that could not be handled > > Process id=0xde8 (3560), Thread id=0xc94 (3220) > > No debugger found. : Registered JIT debugger is not available. > An attempt to launch a JIT debugger with the following command resulted in > an error code of 0x2 (2). Please check computer settings. cordbg.exe !a > 0x1148 > > Click on Retry to have the process wait while attaching a debugger > manually. Click on Cancel to abort the JIT debug request. > > I am unable to open and use Media Center since…
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Install ActiveX Control
by Guest Buggsy- 0 replies
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"Brunny" wrote: > I've had the problem with my daughter's PC and have spent several days > scouring various forums for a cure. > > Followed your advise and everything works now. > > Thankyou...
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Office 2003> How do I make the Adobe toolbar stay unchecked?
by Guest J.Far- 0 replies
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Using Office 2003 (outlook, word excel): I've repeatedly unchecked the adobe toolbar in view>toolbars. Every time I open a new doc or email, the toolbar is turned back on. How do i make it stay unchecked? I tried doing what was suggested in the similar question regarding Outlook 2002 but can't find the files on my machine to make the change.
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How can I get the trial balloon to work?
by Guest Christy- 0 replies
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I've downloaded the Works program trial balloon over and over, but when I try to use the program it tells me to use a product key and the key I was given (every time) doesn't work.
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Unlocking recovery partition on HP
by Guest undisclosed- 0 replies
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Use a compression utility to view the files. Use something like jZip, 7 zip, winzip, winrar, bitzipper. -- imerio
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Edit multiple links in ppt
by Guest zanetti86- 0 replies
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Hi Echo S, thank you so much for your answer, you solved my big problem. Now I have another problem with the link between pptx and xlsx. I want to link about 80 charts from excel to ppt. But when I read the paths there isn't the difference between ones and the other, in fact when I open the pptx and push on upload now, the charts became all egual. The only way that I found is to creat 80 different sheets on excel, so the paths will be all different. You can understand that this is impossible because the charts will increase. Could you help me to solve this big problem? Thank you in advance
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MS10-015 (KB977165) security update re-released with new detection logic [FYI]
by Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]- 0 replies
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Update: MS10-015 security update re-released with new detection logic ....we have revised the installation packages for MS10-015 with new logic that prevents the security update from being installed on systems if certain abnormal conditions exist. Such conditions could be the result of an infection with a computer virus such as the Alureon rootkit. If these conditions are detected, the update will not be installed and the result will be a standard Windows Update error. If a user receives this error, they should go to the following landing page for additional help: http://www.microsoft.com/security/updates/015 At this time, we have re…
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Sharing a printer with Vista (client) and XP (host)
by Guest undisclosed- 0 replies
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I got my HP4200 Series to work FINALLY. The stupid thing is that in the end, the process that worked for me was extremely easy: My HP printer is connected to my Desktop running XP. My new notebook is running Vista wireless on my home network. The printer is shared and XP is set up properly, but Vista could not connect. So... I uninstalled the printer from the Vista machine (actually did a system refresh to the point BEFORE I installed the printer to wipe out any evidence of it). Then... I went to the Add Printer function in Vista. Under add printer, instead of choosing NETWORK printer, I chose LOCAL printer. On the next window…
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Hi, I am a little new to the Windows environment and have been researching around this topic but I did not find any useful docs that would describe if I can replicate schema from an Active Directory into an AD LDS (formerly known ADAM) instance ? I would need only some attribute to replicate ie. username, password, phone, email address etc. Is it possible to replicate these informations from AD into a LDS ? I have found informations that describe I can replicate schema and configuration from another LDs instance but not from an Active Directory structure. Please help me if you have any links docs about this topic. THanks !
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Quickbooks 2002
by Guest asieders- 0 replies
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Geeboh1592872 Wrote: > I have copied everything bar the system32 files, and that is where i am > stuck. > some of them already exist in the windows\system32 folder and will not > let me replace them. > > so very close. > any ideas? Dear All, I got Quickbooks 2002 running ok under Windows 7 (Seven) thanks to the tips in the posts above. I'm pretty sure the same tricks work also under Vista. If I may summarize 1) Before running the installer (maybe \qbooks\setup.exe, as on my CD) make sure you click Properties and under the Compatibility tab activate Run in XP SP2 Compatibility Mode, and Run as Ad…
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Link-Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Responder problem with SP
by Guest kmt5150- 0 replies
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Go to the link for the V6 Hotfix, and request it. It works, and takes less than 2 mins "X3" wrote: > > > "robciu" wrote: > > > perfect U all can trust X3 - it works for me to > > > > "X3" wrote: > > > > > OFFICIAL FIX and GENERIC FIX for LLTD available on my blog direct to you > > > > > > OFFICIAL > > > http://x3webworx3.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E40FC8E37C2475AE!260.entry > > > > > > GENERIC > > > http://x3webworx3.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E40FC8E37C2475AE!234.entry > > > > > > Obviously the O…
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Frustrated with permissions in Win 7
by Guest Terry Heinz- 0 replies
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On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:28:50 -0600, Jim Ludwig wrote: >Hi all, >I just newly upgraded to win7 and I am having a lot of frustration with my >permissions. I am the only user of my laptop. I have only my own account >with administrator privileges. Why can't I drag and drop items within the >start menu? As I drag, a red circle with the line through it follows my >drag and doesn't allow it to happen even though I have drag and drop enabled >in the start menu properties. Why can't I access the start menu folder >within windows explorer? There is a padlock on the folder (as well as on >many, many others) and access …
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Impossible Folder!
by Guest Jim Wood- 0 replies
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Okay, I kinda messed up. I was 'experimenting' with the URL cache in Vista 64-bit, and created a "temportary" folder under user(me)\appdata\locallow\microsoft\cryptneturlcache, naming it Old Metadata. I moved the contents of the metadata folder into it to see if, for sure, Vista would make new metadata files (it did, just fine), but now I cannot remove my folder named Old Metadata. Vista tells me that I don't have permission, and unlocker programs can't even find that file. All I want to do is get if off the list I have no idea if there's even anything in there anymore. Help! (Not that it matters that much, I guess.)
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Black screen again
by Guest Med- 0 replies
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Hi, I have a dual display running 1920x1200 with nvidia 9800GT. Vista Business sp2 with latest update previously running AVG free & Adaware, now both removed running MSE. IF I reboot my PC I can login, put it to standby and wakeup and login again no problem. But when it ges to sleep overnight for along time, say 8-10hrs+ when it wakes up I only get mouse pointer and ctrl+Alt+Del or any key does not make any window visible. But strangely when I guess the location of Password box by moving the mouse to the middle of my main monitor, the pointer changes, even though screen still black, I can type my password and login and get the screens…
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IE 8 Menu Bar & Favorites Bar Black
by Guest Vee- 0 replies
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This is nearly a year after these posts (March 1, 2010). I just brought an older Pentium 4 computer pack on line. It has been sitting for over a year. I upgraded the Windows XP to SP3 and downloaded about 50 updates. All of the hardware updates and most of the software updates are installed. I noticed today that my Explorer 8 menu tool bars are blacked out, just as described above. I tried everything I could think of, and then tried changing the themes (I never use anything but the Classic Windows theme. I changed it ti Windows XP theme, it changed and fixed the problem. I changed it back to Classic and it is now back to normal. Y…
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Notified Office is Not Activated, but it is Activated
by Guest Robert Connor- 0 replies
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When my boss opens any of his Office 2007 products it notifies him that his copy of office is not activated. It has been activated and when I check it through Options it shows that it is activated, but the dialogue pops up each time the programs are opened. I have used the FixIt from KB 919895 to delete the Opa12.dat file which fixed a communications error in activatation, but the product still doesn't think it is properly activated when it is.
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Excel filesize 0k
by Guest ken- 0 replies
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thanks in advance, but i have a handful of excel 2007 users who will save a file to the server that they've made many modifications to, or just created, but the filesize reflects 0k. No pattern other than the same version of Excel. it's happened on a win2k server (i know), a Sharepoint site, and a win8k server. we've installed wireshark to analyze traffic, but that hasn't provided us any results yet. We also brought in Premier Support, but it's such a random issue that we haven't made any traction yet. thanks much for any replies. -- ken
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Cannot Access Add/Remove Programs
by Guest soxpatfan- 0 replies
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"Thomas" wrote: > If you can't locate it C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386\ > and copy it into C:\WINDOWS\system32\ > Then best advice would be to copy it of another computer (my > rundll32.exe dated back to aug.2004, - my system is danish WinXP Pro > SP2 with all the latest MS patches) > > But... what else did you delete ... (if the answer is : "a lot of > system files", - then how about a reinstalling windows ...) > >
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Mail Merge with Shared Excel File
by Guest Natalie Stewart- 0 replies
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I have some individuals within my office that use a shared excel file to conduct mail merges on a daily basis. This a 2003 excel file, and both individuals use MS Office 2003. They open the MS Word 2003 doc that they are using for the merge and begin with normal mail merge procedure. They choose to work on "email messages" and use the current doc that's open. Once they get to step 3 they browse to use an existing list , find the file in the shared folder and select to use that one. Once that is open they are asked to select which table they want to use. For some reason there are 2 options for every worksheet in the file. When selecting eithe…
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USB Pendrive problems
by Guest ma_la883- 0 replies
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Check out this article.. 'Tutkiun!: Solutions to USB pen drive problems' (http://tinyurl.com/yd3ryfh) :) Berto420305 Wrote: > Hi everyone, > when I try to connect my usb pendrive (or any usb pendrive) windows > vista, > after a form, tries to download driver from internet. Windows update > doesn't > find a correct driver and the "problems solutions" tells that usb mass > storage device of Phison Electronics is not compatible with windows > vista. I > don't install this driver, and I try do uninstall this one with > "Driver > Manager" but nothing :( > Ideas?? > I've installed…
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Hello Team Can you please describe to me step by step how to create GPO in server 2008 to synchronize automatically date and time in clients with GPO I read many topics and tutorials but i don't find the exact answer with details Thank You
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