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Opening Files In Office 2007 Very Slow

I recently upgraded my MS Office from 2003 to 2007. I then started to experience that when I started to open files from Word or Excel that it was very slow in response. I would first get a box saying “Initializing the root folders to display” and then when I clicked onto folders […]

Virtualbox 3 3D problems for XP Guest

I have started to move to Virtualbox as my preference VM software. I like VMware but lately under my Vista 64-bit host I have had problems with the network driver. Mostly it won’t see the network properly in any guest (Mainly Ubuntu and XP). I decided to try Virtualbox. I use to use […]

Firefox 3.5 Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!

With the announcement that Firefox 3.5 is released today I had to post this very funny small video I saw years ago when Firefox was starting to take shape.

[flashvideo filename=jokes/wheee.flv /]

Use Sysprep To Replace Newsid For Vista

I have used ghost and newsid many times at the College I maintain for years with Windows 2000 and XP but when they switched to Vista I had a problem. The newsid did not work. Microsoft solution is sysprep. It takes longer for the cloned PC to boot but the alternative would be […]

Copy Auto-Complete Address Cache In Outlook

The names in the Auto-Complete list are saved in the nickname cache. The nickname cache is a new feature of Outlook 2003, and the file name extension is .NK2. Normally, each Outlook profile has a *.nk2 file. The name of the *.nk2 file is the Outlook profile name.

Follow the steps below to replace the […]

Installing Office 2003 and Office 2007 on same PC

You can install Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 on the same PC. Just a few things that need to know. Outlook will not work on both so either use Outlook 2003 or 2007. You should install Office 2003 first and then 2007. Make sure you run a custom install for 2007 and specify […]

Google Wave

This looks really cool.

Mac Vs PC

Mapped Drive Opens Notepad

Had a client that when they opened a mapped drive on a network on a pc that it would start a notepad. I found this on the Internet to solve this problem.

Search the registry for a key called MountPoints2. When you find the key for the drive that has been mapped expand […]

Conficker Removal

If you have been living under a rock for the last month then you don’t know what Conficker is. Its a virus that will activate April 1 (No its not an April Fools Joke). There are at least 3 forms of it and there could be more undetectable ones. You might want to […]