Windows
Change The Location Where Word Defaults To Save Files (Word 2002)
The default storage location and search path for documents, templates, and so on is the My Documents folder. If you use this folder for storing most of your work, the default location is likely fine for you. Conversely, if you generally store documents in another location, you may want to configure Word to default to [...]
Coping With Microsoft's April 2006 Windows Update Headaches (MS06-015)
Infopackets Contributor Bill Lindner writes: Earlier this month, Microsoft released a series of critical patches that affect the way that Internet Explorer handles Web pages that use ActiveX controls. Microsoft’s $521 Million Dollar Patch To recap: In 2004 Microsoft lost a patent lawsuit on a method for embedding and invoking interactive applications in Web browsers [...]
Music, Sweet Music
Lockergnomie Steve Senes is a musician… and he’s recently co-crafted a few tunes that might help you get through the weekend. Moreover, he created his new masterpieces on a Windows machine! Hi Chris, I’ve deduced, from some of your postings over the past 5 or so years, that you are quite a fan of music, [...]
Restoration v2.5.14
Restoration is an easy to use and straight forward tool to undelete files that were removed from the recycle bin or directly deleted from within Windows, and we were also able to recover photos from a Flash card that had been formatted. Upon start, you can scan for all files that may be recovered and [...]
Look@LAN Network Monitor v2.50 Build 35
Look@LAN Network Monitor is an advanced network monitor that is easy to use and automatically detects and analyzes your network nodes, including operating system. The program can monitor the nodes and alert you of any changes (new nodes, offline nodes etc.). The main window lists all available nodes and detailed statistics and scan results are [...]
GiveMeaning
There’s definitely not a shortage of causes/charities to donate money to these days. In this world that we live in, so many people are suffering for various reasons, and natural disasters especially have taken their toll on the residents of a large number of communities. People need help, and even a small donation can do [...]
Playing DVDs In Media Player
I’m having a problem with my Windows Media Player playing DVDs. I am able to play other video clips perfectly in the program but whenever I try to run a DVD it comes up with either an error message or the DVD will play without any video. With a name like “Media Player” one would [...]
Convert Your Document To A PowerPoint File (Word 2002)
If you want to turn a Word document into a PowerPoint presentation, one method you can use is to manually copy the text from one document to the other. This is fine for a small document but can be time consuming for larger ones. There are a couple of alternative methods for moving your text [...]
Prompt For Document Properties When Saving (Word 2002)
Each document you create has a set of properties. Filling in the properties when you save a document is useful when it comes time to performing searches. You can later search based on these document properties. One of the ways that you can remind yourself to fill in the document properties is to have Microsoft [...]
Operation Holy Tuesday
In the light of more and more conspiracy theories popping up over the net, it might be worth revisiting Der Spiegel’s front-page story on Operation Holy Tuesday, which most of the world knows as 9/11. It’s possible to precisely map the events that led to the attack. Osama bin Laden personally selected the suicide pilots [...]
