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[Chxta]

How many times have you had a Microsoft Office application crash or lock up your system? The worst culprits seem to be Outlook and Access for most people.

In Office 2003 when a crash or problem occurs it means wasting time hunting down the problem, doing a repair installation, or doing a complete uninstall/reinstall of the office suite.

Windows Office 2007 has a new feature (which replaces detect and repair) which allows you to diagnose and repair problems when they occur in your daily tasks. The diagnostic utility will check the Windows system event log, hard drive, memory, application compatibility, updated service packs, and Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) if your hard drive supports it. I know it sounds like a lot, but let me show you how easy this is to run.

Start \ Programs \ Microsoft Office \ Microsoft Office Tools \ Microsoft Office Diagnostics



The Microsoft Office Diagnostics splash screen will open. Click Continue.



Next you are presented with the Start Diagnostics Screen showing you what is going to be checked and the status of each diagnostic. When your ready click Run Diagnostics.



While the Diagnostics run you will see the status bars as each tests completes. When it’s complete hit Continue.



You will get a limited detail of what was fixed. In this example all 5 diagnostic tests ran and one problem was identified and fixed. If you ok with that just close out and your done. If you want to get additional information click on "Detailed results".



When you look close at the detailed information in this example you can see there was a problem with the installation and this tool automatically fixed it.

Unfortunately for an administrator or power user this utility "as is" does not display specific results (you need to do more digging ). However when your in a hurry and need your applications up and running to finish your work Microsoft Office Diagnostics works great!

[Queen Dx]

U're the best

[Chxta]

Nothing equals Excel for crunching of numbers (even the most rabid Linux proponents accept that Excel is way ahead of Open Office Spreadsheet...), but what if your data isn't already in an Excel spreadsheet? It's as simple as using the Text Import Wizard.

Open a blank or existing Excel 2007 spreadsheet. Click the Data tab on the Ribbon and choose "From Text".



Choose the text file you want to import and double click. This will open the Text Import Wizard. Choose your data type and which row you want to start the data at and click next.



Step 2 of the Wizard allows you to manage the break lines between your data.



Step 3 of the Wizard allows you to choose column formats, provides data preview, and other advanced settings. When everything is organized click on Finish.



A final window will be displayed asking where you wish to put the data into the sheet. Here you can see I chose A6. Click OK…



Your Text Data will now be input into the Excel sheet!

[Chxta]

If you've got a directory with dozens of zipped or rar'd files, you can run a single command to unzip them all in one step, thanks to the power of the bash shell.

For this task, we'll use bash's for loop command structure. Replace with a variable name, and with either a command that outputs a list or an explicit list.

for in
do
command $;
done

You can run it on a single line with this syntax instead:

for in ;do command $;done

So if you want to unrar a list of files, you could use this command. You don't necessarily need the quotes, but it helps when the filenames have spaces or something like that in them.

for f in *.rar;do unrar e "$f";done

If you wanted to use 7zip to extract a list of files:

for f in *.001;do 7z e "$f";done

Or if you wanted to unzip a list of files:

for f in *.zip;do unzip "$f";done

You could even chain commands together if you wanted to. For instance, if all your zip files contained .txt files and you wanted to unzip them and then move the unzipped files to another directory:

for f in *.zip;do unzip "$f";done; for f in *.txt;do mv "$f" /myfolder/;done

The bash shell is just so incredibly powerful… this doesn't even tap the power, but it should give you a good idea of what is possible.

[bree]

This is good stuff

[Chxta]

In this tutorial we'll see how to use Windows Movie Maker to edit and create movies.

In order to create or edit a movie, you must have a video file to work with. Let’s assume you imported 2 clips from your video camera and you’d like to join them together and add background music and transitions (if you don’t know to import clips from your camera to your pc read Transferring data from a digital camera).

Open Windows Movie Maker by clicking on Start>>All Programs.

Click on the Import media button and select the two movie clips you want to work with.


Right click on the clip and select Add to timeline – do this for both clips.


Now that your clips are added to the timeline we can start modifying them. Note: to change the order of the clips on the timeline, left click on the clip and drag it whenever you wish.

Let’s add some background music. Click on Audio or Music in the Import Section and select an audio file.


Right click on the audio file and select "Add to timeline".


Not what the audio file is added to the timeline, we can synchronize it with the two clips. To accomplish this, position your mouse at the beginning/ending of the audio file (2 red arrows should appear) and drag it to the desired position.


Next, let’s add a transition. Transitions make the passing from one clip to another look more aesthetic and professional. Click on the Transitions button, select a transition and preview it.


Once you find a transition that you like, left-click on it and drag it on the last clip in the timeline. You should end up with something similar in the picture bellow.


Besides adding a background sound and a transition, you can take this further and add Narrations, Credits and titles and other cool effects to your movie.

The last step in creating the movie is actually publishing the movie. Click on the Publish Movie button, select where you want to publish it and…you’re done!

For similar articles visit Windows Vista help, tutorial and tricks

[Chxta]

Windows Vista includes an extremely useful utility called Mobility Center, designed for laptop users to give you lightning quick access to all functions that a mobile user would need.



Open Mobility Center

Use the hotkey Win+X to quickly launch mobility center. You could also find it in the Start menu.



Windows Mobility Center Features

Mobility Center gives you access to features relevant to laptop users. This is a quick overview.
Display Brightness By default Windows Vista dims the screen when on battery mode. You can easily adjust the brightness here.
Volume You can easily change the volume or mute it entirely.
Battery Change the current power management scheme.
Network Center Quickly turn wireless networks on/off.
External Display Change your external display settings. Just click the Connect display button to choose how you want the display.
Screen Rotation If you have a Tablet PC, you can change the rotation of the screen quickly.
Sync settings Sync offline folders or devices quickly.
Presentation Settings Connect to a projector easily.



Tips

You can use the tab key to navigate through the items, or use the quick access hotkeys. For instance:
Mute Volume Win+X then Alt+M
Change Volume Win+X then 4 Tabs then right/left arrow keys
Change Brightness Win+X then Tab then right/left arrow keys

Enjoy your mobile computing experience!

[Chxta]

This isn't for everyone, but you can enable a mouse mode in Windows Vista where just hovering over a window with the mouse will switch to that window. In the old days, this used to be called the XWindows mode, and was enabled through TweakUI, but now it's built right into Control Panel for everybody to use.

To turn this setting on, just type "mouse works" into the search box in the Control Panel, and you should see an item called "Change how your mouse works".



In this screen, scroll down and find the checkbox for "Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse".



That's pretty much it. It'll take a while to get used to the new mode… just remember, the mouse has to be hovered over top of any window to switch focus to it.

[Chxta]

The new Safari for Windows is a very slick browser that it crashes so much on Windows Vista that it's virtually unusable.

This is a good example of where Vista's Compatibility Mode comes to the rescue… we can set Safari to run in compatibility mode for XP and eliminate the majority of the crashing problems.

To set the compatibility mode, just right-click on the Safari icon, choose Properties and then the Compatibility tab.



Check the box for "run this program in compatibility mode for:", and set the option to "Windows XP (Service Pack 2)". Just remember to do this for any shortcut icon that you usually use to launch Safari.

[Chxta]

Flip3D is pretty much the most useless feature in Windows Vista. It's slower than Alt+Tab and pretty much completely worthless in every way. You'd be much better off using one of the Expose clones out there (Switcher, MyExpose, SmartFlip, etc) or you can completely disable this feature with a simple registry patch.

Note: For those of you unaware of what it is, you can use Win+Tab to bring up Flip3D to see what the fuss is about. It looks like this:



Disable Flip 3D

Extract this zip file to your hard drive and then double-click on DisableFlip3D.reg to enter the information into the registry.

Next, you will have to open an Administrator mode command prompt by right-clicking on the command prompt and selecting Run as Administrator. Run these commands, which will restart the desktop window manager service.

net stop uxsms

    net start uxsms

Re-Enable Flip 3D

Extract this zip file to your hard drive and then double-click on EnableFlip3D.reg to enter the information into the registry.

Follow the steps above to restart the desktop window manager service.

[Boss]

Brilliant Job on this thread!!!

[XQuze]

good

[Chxta]

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequest* s

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxreques* ts" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

[shayo4real]

okay chaxta dont yab me again o.


i need to open rar files,what program am i supposed to use and download...
okay so i know someone as told me how to do this but that was on my old laptop but now i have reinstall it on my new laptop. thank you
oya see i used this thread o so nau u gotta answer me in a timely fashion o...

[Chxta]

Winrar