One of our attorneys asked me an interesting question the other day. Actually, the question was as interesting as the tone of her voice. It seems that she has recently purchased a brand new laptop with Vista/Office 2007 on it. She was sharing this information with me when she suddenly got this very frightened look…
You know what I really love about Office 2007? Microsoft finally got wise to the number of people who make changes to email attachments and lose them. We don’t use Office 2007 at work, and I can’t tell you how many times we get phone calls at the helpdesk because someone opened a Word document…
Something that I thought about today when I was talking to someone on the Friends in Tech forums. Their question was about being unable to see the Temporary Internet Files folder even after showing hidden folders. I’ve found that when I installed IE7, that, and the history folder are “protected operating system file and folders”,…
Someone sent me an email this afternoon to let me know that the link I had previous posted to this page, the OneNote Image Writer virtual print driver, was dead and to ask if I had a copy of the file. I did, on my desktop at my old job, I think, but I didn’t…
Windows XP patch This is looking like a pretty serious security issue, and everyone is recommending to get it patched immediately. According to the bulletin, you are vulnerable if you are: Customers using Microsoft® Windows® ME or XP, or who have installed the Windows XP Internet Connection Sharing client on Windows 98 or 98SE. Grab…
Microsoft rushes to close IE security hole – Tech News – CNET.com Another critical patch for us IE 6 users. I downloaded it and installed it, no problemo!