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April 7th, 2008

Microsoft Heard My Computer Crying Out for SP3

Weird! Was just messing around the Microsoft Downloads website and clicked on the Windows Update website.
Let it do a custom search and guess what it suggested?

That seems weird that I just got prompted with this after blogging about wondering where it went in my previous post. Is My Computer reading my posts via Windows […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

March 28th, 2008

Office 2007 Service Pack 1 Update Failures Continue

Okay, I’m really getting more and more irritated that this update is not working. I’ve tried everything that’s been mentioned by people in comments. I’ve also researched Microsoft’s Knowledge Base articles to look for solutions as well.
Today, again… I tried to download and install the update manually. First I downloaded the 218MB Office 2007 SP1 […]

By Jason Bean -- 5 comments

March 28th, 2008

Use Systeminfo to Learn More

I just read a little tip from the WXPNews e-mail newsletter about how to use systeminfo to get details about your system all in one place quickly.
Want to know how long your XP computer has been running without a reboot? It’s easy enough. Just follow these instructions:

Click Start | Run and type cmd to […]

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March 26th, 2008

Open Tasks in Thumbnail Overview Mode

I always forget this feature is available to me. Perhaps even more than that, I’m still somewhat startled every time I accidentally click my scroll-wheel to make the view appear.
Anyone out there actively use this view? What do you think? Isn’t it a lot like the big rage that Apple users are excited about […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

March 21st, 2008

Office 2007 SP1 - Error 0×80070643

I keep trying to install this recommended update from Microsoft and continue to get an error. A bit more searching today produced this:
Resolutions
1. Start the ose service
Windows 2003/XP
Run the following command from command prompt to check the state of ose servicesc qc ose
If the service is disabled, then run the commandsc […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

February 20th, 2008

XP SP2 vs. Vista SP1 in Head-to-Head Battle

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDNet  has delivered on what lots of people have probably been wanting to hear and see in plain black-and-white hard data.
In a head-to-head battle between Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista SP1, what would the results show between the two combatants.
Over the past few days I posted two sets of benchmarks […]

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February 20th, 2008

What Is A Computer’s RAM Limit

Okay, here’s a quick question for the masses. Is the limit of available RAM on a machine really what the manufacturer says? For example, every machine I own has two RAM slots and each of them can hold 1GB chip for a max of 2GB total on the machine.
Is that really the limit? If I […]

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February 16th, 2008

Where’s the Love? It’s Just an OS

Deb Shinder shared a feeling about the much advertised and promoted OS dysfunction in a recent issue of VistaNews. She shared her feelings around the Valentine’s Day holiday last week.
But why does Vista inspire such animosity among so much of the neutral or Windows-centric press? Again, people had the same complaints about XP (I know, […]

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January 24th, 2008

Keyboard shortcuts for Windows

I was just searching for a site to help me remember some of the quick and powerful Windows Key keyboard shortcuts that were available and found this Knowledge Base Article and thought I’d share with everyone.
Some of my favorites are:

SHIFT + DELETE: deletes permanently without going to Recycle Bin
ALT + TAB: quickly switch through […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

January 19th, 2008

Folder Size for Windows Delivers

Thanks to deezil for alerting me to this little download that does exactly what I was looking for that I mentioned in my last post.

It doesn’t work in Windows Vista, but works great in XP! Go grab Folder Size for Windows for yourself from Sourceforge.
Thanks deezil!
IceRocket Tags: Folder Size for Windows, folder size, details […]

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