Windows Update was failing to install several updates Office 2003( KB2502786, KB2509503, KB2522981, and KB2464588). I eventually found the answer. I opted to manually update the registry. I only had to apply the first registry change described in KB2258121 for the updates to work. This article (KB2258121) provides a fix for a problem in which [...]
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From the downloaded ISO it took me 1 hour and 37 minutes to install SP1 and reboot. In fact it took me 21 minutes to shutdown and reboot since it had a lot of updating it was doing during the shutdown and startup.
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I am not sure how I got this 2.2 GB folder on my “C” partition but it was not necessary. With free space on my “C” partition down to 5% it was time to clean house. The Vista instructions will work as written if you run the Disk Cleanup utility as the Administrator. If you [...]
I found when I was updating our web site I would run a VB script to open three Explorer windows. I have chosen to use Q-Dir to replace the script since it actually does a better job with screen real estate and allows me to open four windows. I use the the portable version to [...]
Last weekend I took the plunge and installed Windows 7 RC. The hardest part was freeing up some disk space and partitioning the hard drive. After a few defrag runs I was ready to partition. Dual booting is the way to go. There are no special tricks. Just let Windows 7 install in the unpartitioned [...]
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Here are two favorites from this post I found via Del.icio.us. The first tip I knew about one of these but forgot how to do it. The second tip I never knew about it. Make your Outlook Contacts take precendence over the global address list Make the cmd shell have decent copy/paste Win32 cheat sheetfozbaca [...]
