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Office 2003 & 2007

If you want to install Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007 on the same Windows 7 computer there are a couple of considerations that should be made. Firstly, each version of Office must be installed into separate directories. In my case I installed Office 2007 first in the standard directory. Then I installed Office [...]

Dealing with failure

I consider myself to be very lucky as I love what I do. Sometimes it gets a little frustrating when everything happens at once and there is just not enough bodies to throw at the problems but on the whole I *really* love what I do and the people that I work with. What I [...]

Since I have had to remove this from 2 computers today, which coincidently were both running AVG, I thought I would post up the way to remove it from an ‘infected’ computer. NOTE: These instructions are intended as a guideline on how to remove this infection. If you are not sure how to do this [...]

Trend Worry-Free Business Security

We have started to roll out as number of Trend Worry-Free Business Security installations in the last week or so and have run in to the same problem each time. Each of the installations have been to Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 servers and what actually happens is that the WFBS management console installs onto [...]

I ran into an issue on a new SBS2008 server at a clients office recently. Whenever I tried to launch Active Directory Users and Computers on the SBS2008 server it would come up with a Visual C++ Runtime error and the message read: “The Application has requested the runtime to terminate it in a unusual [...]

I went out today to visit a client who was having problems with ESET Anti Virus.  It transpired that despite paying for the software from their previous supplier and it being licensed until September 09 it was having a problem with the username & password for downloading updates. They did not have a copy of [...]

Over the years I have seen a great many IT engineers come and go, after all 16 years is a  long time in the trade. During that time I have also taught a number of engineers the best ways to do the job, many of which had no formal qualifications such as MCP, MCSE etc. [...]

One of our clients called a couple of days ago to say there was a problem on on of the workstations.  In summary the workstation kept crashing on the user and was generally unstable.  After looking I found a number of errors on the workstation and the main one which caused me concern was the [...]

I was talking to a friend of mine recently and he was telling me about some problems he was having with a new client that his company was looking after. Now he’s no stranger as he has been working with this ISP for more years than I care to remember and during this time he [...]

As per: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=968413 The February 24, 2009 cumulative update for Outlook 2007 includes changes related to the general reading and writing characteristics of the .pst/.ost file so that less is demanded from your hard drive to perform the same general operations in Outlook. For instance, the file flushing process was optimized so that it interacts [...]

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