Microsoft have release their upgrade path for purchasers of Office 2007 products – purchase qualifying Office 2007 product between 5 March 2010 and 30 September 2010 and you can download the upgrade for FREE once it is released on the Microsoft site – register below for the upgrade :
One of our staff (David) found this good document on Toms Hardware on the built in tools in Windows 7 for checking on software and hardware faults – have a read here – http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windows-7-troubleshooting,2504.html
Good way to give your system a check over when things are not working right.
James
The next major upgrade to Windows is nearly here – Windows 7. It will come in 3 flavours (Premium, Pro and Ultimate) and improves on many of Vistas issues as well as adding new enhancements in. The final release version is now out and we have installed it into our production machines – read the full review of it HERE.
Suffice to say – its time for XP to be upgraded everywhere – the Windows users have been waiting for is finally here ! We will be moving to Windows 7 as our standard system OS shortly for our Hand Crafted PCs and notebooks.
The current wireless standards of 11Mb (B), 54Mb (G) and 108Mb (SuperG/TurboG) now have a new IEEE ratified standard of 270Mb (N). Draft and Pre N have been around for years now but the IEEE have finally stamped the full WiFI N. Expect 802.11n deviced to become the standard now, and upgrades to be available to all Wifi Pre/Draft N devices via firmware or software/drivers updates within the next few months.
As is normally the case most routers will handle the new standard as well as the pre and draft versions – so you wont be loosing out if you dont update straight away.
Microsoft have just release the new service pack for Vista – SP2. Download today from:
Microsoft SP2 Site – note you will need Service Pack 1 installed on the PC PRIOR to installing SP. It includes all the updates since SP1, and enhances Wifi, Bluetooth and Blu Ray support.
Heres a link you may find useful – a good set of training and quick start manuals for all recent versions of Office (including Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook).
Here are some shortcuts that will make your Windows life a lot easier-
We recently had a request to be able to export all emails (eg all your emails in the inbox) into an excel format that could then be used later. Outlook will allow you to export some of the fields – but NOT the date related ones. Here’s a free ad in that does – allows you to export any of the fields from the email list you like – CodeTwo Outlook Export.
Due to the power that plasma screens put out (and the frequency) – they interfere with Infra Red headphones and make them unusable. How to overcome this? Well if you use a PC for playing your movies and TV (eg a media centre)- you can get a bluetooth headset that supports audio play, and then the interference is history! Check out our catalog for the Plantronics 590 model with up to 10m range and lightweight (and if you need a bluetooth adaptor that support audio streaming get it here)
Recently I was moving my photos off my hard drive and onto a network drive for storage – but then I discovered when I looked at the folder in thumbnail view (View->Thumbnails from the menu) the picture would flash on then go to a standard icon for all the images. After hunting around it seems this is BY DESIGN for Vista – so heres how to turn thumbnails on – Click Start, type gpedit.msc and press ENTER. Go to the following branch - User Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | Windows Explorer. And then set the following to ENABLED - Turn off the display of thumbnails and only display icons on network folders. Log Off (or Restart) – and you are done.
