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I recently worked on a computer that the user had lost the Show Desktop icon from the quick launch menu in Windows Vista. After trying to fix it in the OS I turned to Google and found a great article about how to fix the problem from Microsoft. It involves opening notepad and pasting some code and saving the file as desktop.scf

The code to be pasted:
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

You can find the article at: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=190355

General, Problems, Technology Desktop Icon, Issues, QuickLaunch, Vista, Windows, XP

Recently my family purchased a MacBook Pro for my brother to use at college.  The original intent was that he was only going to use Windows but after he came back from orientation, we found that he would need Windows.

Windows XP SP2 installed without a hitch up until I went to update to Service Pack 3.  Even though I had plenty of space left on the bootcamp partition, an error message came up every time I tried to install SP3 saying that there wasn’t enough space in the install location.  After searching the web, I found this fix and it worked perfectly!

http://www.windowsreference.com/general/error-there-is-not-enough-disk-space-when-installing-sp3/

Problems, Technology

I have had this issue numerous times before but finally I found where the iWeb files live.  Before re-installing OS X or moving to a different machine, copy the file that is located at /users/CURRENT USER/Library/Application Support/iWeb/

The file will be a .sites2 file and when you copy that over to a new machine or install iWeb will have all the information, files and settings that it needs, including .mac information.

Applications, Problems, Technology

I just wanted to update everyone on my complaint that OWA does not include the month view.  Finally Microsoft has addressed this problem with Exchange 2007 SP1.  I received their Technet email and under the new features notes, they commented that the month view will be available but from the looks of it, it will only be available in the premium version of OWA which currently only runs with Internet Explorer.  So, if you’re looking to use the month view in OWA, you’ll have to fire up IE again….sigh…

The list of other new features in Exchange 2007 SP1 can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb676323.aspx

Problems Exchange 2007, OWA

Another Leopard third party software issue: Word 2004 crashes when a user tries to print a document. It even crashes for the File>Print dialog box. Check your mac Office update because Microsoft released an update for this on November 6th 2007 which solves the issue.

Problems Leopard, Word

Sharing a computer with an XP machine as the host and the Guest being a vista machine does not work regularly! I ran across this problem last week when I had just setup a color laser printer on computer running Windows XP. I thought that this should be a piece of cake because Vista should easily find the computer and printer with its more advanced networking discovery. I was wrong! Vista found the computer that I had shared the printer from no problem but then when I tried to add the printer from the XP machine. After sitting there for a few seconds, vista said “Access Denied” in a popup window. First, I thought that I did something wrong so I checked the firewall settings on both computers and also checked their sharing settings and everything was fine.

So I did what every tech does…hit up Google. Turns out, using a printer from an XP host doesn’t work with the normal network printer discovery wizard. Instead, you have to go about setting up the printer a totally different way and then it finally works. What you have to do instead in Vista is when you add a printer from an XP host is select local port instead of network printer. Then a little dialog box will come up. Type in the name of the \\computername\printersharename and then you should be able to connect to it.

Example: \\MYCOMPUTERNAME\PRINTER1

I have no idea why Microsoft couldn’t make the standard print sharing system work but that’s how it is I guess.

Hopefully they fix this soon!

Problems