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Qamar Sheikh writes...
Thanx to Dennis Roche for his articles on slipstreaming, made me wanna
subscribe, awesome.
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Dian
Chapman, TechTrax Editor, writes...
Thanks for the great comment. I'll pass them to Dennis!
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Cheryl Kates from Boston MA, writes...
Hello I was just on this page, and it was very informative, but I ran into
a problem. When I selected Recovery console, it prompted me for an administrators
password. I followed the instructions, but still did not get the results,
I am using Win XP Pro. Any help would be much appreciated thanks...Cheryl
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Vic
Ferri, author of I
Forgot My Administrator Password!, writes...
Go to the Control Panel. There you will find "User Accounts"
Or simply enter nusrmgr.cpl in your Run box and click OK.
Further reply from Cheryl...
I had already tried that, but it has disappeared, what if I perform a system
restore, will this bring everything back?
I realized what I did, and ran the setup again. IT worked, just
like the article said it would, only now, when I restart the pc,
it says "system
cannot log you on" briefly, for the Admin account, it is though the
entire acct disappeared. Then it goes right into the current user
accounts I made when I upgraded the OS. (XP Pro) My question is, where
is the profile, or any evidence that it is in fact still on the computer,
and where can I find it. Thank GOD! I transferred all the word files over
to the other user account!
Further reply from Vic...
I would think it might work but I can't tell you for sure - this
is beyond the scope of what my article was about.
Might be a good idea to post your question to an XP group. This
one might be a good one to try.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WinXPHelp/
vic
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A reader writes...
Excellent issue as usual.
For some reason, I don't see any pictures in articles such as the RSS one.
I can right-click and select "Show Picture" but nothing happens.
I changed most of my security "Disables" to "Prompt" but
this didn't work either.
Thank you very much,
Larry
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Dian
Chapman, TechTrax Editor, writes...
SO sorry...it WAS my mistake. I received a few more complaints, investigated,
and discovered I had local file links...a very unusual mistake for me.
But in my rush, I did it wrong and caused the problem.
Sorry for the confusion...but it works now! Thanks for letting me know!
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=367
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A reader writes...
What a mountain of work! The new issue looks terrific. I don't blame you for
laying off for a while. You've earned it. Bill.
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Dian
Chapman, TechTrax Editor, writes...
Thanks so much for the kind words! Yes, I think a little break now and then
will help keep things fresh and continue the momentum of TechTrax! I
know I came back charged and ready after last year's break and I'm sure
the same will happen when we return in September.
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A reader writes...
When I opened Geetesh's free ebook download, it was not readable--only code,
like boxes. What am I doing wrong?
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Dian
Chapman, TechTrax Editor, writes...
What program did you use to try to open it? The free PowerPoint ebook
from Geetesh (available through a link in this article HERE),
downloads in a zipped format. First you must unzip it. The resulting
file is a PDF format (portable document file). This is read by the free
Adobe Reader, that you need to have on your computer. If you don't have
one, you can download one HERE.
Hope that helps.
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A reader writes...
First of all, I would like to comment on how great the Printer code that
you wrote is. It has helped me understand quite a bit about the printing
process from Word. It was much appreciated. Thank you very much.
I would like to solicit your assistance in a problem I am having if you have
some time. I need to be able to (from Word) create a macro that will print
to a specific paper type in a printer. I have a large number of HP8100
printers with plain paper in one tray, and letterhead in the other. I
would like to be able to create a macro that would print out one copy of a
letter on each type of paper without user intervention. Do you think
it's possible? And if so, can you point me in the right direction? Any
help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Jonathan
West, author of the Controlling
the Printer from Word VBA article
series, writes...
Hi,
I'd proceed as follows.
1. Use the code in the article to find out which trays are available,
and decide which two trays you want to use.
2. Set the FirstPageTray and OtherPagesTray properties both to the ID
code of the plain paper tray, and then print the document using the ActiveDocument.PrintOut
method.
3. Set the FirstPageTray and OtherPagesTray properties both to the ID
code of the letterhead tray, and then print the document using the ActiveDocument.PrintOut
method.
Once you have a macro set up to do this, you might want to assign it
to a keyboard shortcut, perhaps Ctrl-Shift-P, so that you have an easy
means of doing your double-print.
Regards,
Jonathan West
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A reader writes...
As you can see, I'm an oldie. And at this moment in time, a confused oldie…!
I have, like many people I'm sure, been looking at fighting spam over the
past few months, and to that end more recently began saving those dastardly
ones with virus' included… Reason being; I felt that a crusade is necessary
to try and stop these bug-eyed monsters from taking the internet into the murky
depths of virus' for all, and hopefully return it to the sane for its usefulness,
conviviality and enjoyable environment…
After all, who needs all the ag [as in aggravation]…?
Looking around, I found some bits and pieces about spam stoppers – but all,
either too complicated or too expensive to be bothered with… But my idea was
to return the mail to those guys at some spam-cop outfit, who would then
track these monsters and somehow stop them…! Unfortunately, it all got a bit
complicated with mini programs to help decipher headers, and header learn
stuff where there are several ways [if not more] to cloak the original host & port
numbers as well as the IP Address' etc… So
I've kinda given up…!
However, that doesn't alter the fact that I'm still getting my share of Krap
on a daily basis, and to that end, would love to stop it… Having recently stumbled
upon Mousy-Tech-Trax [looking for Excel excellence], today I received my monthly
bulletin. I very quickly happened upon your foot note: Tell them you don't
exist : Bouncing
Spam on the Fighting Viruses page
and was led to immediately view the content by the heading…
Wild about Mailwasher or what…! Gotta
do it…
But, I decided to finish my de-boning first to see what else you might have
tucked away in your wonderful forum of silk purses, and yes there's more… I
then found, your: SpamBayes: I Have Been Healed!
So, before I rushed off to Lourdes, which is just a few miles up the road,
I decided to read your next installment.
Confused or what…? Or are you recommending that I/we use both of these programs
in unison…?
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Dian
Chapman, author of SpamBayes:
I Have been Healed!, writes...
Hi...
Okay...here are a few facts to mull over...
I actually recommend them BOTH...for different
reasons. First, know that SpamBayes is free. They only ask for a donation
if you can afford it, but it's not necessary if you can't or don't want
to pay.
MailWasher HAD a free version that rolled ads along the top and you'd
pay about $20 to get a key to remove the banner if they annoyed you and
you wanted to pay for it. But they were bought out by FireTrust.com and
now may have different arrangements???
I own both. I started with MailWasher and...yes, it's quite satisfying
bouncing that stuff back in their faces! However, now that so many spammers
are spoofing their shipments through unprotected (and innocent) computers...chances
are you'll bounce it back to someone who really didn't send it! That's
still somewhat okay, since...if nothing else...it'll wake them up to
the fact that someone is using their system for this stuff and maybe
they'll wake up and protect their PC! But turning them into SpamCop could
be fruitless due to the fact that that can cause a lot of innocents to
get nailed for something they didn't do! Better to just bounce.
I used MailWasher for a couple years and I liked it. But that was when
my spam was only a couple hundred a day! Now that I get upwards of 1,000
spams a day!...it's just not worth my time to go through all that mess
to make sure I don't accidentally bounce important mail. And SpamBayes
is better at calculating what is/isn't spam. So for the level of junk
I get...it has given me my time back!
So it will depend on YOU. If you want the enjoyment of bouncing it...try
using MailWasher.
Particularly if you don't get more than 200 spams a day. It does a pretty
good job at catching/logging the junk and marking the correct stuff.
But if you get more spam than that...and want to do more with your day
than review spam...then go with SpamBayes.
Sorry I can't just point you to one...but it really is something you'll
have to decide. I liked MailWasher...a just grew out of it and now feel
SpamBayes does a much better job for me. However, I still do use MailWasher
on my mother's account. Since she doesn't have her email out there and
never signs up for stuff...she doesn't get much spam...so bouncing it
still seems to work in her case. For me...having my email address
out there in the public eye for nearly 10 years now...it was like trying
to bail out a sinking boat with a paper cup! ;-)
Hope this helps...good luck in the battle!
Further reader reply...
Thought I'd start with Mailwasher to see how it goes, and have downloaded
and getting on well…
I must say after reading your comments “Was 200 now
1000 per day” that
you have put things slightly into perspective for me…! I had no idea – how
do you cope…? I can only imagine that you have pentium4's with 256Kb
fingertips…!
My MailWasher download was $37.50 .
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Norma Vadjunec from Youngstown OH, writes...
First of all, I love your Ezine! Now for my query. In adding new records to
the source data, the pivot table is not refreshing the data. Could anyone help
me with this? Thank you, Norma
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Dian
Chapman, TechTrax Editor, writes...
Do you mean that you are clicking the Refresh Data icon and it's STILL not
updating?
Like Word fields, data will not automatically update. So you need to click
to update the information. On the Pivot table toolbar there is an exclamation
point icon to Refresh. Or you can right click and click Refresh Data.
If you are already doing this and it's still not working...let me know and
we can go from there.
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A reader writes...
the posted hack does not quite work i have made it so i can search from the
side bar but not from the url adress bar
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Vic
Ferri, author of Making
Google Your Default Internet Explorer Search Engine, writes...
No reg hack is needed for this. Click the Search button, then
Customize, and choose Autosearch Settings at the bottom of the box.
You will see that google is listed as one of the choices.
If you want to do it via the registry, go to this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\SearchUrl
In the right hand pane, double click Provider and enter gogl as
the data value. Close and restart IE for the change to take effect or
log off and log in again.
You didn't mention your operating system so I assumed XP and IE6.
vic
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A reader writes...
In your article you say to go to the MS-Dos prompt in order to run the DeBug
program. But what you have forgotten, as you mention in the paragraph directly
above that is that with a Bios password YOU CAN'T GET TO THE MS-DOS PROMPT.
The computer stops and asks for the password BEFORE you can do anything.
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Vic
Ferri, author of I
Forgot My Administrator Password!, writes...
As I stated in the article:
"It's important to note here that the password we are talking about
is only the one that prevents a user from entering the BIOS setup
at bootup, not the one that stops you from getting past the boot"
vic
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A reader writes...
I follwed the directions on how to make return labels and was doing fine until
I went to insert my picture. What format does the image have to be, because
it says to convert image from, and then gives a list.
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Dian
Chapman, author of Make
Your Own Holiday Labels,
writes...
Most images are JPG, GIF or BMP (which are large). Some people still use
WMF...so, I believe all those formats should still work in Word.
But it depends on the version you have. What version of Word are you using
and what type of graphic image are you using?
Further reader reply...
I am using word 2000 and the image is a bitmap. Thanks for your quick
response.
I figured out how to get the image onto the label, but now I'm having
a problem adding text. The first line of text is on the last line of the
label.
Further reply from Dian...
Bitmaps should work with 2000...but they are HUGE files...or rather,
can be huge...larger than jpg or gif files. You can open the file into
Windows Paint (under Start > Programs > Accessories > Paint).
Then select the file and File > Save As and click the drop down to
choose JPG or GIF. Just realize you need to select the image itself with
the square "marquee" to get JUST the image or you might get
too much excess.
If you have a better conversion program, like Paint Shop Pro or PhotoShop...use
that, as Paint is a lower level photo editing program.
But it SHOULD still work with a bmp...just not as well.
You need to select the image, right click and choose Format to set
the Wrapping so that the text wraps around the image.
Here's an article Kim wrote that explains graphics and text wrapping
so you'll better understand how that's done.
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=311
Hope this helps! Dian ~
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A reader writes...
I came upon your site while trying to find info on a digital
signatures. I like your style of prose and found your comments really
helpful and interesting.
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David
Horowitz, author of Using
SelfCert to Create Digital Certificates in a Network Environment,
writes...
Thanks for your praise; it's well appreciated. I'm glad you found the information
helpful.
-- David
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A reader writes...
Hello,
I enjoy your web site and have found many useful solutions there. I need to
write a Software Architecture Document for a large middleware project. I would
like to locate an outline or template that can serve as a starting point for
such a document. I will appreciate any suggestions.
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Dian
Chapman, TechTrax Editor, writes...
Thanks for the kind words, but I'm sorry, I don't know of any templates
like what you want. I always create my own. So I can only suggest that
you try checking the Microsoft template gallery to see if they have something
there that might help:
http://office.microsoft.com/templates/default.aspx
You can also try asking in one of the Microsoft free newsgroups at:
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups
Or check one of the technical web sites that handle project management
and IT work, such as TechRepublic (one of my favs) at: http://www.techrepublic.com
Other than that, you could search google.com for something that might
work????
Hope this helps...good luck!
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A reader writes...
I have a weird problem while creating template in MS WORD 2002. I have designed
a template that has square shaped outline to the page and when I am going to
the next page the box is going down.
I want to retain the box in the first page and whenever I am going to next
page even the outline box should continue. Could you please help in this
regard.
Thanks in advance,
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Dian
Chapman, TechTrax Editor, writes...
Okay, I THINK I understand what you are trying to do.
You have two options, depending on exactly what you are trying to do.
1) If you just want boxes on each page that lock...don't use AutoShapes.
Rather, you can use a TextBox (on the Drawing Toolbar) or draw out a
Frame (from the Forms toolbar). You can then enter text into either.
I personally prefer using Frames, but many folks complain that they are
too complicated to understand. I don't see the problem...but you can
decide which is best. For what you want, either should be fine. The only
real difference is that you cannot put a form field into a textbox, but
you can put them into Frames. This is another reason why you find the
frame feature on the Forms toolbar. Both can have borders applied through
Format > Borders and Shading. And if you right click...you'll find
layout and advanced page setting information that will allow you to have
the frame move with text, or to be anchored to the page where you place
it.
2) However, if you mean that any additional text from box # 1 should "flow" into
another box on the next page...THEN you will definitely want to use a
TextBox. With it, you can enter overflow text into the first box. It
will not all appear. But you can click the box, right click and choose
to LINK the boxes. Your cursor will turn into a little pitcher. Move
to box # 2 and click. This will "pour" the excess text from
box # 1 into box # 2. If you need more space...create another box. As
with a newsletter that might have a story on the first page and have
the rest of the story in a box on another page...you can link text boxes
so any excess text from on box will flow and adjust into the rest of
the linked boxes.
Hope one of these help! Good luck!
Further reader reply...
Hi Dian, Thanks for the wonderful inputs!
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