Linuxfx is the most convincing Windows‑like Linux distribution I’ve seen: it ships a Windows‑style desktop, ships on an Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS base with a modern kernel, bundles Steam/Heroic and Wine, and aims to make moving off Windows painless for users worried about the October 2025 Windows 10...
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Windows users long accustomed to the flexibility and familiarity of Microsoft’s flagship operating system may find themselves at a crossroads in the coming months. As Windows 10’s end-of-support date draws closer, LibreOffice—the best-known free and open-source office suite—has joined a growing...
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For decades, Microsoft’s productivity and collaboration suites have dominated enterprise IT environments across the United Kingdom. From small business networks to sprawling corporate ecosystems, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) have long advised clients to anchor their digital operations in the...
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When rising subscription costs and new features like the forced Copilot integration push even the most loyal users to question their software choices, open source office suites have suddenly become a hot topic. If you’ve ever found yourself sighing at yet another subscription fee, you’re not...
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Microsoft Office has long reigned as the gold standard in productivity suites, but sometimes the crown is just a little too heavy for our wallets—or maybe we're simply looking for a different flavor of digital organization. Fortunately, today’s tech world has a plethora of options to help you...
I have a Server 2016 (Standard) that I use to run Remote Desktop Services for 7 users. The box has two Xeon E5-2690 (2.9 Ghz) cpus, 256 Gb, and two 2 TB SSD drives. The box had been working flawlessly for ages. Within the last two weeks I've had to resort to restarting it every day...
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I'm typing this using the windows key, plus H thing, It seems to be working pretty well.
I like this I use text to speech on my tablet all the time.
This one actually seems to work Pretty well, I'm going to print out the shortcut List and keep it on my desktop so that I can look this stuff...
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After the Widows 10 update today, my computer started acting weird again.
I've spent the last couple of days getting it right.
This time I immediately uninstalled Chrome and the problems went away again.
So it seem pretty conclusive that for some reason Chrome is causing these issues.
My...
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My computer updated to Anniversary last night and there are some big changes right off the bat.
For one thing my computer is running really slow, and the taskbar keeps hiding itself and I can't find anyplace to turn it off.
When I right click in this window the drop down window does not...
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After a power outage a particularly important file gets the error "Excel cannot open the file.xlsx beacause the file format or file extension is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the file. The file format has not...
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On my windows vista home premium SP2 all ofices (windows, open, libre) crash on any type of file SAVING.
Any idea what is going on???????
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I've had Belarc Advisor on my computer for years, but in Windows 10 I'm having a strange problem.
When I open it, it opens in Openoffice Writer instead of my browser?
It' supposed to open in you browser by default.
I have looked for some place to tell it what I want the default program to...
I've had BSODS since last year. The laptop has been for three RMA's with PC Specialist, in the last one they said they did a full rebuild of the system. The BIOS has been updated, RAM replaced, I've done clean reinstalls of Windows in the past.
I had it back for 10 days and then yesterday it...
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I have a Windows 7 Home Premium , 64-bit OS, Acer Aspire 5253, 3GB Ram,AMDC-50 Processor, 1 GHz, with
Internet cable modem, with 10mb download speed. My GF with a similar Notebook PC uses the building's Wi-fi network, via my router and the speed is 5X faster than mine. Whether I'm using a...
Hi, my laptop wouldn't access the operating system yesterday when turning it on & only worked after opening it up & pushing the harddrive in. On starting it up it forced me to access some samsung recovery options so I did that.
Now the desktop appears & the files appear on my desktop but no...
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So, I installed Microsoft Office- 13? And then I uninstalled it, decided I liked OpenOffice better. THEN- I had to do a system restore, and now I'm stuck with an uninstallable Microsoft Office... what should I do to get rid of leftover stuff?
I tried re-installing it, but it won't let me, it...
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I am new to the forum. I am from Belfast and work as....'not a lot' these days!
I have an 'on-going' problem with win7.....which I believe is fairly common but today is the 'final straw'.....
I create a folder on my desktop and try to move it to an external HDD....the message of 'needing...
I have a learning center app - computer has about 10 logins
each login is for a different class
one is for MS Office
one for Open Office
one is for beginner
etc.
All programs are installed for all users, but some users do not have direct access to all programs.
the MS Office and Open Office...
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On my new Computer I experience a lot of Blue Screens. The Computer is bought in pieces and self-assembled in October 2011. I am running Win7 on a TrueCrypt encrypted system partition. No other Operation Systems installed so far.
When I assembled it I tested the Memory for ~10 hours...
Two of my teachers gave me .doc files for something or another, and both of these files have a strange problem I've never seen before:
Microsoft Word Viewer has apparently decided that it doesn't know what to do with certain text elements, and so it decides to display them in the MaplePi font...