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I've just upgraded to Windows 7, and successfully installed and used Office 2003. I now find that the Office 2003 software does not recognise the file format of .xlsx files. Under XP, a small utility came into action to convert the file to .xls format. Is it possible to get this working again...

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I haven't tried this yet so I don't know if it will work or not. I have a separate partition for my automatic backup setup using Windows' native utility called Backup and Restore. The question is, is it okay to hide a partition even though it is in use as a destination storage for my backup...

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit SP 1 ASUS laptop K52F Windows update is extremely slow. Windows Update IS downloading updates but the download speed is so very slow - about 10 kbps - that Windows Update is unusable. I tested my download speed against other sites, for example updating...

Electronics and certainly PCs do not like heat. It is important that these devices stay cool @ all times and throughout their lifetime. That said, here is one of those "Best Practice" things that I suggest all too often does not even occur to people and that they do not think about or do on...

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Is there a photo viewing app that automatically rotates a picture, so if the picture is landscape then it is landscape on the screen but if it is a portrait then it is portrait on the screen, to maximize the size of the picture on the small screen? Many Android apps do this but I have not found...

I installed and used today the recently introduced (with KB 2852386) new Disk Cleanup Utility. After having performed the cleanup with multiple reboots I rechecked the size of the C:\Windows\winsxs\ folder. The size shrinks from approx 12.5 GB to 11GB Wow! :-( Is there something wrong...

IObit Uninstaller is a freeware; Revo Uninstaller has paid and free versions. Would it be possible that a freeware can compete with a paid app?

I never had a problem with image backup creation before with Win 8 using the utility Windows 7 File Recovery. I am aware that this utility is gone in Win 8.1 and the same utility is now under File History. I've tried using this new utility last night to create a backup image of Win 8.1 and it...

Whenever I get and install hotfixes/patches for Windows 7 a copy of them is stored somewhere on the system partition for backup/uninstall purposes. Where (in which directory) are they put in detail? How can I uninstall them? MS has just releases a patch to cleanup them through DIsk Cleanup...

Hi, I have been trying for at least 2,3 months not to remove Epson Easy Photo Print from my system. I am using windows 7 64bit & i had a registry hiccup where a virus sorta messed things up a little, however after fixing all problems it's caused 1 problem remains. Epson's Easy photo print...

Hi I have our friends computer all set up and ready to go. One of the things that came about during this process is, I learned that you can make a real disk image in Windows 8 without using a third party software program. Something I didn't think was possible, and you don't have to jump...

Microsoft has relinquished its previous statements that it would not provide Windows 8.1 RTM to developers on MSDN or Technet and has since published the following versions on both services. The final RTM version, a major update which includes numerous bug fixes and improvements to genuine...

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Assume I am playing a video or an mp3. Yes, I know how to turn off audio inside audio speaker controls. But I don't want to fiddle around with menus and dialogs. Instead I want to handle it as easy as possible with ONE (DOUBLE)CLICK. I can imagine that there is a utility whose shortcut...

Maybe there are threads and posts that explain this exactly but I haven't found them yet. Here is what I need to do as simply as possible. Have a Dell Latitude D620 laptop - I'd like to clone the internal drive with a Windows XP Pro installation. I'd like to clone it to an external USB hard...

I am using the on-screen keyboard in Win7 64 Pro. I have a Cintiq monitor and am looking for a way to place the keyboard in a specific position. I have it set to "float", which when I call it up puts the keyboard at the top of the screen, centered. In the one particular app where I need the...

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