How Does a Contact Form Work?
Sometimes when you are at a website and want to contact it, they want you to fill in a contact form. There isn't any email address. So I fill it out and press send, and off it goes to the website. But...
View Article[Excel] Substitute but with wildcards?
I know how to count the number of occurrences of particular text in a cell with the "Substitute(Cell,"old text","")" type function, but... I have multiple dates in a cell, all in the format "dd/mm/yy"....
View Article[WIN10] Task View (Virtual Desktop) Tweaks
I'm happy windows finally gets virtual desktops, but it seems like a lot of basic features are currently missing. For instance, is there any way to rename the desktops? For instance renaming"Desktop 3"...
View Article[WIN7] MS updates taking too long
I was checking for updates and after 45 aborted and tried again. Ran the update diagnostics, says it repaired a few things; rinse & repeat. Did this a few times. then once I forgot about it and 1.5...
View Article[Outlook] Outlook 2013 Test Account Testing greyed out
When setting up my Outlook IMAP profile, the Test Account Settings option is greyed out for some odd reason. Why is this? Even I select POP3, there is no option to Uncheck this. Please help.
View ArticleWhy sometimes USB devices not work in some ports?
I have a computer with Windows 7 Home. Sometimes, I plug in a USB drive, and see this: "One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it." I run out...
View ArticlePersonal Macro Workbook Q
I've tried Googling to find and answer, but I can't narrow the search enough to get reasonably close to my answer. So, let me try this way. I'm an Excel VBA hacker. I know a lot to be dangerous and...
View Article[IE] Removing Extensions from IE 11
I've searched on this topic and found one of the best "general" descriptions here: http://www.ghacks.net/2010/03/03/how-to-remove-add-ons-and-toolbars-in-internet-explorer/ Unfortunately, even this...
View ArticleHelp - DOS script - how to do a string match ..
ffmpeg can resize a video/image file .. first is input_file .. parameters .. output_file .. ffmpeg -i input.avi -vf scale=320:240 output.avi or ffmpeg -i 20140724_071746.mp4 -vf scale=640:-1...
View ArticleWierd Word 2013 copy and paste
Here is something weird. I am trying to copy and paste two words that are "mispelled" according to Word. They're not. When I right click, the program is forcing me to make changes or to add it to the...
View Article[Other] Win 7 vs Win 10 performance?
I know its up to the hardware specs of each machines, but do you think Win 10 if much faster than Win 7? I personally think so and I am running at 4 GB of RAM using a standard spinning drive (non-SSD)....
View ArticlePaul Thurrot: "Microsoft should not be forcing Windows 10...
We all know who Paul Thurrot is, he along with Mary Jo Foley are two of the biggest Microsoft cheerleaders that the world has ever seen. With that being said, I was watching What the Tech Episode 292 -...
View ArticleMore confusion with Microsoft
It never seems to end. ...the not knowing what is what with Microsoft and their shitty products. So according to this icon list description:...
View Article[Other] How can I fix/repair a corrupted PDF file?
Someone has any recommendation or procedures of recovery of the corrupted PDF? When I open the file, I reach "There was a mistake when opening this document. the file is damaged and can't be restored"....
View Article[WIN10] Running older programs
I have attempted to install some games and some work without running compatibility mode and I have a few which will run with XP compatibility mode and some which will not run at all, even if I change...
View Article[WIN8] QuizUp Desktop App
I love the QuizUp app that I got years ago for my Android phone. So I thought I could try to find the app on the Windows Store for Windows 8.1. I was able to locate it and install it. However, after...
View Article[WIN10] New 10 install, have questions
OK so I installed Win10 on my laptop. Fist I backed up my Win7 so I can have a clean restore. I have 2 questions so far. How do you get rid of windows.old dir. There's like GBs of dead space. I only...
View ArticleWindows update error here, now gone
I was trying to do updates and got an error 802..... (didn't note it) and it said to check the BITS (Background intelligent Transfer Service. It was set to manual and not started. The error look-up...
View Article[WIN10] Forced Windows updates blowing my data cap
Microsoft needs to understand that not all of live in the US (where unlimited data caps appears to be the norm). I have been trying to figure out why I've blown my 40GB/month data cap for the past two...
View Article[WIN7] need a trusted scanner to ID unwanted Win telemetry Updates
Just discovered my win7 box has managed to acquire MS's diagnostics tracking service despite my opt-out of optional updates at time of install. Is there a known widely_considered safe scanner for...
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