How can I replace my driver files?
My old desktop computer hasn’t had a driver update in years and cannot recognize my mouse or USB wireless adapter. My keyboard which I used on it long ago still works. I’m trying to transfer drivers from my laptop to my desktop using a CD (because my desktop cannot even recognize flash drives and has [...]

Answer Question   |  November 7, 2012  12:14 AM
Drivers, USB wireless adapter, Windows 7

Printing problems…. Client Access on Windows 7 64 bit
Was running Windows 7 on 32 bit PC printing to HP lazer jet.. Upgraded to 64 bit PC using Windows 7 with same client access. Print is very garbled and unreadable. This has happened on two other similar upgrades.. Is there a fix?.

Answer Question   |  November 5, 2012  1:38 PM
Printing, Windows 7, Windows 7 64-bit

New iMAC
I have a NITRO AV Firewire 800 8 Port Hub/Repeater. Attached to that Hub, I have a Blu-Ray Drive,4 Firewire Drives, a Snanner and a Camcorder. The Hub is then attached via Fire800 to my IMAC. I also have 2 USB hubs to which I have printers and Cameras attached. I was planning on attaching [...]

Answer Question   |  November 5, 2012  8:43 PM
iMac, USB devices

Tech Support: Horror Stories from the Trenches
Going into the IT field, we all had to start somewhere. Helping out at school on the website, fixing a friends computer, joining the schools computer club, but that was before you graduated to the job field. You now have your A+ and you have just been hired as a member of the help desk [...]

Answer Question   |  November 2, 2012  2:39 PM
Customer support, Help Desk, Help desk services, Tech support

Microsoft Office 2010
Our PowerPoint and Excel 2007 and 2010 documents does not open with a Microsoft Office 2010 (PowerPoint and Excel). I tried clicking “open with” and then I Clicked Microsoft office PowerPoint and Excel but still, they do not open with Microsoft Office 2010 (PowerPoint and Excel). What should I Do?

Answer Question   |  November 1, 2012  6:31 AM
Excel 2010, office 2010, Powerpoint 2010, Windows 7

Cannot open shared internet calendar – outlook 2010
I have a small business that uses Outlook 2010 – emails are hosted via an ISP. We’ve just started to use the shared calendar function – publishing our calendars online via the office.com function in outlook. I have successfully shared my calendar, which my team can now view – however I am unable to view [...]

Answer Question   |  October 31, 2012  5:12 PM
Microsoft Outlook 2010, Microsoft Outlook Calendar

LAN
In a LAN running TCP/IP evey computer has both an IP address and a what?

Answer Question   |  October 30, 2012  7:14 PM
Windows 7 and Vista

Sharepoint 3.0 website no longer working after Windows updates installed
We have an Intranet site that was set up in SharePoint 3.0. Over the weekend windows updates were installed, specifically KB2687442. Now my Intranet site does not work. When I try and run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard it fails at step 9 with the following error : Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products [...]

Answer Question   |  October 30, 2012  12:40 PM
SharePoint, SQL Express 2005, Windows Server 2003

Google Chrome & BSOD
I have an old Shuttle X computer with Sempron chip, 1 GB RAM The computer has been running fine for about 5 years. I installed Google Chrome Browser Because Gmail is forcing customers to use the Chrome Browser. Now I have experienced 2 BSODs in the last two days, browser installed three days ago. I [...]

Answer Question   |  October 29, 2012  6:19 AM
BSOD, Google Chrome

xp activation
I tried to get around the xp activation by following the following instructions:Click on Start * Find and Click ?Run? * Type regedit * Click the plus next to ?HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE? * Click the plus next to ?SOFTWARE? * Click the plus next to ?Microsoft? * Click the plus next to ?Windows NT? * Click the [...]

Answer Question   |  October 27, 2012  9:08 AM
Windows XP

pivot table cell format
Fields in pivot table have a different format that original data

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2012  9:31 PM
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel fields

Remote desktop protocol
How to RDP with same network or another network? i want to rdp my daughter pc. So , how can? is it possible? Thanks

Answer Question   |  October 24, 2012  6:09 PM
FTP, LAN, Network, Networking, RDP, SMTP

Pivot tables
Hi. I am trying to download data from SAP to Excel using pivot tables. When I go to spreadsheet in SAP it does not give me an option to use pivot tables. My work colleagues don’t have this problem so I believe its something in the settings that I need to change in SAP or [...]

Answer Question   |  October 24, 2012  12:02 PM
Microsoft Excel, SAP

stuck at waking the virtual machine
Hello. I have a small test environment set up to test VDI with on Hyper-V. I have Hyper-V on its own physical machine, and the Broker, etc. is running on another machine “RDBROKER”. I have a VM set up (called “vmWIN7″), and it is assigned to a specific user “vmuser”. From my laptop, I use [...]

Answer Question   |  October 23, 2012  7:12 PM
Hyper-V, Remote Desktop Connection, Virtualization, Windows 2008 R2

Macro using Visual Basic
Using Visual Basic, I need to choose XYZ information in a cell, in Excel, and another cell must give me ABC predetermined information. How should I do that?

Answer Question   |  October 23, 2012  4:28 PM
Excel 2003, Excel 2003 macros, VBA, Visual Basic

Convert PDF to Excel
How to convert PDF to Excel?

Answer Question   |  October 23, 2012  1:38 PM
Microsoft Excel, PDF

Active Directory
In a Windows 2000 domain functional level, is there a command for searching for unneeded accounts ? i.e. not used for 50 days etc. I’ve tried AdFind but can’t get it to run, or don’t know how.

Answer Question   |  October 23, 2012  12:50 PM
Active Directory, Windows 2000

Are there any Pl/Sql like features in j2me?
I want to deveplope a mobile game in which i want to use database and all its features which is possible in pc through oracle and sql…is there any way to use them in j2me? Is rms an answer? Can i use java db.?

Answer Question   |  October 23, 2012  5:40 AM
Database, J2ME, Java Database, RMS

Opening files on MS office 2007
When trying to open MS office file sent to me by Email they caused a “Grave error” and MS office failed to respond. I got hold of said files on a flash drive and when trying to open them, same thing, office failed to respond and “grave error”. I,ve updated my office program with zero [...]

Answer Question   |  October 22, 2012  5:58 PM
Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office Error Messages

Problem after installing SP1 on Win 2003 SBS
Hi,this weekend i updated the server with sp1 and know i am having problems with the client computers and users when trying to log on the domain. It looks like an DNS problem but i am not sure. I run the DCdiag /test:DNS utility with this results. C:WINDOWSServicePackFilesi386>dcdiag /test:DNS Domain Controller Diagnosis Performing initial setup: [...]

Answer Question   |  October 22, 2012  12:20 PM
DNS, Domain Controller, Logon failure, Small Business Server 2003, Windows Small Business Server 2003