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I have registered MS Office 2011 for Mac and spelled the company name incorrectly, how do I change it?
I have registered MS Office 2011 for Mac and spelled the company name incorrectly. Is there anyway of changing it, or do I have reinstall?
How to disable auto insert notification in Windows 7?
Alright, here's the problem. My hard drive activity light on my custom built PC is blinking exactly once every second. Microsoft has this to say on the issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138598 There has been discussion on this issue several months ago: Why does my hard drive LED light blink ev…
How do I get my Logitech media buttons to control Spotify
I have a Logitech diNovo keyboard which includes media buttons for play/pause, stop, next, previous. I would like to let those buttons control Spotify. I've tried to add Spotify to the players.ini file as described here, but I still cannot control Spotify - focused or not. Spotify does not show up …
Paragraph folding in Word?
Notice the line numbering in the screenshot below. The lines from 2 to 20 are "folded out". To see these lines one can click the plus sign. I want to create a document in Word with this functionality. Is it possible? It should be possible to create nested paragraphs that are "folded out". Because I…
How can I make Windows 7 ReadyBoost persistent?
Is there a way to make Windows 7 to keep the ReadyBoost cache across a reboot (and not encrypt it or keep the encryption key across the reboot) - so that ReadyBoost could actually boost the boot up speed instead of slowing it down by rebuilding the cache while the system tries to load? I know it sh…
Can no longer duplicate display to external monitor on Windows 7
We have a large TV at work - I connect my laptop to it to share my screen during meetings. Until today, my laptop display has been duplicating to the TV automatically when I connect the TV cable to the laptop. The display resolution would decrease automatically to be compatible with the TV. Today, …
Can I add DNS but keep those provided by DHCP in OSX?
I'm trying to add an additional DNS entry in my OSX network preferences but I want to keep the DNS provided by DHCP. These show up in gray, but when I click the plus button below them, they disappear to make way for the user-provided DNS. So it seems I can only have either static entries or DHCP en…
Can't copy/paste to/from system clipboard in Terminal on Mac
I can't copy or paste to or from the system clipboard within the Terminal. Neither / nor menus work. Instead, Terminal seems to be using it's own buffer for copy/paste operations. I am able to access the system clipboard only using and . Any ideas?
How to find out which processes consume most energy on Linux
In Linux, is it possible to know which processes consume most battery energy at the moment?
What is the difference between forward slashes and backslashes in paths?
Possible Duplicate: Why does Windows use backslashes for paths and Unix forward slashes? What is the main difference between forward slash (/) and backslash (\) in reference to paths, both remote and local? If I recall correctly, backslash is used to denote something within the current computer or …
extract a few members from tar archive and pipe through network
edit: I want to extra and and directory contains directory with 20 files. I want to extract only member and and directory and copy them to another "remote_host" using ssh/scp. Can this be done as a one-liner? I considered using , , or but I guess I'm not very skilled with these utilities yet.
Thunderbird not showing embedded images?
I receive a weekly report in Thunderbird (7.0) from the CMS i use for my website. It shows everything in the correct layout but no images. It shows there are 48 attachments vs showing the embedded images. Anyone have any idea how to get thunderbird to show correctly? When I login to Google (I use G…
Windows 7 : Sorting contents of a file
Is there any functionality by which I can sort the contents of a file in place in windows 7 ? I am not sure if there is any way I could do it in UI, but is there any batch script which will help me do it ? An example of what I am trying to do. Let file "data.txt" containing the follwing data be the…
Syncing Windows registry between several computers
There's a certain folder in my Windows XP registry that I would like to be synchronized between my 2 computers, Dropbox-style. The way I want it to be is that every time I make a registry change in one computer, it appears on the other computer(s). Possible? How? (If you're curious about why I want…
Wake on LAN Alternatives
I realize there are one or two related posts, but none that quite get at what I'm asking. I'm using an old computer as a NAS using FreeNAS, and after some tweaking everything is dandy. The NAS is just being used by myself and my roommate, so I'd like to be able to use WOL (in conjunction with a bas…
My C drive is 20GB large and almost full, how do I regain space?
I have Windows 7 Ultimate installed on my PC. The C drive has a capacity of 20 GB and I have only a few applications installed. Still, the drive shows as being almost full up to its capacity and keeps prompting for a disk cleanup. Even after a disk cleanup the story continues. I have even tried usi…
Is it safe to put harddisks of a md-software-raid to standby?
I have a home-fileserver with 6 desktop harddisks in a md-raid. The server isn't accessed a lot, so I think it would be good for the harddrives to go in standby-mode after some idle time (e.g. with the hdparm -S or hd-idle command). Is this safe when using mdadm or could this cause errors/degraded …
How do I remove Skype from Windows 7's taskbar (notification area only is fine)?
How do I remove Skype from the Windows 7 taskbar, at least when it's minimized? Skype disappears from the taskbar in both Windows XP and Windows Vista, not sure if by default now, but I cannot make it do so in Windows 7. I have it showing in my notification area, and this is good enough for an "alw…
Why does my monitor take over 5 minutes to display anything after turning it on?
When I turn on my monitor the screen is black and the power light on the monitor blinks every few seconds. This continues for 5-10 minutes and then either displays my desktop or a white screen. I am running Windows 7 64-bit and have an NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT graphics card. Any ideas what could be c…
Error in installing Windows SDK (Newer version already installed)
I am trying to install the Windows SDK on my Windows 7 64bit machine. But during the process of installation it gave me an error. I reviewed the log and it seems that it is due to a newer version of Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 runtime is already installed (10.0.40219 is installed compared with 10.0.3…