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Our Landlords are getting a new copier/scanner/fax/ printer machine. Its a Ricoh MP4001. They hook to the old one (HP 4250) through a network cable from a router and we hook to it through a USB. Is it possible to do that with the new Ricoh? There has been some …

In our office, we have 4 Windows 7 pro's and 2 Windows XP Pro's. XP is a good, stable operating system that everything we have has still has drivers for. I was a big fan of Windows 2000 as well. I still see many business's and local government offices with …

I have an Excel spreadsheet that contains names. addresses and various other information. I have word wrap set for all cells in case some new data gets entered that's long. If I sort the data, the data that was in the cells that were word wrapped will end up in …

I think that MS made a miscalculation with having the metro screen interface as default. I for one don't to use anything like that on a desktop, or a non touchscreen laptop. So I have used Windows Classic Shell to force it back to a usable desktop and a start …

Machine running Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. MS Office 2010. Problem is once there is a spreadsheet open and minimized and you click on a second spreadsheet shortcut, it won't open. You will get the blue circle so it is trying. You can do it through file/resent files and open …

I was having similar issues with a new Windows 7 box hardwired blowing a Win XP wireless laptop off when the Windows 7 machine was booted. The cure was to disable IPv6 on the Win 7 machine. That seemed to cure it. It also means that you can't use a …

My windows 7 Pro 32 bit came up unbootable last weekend. I have tried all sorts of fixes like Windows repair console, fixboot, fixmbr, rebuild bcd and even manually replacing missing boot files. Still NG. I am now faced with a full reinstall. I have been looking around to see …

One of our Acer machines at work somehow lost it's mind overnight. This morning somehow when it was booted, the recovery software came to life and it started doing a recovery from the hidden partition. It loaded the files ok, but when it came to the update section it didn't …

I have been googling this and have read close variations of the following issue from others. It seems that if you are running MS office 2010 Excel and go to delete a group of rows, sometimes below where you are working a blank row will appear at maxamim height size …

Using Office 2010 on Windows 7 Pro. On a spreadsheet, I am putting hyperlinks on names that will open another spreadsheet. If I sort the spreadsheet, the hyperlinks will no longer work. Is there a way to keep them so that they will work after a sort. Thanks.

I want to set yahoo mail to launch when I click on an e-mail link. I know, the easy way is to install the yahoo toolbar, however I don't want toolbars running in the background and hogging up real estate on my internet explorer page. There must be some kind …

I brought an older system tower home from work so that I could wipe the drive and reinstall windows XP. I have reformatted the drive and when windows goes to log in for it's first use, it comes up with "This copy of Windows must be activated with Microsoft before …

I use logmein. It works well and seems to go through any firewalls without any problems. However it does have a VPN add on called Hamachi. Funny thing is, in some of the consumer versions on Norton, it needed an exception, but in the commercial version on Norton, it worked …

My company ordered some laptops last year. They had Windows 7 preinstalled on them. The company here still uses XP, so they had the reseller "downgrade" them from Windows 7 to XP Pro. For some reason, the license stickers for Windows 7 were left on the bottom of the laptops. …

I hate the way that Windows 7 start menu looks. The programs menu is to small and why they have the single programs above the foders, I'll never know. I have always set my start menus to classic, but with Windows 7, I use a free download called "windows classic …

We have a small office (6 stations) on Verizon FIOS Actiontec router. Last Friday, we had some internet slowness and an outage. For some reason the internal network was affected. The server became very slow to connect to and eventually we could not reach it. Printers could not be reached …

OK, I feel a little dumb asking this question, but networking is not my strong point. At work, I have shortcuts on my desktop to files that live on the server here at work. I would like to be able to bring my computer home, boot it up and have …

I've been trying to schedule my computer to automatically hibernate from a scheduled task. I used this: rundll32.exe PowerProf.dll, SuspendState Hibernate It doesn't seem to work. I can hibernate it manually, so I know that it will. I use Win XP Pro. Anybody got any ideas. Thanks.

I have a situation where I need to keep the wireless signal as low as possible. Is it harmful to the wireless router to remove it's antenna and run it. Thanks.

I know how to do this with XP machines, but not quite up on it with Vista. I have a workgroup with several XP machines on it all mapped to the same printer. We brought in a Vista laptop with a different workgroup name. I need to know how to …

I have a laptop that has an interesting problem. When browsing "Myspace" and only that site, it continuosly looses and reconnects when running wirelessly. You can see everything and can change to any Myspace site, but it is quite slow loading becausre of that. This problem goes away when you …

Is there a way to password protect file share permissions, mainly the properties, and or sharing and security tabs. We have someone here that caused a problem playing with those settings. Thanks.