DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME – BE CAREFUL!

Daylight Saving Time will start on March 11, three weeks earlier than usual, and it will end on November 4, 1 week later than usual. This causes some interesting problems for your Windows XP computer. Watch your appointments very carefully during those weeks!During...

MICROSOFT OFFICE STUDENT EDITION

Here’s an article with an interesting statistic: Microsoft Office 2003 Student And Teacher Edition made up 80% of all sales of productivity suites in 2006. Microsoft lowered the price on a student edition of Office to $150 in 2001 and has kept the price there...

AUTO-COMPLETE ADDRESSES IN OUTLOOK

When you type a name into the TO: field in a new e-mail message, Outlook looks it up and completes it automatically, if possible.It doesn’t look where you think.The list that drops down immediately is NOT from your Contacts folder. That first dropdown list is...

DESKTOP SEARCH UPDATE

There are several programs that can index your files and Outlook folders and allow you to find something in them instantly – a name, a scrap of text, a number. It is liberating and exciting to know that you can retrieve a bit of information as readily from your...

WINDOWS DESKTOP SEARCH

Microsoft has released an updated version of Windows Desktop Search, its program for indexing files and Outlook folders for lightning-fast searches. Here’s the home page for Windows Desktop Search.It’s become an impressive program. It permits searches of...