Archive for May, 2004

XP tips

Monday, May 17th, 2004

A couple of tips I saw on Lockergnome for WinXP…

If you liked the old Windows Media Player (WMP6), you can still use it. Type mplayer2 in you run box and an old version of WMP will launch (version 6.4 for me).

Quick and dirty self-extracting install file can be created using IExpress (included with WinXP). Type iexpress in your run box and follow the wizard. CAB files can be created using this app as well.

If you’re into looking at the underlying xml for word files, press Alt + Shift + F11 while in MSWord to open the MS Script Editor. The xml for the current document will be displayed.

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Alternate Workstation Locking (Part 2)

Tuesday, May 4th, 2004

Boy did I make things difficult. You learn something new every day, or at least I strive to…My previous post about an alternate way of locking a workstation was unnecessary for Windows XP. All you have to do is press the Windows key and L at the same time…How simple can that be :-)

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OFERU Released

Monday, May 3rd, 2004

I have released a new piece of software called Office File Extensions Reset Utility (OFERU). This utility will correct any file association problems MSOffice 2003 might have. These problems may have been caused by installing a program like OpenOffice, which associates itself with extensions such as .doc, .xls, or .ppt.

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