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Having long preferred the 2003 version of Microsoft Office, the availability of Office 2007 on XP has in no swayed me to make the change. For some, simplicity comes in the form of large abstruse buttons. For others, it is in the form of logical drop down menus. But viewing Office 2007 files by emailing them to yourself is not a solution. It’s a workaround. Luckily, Microsoft has refrained from forcing us to make the change through the release of the Microsoft Compatibility Pack....

Motorola already had a Razr-branded folding phone, inspired by the design of the early-2000s Razr flip phones, but the company has been slow to update it. Nearly two years after the last model, Motorola has revealed the Razr 2022. It’s exclusive to China, at least for now, but it’s much closer to competing with Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip series. The new Razr has the same Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset as the Galaxy Z Flip 4 and Fold 4, paired with a 6....

In this article we will go over one of the advanced features which allows scheduled scans of spyware on your system. When you initially install Spybot Search & Destroy the basic mode is enabled by default. We need to access the advanced mode, so click on Mode and select Advanced Mode. Click Yes to the warning message that appears. Now you will notice a lot more options, Tools, and settings....

If you know the name of the executable, you can use the which command to find the location of the binary, but that doesn’t give you information on where the supporting files might be located. There’s an easy way to see the locations of all the files installed as part of the package, using the dpkg utility. Example: I had installed davfs2, but I wasn’t sure where the configuration file was, so I ran this command:...

What you might not realize is that if you are using Outlook 2007 and Exchange at work, you’ve got everything you need to send out a poll through email. Compose a new email in Outlook, click the Options tab and select Use Voting Buttons. Here you can choose the defaults or create your own answers to the poll question. If you select Custom just type in the answers you want to appear in the Use voting buttons field, separated by a semicolon....

Share Calendar Online Open up the calendar in Outlook and Right-click the calendar you want to share then Publish to Internet and Publish to Office Online. Next you are shown the Office Online Registration overview for an account if you don’t already have one. Sign in using your Microsoft Live ID. Accept the terms and conditions of using Office Online. Choose a user name and finish up the registration....

The solution is a hosted service called Single Wrench that provides you an encrypted, fully managed system that can be easily accessed with a web browser. They also provide advanced features like quotas and notifications, with a flexible pricing model where you pay for what you use. Note: You can also read more about the differences between Single Wrench and FTP from their website. Update: Single Wrench is now called HostedFTP....

Advertisements are already a common sight on the Apple App Store, especially when searching for apps, but now Apple is preparing to roll out ads in more App Store sections. Apple now allows app developers to set up a new type of advertisement in the App Store, which shows up on the main ‘Today’ tab, alongside Apple’s own app picks. They look like the existing highlights from Apple, except there’s an ‘Ad’ indicator at the bottom....

Most of the instructions for adding extra repositories tell you how to use the command line tool, but for new Ubuntu users, a GUI tool is probably more useful. Ubuntu Edgy includes a software tool that lets you manage these repositories easily. You can find the tool on the System \ Administration \ Software Sources menu. When you launch the tool, you’ll be presented with a dialog that allows you to easily check the boxes, or even change your download location from the default of US repositories:...

Web Folders is a component that allows you to connect to WebDAV or SharePoint servers and access or modify files on them. If you don’t use those features or don’t use the icon, then there’s really no point in letting it waste space, so we’ll just remove it with a quick registry hack. Manual Registry Hack Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then browse down to the following key:...

What “System Requirements Not Met” Means If you’re seeing the message informing you that your PC is “unsupported,” there are a limited number of explanations. The first is that you bypassed the hardware requirements for Windows 11 and forced it to install on an unsupported PC. The second possibility is that your PC was supported, but something changed — like a UEFI setting related to TPM — that has made it unsupported....

“Withings created the connected health category back in 2009 and today is proud to be the number one selling smart scale manufacturer in the United States, helping millions of users manage their weight,” said Mathieu Letombe, Withings CEO. “With Body Scan, we will turn the morning weigh-in into a sophisticated home health check with access to holistic health data and personal health programs created by medical professionals.” As far as what is allowing the Withings Body Scan to capture so much data, it has four weight sensors and 14 ITO electrodes within the platform....

According to Android Authority, approximately 10,000 apps suffer from performance throttling on Samsung phones. Some popular apps experiencing issues are Instagram, Netflix, TikTok, Genshin Impact, Secure Folder, Samsung Cloud, Samsung Pay, and plenty of others. These are apps you likely use every single day, so having them suffer from performance issues is a big deal. While testing, Android Authority found that the Galaxy S22, Galaxy S20 FE, and Galaxy S21 all had the Game Optimizing Service running....

First you need to make sure you’re logging in as Administrator or a profile on the domain which has Admin rights. Go to Start Run and type in “compmgmt.msc” (without the quotes) and click OK. This opens the Computer Management screen where you want to expand Local Users and Groups, click on Groups, then double click Administrators on in the right hand side. In the Administrators Properties window click the Add button....

As someone who works remotely full-time, I spend a good portion of my day in Zoom meetings and making Loom videos for my co-workers. Unfortunately, I still haven’t discovered a way to set up my home office so that my face is always well lit. In fact, there are many times I find myself struggling between the lighting being too bright and too dark for my computer’s built-in webcam to handle....

With some simple batch files and command line magic, we can make two shortcuts so you can just simply click to “Reboot Into XP” or “Reboot into Vista”, and be done with it. Create the Shortcut to Reboot into XP To create the shortcut we’ll need to create a simple batch file, which we can do by opening up notepad and then pasting in the following text: The first line runs the bcdedit tool and sets the XP partition as a one-time boot default, and then the second line calls the shutdown command with the reboot option....

A Quick Look at Location-Aware Browsing For those who are curious about this new feature, here is a quick look at what happens when you encounter a website that triggers the function in Firefox. You can also visit a website that has been set up as a Geolocation demo (link at the bottom of the article). Note: The Location-Aware Browsing feature uses Google Location Services to determine your location with the following: your computer’s IP address, information about nearby wireless access points, and a random client identifier (that is assigned by Google and expires every 2 weeks)....

Voice assistants are all the rage, but did you know Spotify has one too? That’s right, the Spotify app for iPhone, iPad, and Android has a voice assistant built-in and it’s surprisingly cool. We’ll tell you all about it. Spotify’s voice assistant is called—unsurprisingly—“Hey Spotify.” It can be accessed with the “Hey Spotify” voice command while the Spotify app is open or with a couple of shortcuts. Let’s take a look at what it can do and why you might want to use it....

Yes, But It’s Complicated Most information about lifespans of graphics cards you’ll find online is anecdotal, with numbers that can vary dramatically depending on whom you ask. With hundreds of different models of graphics cards released over the past decade, it’s hard to boil down data on such wildly different cards into simple generalizations. So far, we know this: According to a 2020 report from a German retailer, most recent graphics cards have about a 2-5% failure rate (measured in returns to the retailer) overall....

Are Some Countries Better Than Others for VPN Providers? For example, ExpressVPN extols the virtues of being based in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), NordVPN lauds its location in Panama, and ProtonVPN banks hard on being Swiss—to name just three. Thing is, though, does it really matter where a VPN is based? The short answer is no, it doesn’t really matter where your VPN is based—or at least not in most cases....