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Writing article in Microsoft Word i forgot to save my materials...How to give back all i’d wrote?

Hi there, I’m doing some research around cybersecurity — specifically access management. Does anyone have a moment to answer the below please? 1. Since Windows Active Directory is nearly ubiquitous in enterprises, what are IT professionals doing to secure access? What are the biggest challenges to securing user access using …

When I quit for the day on my PC I always used "sleep" instead of shutdown. The monitor would go black and after a few seconds the power would shut down. That was normal. Now when I tell it to sleep the monitor goes black, the PC never powers down …

I thought this was only me, but apparently there are other users who have noticed that somewhere in the last few Microsoft Updates, the option to set a wi-fi connection as metered has been removed. Fortunately, you can still set/unset this option from the command line. For details, and a …

I have been using [AutoHotKey](https://autohotkey.com/) for quite some time and I have found it to be invaluable for enhancing Windows 7/10 functionality. I thought I'd post a couple of useful scripts here. Windows 10 has a desktop feature that lets you hide/show your desktop icons. I prefer a clutter-free desktop …

In order to further (artificially) inflate the number of Windows 10 installations, Microsoft is now showing the following pop-up on some users' computers:  And even more heavy-handed, some users are getting the following:  Smart users will realize that they can always click **X** and just close …

Hello. I have an issue, where I want to prevent domain users with administrative rights from modifying the password of the local administrator account on their respective computers. Any way of implementing this?

Hi, 1. I downloaded a free trial version 3.7 of WinRAR. 2. When i tried to open the compressed files, i could not open it, and got the message" WinRAR: Diagnostic messages" window open, and there are 3 options: Close, Break Operation and Copy to Clipboard. 3. Is it a …

i discovered to my dismay that email from my aol file cabinet had just disappeared! i have aol 8.0 i've spoken with three techies at aol and they all say the same thing that my email has gone for good. but how can this be .... surely it must be …

I have two laptops that I'm having this problem with. Currently, though it's the old Vista laptop - a Compac Presario - which keeps fading to black no matter what I'm doing on it. I can view the screen on an alternate display without problems. I have placed a fan …

My inbox is completely erased after last night's windows update restart. I tried to reimport the inbox.dbx file but keep getting "no messages can be found" error. tried to copy the .dbx file else where, rename the old .dbx file and reimport, also didn't work. I even tried to delete …

Hi I am running a Lotus Domino 8.5 server on Centos 5.2 x64 Linux. The installation is on a Intel server with Adaptec RAID controller 1.7Tb and the Notesdata directory is on an external Dell PowerVault MD1000 5.5Tb with RAID 5 configuration. I also have LVM2 installed. On Wednesday last …

I have got my flash content hidden, kindly assist on how to get my files.

When I am trying to open the outlook the error came like “filename.pst is not a personal folder”.. so I created one new pst and set it as default.. then I was able to open outlook, but I need old emails which is in the old filename.pst file.... it’s very …

I am supporting a customer who has a Server 2003 SBS server. We recently migrated this customer to a new Exchange 2013 server running on a Server 2012 server. Some of the mailboxes weren't exported to .PST files before this migration was done and the old Server 2003/Exchange 2003 SBS …

I need to open this pptx-file. Can anyone help me with that? Made in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and cannot been seen or open with any applications... If it can't be open, how can I fix the file.

The disk C was formatted. By means of R-Studio pulled out from it the ntuser.dat and Outlook.pst files. Through regedit I exported from ntuser.dat all branch [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem] to the .reg the file. I placed in the virtual disk the received file of the register and base with …

MS Outlook 2007. The user account domain was accidentally deleted, then created again. I received new SID. on a local computer the new local profile was created. on exchange the new box with the same name (to it access is) was created. in exchange there are 2 boxes now. How …

I just installed Win 7 pro 32bit on a Lenovo Z60m laptop. It went fine, except that there is no sound after the install. The speakers show as "unplugged". I did some "searching" and found this same problem in some older posts in various forums. Some people reportedly solved the …

It's that time of year again, and the latest [Secunia Vulnerability Review](http://secunia.com/vr2015/) has been published. This analysed anonymous data gathered from scans right across 2014 of millions of computers which have Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) installed and revealed some interesting statistics. On average, the computers used by the people …

when i choose a power plan it does nothing it shows that its active but it does nothing its stuck on power saver mode i couldnt play my games just like i used to before now whenever i restart,shutdown it reverts back to power saver ive done everything please help …

Can anybody please guide me or enlighten me on how to go about this problem, Im running on windows 7, intel i3 processor and 6 gig of ram. I am using a toshiba laptop, satellite, c840, my current bios is InsydeH2O v6.50.my registry is a mile long, and the persistent …

How to make funny questioner game @echo off Color 0 Echo Echo Echo Echo Welcome to funny questioner game Echo 1) start Echo 2) exit Set/p type= If%type%==1start 1 If%type%==2exit 1 :start Cls Color 0b Echo why does the hen lay egg? Echo Cls Echo because thy just love boiled …

Hi there, I need to buy a new netbook for my sister. She isn't IT so I don't need a super expensive and powerful machine, she will just use it for word processing and browse the internet. Does anybody have any suggestion at all? I myself have a samsung nc10 …

So it seems that an Internet Explorer zero day vulnerability allowed the back door to be opened that resulted in the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story252590.html"]hack attack on Google[/URL] and many others that has received such publicity this week. According to [URL="http://siblog.mcafee.com/cto/operation-%E2%80%9Caurora%E2%80%9D-hit-google-others/"]McAfee[/URL] it has identified an Internet Explorer vulnerability as being one of the …

Microsoft will stop releasing security updates, hotfixes and other updates for Windows XP SP2 on July 13th 2010. No biggie, you might think, after all Windows XP SP3 was released way back in April 2008 and since then we've had both Vista (perhaps best forgotten) and the much more palatable …

More often than not I'll be writing about the security problems facing Windows XP users, such as when I recently reported how a large number of enterprises are still running XP SP2 machines which will shortly [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story287954.html"]stop being supported by Microsoft[/URL] in terms of security updates, hotfixes and the like. …

Have a need to hide the toolbar yet still need to crop an image. Is there a keyboard command that would allow me to crop with the toolbar minimized? Guidance sought

Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth Here's how to Get it back: Microsoft reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..) Here's how to get it back: Click Start > Run > type "gpedit.msc" This opens the group policy editor. …

Hello! I haven't posted here in a while but I just had something happen to me that makes me extremely angry and I would like to vent, hopefully it's not a problem. For the 1 almost two years I have been running various flavors of Linux on my machine, because …

I have tryed to save it then off the computer after few day, I turne on our PC but that don't work How to open our document any method to recover my doc file? Can anybody help me?

If you've tried installing/recovering Windows from a usb boot drive before (rather than an optical drive) then you might be aware that, sometimes, the boot drive stops working. Windows refuses to boot from it anymore, and you have to recreate the drive for it to work. Is there a way …

I've always had the taskbar at the bottom of the screen not at the top, and now all of a sudden it's at the top. Can someone tell me how to restore it the way I like to have it? I looked around but did not see anyone posting this …

OS: Win XP sp2 Dell Dimmension B110 The first symptom was the onboard network connector stopped working. On reboot the blue bios screen appeared. the error number is: 0x000000A5 (0x00010007, 0x00000038, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) I have already tried removing the battery on the motherboard, and flipping the two pin connector inorder …

Please I really need urgent assistance here., I got a brand new pc and want to degrade it from win8 and install windows 7.. The computer system will not allow me to enter boot setup.. or boot from dvd.. Thanks

Hi I have heard that we can change the backgroung on the lock screen of the windows 7 ,however they are different ways to do that i have downloaded the software called Tweekslogon and iam unable to change it iam getting a pop up which says that the it Access …

hi everyone! mine is a hp intel dualcore 32-bit system.iam on win7 ultimate OS.yesterday i was trying to install win7 OS with a CD,then it was saying "no hard drive found".So i was unable to install OS .what might be the problem and what should i do,please suggest me........

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I would like to know if there is an off the shelf software program that will allow me to add a T-shirt design program to my website, or do you have to get it develped Dr. G

When I open up Adobe Photoshop and click the "open" button, and I am in a folder that has pictures in it (JPEG) The default VIEW MENU is "list" I change to "thumbnails" and all is good for selecting a picture to edit. I get done, save and then click …

I just bought a new computer and it has the newest version of Outlook (2003). My old computer has Outlook 2000 and it's been my email program for quite a long time. I don't know how to export my email messages and folders from Outlook 2000 on my old computer …

I have installed two windows XPs in my PC, how to delete one ?

How can I safely change the taskbar / explorer skin without installing any software? I really like the Vista taskbar and I would love to change it. Help would be appreciated. Thanks in Advance.

Reports are coming in thick and fast about 'state-sponsored' zero-day exploits hitting business websites in the UK. The latest, disclosed yesterday by [SophosLabs](http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/06/20/aeronautical-state-sponsored-exploit/), involves an as yet unnamed European aeronautical parts supplier and follows on from another the day before involving a European medical company site. In both cases the …