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Format one cell then copy and "paste special" "formats" to other cells.

Very easy to do with Windows Vista parental controls and also with McAfee parental controls. You probably don't want to "upgrade" to Vista, but the McAfee is probably a reasonable solution.

The easiest way is with Group Policy. Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Internet Explorer / Security FEATURES (?) / Restrict File Download / It's also helpful to disable the information bar warning FEATURE (?) which is just below the above setting.

The OWA browser page needs to be in each user's intranet or trusted security zone with the security option for automatic logon enabled for that zone.

In Outlook, select File, New, Outlook Data File. Name it what you like. Drag and drop what you want to save into it. After moving data, right-click the new file and select close. Whenever you need to access the old data, select File, Open, Outlook Data File and open and close it as needed. I...

On some pages, scripts may do this. In Internet Options, Tabs - Settings, check "Warn when closing multiple tabs". Then before going to a page that seems to close itself, open a second tab to another site. Then if a web page is closing itself, you will get a warning message asking if you want to...

Yes - you need to reinstall Reader after the IE upgrade.

Do the problem machines have spyware blockers that could be blocking scripts? Is the Windows Update level current on all clients? On a problem client, try adding the problem site to the Trusted Sites Zone (instead of the local intranet). That has helped me find security settings that kept...

In IE settings for Local Intranet Security check "Sites" and see if intranet sites are automatically detected or not. If a site was manually added in the sites list under "advanced", make sure "require server verification" isn't checked. Also, in the security settings, make sure IE is set for...

Sounds like it could be a hardware problem memory went bad or unseated in socket. You're talking percentages - what is the actual memory ...

This script will also resolve that issue: Dim WshShell Set WshShell=Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") WshShell.Run """C:\Program WshShell.Run ""RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8"" WshShell.Run ""RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 1""

This is a script file that I run every now and then to reset the directory to C:\Download ... Dim WSHShell Set WSHShell=Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") WSHShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download Directory", "C:\Download", "REG_SZ"

Although it doesn't address your issue specifically, this addon Microsoft service may help ... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en

In Windows XP Pro you can do that with the group policy editor.

Search for all instances of the file desktop.ini and delete them. Then repeat setting one folder and applying to all.