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  1. papadba

    How to "read" very large files?

    We often receive files that are too large to open with notepad, wordpad, etc. At several places i've supported, there was proprietary code that did not need to open the entire file at the start. It opened some small amount and then allowed one to scroll forward thru the data. Is anhyone aware...
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    Overhead for having multiple users defined

    It has become my understanding (gotten from various conversations rather than documented) that whan an XP system has multiple users defined, there is a Lot of Extra Overhead. If one were to delete all of the but one, the overhead is still there because the multiple definitions service is still...
  3. papadba

    MS Secutity Essentials - Locks up

    Rather frequently my Win7 pc locks with no diagnostic info shown. The system just freezes. Sometimes, the mouse can be moved about, sometimes not. Windows can neither be closed nor opened. When i try to run the full scan it runs for quite a while (different amounts of time) and then locks up...
  4. papadba

    Use Blank Page option missing

    Recently a visitor (grandson) "upgraded" this machine (one reserved for visitors<g>) to IE 10. This caused the homepage to be set MSN. On all of our machines, we use a blank page as the homepage. In prior releases of IE, there was an option to "use blank page" to set the homepage. It is not...
  5. papadba

    Internal format of an Excel spreadsheet

    Does anyone have a link to a document that describes how an Excel spreadsheet in composed? We have downloaded many data-delimited filesw and one of our users wants to have the downloaded file automagically stored on multiple sheets. The data is beiong generated on an IBM mainframe. Our goal...
  6. papadba

    Any experience running IBM Mainframe apps in the cloud?

    I have been asked to find if/how Mainframe applications might be ported to the cloud and run "as-is". Does anyone have such experience? Thanks
  7. papadba

    &quot;PcAnywhere&quot; functionality in Windows 7?

    My wife and i recently installed a new Windows 7 system for her Mom (who lives about 200 miles away). We are her "support". Is there anything built-in with Windows 7 that would allow us to connect to her system and look at / fix "things"? We'd porefer Not spending the $ for PcAnywhere. Thanks
  8. papadba

    Folders/Files morphed to Shortcuts

    What is the name of the malware that changes folders and filenames to shortcuts? Thanks.
  9. papadba

    Save a pasworded Word document to a newname w/o the password

    We have several "common use" documents that are password protected so that the "master" is not modified. When one has the document open as read only, a copy may be saved locally, but when this is opened later, it still has the original (and unpublished) password. How can the copy be saved...

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