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We give an employee in our home "restricted account" PC access that is supposedly only for basic e-mail and casual web browsing. We think it is being massively abused, but I'd like to be sure before questioning or blocking PC access altogether. The Parental Controls app inherent to Vista isn't...

I did a search of the forums, but didn't turn up any relevant threads. I have a Vista PC where I want the user account to be automatically logged off after say 15 minutes of inactivity. Seems like this would be a common requirement that would be built into the OS, but no luck so far finding...

Nope. This is not another question about clearing Explorer history! In older versions, the history drop down inside Internet Explorer showed ONLY visited website addresses. In the new version, it still shows the addresses, but it also shows all the folders on my C drive that have recently...

I know how to create a drop down box that populates with data from a range of cells. However, I had a spreadsheet from a friend one time that had a feature I'm trying to put in one of mine. I can't remember the command to do it. Here is a sample data set: DATE CUSTOMER NOTES 1/1/2008...

My HD was split into a large drive (C:) and there was a smaller (D:) drive sized at about 15 GB. I have no idea what the D: drive was for, but there was 0 bytes of data on it. Some time ago, I figured out how to delete the drive using Vista's Disk Management tool. Is there any way to add the...

My company uses a web based app to pull customer data from a local machine's Outlook contacts database. Our IT folks tell me it uses something called "Collaboration Data Objects". App works fine for all those using Outlook 2003 & down, but it locks up my machine which is on Office 2007. When...

2 quick issues, both related to default print settings. I can't figure out how to change these. #1 - In the comments & forms section at the top of the Print screen pop-up, the setting always defaults to "Document and Stamps". I need the default to be "Document and Markups". #2 - We just...

We have 5 machines (4 XP Pro, 1 Vista Home) on a small office network. There is a shared directory on all 5 machines for an Outlook add-in called "C:\osasync". The Vista machine can access this directory on all machines, and the 4 XP machines can access each other with no problem. The Vista...

My brand new Vista PC ran fine for about a week, and then the integral search features stopped working. Biggest problem is that now I can't search e-mails in Outlook 2007. Whenever I try, this error comes up: "Outlook is currently indexing your items. Search results may be incomplete as...

We had an excellent discussion on anti-virus software. It's probably buried several pages deep now as it was pretty much beat to death. Based on that thread, my company decided to punt the Norton suite. In doing so, we also lost the web page banner blocking capability. I've tried a couple of...

After our network connection fiasco (thread buried somewhere below), we've decided to officially PUNT Norton. The software works great, but it's too much of a resource hog & we're constantly having to tweak it to work with our other legitimate software. Both AVG and BitDefender get really good...

We have 4 desktop PC's on a small office network. They are all members of "Workgroup". They all used to communicate together fine, but a problem has popped up with 2 of the 4. I can't figure out what in the world is going on. Click on My Network Places / Workgroup Computers, and all 4 PC's...

I work in a small office (~5 desktop PC's) with a limited operations budget. We have successfully used Office 2002 for the last several years, but are about ready to pursue an upgrade. Of course Microsoft will say that any upgrades are completely seamless, but my experience shows that with a...

Have these 2 products "merged" as the various service packs have come out? My boot up screen at home used to have a XP Home logo & my work boot up screen used to say XP Professional. Now both simply say Windows XP. I'm contemplating a format/re-install at home to clean things up a bit. 4...

Some ghost setting has gotten changed somewhere & it's driving me nuts. I used to be able to put in a phone number as aaaeeennnn. When I tabbed off the field, Outlook would automatically format the number as (aaa)eee-nnnn. If I put in eeennnn, it would do the same thing and automatically...

After looking around, I can't find a forum that this fits in. Please feel free to redirect me if I'm in the wrong spot. My wife got me a video iPod for Christmas & I am looking for a good video converter for AVI and MPG's. Anyone have any recommendations? Thanks in advance! ~Vol

Not looking for anything fancy or extremely full featured. I just want a basic file shredder for security purposes. The main 3 requirements are: 1 - Inexpensive (preferably $20 or less; freeware or shareware would be awesome!) 2 - Integrate into right-click menus for on the fly, secure file...

*** cross posted in MS Office forum *** We recently installed OSASync, an Outlook add-in to synchronize our office contact lists. Everything is working fine except one machine. This machine somehow wound up with around 4300 deleted contacts in the Deleted Items folder. I've tried every...

We recently installed OSASync, an Outlook add-in to synchronize our office contact lists. Everything is working fine except one machine. This machine somehow wound up with around 4300 deleted contacts in the Deleted Items folder. I've tried every gyration I can think of to get rid of them...