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I admit it. I'm a late adopter, and I stay with things wayy too long. And I'm sort of a "If it ain't broke don't fix it" person. But my current work laptop is 7 years old! So here I am asking for thougts on buying a new laptop. My current laptop is: HP G71 with 17" screen, 1600x900 max res...

We're creating a reporting data mart that is fed in large part with data from Great Plains. We need descriptive data field names, and really should have textual definitions for the fields. I've not seen any of this. Any ideas how to get human readable names and definitions?

In Windows XP, I have files and folders unhidden. But I'd like to hide just certain folders, not all that area marked hidden. Is there a way to selectively hide folders?

Something happened, and I can't open Word documents in IE anymore. When we try to open a Word document in a webpage, it appears to try to open, but IE gets a blank window with a Red X in the upper left hand corner. I can usually right click the document in the webpage and save it to disk, but...

In the old days, we'd look in autoexec.bat and config.sys for programs that automatically started. Then when Windows got here, we'd also look in win.ini and system.ini. Then it was these, plus the startup folder. But I've looked in all these places, and a lot of what starts isn't there. So...

I often see traffic on the firewall that I didn't know was happening. So I look at what it is (using ZoneAlarm) and it says repeatedly one of two things: 1. Messenger 2. Generic host PRocess for Win32 Server. I've disalbled and stopped the Messenger service under Adminstrative...

I never used to have to logon, since I'm the only user on my computer, unless I had the network card in when I boot, and then it would give me the logon screen. But now, every time I log on, networked or not, I get this logon box. And even when I'm on the network I don't require a userid, since...

How does demo software know when to time out and quit working? I downloaded a piece of demo software 3 years ago, and it was new and not really ready for prime time yet. So I deleted it, all of it I thought. Today, I saw the new improved version, and thought I'd give it a try again. But it...