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I haven't had any problems opening PDFs with PDFMate, including most recently a 4.7 MB price list with a lot of images and graphical elements on which it did a good job of extracting the text,...

I use PDFMate PDF Converter for this purpose (pdfmate.com, also on CNET).

They have a free version. It does come with a bunch of junk, but the install program is refreshingly upfront and...

According to this MSFT KB article:
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2839011
it is necessary to uninstall one of the patches from this week's patch Tuesday batch due to BSODs on a significant number...

Hmmm - maybe we should start a new pool for when you turn the heat back on.

With temps forecast around 40 deg F in your area, I'm thinking tonight or tomorrow.

Here 200 miles to your north we...

As a test, copy a few of those files into a temporary folder.
Open a CMD window, navigate to that folder and type: rename *"AT&T"*.* *BELL*.*
That should change the AT&T substring in the filename...

Task manager says the associated process is explorer.exe.

That suggests (to your humble servant at least) that the search is part of explorer or is called by explorer (likely from a dll) and is...

That NEC/RENESAS micro PD720200 USB 3.0 controller was one of the first, and has had several firmware upgrades. Googling gives several hits for driver sources (none from NEC), though several from...

Hi Zig

Oops, bit of a brain fart there - meant SP2. Thanks.

Jock

Excellent tips from jgstanley and Banyarola to overcome this annoyance! Thanks.

In prehistoric times keyboards used to have LEDs that indicated when Caps or Num lock were enabled. That was very...

Lack of native USB 3 support in Win 7 is a pita - I wonder if that is fixed in 8. Had hoped it would be addressed in SP1, but now it looks like due to premature release of 8 there never will be a SP1...

SAM by VBOffice has this feature:
http://vboffice.net/product.html?lang=en&cmd=detail&id=2009109

Haven't used it myself, so cannot really recommend it, but for what it's worth ...

Jock

Is your wireless network defined as a public network? That will prevent accessing your shares over that network.

Check the Network and Sharing Center - the network should be a home network.

Jock

Microsoft has a free PPS viewer app available. Install it and .pps files should open automatically:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13

I would personally have no problem with this - the methodology is used very extensively; most sites using it are not upfront in letting the users know it is there. Since it doesn't require offsite...

What app are you using to edit the file? Have you closed the app before trying to attach?
Are you running a real-time virus scanner or backup program?
What type of disk are you saving to? Is it...

If you are running XP Pro, this can be done via the Group Policy editor.

I believe it can also be done by updating the registry. The link below gives instructions for Win 7, and I believe XP is...

Well, the trusty dir command with the /tc option will output the file list with creation date as the displayed and/or sort date. Redirect the output to a file and I think you have the list you need....

Agree with Dogberry, it's not the battery.

Battery monitoring is fairly complex. "Intelligent" batteries interface with the BIOS which accumulates stats and makes them available to the battery...

That is indeed the way the Windows backup works. When you specify a given drive as the target the first time, it creates a folder in the root directory with an 11 hex char string as a name which has...

@BruceR

I was attempting to say, perhaps inelegantly as the politicians say, that per the timeline the newsletter folks knew it was a hack at some unspecified time on Sep 17, yet administrator...

Agree with Medico that WS newsletter has been refreshingly forthright and honest with its subscribers first of all in admitting to having been hacked and also in providing a meaningful, useful...

Hi Paul H

According to the user manual for your machine:
http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/manuals/acer/0000/userguides/AS5110_5100_3100-ENG-OLM_0425.pdf

you can use Fn key plus right arrow to...

The gmail notifier is available as a separately downloadable application here:
http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/notifier_windows.html

That will enable you to get notifications even if you...

If by the PC Era we mean the era of the desktop, I think that is far from over, but rapidly becoming more of a niche. Laptops, notebooks and now pads and even smartphones are eroding the desktop...

I think you are looking for a "gmail notifier". Google that and you will get a few. One is included as part of the Google toolbar, and there are others which are browser addins.

Jock