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Help Card

12 February, 2008 (10:36) | Office Productivity | By: admin

Most companies have a number of business they deal with that offer support.

Why not make a help card that employees can refer to with the most common and/or most important two or three numbers called? Here is an example:

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Sharp AL-1655CS Drum Reset

22 January, 2008 (17:04) | Office Productivity, Technology | By: admin

This wasn’t our best buy. The numbers looked good before purchase but I think we could have bought something a bit more sturdy.

Anyhow, I had to search high and low to get a drum code reset and here it is

#*C* - Enter 24-07 and Start - Then reset the printer.

It is as easy as that.

Microsoft Office 2007 and Office XP Compatibility

21 January, 2008 (14:31) | Office Productivity, Technology | By: admin

If you downloaded the Microsoft Office 2007 trial and decided that your Microsoft Office XP will continue to suit you just fine than you will need to download the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. This provides support for reading Microsoft Office 2007 formats in Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP, and Microsoft Office 2003.

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Kraft Disk Notcher

18 January, 2008 (14:52) | Office Productivity, Technology | By: admin

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Remember these? Long ago there was a time that we used floppy disks that were actually floppy. The 5.25 inch disks is what most households had who had computers with disk drives. The common format was a singled sided 5.25 inch 180K disk.

5.25 inch floppy disks had a hole along the side that when covered acted as a mechanical write protect when this hole was covered.  This notcher would put a hole in the flip side of the disk so the drive would think you were working with an unprotected disk when you flipped it over. In effect you now have 360K to work with on a single disk.

Floppy disk manufactures didn’t tell you that the single sided disks they were selling actually were double sided disks. These manufacturers eventually came out with the statement that the flip side often contain manufacturing errors. I had no problems on the flip sides when I used this device.

It became unnecessary to use this device once you upgraded your hardware to a double sided disk drive.

KB941644 and KB943460 Causing msxml3.dll 000ad503 errors with IE7

16 January, 2008 (12:25) | Technology | By: admin

After a lengthy non productive chat with Chrysler tech support for the Chrysler dealer website I decided to do some investigation.  I started going through miscellaneous recent Microsoft updates that included msxml3.dll. KB936021 from mid December has msxml3.dll. I uninstalled this update to make this go away:

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I rebooted and checked but no luck.

Trial and error let to uninstalling KB941568, a requirement for KB941644. And success it works again.