214 days ago by David

A fully standardised install only takes us so far. At some point you have to cater to the stuff that doesn’t fit in with the standardised stuff. This article is about the extra bits that help Office 2003. What do I install? Pretty much just the file format converters to allow Office 2003 to read fil ...

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216 days ago by David

Vista Sidebar Gadgets A sidebar gadget lives in it’s own separate directory (that might have sub-directories), all the files needed for that gadget live in that directory. Vista then stores these gadget directories in a number of places, each offering a different level of visibility on the computer. ...

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216 days ago by JP-GADGET

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216 days ago by David

Registry Hacks for XP Along with the standard utilities I install, there’s also a selection of little registry hacks that I’ve chosen to standardise on. I should note that this is by no means an exhaustive list of possibilities. I’d also note that my agenda here is to keep things relatively “normal ...

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217 days ago by David

Royale Theme for XP This is basically the theme used for Media Centre editions of Windows XP. At various times, it has been made available for download directly from Microsoft (particularly Microsoft New Zealand who also released some NZ-theme wallpapers). Wikipedia has a pretty good explanation if ...

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217 days ago by David

Windows PowerToys Microsoft released a series of small utilities for Windows XP under the banner of PowerToys. They don’t seem to have an equivalent for Vista so I only install these on Windows XP. The actual tools I’ve chosen to install are: ClearType PowerToy - adds a control panel applet to set/t ...

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217 days ago by David

CrossLoop CrossLoop forms part of the customer support strategy I use in the business. It lets us do a remote desktop connection to a customer computer using, essentially, a custom VNC client. The biggest advantage is that CrossLoop seems to be able to navigate through NAT routers and firewalls with ...

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217 days ago by David

Windows Media Player v11 Vista has WiMP 11 included so this really only applies to Windows XP. My workshop still does enough work on Windows XP to warrant inclusion of this package - if only on the basis of reducing the Windows Update downloads. The download for WiMP v11 is here. The install command ...

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217 days ago by David

Microsoft SyncToy A nice little free tool from Microsoft that lets you synchronise data between your computer and a USB pen drive (actually, it will work between other directories too). The most recent version I can find is SyncToy v2.0 which can be downloaded here. The silent install for SyncToy is ...

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217 days ago by David

Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer The silent installers setup on my build disc includes Firefox which has it’s own toolbar-based search capability (Google included). Installing the toolbar for Internet Explorer keeps all bases covered no matter what browser might be in use at the time. In this ca ...

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