Okay, so yesterday we discussed the placement of graphics (for example, company logos) into the header of an MS Excel worksheet.

Now, if you're a Word user, you may have wanted that same ability in your documents and you may have took the initiative to look for that Insert Picture button found in Excel's custom header window.

But, when the Header/Footer toolbar opened, you didn't find the button, did you?

So, what now?

Well, believe it or not, but it's no more difficult to insert the logo into a Word header (or footer, for that matter) than it is in the body of the document.

That's right! It's basically the same process, but let's review it to make sure everyone is up to speed.

First, you need to get into the header/footer section.

If you already have an established header or footer and are in the Print Layout View, you can quickly double click in that area and it will become canadian cialis active for editing.

Otherwise, you can use the View menu, Header/Footer choice.

Either way, with the header open, you can proceed with the graphic insertion.

With the cursor in the header, go to the Insert menu, Picture submenu and then select what type of graphic you're inserting.

Find your graphic and insert it as you would any other time.

Close the header.

Poof!

Your logo is now in the header (or footer), just as you imagined!

by Greg Shultz | Jan 4, 2006

Takeaway: Did you know that unless you uninstall a device driver on a Windows XP machine that it still may be sucking up valuable system resources? Here are step-by-step instructions on how you can view and remove these unnecessary devices.

When you install a device driver on a Windows XP machine, the operating system loads that driver each time the computer boots regardless of whether the device is present—unless you specifically uninstall the driver. This means that drivers from devices that you have long since removed from your system may be wasting valuable system resources.

Follow these steps to view and remove these unnecessary device drivers:

1. Press [Windows]+[Break] to bring up the System Properties dialog box.

2. Select the Advanced tab and click the Environment Variables button.

3. Click the New button below the System Variables panel.

4. In the New System Variable dialog box, type devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices in the Variable Name text box and 1 buying cialis without prescription in the Variable Value text box.

5. Click OK to return to the System Properties dialog box and then click OK again.

6. Select the Hardware tab and click the Device Manager button.

7. In Device Manager, go to View | Show Hidden Devices.

8. Expand the various branches in the device tree and look for the washed out icons, which indicate unused device drivers.

9. To remove an unused device driver, right-click the icon and select Uninstall.

Pasted from <http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-6017628.html?tag=nl.e064>

Date: September 19th, 2007

Blogger: Greg Shultz

If you need to copy output from a command and paste it into a Windows program, such as Notepad, while working at the command buying cialis without a prescription prompt, chances are you’ll try to use the Mark and Copy commands on the command prompt’s Edit menu. A better way to get information from a command prompt and onto the Clipboard is the Clip.exe command line tool.

Clip.exe comes with Windows Server 2003, but it also works in Windows XP Professional. Simply copy Clip.exe from the Windows\System32 directory on a Windows Server 2003 system, and then paste it into the Windows\System32 directory on a Windows XP system. (If you don’t have access to Windows Server 2003, you can download a copy of Clip.exe from Daniel Petri’s IT Knowledgebase site.)

Once you have a copy of Clip.exe on your Windows XP system, using it is as easy as appending the pipe and the clip command (| clip) to the end of your command line. For example, you can use this command to copy the directory listing to the clipboard (Dir | clip), or you can use it to collect, copy, and paste the results of the Ipconfig command (Ipconfig /all | clip).

Note: This tip applies only to Windows XP Professional.

Pasted from <http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=521&tag=nl.e064>

By Charles Cooper, News.com

Published on ZDNet News: Oct 5, 2007 4:00:00 AM

Remember the initial hoo-ha that greeted Netscape in the mid-'90s? The idea being that a new computing platform–in this case the Web browser–would obviate the need to use Microsoft Windows anymore.

That fired imaginations. Instead of writing applications chained to a proprietary operating system, developers would build programs that ran on top of the Internet browser.

Microsoft was dead in the water. Or so a lot of smart people wanted to believe.

Even Netscape's co-founder, Marc Andreessen, got caught up in the hype, famously dismissing Windows as a "poorly debugged set of device drivers." A lot of people felt the same way. If the industry was about to embrace Web-centric computing, Microsoft would be in danger of losing its hegemony over desktop computing.

Of course, if I had a nickel for every time some smarty-pants claimed to have found a surefire Microsoft killer, I wouldn't have to meet deadlines for a living. The optimistic scenario obviously didn't work out the way Andreessen and his fellow travelers hoped it would. But the final coda had yet to be engraved on this story.

Microsoft is getting used to living–and competing for your loyalty–in a brave new world.

Now comes the announcement of a new product from Adobe Systems that intrigues me–as much for what it suggests about Adobe's ambitions as for what it might presage about the future.

I'm simplifying, but Adobe Integrated Runtime, or AIR, lets you build applications that are kind of the best of both worlds. That is, they'll run in a Web browser or as a standard client app on your desktop (and, presumably, OS-agnostic, too).

There's a lot of activity in this field–including the rise of browser-based Office competitors. This cross-platform development approach has been attempted before. Sun is still trying with Java on desktop. The company announced Java FX at JavaOne this year.

Of course, there are some potential limitations. People can do a lot with scripting languages. (That's where Ajax comes in. You can write an AIR application with an Ajax toolkit.) buy real cialis online Adobe's doing Photoshop Express with scripting, but some apps still will require the native OS. But to the degree that any of this is successful, it means the further marginalization of Windows (someday, maybe).

We can quibble over who's got the better technology, but there's a bigger picture to consider. With all the recent advances in Web development the last couple of years, this is emerging as a golden era for users. We're up for grabs and now we've got options–lots of them.

When former Sun CEO Scott McNealy and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison were barnstorming around the country during the bubble trying to sell the world on the network computer, it was–as McNealy was wont to say on other occasions–all hat and no cattle. (Sorry Scott, but I couldn't resist.) The big reason the network computer approach failed to work was the "cloud" factor. Critics like Microsoft would (rightly) note that it was impossible to work on your spreadsheet or word processing documents unless you were first connected to the Internet. If you needed 24-7 access to your stuff, you had to pay The Man.

But a product like AIR, which is still in beta, allows people to do their work offline. They can drag and drop graphics or text between Web and desktop applications without first needing to be online. One potential negative: AIR is another proprietary plug-in and people may not want to write to it because it's Adobe's technology and consumers may get sick of downloading yet one more download.

In public, Adobe's observing diplomatic protocol. Instead of waving a red flag in front of Microsoft, Adobe execs dismiss any suggestion that they're spoiling for a fight with Microsoft (or the Java development community, for that matter.) Speaking earlier in the week with my CNET News.com colleague Martin LaMonica, Adobe's chief software architect Kevin Lynch offered this gem of an understatement: "Microsoft is trying to bring the .Net community to the Web. We are really focused on bringing the larger Web community to the desktop. It's two different approaches. It's not a head-on thing–it's just two groups of developers," Lynch said. "Our bet is on the Web."

I'm not sure that's going to mollify the folks in Redmond. But Microsoft is getting used to living–and competing for your loyalty–in a brave new world.

Pasted from <http://news.zdnet.com/2010-3513_22-6211802.html>

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• Date: September 29th, 2007
• Blogger: Paul Mah

Microsoft has bowed to pressure from customers and will allow large manufacturers to continue selling PCs with Windows XP preloaded until June 30, 2008. This is an additional five months from the original January 31, 2008 date.

If you recall, we reported just last week on how Microsoft has softened its stance and has been quietly allowing PC makers to furnish a “downgrade” to Windows XP for customers who request it. Allowing PC makers to furnish a downgrade, or selling it with XP preloaded, reduces the hassle to system administrators. This is especially true for larger orders.

Microsoft now plans to keep XP on retail shelves even longer. In fact, computer makers in emerging markets will be allowed to build machines with Windows XP Starter Edition until June of 2010.

Excerpt from Microsoft extends Windows XP’s stay on News.com:

Kutz [Kevin Kutz is a director in Microsoft’s Windows Client unit] said Microsoft had seen similar demand patterns with past releases and noted that in the past, old operating systems remained available for around 18 months after the release of a new operating system.

“While Windows Vista sales are still going strong… we recognize there are some customers that need more time,” Kutz said.

Any wagers that the June 30 date will be pushed back again?

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