Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category

Missing address bar

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Best tip I have found in a long time Follow these steps if you find your address bar missing from the taskbar, after you install XP SP3 1. create a new bar on the taskbar from the options still available (Links for example) 2. drag it to the desktop to undock it (it will ...

Windows XP SP3

Friday, May 9th, 2008

The verdict is in. Unless you have a brand new fresh clean install of Windows XP, proceed with caution. Even then you might want to stick to SP2. If for some twisted, sadistic reason you need to install SP3, I beg you to read the following web page first: Installing Windows ...

Mail migration

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Not much going on this week. I spent part of Friday afternoon helping an office worker in Norwood migrate their old PC running Windows 2000 to a new dell 530 running XP. One of the things they were truly happy about was that XP had spider solitaire. Switching the mail ...