Software-Help

Lost a DreamSpark product key?

May 14, 2013 · 1 min read · microsoft higher-education ·

Microsoft DreamSpark is a great resource for staff and students in Higher Education- it gives you access to many Microsoft packages for free, so if you haven’t already got access then I’d recommend looking into it.

One request that I often face is from students who have downloaded Windows 7 from DreamSpark via the …

Functional Dependency Symbol in Word

Apr 22, 2013 · 1 min read · microsoft word ·

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If you’re writing functional dependencies in a Microsoft Word 2010 document and want to insert the “Long Rightwards Arrow From Bar” symbol you should select “Symbol” from the Insert Ribbon(in Word 2010), and then on the Symbol dialog window select the “Segoe UI Symbol” font and you will find the symbol in the …
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Unable to open current profile error in Battlefield 2

Apr 8, 2013 · 2 min read · gaming ·

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I had a brand new installation of Battlefield 2 today, provided via Steam, which upon opening would give a “LOGERROR_unable to open current profile” error message and then close before I was able to play the game.
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Command Prompt Here in Windows 7

Mar 14, 2013 · 1 min read · microsoft windows ·

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In Windows XP there was a downloadable PowerToy called “Open Command Window Here” which could open a command prompt window from Explorer and set the starting directory in the command prompt to the currently selected directory in Explorer. Windows 7 has this feature built in, and here’s how to use it. The (short) …

How to determine Domain Functional Level

Jan 16, 2013 · 1 min read · active-directory microsoft windows ·

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How to determine Domain Functional Level

Not an everyday task this (once you’ve checked it you can usually remember what the level is!), but here’s how to find the Domain Functional Level of your Active Directory domain and whilst there check for any trust relationships with other domains.
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Disabling Alt-Print Screen in Evernote with Skitch installed

Dec 20, 2012 · 1 min read · evernote ·

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If you’re using Evernote Skitch for Windows you will notice that the Alt-Print Screen key combination now opens up Skitch rather than copying a snapshot of the current window to the Clipboard. Whilst I’m a big fan of the Evernote/ Skitch combination and the clipping, I want to retain the Alt-Print Screen combo for …
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Evernote Skitch for Windows

Dec 6, 2012 · 1 min read · evernote ·

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Evernote Skitch is now available for Windows, first impressions of the app on my Windows 7 desktop are good, it’s recreating the simplicity of the Android app very well.<–more–> More details here- http://blog.evernote.com/2012/10/25/skitch-for-windows-desktop-and-skitch-for-windows-8-are-here/

Generating Reports in WinDirStat

Nov 30, 2012 · 1 min read · windirstat ·

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To use WinDirStat to generate reports of disk usage you need to have either Outlook or Outlook Express installed as the reports are generated as an email.<–more–> Without one of these mail clients an “unknown error” message is shown. (found in version 1.1.2.80)

Evernote Clipper

Nov 22, 2012 · 1 min read · evernote ·

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I use Evernote a lot for note-taking, keeping track of ideas, code snippets, conversations, and so on. One of the great added features on the Windows desktop is the Clipper functionality. This is a great screen clipper- by pressing Win-Key and Prnt-Scrn together (on Windows 7, Windows 8 uses that “charm” …

Keeping Digital Photos safe

Nov 22, 2012 · 2 min read ·

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Fairly regularly at work I’m asked what I do to keep my digital photos safe. This question usually comes from someone who’s just had a hard disk failure or similar and lost their photo collection. At home my budget (like most people’s) doesn’t run to a Storage Area Network with fault-tolerant, …
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