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Windows Mobile – Can’t send Email
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I ran into a problem with my Samsung Saga running Windows Mobile 6.1. I was in a location where I was using wireless and the wireless provider had blocked the email ports. I thought “No problem, I’ll just send this when I get outside”. I was still getting the error that “The message(s) cannot be sent…”
Continue reading No tags for this post.An easy way to find the .net version running on your machine.
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I am working with a client to find a piece of software that will meet his needs. One of the software packages requires .net 3.5 or higher. Many of the solutions required downloading software or opening the registry. I found a much simpler solution.
Continue reading No tags for this post.Dell offering XP again
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It appears that Dell is once again offering XP to purchasers of new Dell Systems.
The problems with Vista are
Continue readingFound a potential huge disk space hog… Windows CD writer
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I was working with a client’s machine the other day trying to free up some disk space. They had less than 1 gig left and the machine was getting a little quirky. The amount of space used just didn’t make sense.
Continue readingVista Home Premium and a Photosmart A512 printer shared on XP
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I just got a laptop primarily for the road that runs on Vista Home Premium. I was setting up the printers from the home office and ran into a nightmare with an HP Photosmart A512 printer that was shared off an XP Home machine.
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Vista and Serif Photoplus
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Well, I’m still working with Vista Home Premium on the new laptops.
We’ve had some issues and some successes.
Continue readingVista, Norton and Total Appraisal
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We are still advising most of our business clients to try to purchase new machines with XP Pro instead of Vista. We were just referred to a new client who had been going through a nightmare trying to network 3 machines running Wintotal’s Aurora Appraisal Software. They had been hit by lightning and had to purchase new machines. They went with Vista Home Premium.
Continue readingVista and Remote Differential Compression
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We ran into a major problem when we were running our first Vista based laptop. The file copy times over the network were horrendous. Slow just barely describes the copy speed. A guy with a quill pen, parchment and an ink bottle could have copied the files faster.
Continue reading No tags for this post.Vista and Norton Internet Security not playing well together
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We had one computer where the trial version of NIS had expired so we loaded one license from a 3 pack of NIS. Prior to loading it, I believe we ran the Norton removal tool. Everything went well.
We had a second laptop running Vista home premium and did the same thing.
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