Saturday, October 30, 2010

Windows Live Mesh


Moved to Live Mesh, because Live Sync will stop in a couple of months. The migration is not as easy as one would expect/hope. Most files were synced, but quite a few kept "waiting to sync". Turns out that many are old files of different editions among various connected computers. Never was an issue with Live Sync. For example, many of the albumart jpgs in music folder gave problems. Deleting the problem files is the solution, although a few needed to be re-downloaded.
Another issue is the initial MOE demand on the CPU. When the program first starts it fully consumes CPU, but this drops to a few % after the computer has synced (can take hours over wireless connection with large folders). It now behaves the same as live sync and foldershare before that, so no concerns.
I use the cloud storage for one folder, allowing access from other computers. Good for talks and class materials when the laptop fails.

Friday, October 01, 2010

Word 2010 Freezes at start without any error message

Word 2010 Freezes at start without any error message
follow the links in this Q/A: start /a (safe) version, then deactivate add-ins, especially old one (like 2007 demo and others), then quit word and restart as normal.

Friday, September 28, 2007

Vista and Outlook search

Search in Outlook 2007 not working on Vista

this was a known issue -if you had installed an Office 2003 product on top of Office 2007. the work around was quite easy: simply repair Office 2007 to reset the registry keys:

1.Exit all 2007 Office programs.

2. Click StartStart button, type appwiz.cpl in the Start Search box, and then click appwiz.cpl in the Programs list.
 User Account Control permission If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type your password, or click Continue.

3. In the Uninstall or change a program list, click Microsoft Office Version 2007, and then click Change.

4. In the Microsoft Office Version 2007 dialog box, click Repair, and then click Continue.

Published Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:29 PM by Charles_Sterling