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- Import Export (MS Office Tool) 1.0 (Windows)
- Extracting and importing is a major problem. Just think, you could take a text file and import it into a program to get automatic results. The text file will be filtered to display only the data. All headings and report titles will be removed. This data then could be exported...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Data, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Spreadsheet, Tool, ED Quick Click Software, Import Export Application, Import Export, Productivity, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-03-23
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- Two ActiveX vulnerabilities make IE a toxic choice
- Two ActiveX vulnerabilities make IE a toxic choiceDude, you are the man.I just posted this at Ed Botts article.http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12354-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=66708&messageID=1260493Next I hit HOME, and VOILA, see you have just posted what I've been complaining about. GOOD JOB !LOL, let me feed your click-bait[i]I used to be a big fan of IE,...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, toxic choice, ActiveX, ActiveX vulnerability, Mozilla Firefox, vulnerability
- Discussion threads 2009-07-13
- Review: iolo System Mechanic
- There's always an arms race when it comes to the jack of all trades system tool: registry cleaner, anti-spyware, defragmenter, settings control panel. Some ZDNet readers, including myself, default to a combination of the free but popular CCleaner, Ad-Aware, Spybot Search & Destroy and an antivirus program. ...
- Tags: Hard Drive, System Mechanic, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- If you love Windows XP, you'll hate Windows 7
- If you love Windows XP, you'll hate Windows 7cmon jasonas an it guy, all i need to do with Win7 or Vista is tell my people to type in the word of the activity they're looking for in the search box. No need to remember where it is, or what...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2009-01-01
- How to ruin a perfectly good Sunday with Windows Vista
- How to ruin a perfectly good Sunday with Windows VistaI'm not a shillbut I will say that I have had wonderful experiences with Canon hardware. I owned an ip6600D that lasted me many years, then I gave it to a friend and purchased an MP970. In both cases, using the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Windows Vista, Hewlett-Packard Co., UAC, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-12-17
- My favorite Windows Vista gadgets
- When I first began using Windows Vista, I dismissed the Sidebar as a gimmick. It didn’t help that the default gadgets Microsoft offered were of limited utility and that some early gadgets caused performance problems. Over time, though, I’ve become a Sidebar convert. I haven’t encountered a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Gadget, Sidebar, ShareMaster Gadget, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote ââ¬" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- An update on the wife's computer - Ubuntu does it again
- Here's a quick update on my wife's computer. As you probably remember, an increasingly kludgy Vista Home Premium install finally irritated us enough that I installed OpenSUSE. The install went fine, but without a lot of fiddling, the Broadcom wireless card just wasn't going to do its thing....
- Tags: Ubuntu, Computer, Productivity, Linux, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover
- Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeoverStandardsWhat I want to know, does the "standards" mode remove previous IE hacks? For example, using the underscore in CSS statements would be ignored by every browser except IE. If IE8 now supports standards but STILL reads the underscore hack, this could be a...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8, IE8, Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Adrian
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Improving Windows Vista's reliability
- Improving Windows Vista's reliabilityThank you AKH...... for telling the Vista bashing universer what the rest of us already knew. The naysayers bleat loud and long about how much Vista "suxors" but the rest of us just keep on using it, crash free and stable.Yep, it does "just work."One flaw...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Improving Windows Vista, operating system, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Dear Microsoft: Please get UAC right this time
- Alex Eckelberry of Sunbelt Software vents, intelligently, about Windows Vista's UAC conundrum: UAC could certainly have been handled better. It does something the security industry has been well aware of for a long time â€" it creates the “cry wolf†problem of popup fatigue (people turn off or ignore...
- Tags: Dialog Box, Permission, Window, Control Panel, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., UAC, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Construction, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools
- Do you think Windows Vista is slow, crash-prone, or unreliable? Join the crowd. Over the past year, reviews of Windows Vista by mainstream media outlets, the technical press, bloggers, and ordinary users have been, for the most part, scathing. And many of those bad reviews were absolutely accurate. My...
- Tags: Performance, PC, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, CPU, Tool, Dialog Box, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Performance Management, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UAC
- The User Account Control feature in Windows Vista has been known to drive normally level-headed people over the edge with frustration. If you find it annoying, you might be tempted to turn it off. According to Microsoft research, somewhere between 12 and 16 percent of all Windows Vista users do...
- Tags: Program, Account, Microsoft Windows Vista, UAC, Dialog Box, OK, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Hardware 2.0 - Best software applications/tools/utilities
- A few weeks ago my blogging colleague Ed Bott posted his top 10 list of favorite Windows applications. This was an excellent list and it contained several applications that are firm favorites of mine, specifically SnagIt, Keyfinder and Process Explorer. These applications make my daily work a lot easier. Ed...
- Tags: Application, CD, Disc, ISO, Best Software, Hardware, VMware Workstation, 7-zip, Tool, DVD, Virtual CD, Fraps, CDBurnerXP, UltraEdit, Foxit Reader, Productivity, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- My 10 favorite Windows programs of all time
- I’ve been using Windows for nearly two decades, and during that time I’ve tried hundreds of programs. Most come and go, but a handful have stood the test of time for me by solving a particular problem particularly well. In this article and accompanying gallery, I list...
- Tags: Program, Folder, Password, Page, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Product, Microsoft Windows Vista, Search Technology, Microsoft Corp., Requirement, RoboForm, FeedDemon, FinePrint Software, Process Explorer, Clipboard, Updates, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Vista Hands On #13: Connect to a shared folder on a Linux machine
- Vista Hands On #13: Connect to a shared folder on a Linux machineNFS is Unix/Linux's "workgroup" systemIf you enable NFS on your Linux server then you can export directories to other systems running NFS clients.Given that you're running Samba OK I would stick with that for now.Install Webmin Ed. You...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista, Readership, Linux, password, Samba, Linux server, Network File System
- Discussion threads 2007-03-29
- Quick Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Herd 5 gallery
- Quick Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Herd 5 galleryLet me know how the network applet works for youbecause on 7.04h5 it makes a botch of it and I end up using ifconfig to get it working.Biggest hurdlesLinux, IMO, has two big hurdles to over come, one technical, and the other ideological.The...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-03-14
- How to avoid a FAT nightmare when upgrading to Vista
- How to avoid a FAT nightmare when upgrading to VistaGood Grief Charlie BrownAfter consulting with our resident Windows expert Ed Bott, we've confirmed that Windows does indeed leave a lot to be desired? To sum up, Microsoft's messages are confusing or in error. An upgrade path for a large number...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Acer Inc., Microsoft Windows, Murphy
- Discussion threads 2007-02-14
- With some reviewers, Microsoft can't win
- With some reviewers, Microsoft can't winCustomers are like that....... we get similar things on frequent enough basis to be well used to it. The phrase [i]"Can we have facility xxxxx?"[/i] followed some time later by [i]"Can you remove facility xxxxx?"[/i]. On follow up the most common reason for removal is...
- Tags: Backups, Microsoft Corp., backup, Pogue
- Discussion threads 2006-12-19
- Microsoft tries to lure 'mom and pop' companies
- Microsoft tries to lure 'mom and pop' companiesBSOD belongs to the pastits now green, from what I heard, innit?Dude, do you have any idea how STUPIDyour baseless ranting appears to EVERYONE?Wait until these people see how much LOST productivity they......experience with MICROSUCKS products. And wait until they have to tell...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, BSOD, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2006-10-30
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