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I'm trying to open an xlsx document in Windows 7 Pro 32bit with Office 2003 SBE and the latest Office Compatibility Pack and it doesn't recognize the xlsx file. I have found the problem/s: The immediate problem: The version of Office 2003 didn't have Service Pack 3...

Just got this error when running vmware convertor on Windows 7 to transfer an XP image to ESXi 4. Looks like VMWare Convertor can't find the files. Opening the Virtual PC's settings and you find that it is referencing a `Parent Disk'. Copy the this file to the same...

I want to schedule a defrag for every day at 5:30PM. This is on an old Windows XP Pro laptop. I can never remember what the abbreviations used to denote the names of the weekdays are for the `at' command so here is an example: at 18:30 /every:M,T,W,Th,F,S,Su...

At work I have a range of admin tools that I install on every new workstation that I get and after 10 and more years of clicking next and watching progress bars I think I would like to reduce the number of times I have to install stuff. It's counter productive to...

Saturday very early in the morning we had a electricity substation blow nearby. It caused a power outage not only at my home but 6kms away at work. The outage was for long enough that the UPS's didn't hold the servers up, and some of them didn't come up again cleanly....