Recent Posts By Aseem
Share Windows XP or 7 Printer with Mac
May 18th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: How-To
So I have a few Macs and a few PCs in my house and it’s always fun trying to get everything to communicate with each other. Luckily, with OS X Snow Leopard/Lion and Windows XP/7, communication between the different platforms is pretty good. Earlier is used to be a royal pain to get the two [...]
Where to Find Character/Word Count in Word 2010
May 16th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Office Tips
It seems like every time Microsoft releases a new version of Office, they move everything around! You get used to seeing one thing under one menu and then next version of Office moves that option to another menu! Grrrr. I’ve upgraded to Office 2010 and one of the most common features I use is the [...]
How to Close Running Metro Apps in Windows 8
May 15th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Windows 8
I’ve been playing around with Windows 8 Consumer Preview for a few days now and it’s definitely taking me a little time to get used to the whole change in the UI. Along with the Start button being removed, you now have to access the new Metro apps in an odd hovering way. When you [...]
Top 10 Differences between Windows 7 and Windows 8
May 14th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Windows 8
Like Windows 7 was to Windows XP (See our previous post on the differences between Windows XP and 7), Windows 8 is supposedly a “completely re-imagined” version of Windows from start to finish. It’s being rewritten so that it can run not only on desktops and laptops, but also on tablet PCs in a much [...]
Outlook 2010 Autocomplete Not Working or Resetting?
May 13th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Office Tips
One of the great things about online email services like Gmail is that you never have to worry about things like autocomplete because all your contacts are stored in the cloud and Gmail automatically builds a giant index of everyone who has email you or who you have emailed. When you start typing a name [...]
Merge Two Partitions in Windows 7
May 12th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: How-To
One common complaint that I get from friends and family is that their computers with default system configurations from Dell, HP, etc often times make the C partition too small and therefore forcing customers to figure out a way to extend the partition in order to get more free space. Unfortunately, when you search about [...]
Fix “Could Not Find This Item” When Deleting in Windows 7
May 11th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Help Desk
If you’ve been using Windows for as long as I have, you have probably run into your share of weird error messages. One that I got recently when trying to delete a file was: Could not find this item. This is no longer located in X. Verify the item’s location and try again. This was [...]
Cursor Jumps Around While Typing in Windows 7?
May 10th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Help Desk
So I encountered a strange problem recently where my mouse pointer/cursor would randomly jump around the screen, making it impossible for me to type anything! I never had this problem before, but once I upgraded my Acer laptop to Windows 7 64-bit, this problem with the cursor flying all over the screen started occurring. Anyway, [...]
Run Notepad as Administrator to Avoid Access is Denied
May 9th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Windows 7
One really good and really annoying feature of Windows 7 is that by default a lot of files are off-limits when it comes to editing. For example, if you try to edit the HOSTS file in Windows using Notepad, it will give you an error message saying Access is Denied. And if you try to [...]
Fix Outlook 2010 Won’t Open Problem
May 8th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Office Tips
I have Outlook 2010 installed on a Windows 7 64-bit system and up till now it’s been working fine. Yesterday, I went to open it and I got the following error message: “Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.” What’s sad is that I’ve had this EXACT same problem in Outlook 2007 and [...]
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