December 22nd, 2008

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How to view files on hard drive after installing UBUNTU with WUBI

 

When you install ubuntu with WUBI a virtual disk is created and everything from linux is kept ubuntu-splash-brown there…

So when you boot into UBUNTU and you want to access the main disk that hosts the virtual disk, you cant see it.

But in reality it is mounted in a location (folder or directory) called HOST!

You can browse to it inside of gnome or kde gui by going to places, computer, file system, host.

Written by computerboom on December 22nd, 2008 with comments disabled.
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How to have the old menus and toolbars or old colors in office 2007

 

Question: Is there any way at all to make Office 2003 apps display their toolbars
and menus in Office 2000 style, or at least without the color gradients?
Anything at all - registry values, add on tweakers, etc?

Thank you.

 

Answer: YES you have the following 3 options

Option 1: use classic menus for office 2007 (payware)

http://www.addintools.com/english/menuoffice/

Result seen in image below is that you have the old type of menu and toolbar along with the old drop down options:

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Option 2:

Use one of the classic high contrast themes in windows (the ones for the
visually impaired)
here is the result using classic> high contrast white. However this affects all the interface of windows, but of course you can switch back easily.

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Option 3)  lower the screen colors to 256 while using word
the result is this>

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Normally xp and vista don’t let you lower to 256 colors
but you can do it with a free program from greenparrots
scroll down the bottom of this page and you will see the free edition on the
LEFT

http://www.greenparrots.com/aqr.html

The pro edition claims that lets you also define ONE application to launch
with low color but I have not tried it..

 

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Computer Solutions for the Disabled via Gestures

Using a computer should not always be limited to people without disabilities. While some interfaces through computer accessories as the keyboard and mouse may become a shortfall, it remains that new solutions are bound to be on the horizon to help broaden the use of computers for the benefit of the ones who are unfortunately [...]

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Windows 7 : Windows 7 Beta 1 Download Link

Download Link for Windows 7 Beta 1 had appeared on Microsoft updates Windows 7 site.It would appear from the posting that Microsoft is currently readying site updates and download servers for the imminent release of the Windows 7 beta. Yesterday, Germ…

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Windows 7 : Windows 7 Beta 1 to be released on January 13

Windows 7 Beta 1 to be released on January 13 - Steve Sinofsky told everybody at PDC 2008 that Windows 7 Beta 1 would ship sometime early next year, apparently he meant really early.

A recent blog post from Microsoft Architect Evangelist, Bob Familiar…

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How to mount an ISO image in Windows Vista

The freeware utility from Microsoft to mount ISO Images doesn’t work in Windows Vista. Thankfully there’s another utility that does. The utility that we will use is called Virtual Clone Drive. This utility will let you mount .ISO, .CCD, .DVD, .IMG, .U…

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Increase your BitTorrent Speed with Acceleration Patch 4.7.3

BitTorrent Acceleration Patch description - An innovative plug-in for BitTorrent that boosts your download speed.BitTorrent Acceleration Patch is an innovative plug-in for BitTorrent. Architecture of the program is designed to permit you downloads of M…

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Goodbye Mr. Gates, Hello Vista Woes

Despite the troubles with Vista, Microsoft noted some remarkable milestones in 2008.

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