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I am using Microsoft Office and I noticed a printer called "MDI Printer". When I choose it as the printer, it creates a file with the extension of MDI. What is it actually?

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I have a USB flash drive and for some reason its not showing up as one of my drives. I know its there because I have it plugged in but its not showing as available in my list of drives. 

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Microsoft NetMeeting

In today’s competitive world, every organization is very conscious in its approach towards professionalism and uses innovative techniques and latest gadgets to improve or maintain it.Two of the highly used latest programs are Microsoft NetMeeting and Microsoft Publisher. Both applications are different in nature and scope but used in one way or another for maintaining strong professional approach. Microsoft Net meeting Definition: Built on Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser, Microsoft NetMeeting is a Voice-over-Internet Protocol (Voice over IP, VoIP) used for multipoint audio and video...

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I have accidently deleted a file! I want to recover it! I do not know how to do it! Please help!

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What Does a CIO Expect from Employees?

Introduction Performance metrics are measures of the performance and activities of an organization. They generally support a wide range of needs of the company’s stakeholders, including the employees, shareholders, and the customers. Conventionally, majority of the metrics used for assessment of performance within the organizations are finance based.

However, presently, many companies do employ certain metrics that focus heavily on company’s performance in delivering value and fulfilling customer requirements. The metrics that are used for project management, on the other hand, focus on assessing the...

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What is the Windows Registry?

The Registry is a centralized, hierarchical database that stores all application settings in standardized form. The registry was introduced with Windows 3.1 and Windows NT, replacing the less advanced mechanism of INI files.

In addition to setting for high level user-installed applications and programs, the Registry contains settings for low level components and devices of the Windows Operating System (OS). The Registry provides features that enhance the OS security and stability. Implemented as a database, it provides database-like features such as atomic updates, strong data typing and versioning and backup/restore services. The Windows OS provides an...

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I need to email a word document to a client. I also have an excel file that I need to send as well. I would like to place the excel file in a specific chapter within the word file so that the client only has to open it if required. Can someone guide me on how to do this with Microsoft Word?

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I created a presentation in PowerPoint. When I loaded it up in the presentation machine, the fonts on certain slides are substituted with different fonts!

Basically the slides are a mess when put on the presentation machine but looks fine in my own machine. How can I get both to look the same?

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Installation of Windows Vista

An easy guide for installing Windows Vista in the system. This is an easy step-by-step guide to install Windows Vista.

Requirements:

First we have to read the requirements for Windows Vista installation in the system. Every Windows Operating System has different requirements. Here, we are going to install Windows Vista, so our concern is the requirements for Windows Vista. Get any bootable DVD for Windows Vista. Now set the boot device to CD-ROM or DVD-ROM into BIOS setup.

Step I:

After setting the boot device to DVD-ROM or CD-ROM, insert the DVD...

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Sysinternals - A Multi-toolkit suite for Windows

Sysinternals website provides utilities, tools, and technical resources to monitor, diagnose, troubleshoot and manage Windows systems and applications. It is a live service that allows execution of its tools directly from the web without manually searching and downloading them, but just entering the path into Windows explorer. Several freeware tools to administer computers running on Microsoft Windows Operating system are featured in this article. Sysinternals supplies a variety of free utilities to the users for handling several tasks and applications. Some of the categories of utilities featured in Sysinternals suite include file and...

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