Video: Share files between Windows 7 and your virtual Windows PC
Posted by: David
What you are trying to accomplish
Share a file from your Windows 7 computer to your Windows XP virtual machine (or other computer).
Windows 7 Awesome Tip : Preview Pane
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Enable your preview pane
With Windows 7, you probably aren't used to all of the changes. Perhaps one of the best things you can find in Windows 7 would be the preview pane.
While you are in the file explorer going through your long list of files whether it be images, code, word docs, or even videos hit ALT+P on your keyboard. Now, next to your list of files or icons for files you can see a preview of the file you have selected in the file explorer.
Not all file types will allow you to see a preview, but the video preview will even allow you to watch the video in the preview pane.
Adding a shortcut to file explorer when opening or browsing to select files in Windows 7
Posted by: David
What are you trying to do?
You are trying to get a network location on your file explorer as a button that you only have to click on once to find the location. This area is known as my places in Windows XP ( also Favorites in Windows 7) and is very good for creating shortcuts to network drive locations where you might need to browse through several folders every time other wise.
Just look, this is how you do it
- Find the location of the folder you want to link.
- Drag and drop the folder into the left bar into the favorites area.
Now your folder is linked in the favorites or my places area on your file browser whenever you want to select a file with any program!
Updated with Video: Finding .nk2 file with Windows 7
Posted by: David
For those not wanting to watch the video and know what your doing and just want the locations here you go.
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\
Windows 7 NK2 file location
Posted by: David
The problem?
You don't know where the .NK2 file is for Outlook in Windows 7.
The solution
- Go to my computer.
- Click on the C: drive
- Click on Users
- Click on the account of the User who you want to find the .NK2 file for
- Open the AppData folder. If you can't find it, you will need to show hidden files and folders.
- Click on Roaming
- Click on Microsoft
- Click on Outlook
- You should now see the outlook file as such below.
Video: Disabling Windows Firewall on XP
Posted by: David
Just some notes:
- It is very similar to this in Windows 7 and Vista if you have them.
- I think the video's will be a good idea in the long run.
- I will be posting Windows 7 stuff soon. I am working on making a Windows 7 installation video with a VM. Once that video is done, I can move on to using that VM to make other videos.
Installing Crystal Ease for all users
Posted by: David
Why won't Crystal Ease install for all users?
There are two reasons why it might not be working even though you might have installed is successfully.
- You installed the software on a computer using an account that is not an administrator.
- If you did install it as an admin and can't get it to run on other accounts that is because Crystal Ease doesn't support all accounts to run from the initial installation without some modification.
What can you do about it?
A: You installed the software on an account that wasn't an administrator
- Uninstall Crystal Ease.
- Log onto an account that is a computer administrator.
- Install Crystal Ease.
- Enter your release code.
- Enter upgrade release code if necessary.
B: You installed the software as an admin, but want other users to have access to the program.
Since Crystal Ease doesn't support this necessarily, it won't be a popular solution but there isn't much for choices. Crystal Ease will always work on the account which installed it and entered the release codes. Here is what you do for other accounts that will use the computer.
- Go to C:\Program Files\Surfing Gecko Software\Crystal Ease\ (or wherever you installed it)
- Find CEV.EXE and make it a shortcut on the desktop of the account (or all users account) that will be using it. Delete the old shortcut
- When that user goes to open Crystal Ease for the first time, it will ask for the release codes. Unfortunately they will have to have someone enter in the release codes if they don't have access to them.
- Once someone has the release codes set up on their account on a particular computer they can continue opening Crystal Ease as they please.
Big time tip for success
Create a generic account for users to log into if you expect more than a few people to log onto and use Crystal Ease on a computer. This way you will only have to prepare Crystal Ease one time instead of doing it several times.
Word and Outlook are messed up whenever I open a new document/email
Posted by: David
What's wrong?
You opened up Word or Outlook and were going to type a new document or email but the format is all messed up.
How did this happen?
You accidently, or maybe not so accidently changed your template for regular blank documents.
What does a regular blank template mean?
Every time you open up Word or Outlook (which uses Word) you open up a blank document template. Normally this would just include a basic file with normal margins and nothing in it.
Some people change their normal template because they do certain jobs over and over so it was a good idea for Microsoft to allow you to edit that, but if you didn't know that you changed it or how it was possible to change it then you have a problem, and that's why you are here.
OK, so you understand what is going on but you just want to fix it.
Windows 7 Office 07
- First make sure you have your folder options set to view hidden files. You can search how to do that if you don't know how, it is very simple.
- Then, browse to your C: drive, then go to Users > Username > App Data > Roaming > Microsoft > Templates and you should see the normal.dotm file.
normal.dotm
- From here you should close Outlook and Word and make sure that they are closed in the task manager.
- Simply delete the normal.dotm template file. It will be recreated from scratch when you start Word again.
Windows XP Office 07/03
- Follow the same isntructions for Windows 7 and Office 07 but go to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates.
- From here you can delete normal.dotm for Office 07 or normal.dot for Office 03.
Tip for success
Try to remember this can affect Outlook as well. Outlook uses Word to edit e-mails so it is important that you recognize this as a possible problem for similar issues with Outlook as well. Most people who use a computer wont understand this, so it is important to keep it in mind.
Desktop icons are gone/dissappeared in Windows 7
Posted by: David
Why are my desktop icons missing?
There really isn't a good reason why they are missing, perhaps you accidently hit the wrong button earlier, or someone is messing with you. It can happen in other ways as well. This personally happened to me after installing a single update for Windows 7.
The simple fix
- Right click your desktop
- Choose View
- Make sure 'Show desktop icons' is selected
