Hurray!! Even Microsoft wants users to upgrade from IE6 to something modern (more…)
Tag: microsoft
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Windows cannot find FILENAME from Outlook or Thunderbird – Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.
Uncheck Excel's Ignore other applications' DDE and you're done! You double-click an attachment in Outlook – or Thunderbird – or any mail client or third-party client, for that matter – and you can’t open the file in Office (in my case Excel 2007, but this works for Excel 2003 as well).
But instead of the file, you get a notification telling you that Windows cannot find “filename“. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button and then click search.
Fear not – there’s hope. (more…)
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Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB910721)
You’ve seen the mail, you’ve looked at the headers, you realise that mail from Microsoft typically does not route through a Brazilian ADSL line (times may be bad, but hey!)
You may be wondering why, even though you chose not to register with Microsoft when you booted up for the first time, even though you’re using an Ubuntu machine, you’re getting mail from Redmond asking you to upgrade.
Sophos calls it Troj/Spy-CU.
I call it a scammy, spammy, malware waste of bandwidth…
But you knew that already…
