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I’ve been very happy with DiskLED

https://helgeklein.com/blog/2009/11/how-to-easily-monitor-system-performance-with-the-new-diskled-1-1/

Ignore his hype about monitoring system performance and changing counters; it is preset to monitor the physical C: drive. You can have a simple green box icon that flashes, or an icon like the one Task Manager puts in the system tray that shows “amount” of activity.

From his web page:

Requirements, Gotchas and Notes

– DiskLED does not require admin rights.
– No installation necessary. DiskLED runs from whatever location you put it in.
– DiskLED is much more accurate than typical hardware LEDs.
– DiskLED looks for its configuration (INI) file in the folder where you put the executable. If it cannot find the INI file there, it uses built-in default settings. Those settings are localized (they depend on the OS language). So, if you get the following error message when starting DiskLED “InitPDH: PdhAddCounter failed with: 0xc0000bb8” and the tool only displays a red exclamation mark in the system tray: double-click that exclamation mark and select a performance counter in your system’s language.
– If you do not see any icon (nothing happens) after starting DiskLED: if you are running Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 make sure that you have configured Explorer to show all icons in the system tray, or configure Explorer to show DiskLED’s icon.
– DiskLED should run on any Windows client or server operating system beginning with Windows XP.

Coochin, thanks for this helpful link. Does anyone know what the difference is between these sub-types?

.msp
_MUI.msp
_MUI_inc.msp
_inc.msp

AdbeRdrUpd11013.msp = full program
AdbeRdrUpd11013_MUI.msp = full program, multiple language
AdbeRdrUpd11013_incr.msp = update (incremental)
AdbeRdrUpd11013_MUI_incr.msp = update (incremental), multiple language

available from ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.13/misc/

Just a long shot, but simple…

Try opening the PDF in Adobe Reader and then using Save As… to save it (under a different name) without changing anything, and try to print that.

If that fails, use Edit>Preferences>Documents to toggle the Save As optimizes for Fast Web View setting, then use Save As… to save it (under a different name) and try to print that.

As with Word, I have found that simply saving the file can fix problems.

Mozilla’s addon page for the Plain Old Favorites says the addon is “not available” for Firefox v38. As the addon does not appear to have been updated for a while, it may die on you soon — as of FF v40, only signed addons will be supported.

Meanwhile… if the addon is working for you, maybe the Menu Wizard addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/s3menu-wizard/?src=ss) will let you remove those entries from the menu.

To be honest, I don’t think it will, but it’s worth a try: if the POF addon is adding to a menu, it will show up in the Menu Wizard; if the POF addon is adding a new menu, it might show up in the Menu Wizard. If not, then you will have to get into modifying the CSS for FF if the addon author does not update and sign his addon. (I can’t help you with the CSS modifications.)

PowerShell 5.0 won’t run on Windows 7 (the system requirements don’t say it will or won’t)?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/about-addons-memory/?src=ss

Adds an about:addons-memory page that details add-on memory usage – meaning you type about:addons-memory in the URL bar.

It could be multiple problems – UncleStu’s chkdisk suggestion is a good one; it never hurts to check the disk drive when activity seems excessively high.

When you replaced the old modem with the new one, did you also replace the Ethernet cable with a new one or did you use the old one? (The old cable may have gone bad.)

[My old Navy electronics training told me #1: check power, #2: check cables.]

UBitMenu for Office 2007, 2010 and 2013 (http://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages/) is free for personal use. It adds a “Menu” tab to the ribbon that contains almost all of the Word 2003 menus and menu items (‘convert text to table’ and ‘convert table to text’ are noticeably missing, so I found them and added them to the Quick Access Toolbar). I still use it after using Word 2010 for a couple of years when the old 2003 keystroke for an action does not work in 2010 and I cannot find the action in the ribbon in a couple of minutes.

When you click the Menu tab, a ribbon similar to Word 2003’s toolbar shows up, with the 2003 Menus above it; click a menu item (Format) and almost all of the 2003 menu items are there (Format>Tabs…).

The following screenshot shows Word 2010 after clicking the up-chevron just to the left of 2010’s help-question-mark to hide the ribbon:

39497-RibbonHidden

The following screenshot shows Word 2010 after clicking the Menu tab:

39498-UbitMenu-only

The following screenshot shows Word 2010 after clicking the Format menu item on Ubitmenu’s Menu:

39499-UbitMenu-Format

Perhaps this makes Word 2010 more usable for you?

Most of 2003’s keyboard shortcuts still work ([Alt]+[O], [T] to change tab settings), but some did change; Ubitmenu gives you most of 2003’s interface, but does not cover the most of the new stuff in 2007+, and does not cover what was deleted in 2007+. So far, the ‘tabletext’ actions and ‘adjust gridlines’ (not the table gridlines) are the only 2003 actions I’ve added to my QAT.

[NO association with Ubit, just a happy customer.]

Hey Y’all,

I’ve been using MySourceCodeRepository for a while now to store both PowerShell & VBA routines that I know I’ll reuse.
…
Suddenly the program will no longer start giving this message:
38977-mysrccoderep

The web site it is trying to contact: http://www.mydigitalapps.com is nowhere to be found!
38978-mysrccoderep

Googling: MySourceCodeRepository turns up squat!
…

http://www.mydigitalapps.com/mydigitalapps/index.asp and http://www.mydigitalapps.com/mydigitalapps/MySourceCodeRepositoryHome.asp are both coming up fine for me (Firefox v35.0.1). Funnily enough, http://www.mydigitalapps.com/mydigitalapps/priceguide.asp is throwing out a 404; perhaps you caught them slowing updating their site?

Actually, RG, RoboForm Desktop does not _require_ a master password. When it asks you for one when you install or update, clicking cancel at that window installs it without a master password.

“hangout services has crashed” is probably referring to Google’s ‘Hangout’ feature in Google+. Are you using the ‘social sidebar’ or whatever Mozilla calls it where you can link to Facebook and such accounts? Googling the error text gives quite a few hits of users of Chrome seeing this error, with it being caused by various Google services being down. Do you always see this message when FF crashes (I don’t think you mentioned it before).

FF29 and FF30 had shutdown problems for lots of users; 29 was bad for me, but 30 was fine. When you get the message that FF is already running, use Task Manager to stop the ‘phantom’ FF process that is running.

You appear to be at a point of desperation… maybe your profile is corrupt. Create a new FF profile and make that the default profile (if path/firefox.exe -P does not work for you, try the stand-alone profile manager: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/utilities/profilemanager/1.0/ at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Profile_Manager to add a new profile). Without changing any settings to suit your preferences, see if URLs within Outlook now launch FF without it crashing. Then change settings and try again. Then add your addins _one at a time_ and try again. If you finally get the new profile set up like the old one and everything is working fine, use the Profile Manager to delete the old profile.

Note the stand-alone profile manager defaults to FF profiles, but can also be used with SeaMonkey and Thunderbird by appending parameters. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Profile_Manager tells you how.

Last I heard, Java 7 update 65 is the last one for Win XP.

Microsoft has a page full of tables about C++ packages. these tables I find confusing. All three packages currently on my Windows 7 machine (2005, 2008 and 2010) appear to be in some sort of Extended Support. What does this mean?

Start of Lifecycle->End of Life = Mainstream Support; normal stuff
Extended Support = End of Life has been declared, but we will continue to issue patches, if only to fix security issues
Service Packs kind of extend mainstream support: MS tends to support products for a specific amount of time (such as 5 years). When they issue a service pack, that is almost like a new product and the service pack is usually supported for that amount of time (such as another 5 years). If a service pack (SP2) is issued 3 years after initial release (or another service pack, SP1), extended support [read _all support of any kind_] for the initial release (or another service pack, SP1) ends 3 years before extended support for SP2.
Help?

You are correct in being cautious abut deleting C++ runtimes; they are not completely backwards compatible. A command in C++ 2005 may be declared “deprecated” in C++ 2007 and no longer be supported in C++ 2010. Just because a program is “up to date”, that does not mean it has been modified to use a later C++ runtime.

Check the line spacing…
If the line spacing for that style is set to “exactly”, then the lines won’t show up except in print preview. Subscripts and superscripts are also cut off when viewing in a mode other than print preview. This stops lines from looking like they are 1.5 or double-spaced when [parts of] characters go above or below the baseline for text.

Changing line spacing to anything else (such as “automatic”) will allow the characters to show up in other than print preview, but some lines will look like they are spaced incorrectly; this line spacing sometimes carries through to the printed document.

1) Download UBitMenu from http://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages/ (free for private use) It installs a “Menu” menu in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word that contains pretty much the Office 2003 menus, and the Office 2003 toolbars. It makes life a lot easier when you just want to get something done and cannot find where it is in 2010.

I say “pretty much” because it has Convert Text to Table, but not Convert Table to Text (I ended up putting both of these items on the QAT; I use Ubitmenu mainly as a last resort). I also seem to remember that a couple of things are gone because 2010 handles them entirely differently.

2) Macros (Word is all I am talking about here):
File>Options>Customize Ribbon, enable the Developer tab. This tab gives you access to your macros and lets you record or use VB to create new ones. (It also has other “developer” stuff, including the 2003 Templates and Addins dialog box.)

3) Toolbars (Word is all I know about here):
Toolbar _items_ you created in 2003 will show up in the Addins tab of the ribbon, if you do things right.

Open the 2003 template containing your toolbars and enable _all_ of them. Change any 2003 toolbar buttons or icons you assigned to items in these toolbars to text only. Save the template.

Now, when you open the 2003 template in Word 2010 and convert it to a 2010 template, the now-text “buttons” show up in the Addins tab of the ribbon, sort of segregated into Custom Toolbars sections (I think it creates a new section when the current section contains 3 lines, with each line being one toolbar from 2003). This happens regardless of whether the old toolbar button was linked to a macro or a command. (I found out that it happens only for enabled toolbars the hard way – my 2003 normal.dot has 6 toolbars, but only 3 of them are usually enabled because the others are for special circumstances.)