Word 2007 has a neat feature called Compare. This allows you to compare two documents and highlight any changes/differences between the documents. To access the Compare feature, click the “Review” tab and the “Compare” button. Select the two documents you wish to compare (the original document and revised document) then click OK. (more…)

I recently purchased a D-Link DSL-G604T Wireless ADSL Router to share an internet connection between my desktop computer and laptop. However, I have been unsuccessful in sharing the internet connection. How can I configure the network and computers to allow access to the internet by both computers at the same time? The computers are running Windows XP. (more…)

I have several home computers which are networked through a wireless modem and router (Speedstream 6520). Somehow I managed to delete the administrator account from one of my important computers, but managed to transfer the files into another account using the advice from your website. However, I am now unable to connect this computer to the home network to access shared files and resources on the other computers. A diagnostic indicates that I do not have access to the workgroup and I need to contact the workgroup server administrator. The computer can still access the internet connection along with the other computers. Interestingly, I originally set up the network on the problem computer, using the now inaccessible administrator account. The computer is running Windows XP Professional (SP 2). The computer is connected to the network through an Ethernet cable. (more…)

Word 2007 has a handy feature called “View Side by Side” allowing two documents to be displayed side by side to be easily compared. To use this feature, click the “View” tab and then within the “Windows” section of the ribbon, click “View Side by Side”. (more…)

For several months now I have had problems with the time setting on my laptop which is always incorrect. For other reasons we have updated our security system (Panda) and also fiddled with the settings for our wireless router, but don’t think they have affected the time given it was already an issue. I have reset the time repeatedly, but it is soon incorrect again. I have tried to configure Windows to automatically synchronise the time with an internet time server, but receive the error message “The peer is unreachable” even though the internet is otherwise working fine. Both of the listed servers (time.windows.com and time.nist.gov) return with the same error. I checked the Windows Help for assistance on this issue, but the only possibility seems to be unblocking the network time protocol but I can’t see anything in the Panda program to assist. (more…)