If you would like a quick, easy and free way to take Windows screenshots then MWSnap (www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html) could be a good utility to meet your needs. MWSnap can take screen captures of the full screen or portions of the screen, and is very efficient and easy to use.

Outlook 2007 opens successfully when using the Administrator user. However, when logged on as a different user the program appears to start loading normally with the opening screen but then ceases with the following message: “Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window”. Clicking the OK button closes the message and the net result is that Outlook does not open. The computer is running Windows Vista. (more…)

Whenever I open a Word document the following message appears: “D:\.doc is being used by . Do you want to make a copy?”. This happens for every document and is quite tedious because I need to click the “Cancel” or “Close” button in the dialog box before I can work on the document. I am logged onto the computer using an administrator account. The computer is running Windows XP Professional SP3. (more…)

Regular users of Notepad and Wordpad on Windows are probably aware of the limitations of these fairly basic text editing applications. There is an excellent free, open-source program called Notepad++ (notepad-plus-plus.org) which includes some really useful additions such as a tab based-interface (to easily open and switch between multiple files) along with syntax highlighting and autocompletion when working with particular programming languages (such as HTML or PHP).

Whenever I open a Word document email attachment the document opens but is immediately followed by this message: “Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library. Runtime Error! Program – C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 10\WINWORD.EXE”. Clicking OK closes Word and the document. The computer is running Windows XP with Office 2002. (more…)