If you've ever been tasked with any responsibility involving fonts, you might be all too aware of the pains fonts can bring. Unless the person before you documented what font they used and what size, you can spend a lot of time trying to match fonts or settling for "close enough." If you're updating a Flash menu or just trying to add another line to a flier, or even if … [Read more...]
SOLVED: “This modification is not allowed because the selection is locked.”
Updated May 22, 2017 If you're getting a message at the bottom of Word 2007, Word 2010, or other products in the Office suite whenever you try to change the document saying "This modifications is not allowed because the selection is locked.", this article should answer your question 'why' and tell you how to make your document editable again. There are four possible … [Read more...]
Windows Firewall Exceptions through Group Policy
Along with scripting Windows Firewall exceptions, you can also control them through a Group Policy Object. This would give you the broad reach of being able to affect an entire Organizational Unit (OU) without having to add a script or additional code to a login script. In order to create a firewall exception for an application, Create or Edit a Group Policy Object for an … [Read more...]
Windows 7 Public Beta Available
The Windows 7 Public Beta is available for download now. Following the Microsoft keynote speech by Steve Ballmer, the Windows 7 Public Beta is available here for preview and testing by the public. I think Microsoft is doing a good job generating hype and publicity for this release to recover from Vista's marketing failure. We can also hope that a beta open to the public will … [Read more...]
Remove Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration
Very rarely is it a good idea to remove built-in security measures, but the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security provided with Server 2003 and Server 2008 is too annoying and interacts with the file system too much for my liking. This is particularly an annoyance if you use the Server OS's as a workstation. You'll end up getting warning messages like the following when you try … [Read more...]