I'm at the two month mark of using Windows 8 as my operating system on my home computer. Over the weekend, I had a lot of research to do and articles to read for an assignment. For reading and taking notes through the articles, the built-in Windows 8 PDF Reader just wasn't cutting it so I went to install Adobe Reader 11. Unfortunately, trying to install Adobe Reader XI resulted … [Read more...]

When in Microsoft Word to paste some text, you can right-click and get a few options regarding how the content you paste in will be formatted. It can keep source formatting (how it originally looked), merge the formatting, or paste just the text in. In all cases that I can recall, I have wanted the text to inherit the formatting of the document it is being pasted into. I'm not … [Read more...]

The other day while troubleshooting our printer install script, I showed a co-worker how you could "view remote printers" on a computer from Windows 7 to see if the computer had successfully installed the printer. He mentioned it to another co-worker who was also interested in seeing how this could be done. I sat down to show the second co-worker at a Windows 8 computer and … [Read more...]

More testing of Windows 8 at my organization revealed another problem to troubleshoot. Our desktop management group policy automatically mapped a drive using Group Policy Preferences and mapped another through a logon script. The purpose of the logon script was to use local variables and map the drive directly to the folder with the user's username. As it turns out, apparently … [Read more...]