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October 3rd, 2007

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TechSoup Stock New Product Alert - October 2007

Save the date! If your nonprofit or public library is looking to streamline the time-consuming tasks associated with fundraising and donor management, you’ll want to mark October 17 on your calendar. On that day for 8 hours only, TechSoup Stock and Telosa are pleased to offer a special discount on the Exceed!

Basic 2.0 fundraising software. Read on for more details or visit http://ga0.org/ct/spLRaAn1SSG7/.

 

Also this month, I am excited to announce the new CitySoft donation program at TechSoup Stock. CitySoft’s Community Enterprise is easy-to-use Web-based software that empowers social sector organizations to better manage their membership base, online content, and more. Details about this program and its eligibility requirements are below.

 

Finally, see what the top 10 most requested products from the Microsoft Software Donation Program are — perhaps one of them can also help your organization.

 

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TELOSA SPECIAL EVENT: OCTOBER 17

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Get ready for your end-of-year fundraising effort with specially discounted Telosa Exceed! Basic fundraising software!

 

For 8 hours on October 17, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pacific time

(11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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Written by bardissi on October 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
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C|Net: Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself

While Vista was originally touted by Microsoft as the operating system savior we’ve all been waiting for, it has turned out to be one of the biggest blunders in technology. With a host of issues that are inexcusable and features that are taken from the Mac OS X and Linux playbook, Microsoft has once again lost sight of what we really want. Read the full article on C|Net

Written by vistasucks on October 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
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8 Reasons Windows Users Don’t Switch

PC ThinkingI have been a die-hard Windows user since I started computing. If you had told me I would switch to Mac at any point in the future, I would have laughed at you. There was nothing that could ever make me switch! Well, that didn’t exactly last forever, but as a recent Mac “switcher,” I have a unique perspective on both worlds. Read the full article on AppleMatters.Com

Written by vistasucks on October 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
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Where are files virtualized in Vista?

Under restricted user account on Vista, you may get write successful when writing to the program files folder. These files get virtualized to a different folder, so that old applications continue to run on Vista.

When you actually go to “Program Files” in a Windows Explorer and see there will be no files there.

The file was redirected to the user’s folder. The virtualized directory is a hidden folder, to expose this view go to Organize: Folder options, from a Windows Explorer and then on the view menu, click “Show Hidden Files and Folders”. (more…)

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Written by Jason on October 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
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Create quick launch shortcuts to lock, restart, and shutdown computer

Windows Vista automatically assigns shortcuts to the quick launch toolbar. You can quickly create shortcuts to shutdown, restart, and lock the screen, and add them to the quick launch toolbar to have instant access to them. For example, the first shortcut in your quick launch toolbar is automatically assigned to WINDOWS + 1, and the second shortcut is automatically assigned WINDOWS + 2, and so on.

Lock Screen Quick Launch Shortcut

* Before you can create a shortcut to lock the screen, you must add a new shortcut to the desktop. Do this by right-clicking on the desktop and choose New and then Shortcut. (more…)

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Written by Jason on October 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
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Vista Don’t Mix and Generate Errors

Microsoft has set up a comprehensive infrastructure for the delivery and deployment of updates targeting its Windows operating system. Although the company is not yet ready to abandon the practice of issuing service packs for its platforms, it has indicated that large refreshes are becoming less relevant, and on their way to be declared obsolete due to Windows Update. But at the same time, Windows Update is by no means a foolproof system. In fact, Microsoft indicated that under some circumstances, updates delivered via the service and Windows Vista will not mix, and generate a variety of issues.

This is why the Redmond company is offering two updates, addressing both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Vista. The BITS Repair Tool for Windows Vista is designed to resolve corruptions of the BITS state files. “After you download updates from Windows Updates on a Windows Vista-based computer, you may experience the following symptoms: (more…)

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Written by Jason on October 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
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