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February 1, 2009

Use Windows Task Manager to Find and Shut Down Misbehaving Applications

Filed under: computer performance,Windows — Tags: , — admin @ 2:00 pm

by Tina Gasperson

Your computer is running slowly, freezing, stalling, and generally making a nuisance out of itself. The worst part is, you just got done giving it a complete “tune up” and things were fine for a short period of time. What’s going on? There’s a good chance there is an application or a process running that is using up all the available computing power your system’s CPU can provide. The good news is that there is an easy way to find out what’s hogging all the power. It’s called the Windows Task Manager.
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Recent Documents List Doesn’t Appear in Microsoft Word, Excel, Etc.

Filed under: Windows — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 9:00 am

by David Hakala

It’s convenient to have a list of recently opened documents available when working with one of Microsoft Office’s components such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. Just open the File menu (Office button in Office 2007), select the document you want, and it opens again. But what if there’s no such list?

The problem may be in the Office component that you are using, or it may be in Windows settings that affect all recent document lists. Try the Office component first.
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