Lounge member globalist’s experience with the VLC media player began badly — twice. Because it came with so much junkware, he didn’t trust it.
But before giving up on it entirely, he asked about its reputation in the Other Applications forum. Wherein he was reminded of the important difference between official sites and others.
The following links are this week’s most interesting Lounge threads, including several new questions for which you might have answers:
Office Applications
General Productivity
Microsoft Office viewers: Are they needed?
Word Processing
Word 2010 table formatting using VBA macros
Spreadsheets
Parsing data from XML file in folders and subfolders
Databases
One Print button for different reports
Visual Basic for Apps
Outlook message tag using VBA
Microsoft Outlook
Outlook Connector no longer works in Office 2010 in Australia
Windows
General Windows
Removing Win8 and installing Win7: Oops!
Windows 8
Which version for my amount of RAM?
Windows 7
Problem with Win7 permissions
Windows Vista
Black screen says it’s in Power Save Mode
Windows XP
Windows XP: Outlook Express email message Web-link failure
Windows Servers
Host website on server
Internet/Connectivity
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer in Windows 8 Professional
Third-Party Browsers
Firefox 24: Restore Session error
Networking
Permission denied
Social Media
Two Facebook accounts; forgot password for one
Software Development
Web Design & Development
IFRAME question
Other Technologies
Security & Scams
PC security
Maintenance
System images from two PCs and OSes
Hardware
How bad are hard drive’s bad sectors?
Other Applications
The word on VLC
starred posts: particularly useful
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