When Lounge member LukeSBE couldn’t enable printer sharing, he knew it wasn’t the printer’s fault — the problem was in Vista’s Network and Sharing Center.
After some discussion in the Windows Vista forum, a question about his firewall gave LukeSBE the necessary clue.
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
Getting list of recently used files
Word Processing
Encoding in Word
Spreadsheets
IRR trouble: Want to figure average annual rate of return
Databases
Resetting check boxes
Visual Basic for Apps
Sorting contacts
Microsoft Outlook
Hanging phantom message in Outlook 2007
Non-Outlook E-mail
Live Mail (synched to SkyDrive) lost all messages twice
Other MS Apps
Advanced search in MS OneNote
Windows
General Windows
Microsoft shutting down TechNet subscription service
Windows 8
Interesting view of non-desktop-centric use of Windows 8.1
Windows 7
Assigning letter to flash drive
Windows Vista
Thorny printer issue
Windows XP
No sound on XP laptop
Windows Servers
Renewing self-issued server certificate
Internet/Connectivity
Internet Explorer
Setting Google.com as home page
Third-Party Browsers
Program to check for dead links in Firefox?
Application Servers
Exchange 2003 NDR settings
Networking
Wireless printing problem: Is homegroup involved?
Social Media
Trouble posting to Google Groups
Software Development
Web Design & Development
Help! Domain stolen while hosted at GoDaddy
Other Technologies
Security & Scams
Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 and Windows Firewall
Maintenance
Partitioning external hard disk for separate backups
Hardware
Infrequent use of printer causing problems
Graphics/Multimedia
AMD/ATI drops Windows XP support
Other Applications
Recommend good VPN?
starred posts: particularly useful
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