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To get colored quick access toolbar icons you have to select a different theme for the office application (in my case word) as described here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016_preview-excel/washed-out-icons-in-quick-access-toolbar-in-office/2f8edd84-43ac-490c-afd6-6fdf29e2...

Win8 enforces driver signatures by default. If you have a Win7 driver that worked OK, I suggest the following to disable driver signature enforcement: From the Metro or Desktop Bring up Charms by mouseing over to the right of the screen Go to Settings More PC Settings General Advanced Startup > Rest...

On a Mac (OS X 10.8.2) with administrative and standard user accounts after some permission changes some strange things appeared when logging in to the standard user account: The top menubar was gone Finder did not start In the dock the application folder was missing After starting an Application fr...

To customize the ribbon for MS Access 2013 do the following: Create a new table and name it USysRibbons. This ensures that the table will be hidden in the Navigation Pane unless you have the “Show System Objects” option checked under the Navigation Options dialog. Table fields: ID RibbonName - Short...

The easiest way to access the startup folder in Win 8 is:
WIN +R "shell:startup"

On a System upgraded from Win 7 to 8, pGina was used for LDAP User Login/Authentication. After combining such a pGina- User Account with a Microsoft Account in Win 8, the Login was no longer possible. Some cryptic error message with serveral mentions of the word "pGina" made me uninstall it. Resulti...

I had a Problem with printing in Outlook 2010. A one page mail had approx. 30 pages with just 3 lines in the printing preview. The problem was the page format but very hidden in the Memoformat definitions. Don't know how I managed to change that to a wrong setting. To change it go to File -> Print->...

I wanted to add Win XP to Win 7 32 bit on a seperate partition. I had Win 7 already installed, made a second partition and installed Win XP on it. After reboot none of the operationg systems booted. Error no operating system found. Solution: Booted from the Win 7 DVD->Repair system-> CMD bootrec.exe...

On Win 7 Word 2010 startet not full. The window stayed in the task bar and could not be maximized.
Word started well in safe mode.
Solution:
Delete the REG Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Word\Data

What seemed to look very easy took me some time... iCal->Preferences->Accounts->Delegation If you have access to any calendar you can add it here, or give another exchange user access to your calendar. I messed around with Calendar->subscribe->calendar URL So don't waste your time and do as describe...