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This is exactly the same issue I mentioned in my VPC: Mouse issues running W2K3 under Virtual PC 2007 almost a year ago. But this time it’s with Windows 2008. Solution: Set Hardware Acceleration to Full Problem: My mouse movement was really sluggish in a VPC running Windows 2008 (and 2003, but other OSes are fine) Acknowledgement: Thanks to Paul Adare on the Microsoft Newsgroup for...

A simple one. Sorry if you all know this already – but I keep coming across people who’ve missed it – so please read on. You can easily hide the ribbon in any of the Office 2007 programs simply by double clicking on the tabs. Thus becomes with just a double-click on the Home tab (or any tab). Oh, and I assume you know you can customise the Quick Access toolbar easily enough: As...

I don’t know if you read the Outlook Team Blog, but if not I recommend it – there’s stacks of goodies over there. Take this one for example, on entering dates in Outlook. I didn’t realise you could enter a date as easily as ‘next tue’ and Outlook would work it out for you automatically: Gets converted to As Kristel explains, there’s a bunch of terms that...

I’ve had issues recently with Outlook crashing when I shut it down. Initially I thought this was due to a rogue Outlook Addin (eg I’ve got Xobni, ClearContext, OutTwit and others installed). So I went through systematically getting rid of them. Put the problem persisted. Finally I found the issue was to do with the actual .ost file being corrupted. The way I discovered this was by...