Recent content by RogerRuntings

Hi Everyone. I am trying to get 20 persons to be able to work from home, doing a help desk application. They need to be able to connect to an external dialer (VICI) in order to make and receive calls. Our current setup is to have them all in one room, using networked PCs going out through a...

A friend of mine has customized an Office Excel 2007 template for his personal use. However, he wants to auto number his invoices like so: 2009-0001, 2009-0002, etc Basically, he wants me to use the sample invoice to setup an invoice template that auto-numbers whenever it is opened and saved...

My friend gave me a PC to look at with an error that is new to me: 'The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance.' No applications can be installed on his PC. It is a Dell...

I recently upgraded my browser to IE-7. However, it seems to me that the default print size has changed - to being smaller! How can I set the default print size to be larger? My girls keps bugging me about this...lol

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I wish to get my external IP addresses from remote PCs on dynamic adsl programatically, i.e., stored in a text file. Then I could email or use MSN Messenger to get the info so I can logon. There are various websites that can give you the IP address (http://whatismyip.com/) for example. How do...

When I remove the brackets, I get the following error Code: 800A0035 Error:File not found Microsoft says: This error occurs because FileSystemObject cannot find the file that is being accessed (through the OpenTextFile, DeleteFile, or CopyFile methods, for example). This typically occurs for...

I am trying to extract certain elements from a weather webservice. To complete the picture I would like to copy the relevant icon from "c:\weather\" to the appropriate folder, ("c:\weather\BigImage\BigImage.png" ) based on information extracted from the retrieved XML file. I use a "c:\weather\"...

This is the ticket. Now I can see exactly how to get the other elements that I need from the XML file. I have been searching all over the net and then I remembered Tek-Tips. Thanks a lot. Big ups!(+ star)

I am trying to setup an automated weather update to show on some plasma screens. I am able to use vbscript to query the yahoo weather service; my only problem is how to parse the XML that is downloaded. I need to get some text strings out of the XML in a certain format so that the application...

The Netgear DG834G works well for me, and also has wireless AP and firewall. I have mine configured to give the laptops and PCs the same DHCP-assigned IP address (mapped to the MAC address of the PC's network card) and allow certain PCs to access certain web-sites, etc...

The laptop is running Windows XP Home. Ater a tech came & installed a VOIP phone,several things happened: 1. The laptop lost Internet connectivity as well as the ability to connect to shared(mapped) drives on the network. 2. If the laptop is removed from the network (disconnect cables) it...

My company does accounting outsourcing work for abount 40 other companies. One of our clients is opening another branch and requires us to start work on the new one. Since the chart of accounts is the same (in terms of accounting codes), can I just: 1. Create folders in Company & Data...

OK, Jay. Point taken...my problem (or rather my client's problem) is this: they still have stuff to enter for 2005. If I do a 'Create New Year' in the GL, then they wouldn't be able to enter those outstanding 2005 entries. Is there a way that they could create the new year in the GL and still...

Sorry! The installation was: Accpac Advantage Corporate Edition 5.3A Pervasive SQL 8.5