Start menu – Henry Poon's Blog https://blog.henrypoon.com Wed, 05 Oct 2022 02:08:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 83044199 Switching Microsoft Windows and Office to English https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2011/01/20/switching-microsoft-windows-and-office-to-english/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2011/01/20/switching-microsoft-windows-and-office-to-english/#respond Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:40:36 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/switching-microsoft-windows-and-office-to-english At my workplace, all the computers are in German.  I do not read German.  I get by by remembering what buttons were where in the Windows version.  Luckily, I managed to switch the language to English.

Switching the Language for Windows

To do this, go to the Control Panel and open the Regional and Language Options.  This might be hard to do when Windows is in a different language so just look for the icon that has a globe on it.  Depending on the version of Windows, switching the language may not be possible.  And also, different versions of Windows put these buttons in different places within the Language Options.  Click around the tabs, and there should be a drop down box for you to change the language.  Once that’s done, restart the computer.

Switching the Language for Office

Hopefully switching the language for Windows worked, because it would really help for this part, although it isn’t necessary.  Not every version of Office supports changing languages.  It depends on the version that was installed.  Go to the Start Menu, find Microsoft Office, and then Microsoft Office Tools.  Under there, there should be an icon for Language Settings.  The icon has a globe and an A on it under Windows 7.  Open it and change the language.

]]> https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2011/01/20/switching-microsoft-windows-and-office-to-english/feed/ 0 731 Setup Windows 7 XP Mode https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2010/05/04/setup-windows-7-xp-mode/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2010/05/04/setup-windows-7-xp-mode/#respond Wed, 05 May 2010 01:48:01 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/setup-windows-7-xp-mode Requires Intel Virtualization

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8247-windows-xp-mode-install-setup.html

If the applications don’t appear, disable and enable the “Auto-Publish” setting within the VM”s settings

Working with Virtual Applications

By default, applications installed in the Windows XP VM are auto-published to the Windows 7 host. This means that your Windows XP applications appear on Windows 7’s Start menu. You can then launch your XP applications without having to first load the Windows XP VM and then launch them from the virtual Windows XP’s Start menu.

In order for a Windows XP application to be auto-published to the Windows 7 host, the application must be installed in the All Users profile in the Windows XP VM. However, not all applications are installed in the All Users profile by default.

So, what if the application that you want to be able to run from within Windows 7 isn’t auto-published? Or what if an application is auto-published and you really don’t want it to be available from within Windows 7? Fortunately, you can take control of the auto-published using a couple of tips.

If the XP application that you want to be able to run from within Windows 7 isn’t auto-published, you can force it to be so simply by creating a shortcut to the application in the All Users profile in the Windows XP VM. When you do so, the application will be auto-published to the Windows 7 host.

Access the Windows XP VM, right-click the Start button, and select the Open All Users command. When Windows Explorer launches, open the Programs folder. Once there, you can either drag-and-drop the shortcut from Windows XP’s Start menu to the Programs folder or you can launch the Create Shortcut wizard, as shown in Figure A.

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C:\Users(User-Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

]]> https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2010/02/17/startup-folder/feed/ 0 231 Cancelling Stuck Print Jobs https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2010/01/15/cancelling-stuck-print-jobs/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2010/01/15/cancelling-stuck-print-jobs/#respond Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:22:47 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/cancelling-stuck-print-jobs Sometimes when you try to cancel print jobs that are in progress, Windows will try to cancel it, but it will get stuck. Here is how to delete the print job.

  1. Start > Run > services.msc or alternatively, type services.msc in the find box in the start menu
  2. Look for the Print Spooler and stop the service
  3. Once you stop the service, open the folder “C:WindowsSystem32SpoolPrinters”
  4. Find the files with the date and time stamp of your print job and delete the files
    • if you are trying to delete a print job on a printer that is not directly connected to your computer, but on a network, the host computer may have to turn off their print spooler in order to delete the files
  5. Retry printing

Usually for me, restarting the Print Spooler works well enough, but if need be, deleting the print job files works too.

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