Windows 8 – Henry Poon's Blog https://blog.henrypoon.com Sun, 25 Aug 2019 23:42:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 83044199 What to do with a window that is trapped off the screen https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2013/04/24/what-to-do-with-a-window-that-is-trapped-off-the-screen/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2013/04/24/what-to-do-with-a-window-that-is-trapped-off-the-screen/#respond Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:56:51 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/what-to-do-with-a-window-that-is-trapped-off-the-screen Because of my dual monitor setup, sometimes programs don’t really remember what screen appears on which screen and in very rare cases, the window shows up on neither screen.  The following key commands should help fix that.

  1. Select the hidden screen (using the taskbar or some other method)
  2. Press ‘Alt+Space’ (a window should pop up with a few options)
  3. Press ‘M’ to enable the move option
  4. Use the arrow keys to bring the hidden window back into view

It works like a charm!

]]> https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2013/04/24/what-to-do-with-a-window-that-is-trapped-off-the-screen/feed/ 0 1598 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 SolidWorks Side-By-Side Configuration Error Fix https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2010/08/07/solidworks-2010-side-by-side-configuration-error-fix/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2010/08/07/solidworks-2010-side-by-side-configuration-error-fix/#comments Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:57:03 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/solidworks-2010-side-by-side-configuration-error-fix I finally found the fix to the error in SolidWorks 2010 (also reported to work for SW 2011, 2015 and 2016) that prevented me from running the program.  The computer uses Windows 7 32-bit (works also for Windows 8 and 10 as pointed out in the comments), and every time I started up the program it would something like:

The application failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.  Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool.

I used my Google-fu and found that the cause of this error is due my computer not having the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable.  A copy of the setup file for this is in the SolidWorks 2010 disc.  It is in the folder (DVD Drive):PreReqsVCRedist.  After installing that, the error disappeared and SolidWorks starts properly.

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