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Our company is migrating all their machines from XP to Vista and I’ve hit an issue when trying to log onto Terminal Services. I’ve even logged in as an Administrator and it *still* won’t work. How do I get this work?

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Hi there. I travel around a lot, and it would be really useful if I could access my work PC while I’m on the use. A friend told me that I could do this over the Internet, but I’m not quite sure where to start. How do I do this?

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We have a number of consultants who travel all around the world and are looking for a package that can help them record their hours and facilitate our billing processes. Do you know any anything we can use?

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I use a Windows mobile device and would really love to get maps and directions straight to my phone. Is there a service your recommend?

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I’ve just got myself a Windows Smartphone and would like to move my 6000 contacts on my Sony Clie to my new phone. I currently sync against Outlook Express. How do I do this?

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I’ve heard that it’s a good idea to upgrade my blog to the latest version of WordPress. How do I do this?

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I love the way I can add as many extensions as I like to FireFox, but I recently added one I’d like to remove. How do I do this?

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I’ve just implemented WordPress on my webhost and have tried to turn on PermaLinks from the Options menu, but they don’t seem to be working. Someone has told me to look at my .htaccess file, but I don’t seem to have one of these. What gives?

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I’m a music teacher who uses Microsoft Word a lot. I sometimes need to add musical symbols (specifically sharp, flat and natural symbols in my document. I’ve tried looking for these characters in the Special Characters window, but most fonts don’t have them. Is there any way I can do this?

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I love the built-in dictionary in Firefox! However, one pet peeve of mine is the use of American spelling (or misspelling) for words like favour, colour, etc. How can I stop Firefox from marking these as spelling errors?

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