I have been working on more training videos for vista. I am up to 55 short videos 1 to 5 minutes long to cover very specific how-tos in Microsoft Vista. I am also starting to work on Microsoft Office Word.

XP Change Desktop Background

XP Custom Start Menu

Here is a quick video on how to customize your XP start menu

XP Task manager missing menu and X to CLOSE

As you can see the top part of the XP task manager is missing including the X in the upper right hand corner. If you left click in the top part of the window, the grey bar, the rest of the xp task list window will show and you can close the task manager

I am working on http://ping.fm/wcCe8

Excel No more new fonts may be applied in this workbook

his problem occurs because of the Auto scale setting. When you add a chart to the workbook, the Auto scale setting is enabled by default. This setting causes charts to use two or more fonts instead of one. When you add multiple charts to a workbook with this setting enabled, the font limitation for a workbook may be reached. For Microsoft Excel 2000 and later, the maximum number of fonts is 512. If you add charts manually or if you copy and paste existing charts, you can reach the font limitation for a workbook. The following is an example of copying existing charts:

* You create a chart object in the worksheet.
* You copy and paste the chart object on the same worksheet ten or more times.
* You then copy the worksheet several times in the same workbook.

OTE: Because there are several versions of Microsoft Windows, the following steps may be different on your computer. If they are, see your product documentation to complete these steps.

1. Quit all running programs.
2. Click the Start button, and then click Run.
3. In the Open box, type regedit , and then click OK.
4. Go to the following registry subkey (folder), depending on your version of Excel:
Excel 2003
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice11.0ExcelOptions
Excel 2002
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice10.0ExcelOptions
Excel 2000
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice9.0ExcelOptions
5. Point to New on the Edit menu, and then click DWORD Value. Type AutoChartFontScaling , and then press ENTER.
6. Click Modify on the Edit menu. Type 0 in the Value Data box, and then click OK.
7. Click Exit on the File menu to quit the Registry Editor.

After adding this registry key, all new charts created in Excel will not have the Auto scale setting selected.

Clean up Temp Files XP

Often we need to clean up temp files on a computer, these are files that windows needed at one time but forgot to delete them. The easy way to remove them is to open my computer, find your c drive, right click your c drive, left click properties, left click on disk cleanup, a new window will open, click on the boxes so that anything with the work temp is selected, click ok, and it will clean up your computer