Comments for Coventry Computer Care http://www.coventrycomputercare.com/blog Solutions to your PC problems Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:19:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on “Why can’t Microsoft Office 2007 files be opened in Office 2003?” by Amir http://www.coventrycomputercare.com/blog/2008/05/11/why-cant-microsoft-office-2007-files-be-opened-in-office-2003/#comment-20 Amir Sat, 24 May 2008 06:28:08 +0000 http://www.coventrycomputercare.com/blog/?p=24#comment-20 Al, Thanks for highlighting this; we do make mention of the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats add-on that allows Office 2000 - 2003 to work with the new open format that are used by default in Office 2007 (see the second paragraph of the post). Al,

Thanks for highlighting this; we do make mention of the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats add-on that allows Office 2000 - 2003 to work with the new open format that are used by default in Office 2007 (see the second paragraph of the post).

]]> Comment on “Why can’t Microsoft Office 2007 files be opened in Office 2003?” by Al Brown http://www.coventrycomputercare.com/blog/2008/05/11/why-cant-microsoft-office-2007-files-be-opened-in-office-2003/#comment-18 Al Brown Fri, 23 May 2008 09:15:17 +0000 http://www.coventrycomputercare.com/blog/?p=24#comment-18 Alternatively you can install the free Microsoft Compatibility Pack, this allows pre-Office 2007 machines to open the new documents. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en Alternatively you can install the free Microsoft Compatibility Pack, this allows pre-Office 2007 machines to open the new documents.

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]]> Comment on Vista SP1 released to manufacturing by Amir http://www.coventrycomputercare.com/blog/2008/02/04/vista-sp1-released-to-manufacturing/#comment-6 Amir Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:28:51 +0000 http://www.coventrycomputercare.com/blog/2008/02/04/vista-sp1-released-to-manufacturing/#comment-6 <p>Vista SP1 will be truly important for users, but I personally think it would be better to wait until it is available via Windows Update.</p> <p>I know of some issues with the RTM version, driver issues I believe, that cause some Windows Vista machines to stop booting up.</p> <p>These issues will (one would hope) be ironed out by the time you come to download the update from Microsoft.</p> <p>Also, <a href="http://www.coventrycomputercare.com/blog/2008/02/22/vista-sp1-not-compatible-with-some-security-applications/" rel="nofollow">SP1 is not compatible with some third-party security applications</a> - so you may want to check to ensure you don't have an issue there.</p> Vista SP1 will be truly important for users, but I personally think it would be better to wait until it is available via Windows Update.

I know of some issues with the RTM version, driver issues I believe, that cause some Windows Vista machines to stop booting up.

These issues will (one would hope) be ironed out by the time you come to download the update from Microsoft.

Also, SP1 is not compatible with some third-party security applications - so you may want to check to ensure you don’t have an issue there.

]]> Comment on Vista SP1 released to manufacturing by L D Silver http://www.coventrycomputercare.com/blog/2008/02/04/vista-sp1-released-to-manufacturing/#comment-5 L D Silver Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:12:08 +0000 http://www.coventrycomputercare.com/blog/2008/02/04/vista-sp1-released-to-manufacturing/#comment-5 Do you think it is worth installing this? Do you think it is worth installing this?

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