technical solutions and commentary

The Daylight Savings Time changes are coming quickly. Hopefully you have already been addressing updates to your compuster systems. If you need assistance one where to start I have posted soome resources below.

• Microsoft Daylight Savings Time Help and Support Center
• KB 931667 - How to address the daylight saving time changes in 2007 by using the Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook
• KB 933146 - Description of the hotfix package for the Time Zone Data Update tool for Microsoft Office Outlook

In Outlook 2007 you have the ability to quickly preview office documents (Word, Excel, etc) in the message window. Unfortunately out of the box you could not preview PDF documents, even if you have Adobe Reader installed. When you do try to preview a PDF you get the message “This file cannot be previewed becaue there is no previewer installed for it.”

Good news. Tim Heuer has been working with Foxit to create a Free Previewer for Outlook 2007. It was just released at the end of February. You can access the previewer from Tim’s blog at http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2007/02/27/14001.aspx.

Right now this view only works on Vista & Outlook 2007, but they are working on a Windows XP & Outlook 2007 version. This is a great job of extending the Office 2007 platform!

Check out www.WillItBlend.com to see these guys put just about anything into a blender. Funny.

With the recent consumer launch of Windows Vista there has been some discussion on what some of the new services are running. The web site http://speedyvista.com/ provides a matrix of all the services running, a brief explanation, and advice on what you can and cannot disable in relation to increasng performance.

As with any other independently operated web site, you are taking their advice at your own risk.