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I needed my product keys for a couple of MS products, but after you enter a product key, it gets hidden pretty deeply.  I found an app called ProduKey that extracts the products keys for all installed MS products.  As an added bonus, there is no installation required, so just download it and run it [...]

When installing Office, etc. from our Microsoft Partner MSDN library, I usually take the lazy route and use 7-zip to unpack the ISOs.  ISODisk lets you mount up to 20 ISOs simultaneously, and it seems like a more efficient path.

I found this code to add Soundex to Microsoft Access, which is invaluable for deduping records.  However, it has a key error that causes it to fail – the variable name in the private function is incorrect. It’s a simple fix (see red below). Function Soundex(strName As String) As String‘———————————————————–‘ Input: A string‘ Outputs: U.S. [...]

I just upgraded to Vista Enterprise SP1, and I found that my backup PST was corrupted.  Outlook told me to run ScanPST.exe, but didn’t bother telling me where it was.  According to the KB article, it’s located in the Common Files directory.  However, with Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, I found it here: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12 [...]