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Seems rdpclip.exe misbehaves occasionally, preventing use of the "copy" function (via Ctrl+C or menu) in Windows or Office 2003

The temporary solution seems to be to kill the rdpclip.exe process. To do this go to the Start button and click Run. Then type

taskkill /F /IM rdpclip.exe

There is a hotfix for Windows 2003 server to prevent this, but in this instance there was no connection to a Win 2003 server, it was a Windows XP computer that was acting as the server being connected to.

The attached zip sets Word, Excel and Powerpoint to save in the previous Office format by default by modifying the registry.

(If you are looking for first-class IT support in London, please feel free to contact us)

We carry around a lot of software on our USB keys these days in order to assist in doing our job. Here is the main selection of the software we keep on it.

Installations for New PC's

Standard to all

• PDF Viewer - Adobe Reader - Standard PDF Reader (or the faster Foxit PDF Reader)
• PDF Writer - PDFCreator - easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer.
• Zip - built in since XP (or 7-Zip - Supports ZIP,RAR and many others and it's own 7z format is hard to beat.)
• Antivirus -NOD32 - The only antivirus we recommend. (there is also the FOSS ClamWin Antivirus - doesn't provide on access realtime scanning)
• Internet search - Google Desktop - easy access to information on your computer and from the web.
• Diagnosis/Support  - RunPCRun Total Support - Handy to have our support package!
• In place for repair work
  
• Malware - HijackThis and Ad-aware
• Drive imager - DriveImage XML or Acronis True Image
• Background
• .NET Framework  - allows end-users to run .NET applications.
• Java Runtime Environment - allows end-users to run Java applications.
• De-crap "Home" PC's - PC Decrapifier
  

Very useful set of pages where there is an up to date status page for the important UK Internet Service Providers.

• Individual ISP Status Pages
• Recent notices from UK ISP's (with RSS Feed)
  

I get a few people ask me (usually in social situations where I'm trying to think about anything other than work!), "What is the cheapest office set-up I can do?" for their new small business. runPCrun are many things, and while we believe we are the best solution considering time,cost and quality, we happily admit we're not necessarily the cheapest solution and this can be important when starting a cash-starved first business.

RunPCRun participated in Crusaid's Walk for Life on Sunday 10th June. We raised a total of £748 ($1,470).

So a big "Well Done and Thank You" to everyone that sponsored us.