Here is a set of things to try for those of you suffering from poor PC performance, very slow boot up times, very slow application start up times, generally slow windows performance, security problems and other annoyances on Windows systems.
Creating Drop Down Menus in Excel
1. Type the list of items you want to include in your drop down menu in an area of the worksheet that is not visible and/or will not be typed over. 
Creating Drop Down Menus in MS Word
1) To create a drop down menu in Word, go to the area where you would like your menu to appear: 
Cursor is at the top of the page in MS Word 2003
Most people check their page setup but find that everything is set right. What may have happened is that the View settings for the Print Layout somehow got changed to hide any white space between pages. To correct this, go to:
PROBLEM
Following some recent upgrades to my distro the Konsole window cursor was always ahead of the text that was typed. The problem was compounded when lines of text were longer though this problem wasn't present in other terminal applications. This really looked horrible using vim, as you can probably imagine. As you can see in the image below there was consistently space between end of typed text the cursor: 
This appears to have occurred after removing the obsolete font package after the Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 upgrade, as the font worked before but not after the upgrade and removal of the font package.
SOLUTION
For those of you unfortunate enough to have lost your job or bored enough to start looking for one again, here are some resources for you. As you may have already experienced, job hunting is another job in itself altogether so for those of you that have a busy life style, this may be a good option. The lists below cater mostly to IT jobs within the Canada, Ontario region but many will also cater to other world locations and specialties as well.
PROBLEM
The task bar panel is gone, disappeared or has been removed/unconfigured part of some configuration change as a result of an upgrade or update. This is one issue I had when upgrading from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 and was mostly due to extensive overhaul of the KDE 4.1/4.0 over it’s predecessor KDE 3.5. The taskbar panel was missing and the UI software provided with KDE 4.0 did not appear to have any graphical option for reenabling it. Unfortunately there appear to have been many KDE 3.5 features that appear disabled / removed alot of people enjoyed, this being one of them. Here is how to enable it:
PROBLEM
How do I change my screen resolution? Changes made in the GUI control panel option in KDE 4.0 are just not sticking or are not becoming permanent / saved.
SOLUTION
PROBLEM
With the latest rollout of adobe / pdf software to the latest linux distributions, there was a rather basic bug introduced causing an infinite number of ‘expr: syntax error” messages being displayed. Fortunately this was a simple script bug frmo the provider that thankfully can be fixed by anyone. The error pops up on many applications using ‘acroread’ binary and spews out a seamingly never ending list of or non stop continous expr: syntax error.
SOLUTION
What to do with scriptlet failed, exit status 1 that can pop up uninstalling some RPM's.
PROBLEM
$ rpm -e avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386
error: %postun(avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
$ rpm -e openmpi-libs-1.1-8.fc7.i386
error: %preun(openmpi-libs-1.1-8.fc7.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 2
SOLUTION
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