It has become common practice for Web content providers to put up Acrobat documents as reference since it allows better page layouts and formats, especially for long documents with chapters, sections or graphics. However, Acrobat documents are version dependent. We have been alerted by the Help Desk ...

Microsoft will soon cease its support on Windows 98 (Win98) and a lot of hardware and software, especially the new ones, will be better supported under Windows XP (WinXP). More importantly, the Banner 5, which is scheduled to go live in September 2002, will not run under Win98. As a result, the ...

All the PCs in the lecture theatres and classrooms have been upgraded from Windows 98 to Windows XP. Among the advantages of Windows XP over Windows 98, better system stability and security are the most important. In the new Windows XP environment, users can select one of the two options below when ...

If there is a word to describe the Student Terminal Area (STA) of the Computing Services Centre (CSC), `bustle' is probably the right one: you always find lots of students in the STA, whether using the computers, printing their course work, scanning images, plotting graphs, attending lectures ...

The Windows 2000 pilot run started in October 2001. Currently about 26 departments have participated in the pilot run. It is estimated that over 400 colleagues have already tested the new Windows 2000 Intranet environment. To join the Windows 2000 Professional pilot run, the departmental Network ...

As the Windows 2000 (W2K) upgrade for staff PCs will commence shortly after the completion of pilot run which is now underway, we would like to share with you the following so that you and your department can plan ahead: Preparation work In order to make the upgrade a smooth and speedy one ...

In view of the popularity of the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) and its advantages over Netscape, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) has decided to switch its support effort on browser from Netscape to IE starting from 1 September 2001. Every time a PC is booted up to the student Local Area ...

Many CityU colleagues use the Microsoft Word (MS Word) to type their papers, memos, documents, etc. However, there are a number of different versions of MS Word, such as Word 6.0, Word 95, Word 97 and Word 2000 which are divided into the Chinese and English versions. When users send some documents ...

The Campus Wireless LAN has been an important and effective supplement to the campus network since its inauguration in March 2000. It has since provided a useful alternative for the whole CityU community to overcome the spatial problem to access the computing facilities and services on campus. In ...

Ever thought about tuning up your desktop PC? There are a few optimisation tricks that can make your PC run faster. In this article, we will focus on how an experienced user can fine-tune some system and hardware settings of the PC to improve system performance at no extra cost. Unless you are ...