Make Excel 2007 Always Save in Excel 2003 Format

After the tenth time saving an Excel spreadsheet and then emailing it to a co-worker still using Office 2003, I'm willing to save in 2003 format by default. It's not like the rest of the office is going to switch for a very long time anyway, and this way I can stop sending them the wrong documents by mistake!

Start by clicking that big round Office Button in the upper left hand corner.


In the resulting menu, click the Excel Options button.

Now click the Save tab, and then change the "Safe files in this format" dropdown to "Excel 97-2003 Workbook".

Finally! Now I can't accidentally send files in the wrong format anymore. Was really starting to irritate me.

By : http://www.howtogeek.com

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Make Windows Vista Shut Down Services Quicker

The more applications that you install into Windows, the longer the computer takes to shut down. This is especially true for applications that install a service that runs when the computer starts, and even more true for services that refuse to shut down quickly, or time out when being shut down.

To change Windows to shut down the services quicker, open the registry editor, and browse down to the following key


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

You should see a key in the right-hand window called "WaitToKillServiceTimeout", with a default value of 20000, which represents 20000 milliseconds, or 20 seconds. You can change this to a value of 5000 for 5 seconds.


You won't want to make this value much less than 5 seconds.

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