September 2011 - Posts

• Fixing PowerPoint 2010 on Windows 7 running on a MacBook

  If you try typing anything in PowerPoint 2010 running on Windows 7 installed in Boot Camp, PowerPoint may abort. The first time I installed Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro, PowerPoint 2010 worked just fine. But the second time was a disaster. PowerPoint aborted Read More... Posted Monday, September 12, 2011 8:13 PM by John Paul Cook | 5 Comments

• Silently booting Windows 7 on a MacBook

  After using Boot Camp to install Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro, it is annoying to hear an Apple chime every time the machine is booted. It is easy to remedy. Although the noise is made before booting into an operating system (either Apple’s or Microsoft’s), Read More... Posted Saturday, September 10, 2011 10:51 AM by John Paul Cook | 0 Comments