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Issue #229: December 11, 2011

Q: I read your reply to my question in the Nov. 13th Daily News (I.G.T.M. Issue #225). Thank you very much for the reply. I’ve tried what you say without success. The problem is when I go to “Default Programs”, PowerPoint is listed as the associated file for all POxx and PPxx files, except PPS! When I select “change program”, PowerPoint is not one of the choices (not even under ‘other programs.’) Trying the ‘browse’ option doesn’t work either, as the list shows Office, but not PP, and I can’t isolate PowerPoint from it. Regardless, I can’t find a way to put Office in with the choices either.

For clarification, I’m running Windows 7 and Office 2007 on an HP Pavilion g series. PowerPoint appears to be loaded properly as I can open it and create presentations. I ran the Office disk to re-configure the PP program without luck. The problem persists whether I save the file from a Yahoo, or Windows Live Mail account. I can open the file if I send it to another computer. (Cussing at it did no good either!)

Should I remove and re-install PowerPoint or all of Office? Re-install Windows? Again, your help is much appreciated.

Glen J.
Crestview, Florida

A: Well, Glen, I’m sorry you’re still having problems. You appear to be having a registry problem, because if you weren’t, PowerPoint would show up in the list of “Other Programs” as “Microsoft Office PowerPoint”, and be easily selectable. It seems that this is a known problem (Thanks, Bill!) and I found a solution that might just work for you. Please go read this forum: tinyurl.com/bsk5khb and follow the instructions given in the answer. Good luck!

Q: I constantly get a pop-up message that my D/Recovery Drive is almost full. I do not know what files to delete and what to save (DELL, Sources, MediaID.bin, Tools, Program Data, Windows, Kath-PC). Also, I find it extremely annoying that this message constantly pops-up and would like to hide or delete this message…is this possible?

Kathy D.
Niceville, Florida

A: The answer, Kathy, is don’t delete ANY of them. You said it yourself – this is a Recovery Drive, so those files are reserved by your computer manufacturer for an automated recovery process to do repairs if any of its critical operating system files become corrupted. Neither you, nor Windows should even have access to them. Perform the following steps: Click the “Start” button and type “diskmgmt.msc” (without the quotes) in the “Start Search” box and press Enter. If you get a prompt from User Account Control, click “Continue”. When the “Disk Management” window opens and populates right-click on the problem drive and click “Change Drive Letter and Paths…”. Click “Remove” then click “Yes”. This effectively removes the drive letter from Windows, while leaving it available to the recovery tool if it should be required. Before you do ANY of this, however, it looks like you’ve got personal data written to that drive (Program Data, Kath-PC, etc). I suggest you copy these data elsewhere before removing the drive letter.

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