What is a Public folder on Windows 10?

This is a very useful feature if you want to share files with other users of the computer. If your computer has others users you should be aware of the existence of this feature. Public folder is therefore available to all users, a shared folder. any user who can log into the computer can access the Public folder without any other permission. If you and your users are working on a common document then it is easy to colloboratively work on the document using the Public folder by moving the document to the folder.

You can find Public folder here (C:\Users\) :

PublicFolder_00

The folder contents are as shown. Foxit Software is not one of the defaults, the others are and to begin with they are all empty. You move related files that your other users can access.

PublicFolder_01

These are the visible items and there are few hidden ones.

In the folder's View menu, place check mark on Hiddem items as shown.

PublicFolder_02

The folders Libraries and Public Account Pictures are the hidden items. The Public Desktop folder, also hidden contains applications that are shared. Usually the installed software asks at installation time whether you want the app shared and if you have clicked YES, you will find them here as in my case.

PublicFolder_03

From the properties of this folder you can make changes to the security and access advanced properties as well.

Do you need a CIO or a CEO? What is CDO or WhoIs CDO?

What we more importantly need is a CDO.

CDO is Chief Data officer(DBA in disguise?) who can mesmerize your customers with the infinite possibilities of data analytics.

Well, you also need a CAO, the Chief Analytics Officer.

Here is a play on the anagrams from Gannet.

What is XMLNotepad and where do you get it?

XMLNotepad is a Microsoft tool, an XML editor. You can easily open an XML documents using this tool. It is very useful and very informative.

You can get the latest version from the Codeplex site here:

Go to this link.
https://xmlnotepad.codeplex.com/

Click on downloadable installer.
This will take you to the site where you can download the Microsoft XML Notepad.

XMLNotepad2_7.jpg

This application requires .NET 4.0. If it is not available in your computer (look inside Programs and features in Control panel). If you do not have this, you can download and install from here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=17851

Click on Microsoft XML Notepad which brings up the following:

 XMLNotepad2-7_1.jpg

Click Install. It will install directly from a server on the internet and you may see this window.

XMLNotepad2-7_2.jpg

After a while the application gets downloaded and you should see in your All Programs as shown

XMLNotepad2-7_5.jpg

You can get the user interface of this application by clicking the shortcut in the above.

XMLNotepad2-7_4.jpg

Enjoy!

Which of MS EXCEL versions support Power View feature?

Whether or not you will be able to use Power View, quite a useful feature to display interactive reports, depends on the Excel architecture.

Excel comes in the most popular and most common x32 bit version. Many add-ins are compatible with this version. At least that is the reason Microsoft offers for not installing x64 bit version of MS Excel. Also, both versions cannot co-exist, it is one or the other. 64bit Office can work on only x64 computers but this is not really serious we will be seeing fewer and fewer x32 bit computer. The way out is for Microsoft to take a bold step to bring these differences to a close.

People who have more complex worksheets require 64-Bit office 2013.

Power Views are only supported on these versions and SKUs:

PowerViewExcelVersion.jpg

How do you find what version of Excel you are using?

I have a Microsoft Office 365 Business subscription.

Click File on the main menu of a Excel document to bring up a list of other items that you may want to find out as shown.


ExcelVersion_0

Click Account to open the account details on the right as shown.

ExcelVersion_1

Click About Excel on the icon to display the following:


ExcelVersion_2

The version used here is x32 bit.

How do you install Visual Studio Community 2017?

Visual Studio has grown a lot and it is really humongous with several different kinds of Works loads.
You can install to work with all kinds of work loads or you can pick and choose on the page "Installing -Visual Studio Community 2017 - 15.4.2.

For example I have chosen to install the following:

Summary
Visual Studio core editor
.NET desktop development
ASP.NET and web development
Node.js development
Data science and analytical applications
Mobile development with .NET
Visual Studio extension development
.NET Core cross-platform development
Universal Windows Platform development
Data storage and processing
Mobile development with JavaScript

I have left out C++, Python, Azure, Office/SharePoint development, game development and Linux development with C++.

Choose your workloads here:


Just choosing the above I need a whopping ~54 GB that is just for using the English language pack.

You start your download here:
https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/community/

Is Mozilla better than Microsoft Edge?

Yes, in some ways.

Here is a response from Microsoft Edge while trying to access a Reporting Services Web URL. The message leads to a dead-end.

The same site on Mozilla Firefox provides more detailed information as shown: