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Microsoft on Tuesday plans to push out a fix to repair problems caused by last week’s emergency cursor flaw patch. The fix will be delivered as a “high priority” update alongside Microsoft’s regular security updates, Christopher Budd, a Microsoft security staffer wrote on a corporate blog on Friday.

Microsoft has identified three additional applications that conflict with last week’s “critical” MS07-017 security update. Originally the company listed only the Realtek HD Audio Control Panel as software that would not function and cause error messages to appear. CD-Tag, ElsterFormular and TUGZip have been added to that list. “While the impact of these issues is clearly not widespread, it is affecting some of our customers,” Budd wrote.

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Office 2007’s ribbon might make life simpler for those who have never used a computer before, but this big-button approach leaves some more experienced users with a touch of agita. The UI makes some features less visible and functional than before (for example, Styles in Microsoft Word), puts others several clicks farther away (such as E-mail), and makes certain features hard to use simultaneously even though they’re likely to be used together (such as Formatting and Reviewing).

Fortunately, the Quick Access Toolbar is insanely easy to customize. It starts with a click on the Down arrow at the right end of the Quick Access Toolbar itself.

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