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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Office, Freeware, Windows x64

Easily and completely remove the Microsoft XPS doc writer


I do my best to minimize confusion and headaches for my retail customers. One thing that never fails to confuse and annoy is the Microsoft XPS Document Writer.

Most of them have no idea what it is or how it got added to their list of printers. To avoid phone calls from people saying things like "I thought you sold me an HP," I usually just click the icon, press delete, and go about my business.

Admittedly, that's not the most thorough way to get rid of a printer. To do a more complete job, download Rogosoft's Removal Tool. Not only will it delete the printer, but it also removes the driver, XPS library and Essentials Pack, and cleans up any package files that are left behind.

It's 32 and 64 bit compatible, and works on both XP and Vista. It's also fully portable, and free.

Filed under: Business, Text, News, Windows, Office, Adobe, Microsoft

Microsoft offers free PDF/XPS add-in for Office

Office PDF and XPS add-inI don't know if you remember reading a while back about Adobe suing Microsoft over including "save to PDF" functionality, but Microsoft has now released the "save to PDF/XPS" plug-in for the 2007 Office system as promised. XPS is a proprietary Microsoft spec (like PDF), in case you hadn't heard. Save to PDF functionality is huge for me. I save so many things to PDF, usually with PDF creator (which works great), but it would be cool to have the ability right in Office. I am just glad that ole photoshop-feathers (Adobe) and money-monger (Microsoft) worked something out. To get the plug-in for Office (2007), you need to choose between the PDF only, XPS only, or PDF and XPS (both) version. Genuine validation is optional.

[Via InformationWeek]

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