How to solve Thunderbird Lightning calendar appointments showing as overlapping

Have you added a 15min appointment next to another one and see those as overlaping appointments on Thunderbird Ligntning calendar? Something like this:

This has been something I could not fix for quite a while until I finally found this article answered by user called "Decathlon" (THANK YOU Decathlon!)

In summary, if you play with zooming factor (CTRL +/-) you may be able to correct that but it had to do with font size, height of events, number of hours displayed etc. That article suggests the following: 

To avoid the problem you have to increase the zoom factor, or you can add some css code in the userChrome.css file in order to reduce the minimum height of the boxes. Without changing the font size, you can try something like:

.calendar-event-box-container {
    margin: 0px !important;
}

but obviously the problem arises again if the zoom factor is too little.

I decided just to change zoom with CTRL + and got this: 

How to solve, Windows 7: Keyboard keeps changing language

If you are like me that need to change the windows keyboard to input a foreign language like Japanese you may have experienced the situation where windows keep changing the default input language into something you don't want. Windows shouldn't change the keyboard layout automatically, but it remembers the individual language settings to every application as long as the application is running. To reset the input language to default, the application (process) must be ended and relaunched, or the input language manually changed.

I have researched this subject and have solved this problem by doing the following:

1. In "Region and Language" - tab-> Keyboards and languages->change keyboard->Default input language -> choose your language/country

Hope it helps.

Windows Maximize issue - Trying to maximize a Window but it does not expand to full screen size

This problems has hunted me for years, always on my work computer, I can open an application Window, but when I move it to the right side of the screen it gets reduced automatically. I can modify the size of it by expanding its left, right, top and bottom until it covers full screen but when I try to do that by simply clicking the maximize button (top right corner, next to the cross) the Window does not occupy the complete screen, the right side stops at an imaginary screen border.

This occurs when the window is maximized; otherwise it appears as normal. Again, the work around would be to re-size the window using sides arrows.

In my mind, this was a Microsoft Windows issue, but I finally find the solution and it seems it has nothing to do with Microsoft.

At least in my case, the problem was with an application Pidgin. The docked Buddy List, even when not showing up, was taking that screen space and blocking the Window from that area. You just need to play with Pidgin a little, (remove the mark on Show buddy list a couple of times did the job for me) Of course if you remove Pidgin it also works but in my case this was not an option.

Special thanks to the user Tinjaw that replied on 

Forgot Windows 7 Password, but can still login using fingerprint authentication, how to change your password

The title describes my problem, for some reason my password was not working, so I had to reset it. I could still log in as ADMIN but I was not able to reset the password since the windows GUI would ask me for current password in order to change it!

I knew that I could create another admin account and then use that account to reset my work account. This is a good workaround I have used in the past. The problem is that my corporate windows version forces me to use some encription and if I did that reset from another account I would lose the encripted files!

I am glad that I managed to find the answer for my problem here with the answer I have used reproduced below. Just notice that I recommend you not to use * since if you do so, your new password will not show on your display while you type. This may be a need for crowded offices but it may create problems in case you mess up with your typing. 

You can set the password through the command prompt without knowing the previous password. Here's how:

1. Open an administrative command prompt (Right-click Command Prompt and Run as Administrator).
2. Type set username in the command prompt. You will see your username (useful if you don't know what it is from the OEM, etc.)
3. Type net user currentusername newpassword (replace currentusername with the username output on step 2 and newpassword with the newpassword you want to use). That is all. 

Or in case you are concerned to show your password on your display, skip step 3 above and follow the steps below: 

1. or Type net user currentusername * (replace currentusername with the username from step 2) 
2. Type in your new password and press enter. You won't see any stars or anything as you're typing - but it is typing! If you mess up you can press ctrl + c to cancel or press Backspace enough times to delete what you've typed. If you cancel, just type in the command from step 3 again.
3. Type in the same password again and press enter.

If it worked you should see The command completed successfully.

How to fix: iPhone DCIM/Picture folder not showing on Windows 7

I sync my iPhone with my MAC but sometimes I connect my iPhone to my Windows 7 machine in order to copy pictures/movies directly from the iPhone into a folder without using iTunes. For some reason, last time I decided to do that, I could not see the  my iPhone as a windows device anymore. This is what solved my problem:
and
1) The iPhone was not showing as a Windows device:
(clipped from http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/162248-iphone-not-showing-up-in-windows-explorer ) thanks for UYI6067 reply:
"Uninstalled iPhone in Device Manager (with phone connected), unplugged it, waited a minute, then connected and waited for automatic install to take its course. Resolved!"

2) The iPhone now showed as a Windows device but the DCIM folder was empty (not loading properly):
(clipped from http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-pictures/i-cannot-see-any-photos-in-the-dcim-folder-of-my/92a7c831-539a-48a5-b199-2b2a1213d343 ) thanks for d0ppay 's reply:
" If your screen locks on the iPhone/iPad, and if it was locked while you plugged it into your computer, then the DCIM folder that typically contains all the pictures on your camera roll will be empty (security). Unlock and plug it back in to USB. Detailed steps here: http://davidvielmetter.com/tips/access-the-dcim-folder-on-your-iphone/
"

Those 2 actions fixed my problem.

How to Open Excel files on separate windows (Windows 7 and Excell 2007)

For over a year I have struggled with Excel opening all my spreadsheets on the same window. I know you can use View to split/arrange/move the open spreadsheets around but sometimes I just prefer to have 2 separated independent windows like what happens with Word files...I looked into multiple  solutions, some even suggesting register changes but I found the answer in a MS forum here and it is so simple I have clipped the answer that solved my problem below (Thanks Bananarama_1 whoever you are!) so you don't need to look for the right answer in the forum.

Just open another Excel instance by simply clickink the Excel icon on the task bar with the mouse wheel and voila, you have an independent Excel instance you can use to open another file!