Tech Updates

A lot of SCE staff now have dual monitors at their desks. Having a second monitor is a great tool which helps cut down on switching back and forth between applications. Pretty much any application can be moved to the secondary monitor. In this case, the secondary monitor is the screen that does not have a taskbar at the bottom or a start menu. So you can use any of the Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, or Outlook on the secondary screen along with running other SCE applications like Itendance, Transpoint, or the SCE Webmail system. The only application that does not behave on the secondary monitor is Banner, so remember that if you use Banner extensively throughout your workday that it has to live on your Primary monitor. The primary monitor typically has your Windows Start menu, Task bar, and many of your application shortcuts or files you’ve saved on the desktop.

To fix the certificate problem:

1- Open Internet Explorer 7
2- Go to Tools
3- Go to Internet Options and click in the advance Tab
4- In the settings area scroll all the way down
5- Clear the box “Warn about certificate address mismatch*” And click “OK”
6- Close the browser and open banner.

Ever try to use Argos only to find that Banner shut down when you clicked on the Argos shortcut? The reason that this happens is because the settings in Internet Explorer are set to reuse windows when you launch a shortcut. Since Internet Explorer doesn’t realize that Banner needs two windows to operate, it uses one to open Argos.

To fix this problem, you can change the option in Internet Explorer. To do this, click on Tools on the menu bar, then Internet Options. Click on the Advanced tab and then under Browsing, uncheck the option that says “Reuse windows for launching shortcuts.” Then click OK. A screen shot is provided below for clarification.