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  If you do not want to use Outlook 2010’s RSS Feed Reader feature, you should remove it. It slows down Outlook. This also shows you how to remove the RSS feeds from the Outlook sidebar.

Motorola’s oddly-named Xyboards are tragic products. Released without much fanfare or publicity, the tablets make their appearance soon after the release of the Kindle Fire and shortly ahead of the appearance of Asus’s Transformer Prime. So it’s fair to say that the tablets have their work cut out for them.

The Calculator comes with Windows 7 is having some additional features . Lets check out these options. You can access window7 calculator from Start Menu >All Programs>Accessories  OR Just Typing Calculator on the start menu search box.

Like windows XP and Vista we can create shortcut for shutdown but now you can pin those freshly created shortcuts to the Start Menu or the Taskbar or to both.

There are times where you will want to extend the amount of allocated space on your hard drive, referred to as a volume, to make more space. With the Windows 7 Disk Management Utility you can easily extend a volume & make more space if you have un allocated space on your HDD.

There are times where you will want to shrink the amount of allocated space on your hard drive, referred to as a volume, to make room for another partition. With the Windows 7 Disk Management Utility you can easily shrink a volume & create a new partition. Shrink a volume The first step is to start the Disk Management tool with elevated administrative rights. Click the Start menu button, type diskmgmt.msc into the search box, and then right-click the diskmgmt.msc entry to get to the Run as Administrator item in the context menu.

TCPView is a Windows program Developed by Mark Russinovich that will show you detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections. On Windows Server 2008, Vista, and XP, TCPView also reports the name of the process that owns the endpoint. TCPView provides a more informative and conveniently presented subset of the Netstat program that ships with Windows. The TCPView download includes Tcpvcon, a command-line version with the same functionality.  

ADInsight is an LDAP (Light-weight Directory Access Protocol) real-time monitoring tool aimed at troubleshooting Active Directory client applications. Use its detailed tracing of Active Directory client-server communications to solve Windows authentication, Exchange, DNS, and other problems.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 software is the industry’s leading application for developing websites and web applications. Using its powerful coding environment or standard-setting visual interface, designers and developers at all levels can create engaging and dynamic websites for multiple devices.

Adobe Photoshop Touch lets you transform images using core Photoshop features designed for a tablet, as well as new capabilities specifically tailored for mobile design and social networking. With Photoshop Touch, you can: ·          Create new images by combining photos, making popular edits, and applying professional effects ·          Quickly find images, share your creations, and view comments — all from within the app, thanks to integration with Facebook and Google ·          Access interactive tutorials that can help you quickly achieve great-looking results ·          Upload your files to Adobe Creative Cloud so that they are easy to open in Photoshop CS5 2

Adobe Creative Cloud will be a comprehensive offering of creative services, Adobe Creative Suite desktop applications, Adobe Touch Apps, and community features that together will radically redefine the content creation process. Some features are available today. The full offering will be available in 2012.

  The Aakash is an Android tablet computer jointly developed by the London-based company Data Wind with the Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan and manufactured by the India-based company Quad , at a new production centre in Hyderabad — under a trial run of 100,000 units.The tablet was officially launched as the Aakash in New Delhi on Oct 5, 2011. A substantially revised second generation model is projected for manufacture beginning in early 2012. 

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG), formerly known as Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server), is a network security and protection solution for Microsoft Windows, described by Microsoft as "enables businesses by allowing employees to safely and productively use the Internet for business without worrying about malware and other threats". Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG) is a secure web gateway that provides comprehensive protection against web-based threats by integrating multiple layers of protections into a unified, easy-to-use solution. Forefront TMG allows your employees to safely and productively use the Internet for business without worrying about malware and other threats.

Solution: Mark Russinovich and Jon Schwartz at   Sysinternals developed  a small utility named as Shell Run As  which will enable the option on windows vista . This tool adds the option to start an application with a different users credentials from the GUI This is a command line Utility that allows to register the GUI short cuts with the following options

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization, a core component of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) for Software Assurance, enables deployment and management of Microsoft Windows Virtual PC desktops to enable key enterprise scenarios.  Incompatibility of applications with newer versions of Microsoft Windows can delay enterprise operating system (OS) upgrades. Testing and migrating applications can be time-consuming, and meanwhile users are unable to take advantage of the new capabilities and enhancements offered by the new OS. By delivering applications in a Windows Virtual PC that runs a previous version of Windows XP, MED-V removes the barriers to OS upgrades and allows administrators to complete testing and to deal with incompatible applications after the upgrade. From the user’s perspective, these applications are accessible from the standard desktop Start menu and appear side-by-side with native applications—so there is minimal change to the user experienc...

The /3GB or 3GB switch in the boot.ini file lets you tune the use of memory and memory address space in your computer. The /3GB switch specifies the amount of memory for user-mode virtual address space. It is used to allocate more memory to applications and less memory to the operating system. The /3GB switch increases the size of the user process address space from 2 GB to 3 GB. This can improve performance of servers that run virtual-memory-intensive applications. That is for example database servers. A larger address space can improve a database server performance.

Virtual memory allows the system to use hard disk space to store information normally stored in RAM. Windows 7 and Windows Vista manages virtual memory by using a paging file. You specify the minimum and maximum size of this file. If the size is different from the default in Windows Vista, applications may return errors. However, some applications may require a non-default size for the paging file. Change the size only if other applications aren't adversely affected. To set the paging file to the default size: Note:  You must be logged on as an administrator to change the size of the paging file.

Go to Start and Click on Control Panel

Hit Windows logo button + F on your keyboard. On performing this action, a small search window will appear on your screen, as shown in below image. In this new window you find a search bar. In this search bar type backup your files and click on settings tab. On performing this action you will get few results. In this result window click on icon labelled as backup your data.

Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 5 times, resume and schedule downloads. Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages.

R edundant  A rray of  I ndependent (or  I nexpensive)  D isks, a category of disk drives that employ two or more drives in combination for fault tolerance and performance. RAID disk drives are used frequently on servers but aren't generally necessary for personal computers. RAID allows you to store the same data redundantly (in multiple paces) in a balanced ay to improve overall performance.

Upgrading your computer’s RAM can be costly and time-consuming. Windows Vista introduced a useful new feature called ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost has the unique ability to transform ordinary flash based memory into newfound memory for your computer ReadyBoost   is a   disk cache   component of   Microsoft Windows , first introduced with   Microsoft 's   Windows Vista   in 2006 and   bundled   with   Windows 7   in 2009. It works by using   flash memory , a   USB flash drive ,   SD card ,   Compact Flash   or any kind of portable flash mass storage system as a cache.

In order to use the Internet Explorer (IE) effectively, we have some basic tips for you to try…    1. To extend the window area of the IE, you can make it easy by pressing the F11 key.       Then you press it again in order to return the IE to the normal window.       2. Sometimes you want to search a keyword in a long web page that you are surfing.         How do you do ?? Just press Ctrl+F and place the keyword you want.       3. Using Backspace key in your keyboard instead of clicking Back in the IE window.     4. You can close your IE window that you are surfing by Ctrl+W.       5. To see the surfing websites history, Press F4 key to see the URL which you have typed.    6. Press Ctrl+D in order to save the url which you are surfing.        And the url will be in the Favo...

you might need this KB update: kb940518 Update Update for Windows Server 2008 Server Manager (KB940518) Instructions To avoid a restart of the computer, verify that Initial Configuration Tasks, Server Manager, or servermanagercmd.exe are not running during the installation process. You must also log on to the computer as an administrator to install this update.

   To import your Microsoft® Outlook® address book to your BlackBerry® Internet Bundle address book, complete the following:             First, export the Microsoft Outlook Address Book to a CSV file: In Microsoft Outlook, from the File menu, select Import and Export The Import and Export Wizard is displayed Select Export to a file , then click Next Select Comma Separated Values (Windows®), then click Next If a message window appears asking you to install the Import/Export engine, you might need the Microsoft® Office CD to complete this task In the Export to a File window, select the Contacts folder that contains your address book Click Next , then click Browse In the Browse window, choose a location where you want to save the CSV file In the File name field, type a file name with a .csv extension, then click OK Click Next > Finished...

There are two ways to assign Logon scripts. The first is done on the Profile tab of the user properties dialog in the Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC). The second is done via Group Policy Objects (GPO). Here we are using the second method.   When using GPOs you can assign MORE than one logon script per user, and you can configure which script runs first, you can also assign LOGOFF scripts for users, and even STARTUP and SHUTDOWN scripts for the computer itself.   Create the logon script and give it the appropriate name (for example: logon.bat, logon.cmd, logon.vbs, etc.) The script can use ANY name, just make sure you know what that name is, and give it the right file extension type.

When you log on to a Windows Vista-based or a Windows 7-based computer by using a temporary profile, you receive the following error message: The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded. This error may occur if the "Do not logon users with temporary profiles" Group Policy setting is configured.

                              Click  Start and type  netplwiz in the search box.                                              Click the Search results and a window will be opened.                        Choose the Advanced tab.  Now you can choose weather you have to press CTRL+ALT+DELETE before logging on.

When we use USB or CD, the operating system will play the Device Automatically in windows7, You can disable this by the following way

Windows Server 2008, Server Core installation does not include the traditional full graphical user interface (GUI). Therefore, once you have configured the server, you can only manage it locally at a command prompt, or remotely using a Terminal Server connection. Like any other server, Server Core machines must be properly configured to be able to communicate on your network. Some of these settings include: ·          Configuring an IP address ·          Configuring an administrator's password ·          Configuring a server name ·          Enabling remote MMC snap-in management ·          Enabling remote RDP connections ·          Enabling remote Windows Firewall management ·          Ena...

 Expanding the capacity of a server by adding new disk drives is a typical activity for administrator. In this article, let us review how to add two new disk drives to the DELL server and create RAID 1 using “Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller – PERC” configuration utility. This tool is also called as “PERC/CERC Bios Configuration Utility”.

Server NET commands are used to create, delete, modify, configure, and manage computer resources as they relate to networking. Server NET commands can also be used to display information about shared or network related resources.