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Virus warnings are almost always hoaxes. Even if they’re not, forwarding the warning to your friends and colleagues can do more harm than good. My simple advice is this: press delete . Virus warnings and hoaxes are one particular flavour of chain email...
Here’s a handy hard drive cleanup tip for you that is applicable only if you have installed Windows Vista Service Pack 1 update. On my system, I used WinDirStat to see where all my hard drive space was going and discovered that my %SystemRoot%\WinSxS...
If you’ve installed a 64-bit version of Windows Vista then loaded up Office 2007, you might have noticed that the Mail control panel applet is missing. That makes it kind of difficult to create multiple Outlook profiles and manage your data files, especially...
I was reading this post on Transparency. Feedback. Connection. Participation. - Announcements - Community Server . Well there is transparency all right. All the images are 100% transparent. As for the Feedback, Connection, Participation? This is...
For Outlook users who are always exceeding their mailbox quota: I wrote this for you .
When installing SQL Management Studio Express on Windows Vista x64 (and, perhaps, x86 too) you may well get an error code 29506, the installation will fail and roll-back. This appears to be a security issue with Windows Vista. I've seen this happen...
If you're having performance problems on your Windows Vista systems, one thing you might take a look at is Windows Sidebar. It is quite badly behaved! I find it is consistently one of the biggest memory hogs and almost always the most prolific generator...
Poor Mike - perhaps he should have used PowerGUI . I have been catching up with Mike Ormond's blog today. Mike posts lots of stuff that will be interesting to software developers and if you're a Visual Studio user, even just a hobbyist, it's...
I received the following email today, which is clearly a rather crude hoax: From: <deleted> @hotmail.co.uk To: <24 MSN/Hotmail addresses removed to protect privacy> Subject: PLEASE READ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:48:22 +0000 Hey it is tara...
I recently had a problem with a customer running all Windows Vista clients on an SBS 2003 R2 domain. The problem was how to deploy printers to users who have restricted access (i.e. standard users). The users cannot install the printer drivers themselves...
Here's a great tip I picked up at the Microsoft Roadshow 2007 a few days ago. For new users of Office 2007 there is an add-in you can download that adds a new Getting Started tab to the ribbon. The new ribbon contains links to all sorts of online...