Vista Upgrade Advisor - Can I Do It??

As a Techie, I see daily how people are still using Windows XP (And older) on their machines. Now there are a few questions at hand when upgrading to a new version of Operating System. Firstly, what is different? Second, where can I get it? These are followed by a long list of other ‘wonders’. The final question that people may ask, if they even ask it, is will it run on my PC? Many people learn the hard way that it actually will not run as expected on their system, after purchasing a copy. Wasted money and thought time isn’t it? Well please enter, Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor. A tool developed by Microsoft, to determine your PC’s compatibility with Windows Vista.

Disable Auto-Complete Lists - Outlook

The Auto-Complete feature is well known to all Outlook users, you begin to enter the recipient’s E-Mail address and like magic a list appears with similar addresses. Sometimes, however, this may get annoying. Below is an example of this list, just to give you an idea of what it is that I am talking about.

Now imagine how annoying this might be for you if you have more than just one relevant mail receipient. Luckily this feature can be disabled if you prefer the good old fashioned manual-labour ways.

Manually Update Your Cached Global Address List - Outlook 2003

Alrighty then, so here is the scenario for you: Your PC resides in a network environment, you use Outlook, your local mail server - Exchange. Beautiful! Now Outlook has two major options while working with an Exchange Server, you either cache your mail and contacts locally (Mainly used for Laptop users) or you don’t cache it locally. If not cached locally, the mail server keeps a file which contains all this data. When cached, a copy is stored on the PC itself. This allows the user to access mail and contacts while not connected to the Exchange Server. Local caching, however means that you need to update your Global Address Lists. This is how to do just that!

Thunderbird using to much space on your hard disk?

I’m the Microsoft user in the office, so I’m not big on Thunderbird, but some of my colleagues are using Mozilla’s Thunderbird and they say it is a great cross-platform alternative for reading e-mail. They are complaining that it can get a bit bulky, so here’s a tip to keep your Thunderbird install speedy and healthy: compact your mailboxes.

How to Resend an Outlook E-Mail.

If you’re like me, you sometimes do things the hard way because you just don’t know any better. For years, I’ve been forwarding E-mail messages when what I really wanted to do was resend them. Forwarding a message requires you to enter an address. Why should you do that if you want to resend the message to the original address? Well, you shouldn’t.To resend a message, locate it in the Sent Items folder (or the folder where you store sent messages). From the Actions menu, choose Resend This Message. In Outlook 2007, you can find this in the Actions group.

Using color to identify messages in Outlook.

Expecting important mail? Identify it as soon as it comes in by displaying it in a distinctive color. Start by select an existing message from the sender in question, if you have one. If you don’t, that’s okay; you can enter the sender’s name manually in a minute. Now follow these steps:

Remove all remnants of the Windows Vista SP1 installation.

When you install Vista SP1, the installation procedure leaves all of the pre-SP1 files on your system in case you need to uninstall it. In fact, you can find SP1 listed in Programs and Features on the Installed Updates page, as shown in Figure A.

Figure A

Having the ability to uninstall SP1 can cost as much as 800 MB of hard disk space.

Microsoft falling away?? WHAT!? No Chance!

Hello again!

I have been hearing allot of stories about Microsoft committing a rather drawn out suicide. You haven’t heard?

Symantec Antivirus Client Uninstall Password

You know, it is really becoming a common sight for us Techies at LPF. We see it more and more that Symantec software is loaded onto the client machines and an uninstall password is registered. Problem is that getting hold of this password is a hopeless mission!

Removing/Reseting Trend Micro OfficeScan Password

To remove / reset the uninstall password for Trend Micro OfficeScan

Edit Ofcscan.ini file. (Do a search.)