If you sent a message to someone by mistake or you forgot to add or attach something you can try recalling the message. Outlook Message Recall feature only works if both sender and recipient are using Outlook and their mailboxes are hosted on Microsoft Exchange Server. Recall a message in MS Outlook 2003 Mailbox >…

Restore native Windows XP .zip file association with Compressed Folder utility Option 1 Start > Run > CMDREGSVR32 ZIPFLDR.DLL Option 2 Start > Run > CMDcmd /c assoc .zip=CompressedFolder Windows XP

Internet Explorer uses Microsoft Live / Bing as its default search provider, which is nowhere near as good as Google Search. It should be pretty easy and straightforward to add Google Search and make it the default search provider: just click on a little arrow next to the search box, click on “Find More Providers…”…

Although Windows XP can work with OS partition placed on D: E: or any other drive, it’s normally recommender to place it on the usual C: drive. You shouldn’t change system partition letter after Windows installation therefore you need to ensure that system partition has correct letter during the installation. If you have multiple partitions…

In certain conditions trying to open a PDF document with Adobe Reader X generates error “Before proceeding you must first launch Adobe Acrobat and accept the End User License Agreement“. Opening file from within Adobe Reader (File > Open) works fine.

There could be many reasons why explorer.exe consumes high amount or memory. This particular issue has been reported on Windows Vista and Windows Small Business Server 2008 machines and is caused by Windows Search functionality. If you click on START and type anything in the “Start Search” box, explorer.exe RAM usage starts increasing. This doesn’t…

Find out who is logged on onto a remote computer locally or via resource shares Download and extract PsLoggedOn. For more info about this Microsoft Sysinternals tool by Mark Russinovich and direct download go here. Run PsLoggedon.exe in a command prompt (CMD): PsLoggedon.exe Find out who is logged on onto a local computer PsLoggedon.exe \\computer-nameFind…

MS Outlook freezes when trying to a attach a file. Delay sometimes can take as long as couple of minutes. Windows Explorer can also freeze at the same time. This behaviour is most often caused by a Disconnected Network Drive or My Network Places shortcut pointing to non existing network location. Simply disconnect the old…

If you have access to a computer enabling remote desktop is done this way:Control Panel > System > Remote (tab) > Allow users to connect to this computer However you could be in a situation when Remote Desktop on a computer is disabled and there is nobody who could enable it.If you have network access…

You can easily remove unwanted programs from Windows Explorer “Open With” using registry. Start > Run > regedit.exeHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\FileExts\[.ext]\OpenWithList Just delete unwanted entries. Windows XP

When opening .msg files in Outlook 2010 you my get an error “the command line argument is not valid. Verify the switch you are using“.This is most likely caused by incorrect file association. Open any folder > Tools > Folder Options > File Types > MSGMake sure it set to open with “Microsoft Outlook“.Click on…

  Right click on the desktop > New > Shortcut Type the location the item: %windir%\system32\Rundll32.exe Powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0 Type a name for this shortcut: Sleep On Windows Vista and Windows 7 machines, if hibernation is on, this may put computer in hibernate rather than sleep mode. To avoid this, you can disable hibernation in elevated…