If your hard drive is on it’s last legs developing more and more bad sectors you will start seeing corrupt files and folders. Obviously you should replace such hard drive as soon as possible. If you have an up to date backup you can simply restore everything to your new hard drive. However if backup…

WOL Wake on LAN (WOL) is a platform-independent networking standard which allows to “Wake-Up” (resume from shut down / hibernate / sleep) a computer remotely by a specifically crafted network message called a magic packet. In order to use this protocol first of all you must have compatible hardware. This includes the motherboard, BIOS and…

Normally in a folder with images in Windows XP you have following view options to preview files: Filmstrip Thumbnails Titles Icons List Details In some cases “Filmstrip” option may be missing. To resolve check following: Open any folder > Tools > Folder Option > General > TasksMake sure Show common tasks in folders is selected.…

Right click on the desktop > New > ShortcutType the location the item: %windir%\system32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStationType a name for this shortcut: Lock Computer Alternatively just press Windows Key + L Windows XPWindows 7Windows Server 2003Windows Server 2008

After opening .chm (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help) file you may empty an page with generic error message “Navigation to the webpage was canceled”. First off all ensure you are not opening .chm file form a network location. If so just copy file to a local drive. If file is already saved locally right click on…

rSync is very efficient way of transferring files between computers, especially over slow WAN connections. rSync can compress data before transferring, but more importantly if there is similar but not identical file with the same name on the target computer it will only transfer differences instead of the whole file. rSync can be used as…

With Adobe PDF Reader you can print multiple documents by selecting them in Windows Explorer > Right mouse click > Print. With version 10.0 we noticed problem –  after first document is printer empty Adobe Reader X window opens. Only after it’s manually closed second document is printer and so on. This seems to be…

If you have Gmail mailbox configured in Outlook 2010 via IMAP you may end up with two copies of every sent email. This happens because Outlook by default saves all send items in Gmail sent folder and Gmail also saves all emails sent though their SMTP server. To fix the issue you need to change…

Follow these steps to configure MS Outlook to access MS Exchange server when client computer is not on a local network. 1.    Close MS Outlook2.    Start > Settings > Control Panel > Mail > Show Profiles > Add (if you don’t see “Mail” icon in Control Panel click “Switch to Classic View” on left hand…

Microsoft Outlook 2010 with instant search disabled (Windows Desktop Search not installed).Contact searches unreliable, sometimes returning sometimes not returning results for the same search queries. Fixed by: File > Options > SearchUncheck “Improve search speed by limiting the number of results shown” Outlook 2010Windows XP

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool is normally is installed via Windows Update and runs automatically in a silent mode and only reports if an infection was found.It is not a replacement for Antivirus software as it only finds active malware and does not prevent new infections. To run manually: Start > Run > mrt.exeYou can…

Sub Reply()Dim msg As Outlook.MailItemSet msg = Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection(1).Replymsg.SentOnBehalfOfName = “email@domain.com”msg.DisplayEnd Sub Microsoft Outlook 2010