Make iGoogle Your Startup Page in Microsoft Outlook

I m a regular user of Microsoft outlook and I use iGoogle as my dashboard and as I m in habit of trying new things on my Windows XP desktop, I tried to combine both Microsoft outlook and iGoogle, which is really very simple to do…

In order to combine both of them, we have to create a new folder, and then give it a suitable name accordingly. Now right click on the new folder and choose properties, and then go to homepage tab, check the box for “Show my homepage by default for this folder”. Than write the url of iGoogle, which is - http://www.google.com/ig

You can change that anytime, and make any other web page as your homepage.

By now, we can view our iGoogle page as our homepage by just clicking on the folder.

Set iGoogle as the Default Startup Page

Open up the Options panel through Tools \ Options on the menu, and then choose the Advanced Options button on the other tab.

You'll see a setting for "Startup in this folder" with a Browse button next to it. Click that button and choose the iGoogle folder as your startup page.

Now when you startup Outlook, you'll be taken directly to your iGoogle dashboard and for the first time it asks for login.

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Turn on Remote Desktop in Windows Vista

If you want to access your Vista PC from another Computer, it’s essential for you turn Remote Desktop ON, which is disabled by default in windows Vista. Don’t worry it’s very simple to turn it on.

Go to the configuration page, there are 2 ways to go to configuration page>

>>Right Click on my computer icon and choose properties,

>>Type system into the start menu search box. It will be the 4^th item in the list.

Now you have to check Remote settings link on the left hand side. Now you can turn it on:

If you want to connect from another Computer (installed with Windows Vista) on the same network, click the bottom radio button. And if you want to connect to Windows XP or Windows 2000, then click the “Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote desktop” radio button. To connect from another Vista PC on the same network, click the bottom radio button. If you need to connect from an XP/2k machine, click the "Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop" radio button. Vista will automatically do the settings for firewall. But remember it will not work for home editions of vista.

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Add More Functions to Office 2007 by Installing Add-Ins

I use Excel more often…I just can’t work without it. Excel is best for maintaing data. Yesterday I was exploring Microsoft Excel which was quite fruitful. They are many features in it. I m not talking about Vlookup and other formulas. I am talking about add ins, which you may not get bundled with Microsoft Office and not included with the initial installation, which can be easily accessed and installed. I would like to share my some of experience with you… may be these add ins cab be useful to Excel users as they are to me.
Open Excel and then click on Office button and go to Excel Options and then Add-ins.
In the View and Manage Office Add-ins window, near the bottom. Don’t forget t to select “Excel Add-ins” in the drop down box and click Go.
This will open up the Add-Ins window, there you can select an appropriate package for your Excel tasks. If you highlight each Add-In then you will be provided with a quick description of what each one is.
Like I installed the Euro Currency Tools. After choosing the one you want click OK and accept the default. You will get the progress message while the add-in is installing.
After the add-in is installed it will be available in the Ribbon. In this case the Euro Currency Tool was place under the Formulas tab other add-ins may vary. Other times you can install an add-in from downloading an executable from the Microsoft Office site. Of course there are also third party add-in programs that usually require purchasing a license after a trial period.
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Find a Forgotten Password Saved in Firefox

Personally, I like Mozilla Firefox and I have been using it for years. Though I m not against Internet Explorer. But honestly speaking I like firefox because of its features and add ons.

Firefox, like many popular browsers, has a built-in functionality to save passwords. I often use the save password feature so often that I've completely forgotten my passwords when I need to login to the same website on another computer. But I got an easy way to locate those saved passwords.

In Firefox, navigate to the Tools \ Options menu item. Select the Privacy button, the Passwords tab, and then click on View Saved Passwords. You'll be presented with this screen:

Click the Show Passwords button, and navigate down to the website password you are looking for.

For me this was great help, as I tend to forget my passwords and the best feature in these browsers is that they offer to remember passwords…

How to Detect and Repair Applications In Microsoft Office 2007

I am fade up of crashing Microsoft Office application and locking. The things which I can’t handle in Microsoft office are Outlook and access.

Windows Office 2007 has a new feature (which replaces detect and repair) which allows you to diagnose and repair problems when they occur in your daily tasks.  The diagnostic utility can check the Windows system event log, hard drive, memory, application compatibility, updated service packs, and Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) if your hard drive supports it.  I know it sounds like a lot, but let me show you how easy this is to run.

Start \ Programs \ Microsoft Office \ Microsoft Office Tools \ Microsoft Office Diagnostics

The Microsoft Office Diagnostics splash screen will open.  Then Click Continue.

Next you are presented with the Start Diagnostics Screen showing you what is going to be checked and the status of each diagnostic.  When you are ready, click Run Diagnostics.

While the Diagnostics run you will see the status bars as each tests completes.  When it's complete, hit Continue.

You will get a limited detail of what was fixed.  In this example all 5 diagnostic tests ran and one problem was identified and fixed.  If you are ok with that just close out and you are done.  If you want to get additional information then click on "Detailed results" and you can get more information.

When you look close at the detailed information in this example you can see there was a problem with the installation and this tool automatically fixed it.

Unfortunately for an administrator or power user this utility "as is" does not display specific results (you need to explore it).  However when you are in a hurry and need your applications up and running to finish your work Microsoft Office Diagnostics works great!  

Configure Auto Archive In Outlook 2007

Auto Archive is turned on by default in Outlook 2007 and will actually remove some of the oldest files (you determine the amount of time) completely.  If you have old e-mails which are really important then...I m here to help you to save those mails. Auto Archive is a feature in outlook which will automatically delete your e-mails after a specified period of time. To prevent that go to -

Open Outlook and click on Tools \ Options.

Now click on the other tab and click the AutoArchive button.

This opens up a whole menu of options and settings to pick from and from there you can make changes and save them accordingly: for instance you can choose how often AutoArchive runs.

Here you can decide for how long you want to keep your e-mails and after how many days you want to run auto archive ….like you can select 15 days or 20 days…or as much as you want… totally your call. I also place a check next to "Prompt before Auto Archive runs" just in case there is something I do not want delete. Isn’t it a great feature!!!

This is also where you decide when to clean out old items and the location to move them to.  Of course you can always select to permanently delete old items if you do not want to keep them around any longer.  Click OK and your settings are saved!

 

Backup Internet Explorer 7 Search Providers List

I m a regular user of Mozilla Firefox, though I use Internet Explorer as well… but I personally feel Firefox is best to surf the net. There are some web pages which are not best viewed in Internet Explorer (It’s not that, I just don’t want to sound bias).

I am both an IE user and a fan of using custom search providers in search box, you might be interested to know how you can back up that list and/or restore it on another computer. Since I'm a regular Firefox user I have lots of items in my search list.

Manual Registry Backup Method

If you are comfortable using the registry, you can just open up regedit.exe through the start menu search box and then navigate down to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes

Right-click on the SearchScopes key and choose to Export. Give the file a name and save it somewhere you are comfortable . To restore this list on another computer you should only have to double-click it.

Command Line Method

You can use the reg.exe method on the command line to backup this key. You can either paste this command into a command prompt or save it into a batch file.

reg export "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes" searchbackup.reg

And thus ends the mystery of backing up search providers.

As simple as it can be…. I  have many things to share with you…just stay tuned!!!!

 

How to make VLC Player look like Windows Media Player 11 in your Windows XP

I was Exploring VLC media player...Which I use regularly to view songs and movies. While Exploring VLC media player …I found one of its features of changing Skins….. So I started with it and tried to change its skin.. . which was quite simple…  and I would like to share it with you…

What you need to do is just download the skin named WMP11 from the skins page. This skin looks a lot like Windows Media Player 11. It's not exactly the same, but it's a pretty good skin. To install it on your windows>>

 To install on Windows:

Select the "VLC media player (skins)" option from the Start menu program group. This will start VLC in the right mode to select skins. Right click on the title bar area, and choose Select skin \ Open skin and choose the skin file that you have downloaded. 

That was very EASY!!! And Enjoy the look of Windows media player in VLC media player…

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Music Desktop Accessories for Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7

Are you a music fan who wants an simple way to get the music you adulation with a simple appliance on your desktop? Today we accompany you a account of some of the acknowledgment music themed desktop accessories for Microsoft windows Vista and Windows 7.

UnsignedBandWeb.com Radio

Check out new artists and bands arising on the music arena with the UnsignedBandWeb.com gadget. It allows you to ascendancy playback, volume, and songs. You can can aces from a advanced array of music genres including Ska, Rock, Rap, and abundant more.

iTunes Accessory Gadget

This air-conditioned apparatus allows you to ascendancy playback of advance and added settings in iTunes after accepting to accessible up the absolute iTunes application.

ChroniX MetalRadio

If you’re a fan of abundant metal, one of the coolest online metal stations is ChroniX Radio. This accessible apparatus lets you beck and ascendancy playback of their three channels-Aggression, Metal, and Grit-where anniversary has a altered acidity of harder bedrock and metal.

Media Player Gadget

This ties into your Windows Media Player library and allows you to calmly seek it. It aswell will affectation anthology artwork, clue information, and accord you visualizations if arena a song. It is a lot easier to cross than aperture the abounding WMP application.

If you are a fan of Music and desktop accessories you ability wish to accord these a try. We would like to apperceive about some of your admired Windows Desktop Accessories just leave a animadversion below.

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Automatically Move Daily Emails to Specific Folders in Outlook

If you subscribe to some regular email newsletters they can bound ample up an inbox. Your ability wish to save them to apprehend or advertence them after some time. Keeping these emails in specific folders is a acceptable way to accumulate organized. Today we will share a trick of how to create a rule in Outlook to automatically abode consistently accustomed email letters in accurately assigned folders.

First appropriate click on the email you wish to move to automatically move to a folder and select create rule in Microsoft outlook emails.

This will accessible up the Actualize Aphorism awning so we can accept the altitude for this email. Depending aloft how you accept your mail set up (Exchange, Gmail, etc) will actuate what to baddest for the conditions. Most of the time I set the aphorism by sender to one of my email addresses. Also, you can add beheld and complete notifications. After you accept called the altitude the next affair to click is “Move the account to folder”.

Now browse the folder area you wish the email to be beatific to or actualize a new one.

Click OK in the Actualize Aphorism window again OK on the afterward acceptance chat box. That’s it, now all circadian emails will be beatific to a specific folder.

This is just one of abounding accessible rules you can actualize in Microsoft Outlook to break organized.

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How to Create and Share an iGoogle Tab

I m a kind of a surfer who likes to open multiple sites open at once, it was a real pain to have to use the back button or click through open windows to go from site to site. Earlier I thought it was only Firefox browser which had tabbed browsing feature, but it came as a surprise that opera browser always had tabbed browsing feature. Well let’s get back to do the topic...

What does this have to do with iGoogle? Everything. If you have your own iGoogle page, and you really should, then you know how easy it is to get overwhelmed with gadgets on your page, just like it was easy to get overwhelmed with too many open websites.  Once again, tabs are here to save the day, or at least reduce gadget overload, by giving you the option to put your gadgets on different pages instead of all in one place. Tabs act as a table of contents that lists the name of each page (the title of the tab) and the gadgets that are on that page.

If you look at the left-hand side of your iGoogle page, you'll notice a tab that's labeled "Home" and has links underneath that open each of the gadgets you have on your homepage. Here's what the Home tab looks like on the iGoogle homepage:

You can categorize your gadgets by adding a tab.  Let's say you'd like to put all of your productivity gadgets like your calendar, e-mail and to do list on one page. To add your first new tab, click the arrow to the right of Home on your Home tab and choose "Add a Tab" from the dropdown menu and open the "Add a tab" dialog window.   

You’ll be familiar with the "I'm Feeling Lucky" option. If you know what type of tab you'd like to add but aren't sure what gadgets to put on the page, let iGoogle do it for you. Just type in a search term, click the box next to "I'm feeling lucky…" and like magic, you have a new tab already populated with great gadgets.     

Not only are tabs a great way to beat gadget overload by putting your gadgets on different pages, they also make it easy to navigate to the gadget you want to use by clicking on the tab (page) that contains the gadget or clicking on the name of the individual gadget listed on the tab to open the gadget page. Once you've created one new tab, you can create more by clicking the arrow to the right of the tab that's currently open. You can also add and remove gadgets, change the theme of your iGoogle pages and even change the layout of the page by clicking "Edit this tab" to open the Preferences dialog window. 

If you think somebody else might like your tabs, you can send the tabs to them by choosing the Share this tab option from the dropdown menu in your Microsoft Windows to the right of the  tab you want to share (the same one you used to Add a Tab). This option allows you to share some or all of the gadgets on the tabbed page with others. Just check the box next to each gadget you want to share and enter the email addresses of the people with whom you want to share. Make sure you include a message letting them know how the gadgets have helped you! You can also receive a copy of the email you send by checking the "Send me a copy…" option.

What sorts of tabs might you be interested in adding besides your Home tab? On my own personal iGoogle page, I have tabs for Productivity Tools, News, Music and Contacts.  

See Productivity gadgets on YOUR iGoogle Homepage

I also like to keep up with the news, so I have a tabbed page that contains my favorite news sources. I always check my Google Reader first thing. Other favorite news gadgets include NPR and USAToday. I also like to keep up with technology and entertainment news so I have gadgets for PC World's Top Technology News and Yahoo Entertainment News.

See News gadgets on YOUR iGoogle Homepage

r. I also like to check out the latest music videos so I have the You Tube and Yahoo Music Video gadgets on my Music page.

See Music gadgets on YOUR iGoogle Homepage

Since I like to keep up with friends, colleagues and family, I created a tab for Contacts. I used the "I'm feeling lucky…" option to magically create a contact page already populated with gadgets. Now I can see my Gmail contacts (Gmail Contact Manager Gadget), my Google Talk (Google Talk gadget) contacts and even my Twitter friends all on one page! 

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Installing Windows Media Player Plugin for Firefox

One of my friends called me and just asked me about how to install windows media player for Firefox. She said she clicked on the menu in the auto play dialog and it opens up Firefox (her default browser. And now she has a blank screen on her computer. She thought it was virus! And was trying to grab her data. She is using Microsoft windows xp as her operating system. Then I asked her about the windows Media player plug-in and she said she didn’t install it. You too had the same problem. Not a big deal. This happened because you don’t have the plug-in for Firefox. We just need to download that plug-in. The procedure follows below –

Installation

Just download and run the plug-in installer. You'll probably want to close Firefox during the installation.

Verifying Plug-in Installation

After running through the very quick installation wizard, you might be curious if the installation actually worked. While the easiest method is to just open a Windows Media video, you can also type the following into the address bar to see the list of loaded plug-ins:

And now you can view this Windows Media format video file in Firefox…

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I have been using Microsoft office clipboard by the time I started working on Microsoft windows xp. I actually find it really useful. Though I dnt need it when I m working at home... but really it’s a very good and a useful option to use in office to save time and get everything on clipboard. I normally have to input the same information into many different templates and files’ so being able to grab it straight from the clipboard is great and easy.

But some of people really find it annoying and disturbing when it pops up in-between. My friend asked me about how to disable Microsoft office clipboard option in his Microsoft windows vista. So here is the solution:

You can easily remove it by clicking the Options button at the bottom and unchecking the options to "Show Office Clipboard", and closing the panel. 

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