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How to Remove Addresses from the Entourage Address Cache - support.microsoft.com

I haven't found much worth posting lately but this one has been a thorn in my side for some time. I find it equally as interesting that you need to jump through so many hoops in Entourage when the same issue in Outlook can be solved with one or two clicks. I hope some people find this helpful.

How to Remove Addresses from the Entourage Address Cache

Entourage provides an address cache feature that allows you to pick frequently used addresses from a list as you type in one of the recipient fields. This cache contains all of the addresses from messages that you send and receive.

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The Secret to Reformatting a Western Digital WD 1TB My Book External Hard Drive « Psychohistory

Taken from Adam Nash's blog Psycohistory. I apologize for not giving credit more explicitly when I first posted the article.

When you buy a Western Digital (WD) 1 TB My Book External Hard Drive, they usually come formatted for Windows using FAT32. Of course, if you are using it with a Mac, then you’ll want to reformat it using Mac OS Extended (HFS+).

The problem: When you try to reformat in Disk Utility, you’ll get a very cryptic error that says that there was an unknown error with the partition map.

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LyraTechnicalSystems.com » Blog Archive » Moving the Unmovable: Windows Disk Defragmentation Strategies

| LyraTechnicalSystems.com » Blog Archive » Moving the Unmovable: Windows Disk Defragmentation Strategies | One problem you may encounter in using the Windows Defragmenter program is “unmovable files” (the green bars) placed in an inconvenient location (on the right side of the display, at the end of your disk). The two most common “unmovable” files are the Windows operating system paging file (pagefile.sys) and the hibernation file (hiberfil.sys) that is used to store system state when the XP operating system goes into “hibernate” mode. An easy solution is to temporarily remove these files, then reinstall them after you’ve resized the NTFS partition.

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AutoRuns for Windows - technet.microsoft.com

| AutoRuns for Windows | This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.

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Real Men Dont Click -- The Project

| Real Men Dont Click -- The Project | The plan was, to create a fully automated, server based, Windows 2000 setup. Fully automated in this context means two things:

| 1. | Basic tasks like, Client Installation, Server Setup, Application Deployment, Hotfix application and Account management happen without continous user intervention. | 2. | The Setup is reproducible. This means that the whole system should constructed automatically from basic components.

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Master Tutorial to Make Your Windows Super Fast

This tutorial is meant for increasing the performance of Windows XP, either it can be a fresh installed windows or an old windows. Actually these r some tips/tricks, which I always apply whenever I do a fresh installation of windows. So here I’m sharing many of those tips-n-tricks:

UPDATE: This story was reported as stolen from this source: askvg.com** I just grabbed it from digg. It's a very helpful article and I would like to give credit where credit is due.**

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Carry a PC Repair System on a USB Drive

The Daily Cup of Tech computer help site put together a USB-drive based collection of software that'll help you resuscitate any ailing PC. All wrapped up into one convenient, 14.2MB zip file, the USB PC Repair System contains 37 fix-it utilities (via Lifehacker)

read more | digg story \<http://digg.com/software/Carry_a_PC_Repair_System_on_a_USB_Drive\>__

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How to Build a Cost Effective Development Environment for Windows Server

How to Build a Cost Effective Development Environment for Windows Server 200X from Enterprise Solution Providers White Papers at silicon.com

This guide was written to allow a reader to quickly understand 'How to build a cost effective Development Environment for Windows Server 200X'. A Development Environment at the most basic level refers to a source control tool and bug tracking software. The following covers application requirements, setup, basic configuration and use guides for each. Given that requirements for each application were already on a server, using the following guide as a framework will allow an environment to be built from scratch in one to two working days.

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Accessing a Airport Network with a Windows XP

Accessing a Airport Network with Windows XP

A great step-by-step guide to hooking that rouge PC up to your Airport wireless network. You are going to need the HEX Password Key which should be available from your network admin.

psst... hey network admins. You can find the HEX key for your WEP protected network by hitting "Equivalent Network Password" under the Base Station menu in the Airport Admin Utility.

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