Microsoft Office - Recover deleted items from any folder

Credit: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011165281033.aspx

Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003
Microsoft Outlook® 2000 and 2002

This feature requires you to use a Microsoft Exchange Server e-mail account. This feature is designed for advanced users who are comfortable backing up and modifying the Microsoft Windows® Registry.

Outlook provides a way to recover items after you have permanently deleted them, including after emptying the Deleted Items folder. Your Exchange server administrator specifies the retention time for permanently deleted items on the Exchange server. After this time has elapsed, you cannot recover the deleted items.

By default, to use the Recover Deleted Items command on the Tools menu, you must be viewing the Deleted Items folder. By modifying the registry, this command is available regardless of which Outlook folder that you are viewing. You can view and recover deleted items, including those items that were permanently deleted by using SHIFT+DELETE, for the folder that you are viewing.

Note If you deleted an item and emptied the Deleted Items folder, click Deleted Items to use Recovered Deleted Items. Only items that you permanently deleted with SHIFT+DELETE or SHIFT+ are available in folders other than Deleted Items.

Caution If you use the registry editor incorrectly, you might cause serious problems that might require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using the registry editor incorrectly. Use the registry editor at your own risk.

1. Exit Outlook.
2. Open the Windows registry editor.
3. Browse to My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Options.
4. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
5. Type the name DumpsterAlwaysOn.

   Note Do not type any spaces in the name.

6. Set the DWORD value to 1.
7. Restart Outlook.

The Tools menu now has the Recover Deleted Items command for every Outlook folder.

Credit: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011165281033.aspx

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ExtractNow: allows you to extract multiple archives

ExtractNow is a simple utility that allows you to extract multiple archives quickly and easily. ExtractNow is not a complete archival solution. It's main purpose it to allow the user to extract multiple archives easily.

Why wear out your clicking finger extracting files one by one when you can extract at once? ExtractNow does a fine job of bundling compressed files and extracting their contents in one fell swoop. ExtractNow has a clean, well-designed and easy-to-use interface. To extract files, simply drag and drop them into the main program window, or right-click the files while in Windows Explorer. ExtractNow supports the two most popular compression formats, ZIP and RAR, as well as a handful of other formats. Simple but not simplistic, this is a powerful and reliable program that will be of use to anyone who manages many compressed files.

(Download.com Editor's Review)

Credit: http://www.extractnow.com/
Download: http://www.extractnow.com/extractnow.exe

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Fuzzy Text On TV? High Resolution Font Problem?

Fuzzy text on TV? high resolution font size problem? 1 px shadow to the left problem ? Eye Fatigue?

I took all best answers from all over the net and these are the solutions for this annoying problem:

in order for it to be crisp and clear you need 1:1 pixel mapping and you'll want to feed it 1920x1080 at 60hz.
In the Samsung manuals there is a section on connecting a PC and explains how your particular model is switched to allow 1:1 mapping.

1) Try tuning on Clear Type.

Vista

Right click on any blank spot of desktop, and then select Personalize on pop-up context menu.
Select Window Color and Appearance.
Click on “Open classic appearance properties for more color options” link located at the bottom of the page.
Click on the Effects button.
Check the “Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts” box.
Select ClearType in the drop down list under the above title.
Click OK, then click Apply, and finally finish with clicking OK again.


XP

Right-click the desktop, select Properties.
Click the Appearance tab, and click on the Effects button.
In the window that opens up, check the second box that says Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts and select ClearType from the drop-down menu, then OK out of all windows.

2) Goto Windows Appearance - Change the font size to "Extra large"

3) Try tuning your cleartype-

ClearType Tuner PowerToy
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/7/0/b7019730-0fa3-47a9-a159-98b80c185aad/setup.exe

4) Use magnifier tool to see clearly (Free Softwares from download.com)
http://download.cnet.com/1770-20_4-0.html?query=Magnifier&searchtype=downloads&filter=licenseName=Free|platform=Windows,Webware&filterName=licenseName=Free|platform=Windows,Webware&tag=ltcol

5)Is your LCD display little blurry and text little difficult to read? Clear Type Font smoothing should do the trick for better readability on your LCD display. Clear Tweak is a free utility that allows you to make changes to Clear Type contrast settings on Windows XP computer for better LCD display.

Download ClearTweak utility for Windows XP computer.
Credit: http://www.tothepc.com/archives/improve-lcd-display-cleartype-settings-in-xp/



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Convert FLV to MP3 (Freeware)

Credit: http://www.convertflvtomp3.com/

Do you love some music in your Flash videos, and want to convert it to MP3 audio? This is small Flash tool can help you. This program titled "Convert FLV to MP3" can extract audio data from Flash video (.flv) files, and save it as normal MP3 audio files, you can play it with other audio players or portable MP3 players, for example: IPod, Zune, Song PSP, or play it in your mobile device, such as iPhone.

Why Need Convert FLV to MP3?

Flash video is the most popular video format in the internet; there have ton of Flash videos in the web, almost all the video sharing website use the Flash video (.flv) as the main video content format, for example: Youtube, Google Video, MySpace and more. In these Flash videos, there have many lovely music and audio. If you want to save these music on you pc, listen and share it with your latest portable mp3 player, you need one audio conversion tool for converting audio data from Flash video, this program "Convert FLV to MP3" is your need, it can meet all your wants, at the best, it is one completely FREE software, this product allows for free personal use only.

From Youtube Video to MP3

Convert FLV to MP3 provide one handy feature for youtube users, it can download and rip the audio from youtube webpage to mp3 files directly, you just need input one youtube webpage address (webpage URL, you can copy it from IE or Firefox address bar), and program will do everything for you. It is one useful function for all Youtube fans. There have a lot of music video on youtube, such as MTV (Music Video from your favorite artists), now you can get it as one MP3 file in minutes, so easy and so cool. The default output MP3 files use 128kbps, 44Mhz, stereo.

How to Use

This Flash audio conversion is easy to use very much. The first, you need select one Flash video (.flv) file as the source, if you want to convert from youtube directly, you need input a Youtube video webpage address (you can find this address from Internet Explorer or FireFox address bar, copy and paste here). The second, you need input one output MP3 file name, the extend name of this output file must be ",mp3". The finally, click the "Convert" button on the bottom of main interface, then Convert FLV to MP3 will start the conversion process, it will one process bar to tell user how much percent have completed. Program don't support batch conversion by now.

Download

• 100% Clean, does not contain any form of spyware, malware and adware
• 
• 100% Windows Vista compliant version
• File Size is 2.76 MB
• Completely Free
• Download: convertflvtomp3_setup.exe
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Credit: http://www.convertflvtomp3.com/

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How to install / enable System Restore on Windows Server 2003

Credit: http://www.windowsreference.com

System Restore’s purpose is to return your system to a workable state without requiring a complete reinstallation and without compromising your data files. The utility runs in the background and automatically creates a restore point when a trigger event occurs. Trigger events include application installations, AutoUpdate installations, Microsoft Backup Utility recoveries, unsigned- driver installations, and manual creations of restore points. The utility also creates restore points once a day by default.Currently system restore available in Windows XP/Vista this tutorial will show you how to install/enable system restore on win server 2003.

Solution 1

Note:- Take a complete backup of your registry before doing any changes

In this procedure you need to download Add System Restore from here

Extract the zip file into a folder, in this you will see two files – AddSystemRestoreEntries.reg and sr.inf

Double click on AddSystemRestoreEntries.reg and click on Yes when prompted.

Insert your Windows XP CD and Right click on sr.inf and select Install.

Point to the /i386 directory on the CD if prompted.

Reboot your win server 2003 that’s it now you are ready for your new win server 2003 feature

System restore screen

System restore tab

Solution 2

start we need a WinXP installation CD (doesn’t matter is Home Edition or Professional). In XP system restore is installed in syssetup.inf under the inf.always section. If you have XP installed, you can open up %windir%\inf\syssetup.inf and search for “[Infs.Always]“: you’ll see the section XP looks at for installing system components. You’ll notice it has sr.inf, this is the inf for system restore. For Windows 2003, if you look at syssetup.inf you won’t find sr.inf. This doesn’t mean system restore won’t work in server 2003.

Copy sr.inf file from your xp machine in to your win server 2003.Now we have to right click on sr.inf and select “Install”, to install it on Windows 2003. If you have XP installed on another machine/partition you can simply right click on it; if you don’t, extract \i386\sr.in_ from the XP CD to a folder of your choice, then right clink on it and select “Install”. It will ask you where the files are, so point to the XP CD. When done you’ll be prompted to restart the system.

After restarting the system you’ll get an error saying that the service could not start, specifically this is error 1068: this means it cannot run under the service is on. If you look at it in services.msc console, the path of the executable will be “C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs”. This got me thinking so I opened up sr.inf, and found this line:
[SRSvc_delreg]
HKLM,”Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SvcHost”,”SRGroup”

So it seems the sr.inf doesn’t register system restore to run under the network services group. Using the above registry key as an example, I opened regedit and went to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SvcHost. On the right side I saw netsvcs. I double clicked on it, but could not find SRService (this is the name for system restore).

at the bottom I added SRService, rebooted, and this time got no error on startup. I opened up rstrui.exe, and System Restore opened fine. I also had a System Restore tab in System Properties now, too. I was able to make a restore point fine, then restore the computer to it without any problems. So in the above registry key double click on netsvcs, and at the bottom of the list type in SRService (not sure if this is case sensitive or not).

I would personally prefer solution 1 because this is very easy and simple .

Credit: http://www.windowsreference.com

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