Outlook 2007: Quick Flags

Outlook 2007 makes some improvements to the Quick Flag feature. Outlook 2003 provided six colored flags. Unfortunately, you couldn’t customize the names of those flags. A purple flag was always a purple flag, even if you used it for items related to your department budget. Outlook 2007’s flags are arranged by date. You can flag an item for Today, Tomorrow, This Week, or Next Week, or you can create a custom flag. Outlook 2007’s Mail view still contains the Quick Flag column. You can click the Quick Flag column to instantly flag an item for Today, or right-click the Quick Flag column and choose from any of the available flags or create a custom flag.

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Managing calendar in Outlook 2007

Managing Your Calendar

Many Office applications now use what's called the "Ribbon," which is a series of buttons with text labels that expose the important functions of Office.

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Fake virus alerts (Rogue Software)

Rogue security software, also known as "scareware," is software that appears to be beneficial from a security perspective but provides limited or no security, generates erroneous or misleading alerts, or attempts to lure users into participating in fraudulent transactions.

What is rogue software?

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Windows 7: How to get the Quick Launch bar back?

Windows 7's new taskbar functions as a program launcher as well as task switcher. As a result, the old Windows XP style Quick Launch bar, the area on the left side of the taskbar that contained shortcuts for frequently used programs, has been banished. However, if you really miss the little applet, you can add it back. 


  

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Clean Up Disk Errors in Windows 7

Run once a week

Whenever a program crashes or you experience some power outage, your computer may create errors on its hard disk. Over time, the errors can slow your computer. Luckily, the Windows operating system includes a Disk Check program to check and clean any errors on your computer and to help keep it running smoothly.

For Windows  7 User's:

1. Click the Start button, and then click Computer.

2. Right-click the hard disk drive that you want to check, and then click Properties.


3. Click the Tools tab, and then, under Error-checking, click Check now.

To automatically repair problems with files and folders that the scan detects, select Automatically fix file system errors. Otherwise, the disk check will simply report problems but not fix them.

To perform a thorough disk check, select Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors. This scan attempts to find and repair physical errors on the hard disk itself, and it can take much longer to complete.

To check for both file errors and physical errors, select both Automatically fix file system errors and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors.

4. Click Start.

Depending upon the size of your hard disk, this may take several minutes. For best results, don't use your computer for any other tasks while it's checking for errors.

Note: If you select Automatically fix file system errors for a disk that is in use, you'll be prompted to reschedule the disk check for the next time you restart your computer.

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Manually Removing Startup Programs from Windows XP

Removing startup programs from Windows XP - the manual method to speed the start up 

 Manually removing Windows startup programs is relatively easy and straight-forward and helps speed up the start up. Here’s a step-by-step tutorial showing you how to do it.









1. Once your computer’s desktop has loaded, click on the start button and then the “Run” button on the right side of the menu.

 

2. After you have clicked on “Run”, a new window should popup - type in “msconfig” without the quotes and hit the “Ok” button.

  
3. Yet another window will pop up - this is the System Configuration Utility. You’re going to want to click on the “Startup” tab on the far right side.

At this point, you’ll see the location where you can add or remove startup programs from your PC.

 




You can see the Startup program name in the left column, the physical path to the file that is being executed when your computer boots up in the middle and the location within the registry where this command is stored in the right column.


4. When you have completed your removal of unnecessary startup entries, click on the “Apply” button and then “OK” at the bottom of the System Configuration Utility. 

You’ll have to reboot your PC for the changes to take effect.

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Installing MS Office 2007 from a CD/DVD

We will assume that you will be installing Microsoft Office 2007 from the CD/DVD drive. This guide will apply to all versions of Microsoft Office 2007 as there is no noticeable difference when installing different versions of Microsoft Office 2007. The only expected difference is the applications that you can install and this is dependent on the version of Microsoft Office 2007 you have purchased. 

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Diffferent Types of Computer Threats

Threats to your computer system, data, and identity come in many different forms, a few of the most common are listed as follows:

Viruses:

A virus is a self-replicating program that is designed to damage or degrade the performance of a computer. A virus is replicated by being copied or by initiating its copying to another program, computer boot sector or document. Viruses can be classified into four different categories as follows:

File Infector

A File infector virus when executed on a system will seek out other files and insert its code into them. The programs with .EXE and .COM extensions are the most commonly targeted, but a file infector virus can target any executable file.

This infection is most commonly distributed via compromised networks, over the web via drive-by, or from a corrupted media (CDRW, flash media).

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Basic Hardware Setup for a Wireless Home Network

Wireless networking offers tangible benefits over traditional wired networking. We find wireless connectivity in all the devices that we use today including, cellphones, gaming systems and computers.


The first step is to choose a good Wireless Router  
Depending on your usage and considering the connectivity factor you can choose a router. There are many brands and different series of routers which come with different wireless ranges. Few popular router manufacturers are Cisco, Dlink, Linksys and Belkin

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Gmail: Changing Default font size while composing a mail

Here's what you can do to change the default Font in Gmail while composing a mail:

1. Go to "Settings" at the top of your Gmail page.

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