Archive for March, 2008

Password protect Outlook Express

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

You’ve probably noticed that most email clients, including Outlook Express, will allow anybody to open the program and view all downloaded emails and sent mail. Although they aren’t able to send email from your account or download any new mail - this is still not the most secure idea.
Outlook Express actually comes with the ability […]

Automatically expand Start Menu items

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

If you find all your Start menu programs are hidden (whilst using classic start menu), with the silly little arrow at the bottom to expand the list - here’s the fix!

Right click on the ‘Start’ button
choose ‘Properties’
click ‘Customize’
scroll to the bottom of the list in the white box
untick ‘Use Personalized Menus’

Quick way to restart the IIS service

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Looking for a quicker way (rather than trying to stop and restart the necessary services, or re-booting) to restart the IIS service?

Simply go to command prompt (start-run-cmd)
type ‘iisreset’ (without the quotes)
press enter

The relevant services will be stopped and restarted.

Windows XP Shortcut Keys

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Here is a list of shortcut keys - these can save a lot of time…

CTRL+C (Copy)
CTRL+X (Cut)
CTRL+V (Paste)
CTRL+Z (Undo)
DELETE (Delete)
SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin)
CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item)
CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item (Create a shortcut to the selected item)
F2 key (Rename the […]

Arghh, I’ve deleted it

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Happen to you? You happily delete a file, ranting on about the endless questions presented to you before it is finally gone…
Perhaps, like me, you always use ‘Shift - Delete’ to bypass the recycle bin…
Luckily, I’ve found this great little freeware file recovery program - Recuva.
This little prog will search drives and list all […]