Minimize Outlook to system tray

Ever wanted to minimize your outlook to system tray, without leaving window minimize on the taskbar? I’ve googled and found a lot of sites explaining how to edit registry for that. The funny thing is that, it’s not that difficult at all. You can simply click outlook icon in system tray and choose “Hide When Minimized”.

That’s it! Whenever you minimize the outlook, it would go straight to the system tray, not left on the system tray at all.

Reference : Microsoft

Remove program from Add/Remove program lists

After you have uninstall the program and the name is still there in the Add/Remove programs list? Well, you can solve this problem by tweaking a registry value.

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type regedt32, and then click OK.
3. In Registry Editor, locate the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstall

4. Each key listed under Uninstall in the left pane of Registry Editor represents a program that is displayed in the Currently installed programs list of the Add or Remove Programs tool. To determine which program that each key represents, click the key, and then view the following values in the details pane on the right:
DisplayName: The value data for the DisplayName key is the name that is listed in Add or Remove Programs.
-and-
UninstallString: The value data for the UninstallString key is the program that is used to uninstall the program.

5. After you identify the registry key that represents the program that you removed but which is still displayed in the Currently installed programs list of Add or Remove Programs, right-click the key in the left pane of the Registry Editor window, and then click Delete.
Click Yes in response to the “Are you sure you want to delete this key and all of its subkeys?” message.

6. On the File menu, click Exit to quit Registry Editor.
7. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs.
In the Currently installed programs list, verify that the program whose registry key you deleted is no longer listed.

There you go, don’t forget to backup registry first, if you’re afraid of touching it.

Source : Microsoft

Spybot Easter Hidden Games

After you have search and destroyed the spybot, you may get bored. To give you relive from your boredom, Spybot Search and Destroy team have included a game for you.

As shown in the above picture, click on the small binocular on the left side of program, you will open the game.

Not really sure about how that game works, but I click through numbers after numbers, then finally I saw something like DaVinci code picture.

That’s all I got! I can’t finish the game as I don’t have much time now. How’s about you? Can you finish it?

How to enable Change Password in OWA

I am using Exchange Server 2003 on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. I want my users to let them change their passwords.

Here is the list of steps that I took:

To configure the IISADMPWD virtual directory, do the following:
1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Services Manager.
2. Right-click the default Web site, point to New, and then click Virtual Directory.
3. In the Virtual Directory Creation wizard, type IISADMPWD in the Alias box, and then click Next.
4. In the Directory box, type :winntsystem32inetsrviisadmpwd or the location where your hard disk is your default hard disk, and then click Next.
5. Verify that only the Read and Run script check boxes are selected, such as the ASP check box, click Next, and then click Finish.
6. Verify that the IISADMPWD virtual directory has only basic authentication set and, if you use Windows 2003/IIS 6.0, verify that the application pool is set to ExchangeApplicationPool.

After that I need to tweak something in registry.

1. Start Registry Editor, and then locate the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSet
ServicesMSExchangeWeb
2. If an OWA key is not present under MSExchangeWeb, click the Edit menu, click New, and then click Key to add a new key named OWA.
3. Locate the DisablePassword value and change the data to “0.” If this value is not present, click the Edit menu, click New, click DWORD_Value to add the following value to the OWA registry subkey if you want the Change Password button to appear:

Value name: DisablePassword
Value type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0

If you want to hide the Change Password button, change the DisablePassword value data to “1.”

After that, you need to stop and then restart the Exchange Information Store Service and the IIS Admin Service. This stops and restarts the World Wide Web Publishing Services (W3SVC).
Make sure that you all the dependent services that you require are restarted, such as IMAP4, POP3, Microsoft Exchange Routing Engine, W3SVC, MTA Stacks.
For my case, I forgot to write down the list of services, so I don’t know which services left to run, that leads me to restart the whole server.

Anyway, for the moment, I don’t need to do any troubleshooting yet.

Source : Microsoft

Outlook 2007 with Exchange 2003

Have you guys always tried Outlook 2007 with exchange 2003 over internet by using RPC(Now Microsoft called it Outlook Anywhere)? If so, you might face these kinds of errors:

• If your Outlook profile has been automatically configured, you may receive the following error message:
The action cannot be completed. The connection to the Microsoft Exchange Server is unavailable. Your network adapter does not have a default gateway.
• If your Outlook profile has been manually configured, you may receive the following error message:
Your Microsoft Exchange Server is unavailable
For example, this error may occur when you have an existing profile that was previously connected to the Exchange Server, and then you lose the setting for your default gateway. In this scenario, if you click Check Name to verify your settings in the E-mail Accounts dialog box, you may receive the following error message:
Outlook cannot log on. Verify that you are connected to the network and are using the proper server and mailbox name. The connection to the Microsoft Exchange Server is unavailable. Your network adapter does not have a default gateway.
When you try to connect Outlook 2007 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 by using RPC over HTTPS, you may receive the following error message:
Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The set of folders cannot be opened. The attempt to log on to Microsoft Exchange has failed.

Well there is a simple solution for this:

You can work around this problem by adding a DWORD value to the following registry subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice12.0OutlookRPC
To add this DWORD value, follow these steps.

Warning Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall the operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk.1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice12.0OutlookRPC
3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. Type DefConnectOpts, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click DefConnectOpts, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK.
7. Exit Registry Editor.

Source : Microsft

How to download from megaupload without installing Toolbar?

I know this is old news, but if you still don’t know, this is really a lot of help.

I will explain only for firefox as this is the dummy-proof method.

For firefox, the easiest direct way is:
Type: about:config in the Firefox address bar
-Search for general.useragent.extra.firefox
-Double click on it
-Change the default text with this: Firefox/2.0 MEGAUPLOAD 1.0

That’s it. You are all set! Ready to go!

P.S If you want to work it for sexuploader and megarotic simply add Firefox/2.0 Alexa Toolbar.

IRC Chat in comic mode ( Microsoft Chat v2.5 )

Well, I really like this program. This program ( Microsoft Chat v 2.5 ) could create comic character according to chosen words in your conversation. So, you can see yourself like comic character.

I recommend you to download and try this program. I guarantee you that there is no spyware as this is from Microsoft.

The cutiest thing about this program is that it even create story title for your chat. Have fun!

The screenshot is that just me playing. It seems that both parties need to use Microsoft Chat v 2.5 to work.

If you want more info, you can go here.

Way to download Yahoo! Music Video that u watch

We all watch Yahoo! Music Video, don’t you? Some of our favourite artists attract us to watch more than once. Sometimes it’s pity that we need to wait for buffering time and there is crapy due to our internet connection. How can we solve this? Wouldn’t it be nice if we could download the movie we want with highest quality available and watch it later again and again?

Here I found out how to do. This is their tutorial for how to acheive this.

Navigate to Farando Barajo’s page and download the OS dependant versions of LyFOX: OSX, Windows, and Linux. Unzip to your desktop and double-click the LyFOX application.

The clean interface provides one user input field. In the search box at the top of the window, enter an artist of your choice and click ‘Search’. LyFOX – modeled after the pkLauch Greasemonkey userscript – qeuries the Yahoo music music videos for the matchin artist and returns a list of available music videos.

In the list of available music videos, highlight the clip you wish to download and select the ‘More Info’ drop down menu at the bottom of the window. The MMS information box will display the ‘Artist’, ‘Title’, [Video] ‘ID’, and most importantly ‘MMS’. Copy the MMS:// URi and open the VLC media player to download.

If you want to convert your downloaded files for your ipod, they still got another tutorial for it. Read there.

How to use Google as a proxy

Maybe you might have heard it already. But I wrote this for some of you probably have not heard about it. This is my Christmas present.

You can use the google translate feature to visit webpages that are blocked by your company or isp. For example, if your company bans www.somesite.com, you could use this feature to visit that site.

This technique is very simple, use the following address:

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.somesite.com

Change somesite.com to the site you desire and it will display.

Tips: Use this to bypass only your isp or company proxy server, if you are banned from somesite.com, you won´t be able to visit that site.

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