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Microsoft Outlook 2007 Automatically Download Pictures

By default, Microsoft Outlook does not allow pictures in emails to automatically download. To enable pictures to automatically display, do the following in Outlook.
1) Tools Menu.
2) Select Trust Center.
3) Left hand pane select automatic download.
4) Uncheck Don’t download pictures automatically in HTML e-mail messages or RSS items.
5) Click Ok.

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Backup firefox bookmarks

So you’re upgrading your computer, and you want to backup your Firefox backups. That, or you just want to back them up because you’ve had them for 4 years on the same computer and if you lose it, you lose all 4 years of your online life.
Backing up, and restoring, is EASY.
To this within [...]

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Windows program crashes as soon as you run it

There have been times where you will install a program, and it will work for days, weeks, without problems. The one day when you need to get into it, you get a pop up that says “A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a [...]

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How to remove Spyware

There are dozens of ways your machines can get infected by spyware, bogging down your machine tremendously. There are even ones that will hijack your browser, prevent you from going to certain sites such as anti-spyware sites, or redirect any links you click to a particular page. The trickiest ones to new users are those [...]

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How to view hidden files in Windows XP 7 Vista 2003

By default Microsoft Windows hides many of its critical files from the user. One particular folder includes the user’s application data. There are times when you need to access these folders to access particular files or make backups.
WINDOWS XP & WINDOWS 2003
1. Goto my computer.
2. Select the Tools menu and click Folder Options.
3. Select [...]

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Backup your Outlook autocomplete file for email addresses

The Outlook autocomplete file is that the file the holds the addresses that appear when you start typing away an email address in the To: field. Many times you may compose an email address that is not part of your address book. So this is what that autocomplete file populates- the list of all those [...]

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How to launch Outlook with a different account

We all know Microsoft Outlook only allows a single Microsoft Exchange account per windows profile.  Of course, you can add additional mailboxes to an account, but that requires additional work and then you have to manually open the calendar. You can also open a mailbox through your existing running Outlook, IF, and only IF your [...]

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Easy To Use Free Open Source FTP Client

There are TONS of FTP clients you can choose to use. In the late 90’s almost everyone had a copy of CuteFTP. There are still alot of popular ones out there, both commercial and free. I’m not the one to dish out $40 for a copy of something I can get for free, so I [...]

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Great Free Open Source Monitoring

Here are some GREAT tools to monitor your enterprise network. You probably have heard about many of these, but there are a few that may be new to you. I’ll have a write up with detailed review later on.
Service / Devices
Nagios – http://www.nagios.com
HyperIC – http://www.hyperic.com
GroundWork – http://www.groundworkopensource.com/
Zabbix – http://www.zabbix.com/
NetXMS – http://www.netxms.org/
Spiceworks – http://www.spiceworks.com
Network monitoring
Ntop – [...]

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Windows XP remove items from startup

You probably noticed when you start up your machine, you get a bunch of programs that start that slow down your system. This could be like AIM, Real Audio, Quicktime, Windows media player, etc. You can prevent these from starting up by following these simple steps.
1) Click Start
2) Click run
3) Type in MSCONFIG and hit [...]

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